samanis:rabbivole:samanis:rabbivole: hey so im not exactly hype to come out swinging for league here
samanis:rabbivole:samanis:rabbivole: hey so im not exactly hype to come out swinging for league here so that’s not my intention but im seeing a lot of ‘see league is gross and this is why’ posts this is a tournament put on by garena, which is a digital distro company in SEA that also does some other stuff. one of the things they do is support esports and run tournaments in SEA. as i understand, they are one of multiple companies that have agreements with riot to run league competitions. as such- this is a garena policy, not something that comes from riot. and honestly iirc riot has stepped in on way less shitty stuff than this, so i would honestly be surprised if they didn’t have something to say about it. i could be wrong but y’all don’t have to uninstall league yet; this isn’t developer decree or anything (esports culture IS terrible tho) the only riot-administered tournament for league is the LCS to my knowledge, others are done in association with Riot, so theoretically Riot has veto on any policies their tournament partners use but more likely than not they don’t examine those too closely, i’d expect to hear something from them in the next couple days since Riot is like, hella money on their PR department so i don’t expect this to escape their notice for long they’ve already made a tweet indicating they’re in talks with garena so then boom, give it a day or so and they’ll probably be issuing apologies and statements by the end of the week. Riot’s business practices may be suspect in a few areas but they’re not stupid or like, closet bigots, so it’s whatever unless they fuck up the landing -- source link