League Of Legends Is The New StarCraft In Korea

15 responses to “League Of Legends Is The New StarCraft In Korea”

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   JPhillips

   March 14, 2012 at 11:03 pm

   its cartoon like in appearance, has fast gameplay and need I say it boobs! This was a no brainer.

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      Cooper

      March 15, 2012 at 12:14 am

      Fast gameplay? Have you played any other Moba games?

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         JPhillips

         March 15, 2012 at 1:46 am

         HoN, Dota and *can’t remember the one on impulse’ name* are all much slower more conservative game designs when compared to LoL, how often do you get insta jibbed in Dota as compared to LoL?

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            Sam

            March 15, 2012 at 2:38 am

            I think you might be talking past each other, I find LoL ‘fights’ to be over quicker, but the overall pace of the game to be a lot slower than Dota.

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         Doraiya

         April 17, 2012 at 11:04 am

         I think JPhil has played other Moba’s and as a result knows that LoL is the fastest. Denieing is a stupid part of the DotA lineage that has made LoL far more PVP oriented the entire game instead of only in the last 15% of the game.

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   Lachlan

   March 14, 2012 at 11:56 pm

   I wonder if Dota 2 will challenge it… I’ve been playing the Dota 2 beta, and the game really encourages steamrolling, the losing team is penalised for death for example, while the winning team gets a bonus, and the difference is huge. I’ve played 100 games and only 3 have had turn around victories, with all the others you could tell the winner at the 10min mark.

   I think SC2 will reclaim the top spot soon though, with Heart of the Swarm coming out, and it’s changing multiplayer too.

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      Paul

      March 15, 2012 at 4:33 am

      Starcraft 2 hasn’t even overtaken the original Starcraft. And it probably never will. The only thing that’d ever make it take off in South Korea is if a) televising fees were cut or b) Blizzard got bought out by a domestic company.

      It ALL comes down to money. Heck, the entire reason e-sports is a thing in South Korea is a perfect storm of a weak currency, mass unemployment (gamers and new business owners), a spirit of entreprenuership (by mimicry), high costs of television production and high costs of offshore television syndication post the 1997 Japanese market collapse. Starcraft was the pick of the bunch because it wasn’t Japanese.

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   Lachlan

   March 14, 2012 at 11:57 pm

   GAHHHHHH! THE SITE JUST CHANGED!!!

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      Matthew K

      March 14, 2012 at 11:59 pm

      AAAH WHAT.

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         Lachlan

         March 15, 2012 at 12:17 am

         It went back to normal! Yay!

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   Cooper

   March 15, 2012 at 12:09 am

   How much of that prize money came from riot though?

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      Kevin

      March 17, 2012 at 11:58 am

      Well, considering that much the Season 2 prize pool announced by riot has already been distributed among other events, I’d say not that much.

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5. 

   Paul

   March 15, 2012 at 4:21 am

   Problem with Starcraft is Starcraft 2 exists. And the problem with Starcraft 2 is that Blizzard, after sticking entire months of extra work into it specifically for the sake of South Korea, expects money for their work. And Korean TV doesn’t want to pay non-Koreans a dime.

   Sidestep. Solution.

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6. 

   That Teemoa

   March 15, 2012 at 8:20 am

   LoL being free and easy to maintain in LAN centres probably helped.

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   Cooper

   March 18, 2012 at 12:22 am

   Just like to question where you got this info from because everywhere else I look the prize pool is only 200million won not 2billion.

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