Hasphat'sAnts
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LoL Pro Faker Signs Up For Twitch, Immediately Breaks Record (245k concurrent)
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The biggest eSports star in the world
Hierophant
Banned
yeah the same thing happened for league superteams too, I guess when you're really good you have a strong personality and a team of that will inevitably have problems with everyone trying to shotcall
It's always good to watch the underdogs win though!
Phrozenflame500
Member
I'm always surprised how massive LoL is, it's a subculture I've never quite gotten personally.
Nice that he's successful and something he likes and is good at though.
Nice that he's successful and something he likes and is good at though.
callmeCata
Banned
I agree, but there is something mesmerizing about the endless stream of copy pastes and memes punctuated by hype whenever something happens.
Pejo
Member
This is the initial reaction I had too, I had a totally different type of story in mind.
For everyone who doesn't know who Faker is read this:
http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/st...gends-prodigy-faker-carries-country-shoulders
http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/st...gends-prodigy-faker-carries-country-shoulders
It's more the subculture of MOBAs, really beginning with the rise of DotA which resulted in LoL, HoN and DotA 2 and then into even more.
iRAWRasaurus
Banned
AntraxSuicide
Banned
Another way to describe Faker's dominance (and the Jordan comparisons are spot on) is that of the 6 League World Championships so far, Faker has been a key part of his team winning the title 3 times. Faker is unbelievable.
Bjergsen's ok, he's no Huhi though.
Inspectah_Deck
Member
It´s always so strange when these eSports kids get presented like warriors, but have the appearance of a wispy schoolboy.
One always wins and the other always loses...so yes...there is a world of difference between the two.
I think more than e-sport, GAF is just behind on PC gaming. You'd notice that the only esport with a semblant of popularity here on GAF is the FGC, probably because they're mostly console games.
How many LTTP do we get for classic PC games? Very few in comparison to the rest. And how many OT finally become popular once a PC game is ported on consoles? I think it's all related.
callmeCata
Banned
Has there ever been a survey to see what the users here game on?
Chezzymann
Member
It all comes down to your interests really, I'm 21 and dont know anything about LoL because I don't care about it and neither does anyone I know.
Sparrowhawk
Member
Damn at all the "out of touch" posts. Not everyone on GAF cares for MOBAs and I'd wager even fewer care for esports.
breakfuss
Member
Yep lol, had no clue who he was. Absurdly impressive numbers though.
Giant Panda
Member
I'm aware of exports, but I've never heard of the guy. I guess the only names I'd recognize would be from Street Fighter or Smash.
AntraxSuicide
Banned
It's just out of touch for a gaming forum. League of Legends is one of the most popular games in the world. It is more popular and played each month more than any single title in the world. Yet on GAF, games like this are barely a blip. It's just strange.
chillybright
Banned
Honestly deserved.
Truly the GOTY in lol.
Truly the GOTY in lol.
While I understand what you mean, that article does a good job at explaining his dominance without having this cringy "Look at these 110lbs kids trying to look imposing" aura to it.
Like a lot of team pictures.
Let me expand on my thoughts. GAF is one of the most known game enthusiast forums with discussion panning across genres and business decisions regarding the whole industry. But then I realize there are hundreds of thousands watching this guy play a game that is rarely talked about here. More people watching one dude playing one game at one time than there are members of NeoGAF. And then the first reaction to the thread by many were like "What and who and why should I care?" This site that is the first thing that crosses my mind when it comes to discussing games is really just a raindrop in the ocean that is the gaming landscape today.
And it's insane that hundreds of thousands want to watch someone play a game. I can't even get my girlfriend to play Smash with me.
Forsaken82
Member
This isn't true at all...
Some people just don't give a shit about the Moba scene, so why would they pay attention to the biggest names of the sport? Serious question, can you name the best player in the world of Lacrosse? or Cricket?
People who don't know anything about Basketball or Football know names like Brady and Jordan because of multi million dollar endorsement deals and pop culture references in shows like The Simpsons or South Park...
It isn't the same thing at all..
