That makes absolutely no sense the moment you realize the barter system came before the use of a monetary equivalent. And groups of individuals already existed to produce stuff that could then be traded for other stuff. You are seeing companies and products exclusively from a modern capitalist point of view.

I was under the impression that companies exist to make products and money was just the normal outcome of making and selling products. But I guess that’s not the capitalist brainwashing tells nowadays...

I mean, not really? Just like what is happening with Battleground games, after League and Dota became big there was dozens of mobas created, that EA one, the DC one, Smite, etc, most of them died pretty quickly like we are seeing now with the dozens of BR games being pushed out. Hots would have died with most of the…

It’s all about building the world of league of legends and make people care about the characters even though it’s just a MP game...until Riot starts releasing more games with the same characters but that allow for more narrative development, like an RPG.

So are you going to boycott and criticise everything produced by Riot Games even though some of their stuff is made by the very female employees you are white knighting? I guess Riot Games should just disappear, I’m sure all their employees, including the female ones, would be more than happy with having to find new…

Unless there’s a huge market out there that loves hamsters and are willing to spend billions to play them, like Pandas and the Chinese Market, I don’t think it’s fair comparison 

I was just pointing to the legality of the issue, the OWL case might have to involve the police and maybe even go to trial since the player knew her age and exchanged nude pictures with a minor, also thanks to the higher age of consent in California this means that he might be prosecuted for knowingly owning child…

A better title would be “Doublelift solidifies his legacy as one of the best players in western league of legends by being the first to win 3 championships in 3 different organizations” but I guess you guys are aiming more to be the Daily Mail and not ESPN.

The issue is Age of Consent which changes a lot from country to country, if your case happened in Italy it was legal because the AoC there is 14 years old, meanwhile the OWL is happening in California where the age of consent is 18, which makes this illegal and possibly considered pedophilia.

All esports have scandals like this one, but not so many in a row, this is beyond ridiculous at this point. At least wait a couple of months between drama.

I’m just going to point out this again because it’s getting even more hilarious. Your last 7 articles in a row are about the OWL.

They are under contract and being payed by their orgs, the orgs can easily just deduct the fine out of their salary...

With the amount of daily OWL news posts when some actual esport news is happening for other titles, even if something as small as Clash Royale getting their own EU and NA leagues with some pretty orgs participating in it, is starting to make me thing that Kotaku is another official sponsor of the OWL. I get it, it’s…

Not sure if that’s worse than what the DailyMail did, they just posted the photo of a girl because “she shows up in many photos with him on facebook” saying that it MIGHT be the girlfriend that broke up with him, but couldn’t confirm that...Then why the fuck are you posting the photo?

In DoTA you can just load up the client and watch whoever you want. Why LoL doesn’t have this is beyond me.

With the amount of daily posts about the OWL I think you should rebrand to OWCompete and go full into coverage of the OWL, I don’t think many would be able to see the difference.

You can’t unironically honestly say playing overwatch in whatever possible composition requires a higher ceiling skill than playing CS:GO, that’s just a ridiculous statement to make by itself, and even more when you start talking about triple tank compositions, when Tanks require even less skill to use than any other…

12 Korean players, in a team owned by an american organization, representing London and Europe in general as the only European city in the League.

CS:GO proves again that it’s by far the most exciting esport to watch even as a casual viewer that has no experience with the game itself, seriously one of the most hyped experiences I’ve ever had while watching esports.

It’s also pretty cool how “European” Vitality is, 5 different nationalities, German, French, Polish, and also the first Portuguese and Italian pros in the LCS