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Great day of matches. Probably best worlds day I've watched. Aggressive play all around. My pick em is 100% for group B 😁

lol, I did the pick'ems in about 5 seconds without even knowing most of the teams at the time. I didn't realize GenG was Samsung, and I put them 4th, and I didn't know Afreeca was Korean either and I put them 4th.. hah. So far I'm correct on all picks except TL and GRex. Worlds Pick'em |...

Vitality's midlaner on Ekko is insane... the game is still ongoing but this is looking to be the best match of the day.

League always calls me back especially around Worlds time. I've been playing a few games a week. Right now it's the only game I feel like playing. I still play Diana 99% of the time but also Eve. Just lost promos to Gold III. The game is in a really nice place right now imo. I feel like it's...

I don't care what you say, to be a successful streamer means actually being top 0.01% at a game, but this only gets you 1/2way. You then need some personality, a little luck, and some business smarts. Once you've "made it" you can then leverage your popularity and be a variety streamer or...

I agree that was a silly comment but it only makes sense if streaming another game is actually higher (or near) profitable. Yes, maybe he turns down 10k/hr but then he streams something else that is making him almost as much? Remember these shitty games probably won't help his Sub counts, ad...

https://www.sandvine.com/hubfs/downloads/phenomena/2018-phenomena-report.pdf (This was originally posted on the League of Legends Reddit) Fun read. Highlighting some "worldwide" statistics: Netflix is 15% of total Downstream traffic Bittorrent is almost 22% of total Upstream League of...

In the past 2-3 weeks I've played maybe 2 games and each one just pissed me off more about the game. Mostly because, the game has SO much potential, yet it's ALL wasted. The game has a solid core, good quality and polish, but they have just dropped the ball in a big way. It all comes down to...

Theoretically you could improve latency in some situations. For example, 200+ characters in an MMO world, you can eliminate the latency/stuttering for the user since their hardware won't be crunching the data on all the players around them, it'll just be RGB data, like a TV signal. No processing...

They're dumb. This tech might not be viable for a PvP game where minimal latency is necessary, but tons of AAA single player or multiplayer-PvE games could utilize this tech with little degradation. It's just the next step in evolution. Putting High Quality visual gaming in every living room and...

This is basically what I was implying. The game isn't going to attract a ton, it's too narrow in scope. It doesn't have the "emergent gameplay" that people desire these days.

C9 vs DFM is a good match, Day 1 of play-ins.

Pantheon won't be for the younger gen. It's for old fart gamers. And it'll be super niche, lucky to top over 100k active players imo. A game like Pantheon will never hit it big with the younger gen. Social pressure on kids forces them to play the hottest titles, which Pantheon won't be. But...

Worlds 2018 Music Video. The video is awesome, imo their best work. The song maybe not as good or catchy as others, but still pretty good.

Yes lots of fees! Welcome to business. Though you exaggerate the numbers a bit. Billing is not 8-12% if you do it in-house. It would be more like 3-5%. Especially for a small indie game that can just use a CC processor/Paypal. Billing through Steam/Other retailers would be the 30%, but you then...

Yes and No. 10K players @ $10/mth = $1.2M/Yr. Servers/Hardware are cheaper these days than in the past. Biggest expense is payroll. As long as the team is like 5 guys then it might work. But realistically they need 50-100K players to ensure the game is a success and can grow. I wonder what EQ1...

So FortNite just had an "event" kick off, Season 6 is tomorrow and the Cube that's been rolling around has just turned Loot Lake into a bouncy lake. That said... 300K were watching this on Twitch (120k Ninja) and apparently 1.8million were watching YouTube. Between Youtube, Twitch, and the new...

OTK decks basically make any other control deck obsolete. I think the last ranked game I played 2+ weeks ago was against Mage OTK. I do understand the meta shifts constantly, but OTK and Aggro is just about the worst meta I could imagine.

More kids playing games over sports will legitimize gaming as a Sport even more. Expect more of this as more sports related businesses chase the dollars. I bet they see a huge boost in sales over this Ninja piece. Kids will buy it when they're unlikely to have ever purchased an issue before, and...

I realize this, but Ishad is butthurt about the Topsy Turvy discussion we had 2 months ago or something. Last post I made about the meta was "OTK decks are everywhere and are going to ruin this game". So in a sense, Topsy, Mecha-Thun, MageOTK, MalygosOTKs, etc ... all contributed to my...

haven't played the expansion really at all, so ... maybe? idk.