Nope, he is definitely correct. They wouldn't know Fatal1ty, HeatoN, Moon etc either.
AHA-Lambda
Member
No, I can assure you i have not.
Inspectah_Deck
Member
While I understand what you mean, that article does a good job at explaining his dominance without having this cringy "Look at these 110lbs kids trying to look imposing" aura to it.
Like a lot of team pictures.
I must admit, I only looked at the banner of the article and also came across this while googling the guy:
I mean there must be better ways to present these kids right?
I mean you also don´t present a chessmaster like a footballl player.
But the Moba scene is the Basketball and Football of esports... It's more like people who have no knowledge of sports whatsoever boggling at the mentions of Brady and Jordan.
Well I've only seen this kid in Razer headphone ads at the bottom of GAF and I think: "what a tool. Got your gamer glasses too, slick?"
AntraxSuicide
Banned
I think what's weird about it is that GAF is like a general music forum where almost no one knows who Beyonce is. Faker is the best player of the most popular game in the world. It's strange that a gaming forum isn't that familiar with him.
AHA-Lambda
Member
You're in for a real awakening if you seriously think LoL is on the same level as basketball.
Speaking personally I browse gaf every day, and would certainly consider myself an enthusiast fan of the games industry as a whole, and it's the first I've ever heard of this guy.
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RoadHazard
Gold Member
This.
AHA-Lambda
Member
Point still stands.
basketball>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>any esport
in terms of awareness, so saying it's the "xxx of esports" means very little
Come on man, don't be purposely obtuse. He said the 'bastketball of esports', i.e. League is to esports what basketball is to regular sports (in the culture of the US).
I'd say CS:GO is probably also up there in viewership nowadays though.
Inspectah_Deck
Member
Thats because this guy doesn´t create games, he is only good at them.
This forum is mostly about enthusiasts following game creation and the developments in the industry.
jackissocool
Member
That's not true at any age
I look at it the other way.
Your reaction, and similar reactions of other posters in this thread is just another case of GAF being out of touch with the mainstream. It's like how Valve threads are filled with two types of people: Those who play loads of indie games or DOTA/CSGO on Steam and people who're still waiting for Half Life 3. GAF's blindness towards competitive multiplayer games and streaming culture is pretty consistent outside of the community threads for the popular spectator games.
Despite seeming like there being a very wide breadth of gaming being discussed on GAF, there are a lot of blindspots. This is especially true of PC games where a lot of GAFers would be hard pressed to name more than a couple of the most popular games in the world (hint: League of Legends, World of Warcraft, Crossfire, Dungeon Fighter). However, you wouldn't expect anyone to be proud of having blindspots.
breadtruck
Member
This thread, man.
Its like being proud of not knowing who Messi is.
I can never understand comments, and the thinking behind therefore, like this.
Its like people choose to have cognitive dissonance.
Its like being proud of not knowing who Messi is.
I can never understand comments, and the thinking behind therefore, like this.
Its like people choose to have cognitive dissonance.
Hierophant
Banned
Man people are really proud to be ignorant of trends in gaming
SomedayTheFire
Member
Esports is not mainstream, bud.
Kayo Police
Member
Does he actually talk or is he like every other LoL streamer and just streams crappy edm music over his gameplay?
Millions tuned for Worlds.
it was heavily mentioned in the end of the year Youtube videos
Another similar dichotomy is the UC4 vs Overwatch hullabaloo doing GOTY season, which was another cultural showdown between competitive multiplayer gamers and largely console-based single player gamers.
I disagree? Is this same argument that mobile games aren't mainstream either because they aren't "real games"? Either way, it leads into my greater point, which is that GAF's definition of "mainstream" selectively ignores a large part of what the industry involves, nowadays, in order to focus exclusively on the parts they like most, or the parts they're most familiar with.
I disagree? Is this same argument that mobile games aren't mainstream either because they aren't "real games"? Either way, it leads into my greater point, which is that GAF's definition of "mainstream" selectively ignores a large part of what the industry involves, nowadays, in order to focus exclusively on the parts they like most, or the parts they're most familiar with.