Riot and Valve income source

Something that I never saw in discussions regarding Riot vs Valve in terms of how they handle esports is
their income source.

Valve's income source comes from Steam, not CS or Dota, there wasn't any pressure for Valve to implement franchise system compared to Riot.

Riot earns money through Skins and other in game purchases, simply put League and Valorant ( to a lesser extent ) are what keeping them as big as they are. Knowing this it's easy to see why Riot implemented franchise system.

That said, I hate franchise system. I will explain why in my next thread

I agree with you, Riot loses money even after making hit series like Arcane while Valve has infinite money printing machine Steam. Also Riot spends significantly more money marketing their games while I don't even think Valve has a marketing team. Even in league, I heard that Riot took away f2p progression and cosmetic stuff because it couldn't generate them money. Riot has to find ways to profit and unfortunately franchising the esports scene falls into this.

But still, Riot are control freaks and franchising stuff aside, they could have added support for user generated content like modded servers and workshop content with custom maps.

I mean valve also earns through esl u know

I don't think partnerships is that bad I just think tier 2 and path to pro needs to be refined.