Only reason I read that was to hear about tournaments. Looks like Hearthstone is officially dead to me. Haven't been logging on and only bothered a couple times in the past week to knock out quests thinking I need gold for the eventual Tournament mode. Huge post of dumb shit catering to new...

Are you trying to prove me wrong or something? No AR game is going to be as good as the standard flat-monitor/screen games. People don't want to move around to play games, if they did they would play actual sports. Yes, the tech is cool and maybe you get a better PokemonGo someday, but then...

AR isn't the future of gaming, it's the future of spectating games, promos, commercials, construction, etc. AR games/movies is niche shit that will fade like 3D.. but AR in an arena to spectate sports/games or even at home will be cool. And using AR to visualize products and for business use...

So 5 kids just won 6 digits from tournament today, top kid won $250k. Top 20 were all 10k+ bottom 80 won 5k ea.. Was a fun tournament to watch. Fortnite Summer Skirmish Series The web results doesn't add $25K from a victory royale.. So top guy is 225k + 25k Winner was pretty humble, had a...

Nunu is out today. Even though I'm over 90% winrate with Diana in my past 11 games... I might need to break out Nunu.. Highest winrate of the season for me (with >1 games played) LOL. (my Diana winrate was like 18% before I started playing again).

The Overwatch promo seems bullshit. Only 1 streamer at a time and inflates viewership. Very scummy imo. Most of the viewers are probably just afk too. I guess it has little impact on the rest of twitch, and good for Seagull getting the first slot, so he gets the bulk of viewers. By the time...

Seagull leaving competitive seems to be a good move. 73K viewers atm... has to be #2 after Ninja. Edit: I guess this is why: Overwatch

Looks good, lots of cc. Maybe doesn't see competitive since he still lacks movement but blood boil buff and 3 CC abilities (2 of which are AOE) might make him relevant.

Reddit hates it simply because there is 0 lore. I agree on the lore part, but the animation was good. Kinda wish it wasn't an isolated attack over water and instead took place in a town/city to show more people around & their reactions and more stuff getting blown up. But that probably would...

Streamer can control them. They play them during matchmaking usually .. like for LoL they would play 3 ads during champion select+loading screen. And another 3 ads immediately after a game ends. Once streamers were able to make money through other perks (subs/donations), they started to abandon...

Streamer has control, except that first ad when first loading the stream. Years ago when twitch was just taking off most LoL streamers did a block of 3ads before and after each game (Sounds like 6 straight ads but LoL took some time getting between games, especially at high mmr)

Also keep in mind that a lot of twitch viewing happens on mobile which likely doesn't have ad blocking, also lots of anti ad blocking tech out there. This is just the first step. Next will be pressure on streamers to turn ads on. Because right now who's going to watch a no-name when the big...

Just got this in my email, huge change coming to Twitch Prime... and it's going to suck. Ad-free viewing will now cost $8.99/mth. --- When we launched Twitch Prime we were determined to give streamers and their viewers the best value in gaming. And since then we’ve seen the Twitch community...

I watched the TSM vs TL Vod because Bjerg went off on Akali and I had to see it (in Solo-Q Akali is the lowest Win Rate champion @ 43%) Probably see a lot more Akali in SoloQ after this game. Love seeing the carry performances. Hate how the meta has been anti-carry of late. If they can return...

I'm not a regular runner by any means, I normally sign up for a race then train for it, right now training for a half marathon in Sept. I got screwed last month, hyper extended my calf , took 4 weeks to heal. Just did 5 miles today but I'm so behind in training now. (Was huffing pretty hard...

Oh for sure, raging is stupid and will lose games more often than not. You're preaching to the choir though, it's been this way forever and will never change.

You still silver/gold or did you make plat+ yet? Stop focusing on other people and just learn to carry. You'll win a lot more if you stop relying on the perfect players & team comp. I just mute everyone and always go MY main champions. If we have no healer than fuck it, pull up your big-boy...

I think Im 4-1 after yesterday with mill druid. But it seems like every player has been so bad.... first win was against a "face hunter" that was using classic cards, so probably a rank 25 player just doing their run cause its free. Only loss has been to a very aggressive Evenlock... Final...

Are you brand new to hearthstone? If you focus on making 1 deck it's not too bad, but to get most of the' must have' cards you're looking at minimum 100 per expansion... 3 expansions + classic in standard rotation means at least $400 to get a decent head start.... but you can go the ftp route...