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| Flag: | Chile |
| Registered: | June 5, 2022 |
| Last post: | February 21, 2024 at 12:15 PM |
| Posts: | 673 |
First of all, I want to say that I love VLR.GG and have enjoyed this site as a casual reader for over a year. However, I am genuinely concerned that Riot has infiltrated the forums. By this, I do not mean the admins nor do I mean anyone on the VLR staff. I am talking about the users. I cannot believe some of these users lack any critical capacity to raise their voice against Riot and merely parrot their overlords. Remember when dozens of users were celebrating the Franchising announcement without any critical pushback of what was obviously going to be devastating for players and fans? It's truly shocking how many users appear willing to get on their knees and lick the corporate boot. The world is full of such mindless sheep, but I do not think these are mere lemmings. I think they are Riot employees on our community forum.
We have a responsibility as a community to be critical of Riot. The players cannot, or at least seem hesitant to, critique Riot. The players are likely terrified of speaking out against Riot for fear of being blacklisted as though they were dissenters living under a totalitarian regime. We need to use these forums to generate critical conversations that pressure Riot to implement changes when necessary. In the coming weeks, a large group of pro players and other behind-the-scenes members of the community will be creating an organization to anonymously yet collectively offer public pushback against Riot. Why is this needed? Frankly, Riot is run by a nepotistic corporate elite who do not understand the game at a high level of play and do not actively seek out critical input from the community. This is the same Riot that approved the ares buff and who have left a CoD player to make an MMR algorithm for our FPS ranked system instead of hiring admins (and paying for their healthcare). Our collective lack of voice as a community led to this horrific situation we are currently in where players who grinded for years are now left without a job or left waiting another few years to play according to the new age guidelines. These are but the tip of the iceberg. Let's avoid another Titanic collapse like that of Overwatch, and push Riot to avoid the failure that has become League of Legend's esports. The fate of this game is not just in the hands of a corporate elite who are apparently aloof from the community they rule like tyrants. We should not let this skin farming company with fancy graphics distract us from their horrible problems (no demo system?). The fate of the game is in our hands, and VLR's forum is our microphone (in addition to Twitter and whatnot, which we will be mobilizing in the coming weeks).
We have more power than we think. Maybe some of you are aware of the recent boycotts for Madden. We can do the same for Valorant, and we will help to collectively organize in the coming weeks to make our voice not only heard but felt (in their wallets). Riot, if you're listening, please listen more. We need you to listen and stop acting like tyrants. We love your game, we do not love you. Do not confuse our enthusiasm for the game for our enthusiasm for you. We are a community, and we will make sure you know that power will not continue to rest solely in your hands. This is not a threat, but a promise. Hopefully you see this as beneficial for the longevity of the esport. Move aside Riot's Plat staff, the grinders are here to help.
UPDATE: I've included this wonderful comment from #28 here on the post:
"I don't think that those Users are Riot people. The problem is, that this game/community has so many young people. They don't think about the consequences that franchising has. They are just fanboying the game too much.
The fact is, that franchising will hurt the game a lot. Just look at Overwatch. The game is great but there is no real chance to get into the pro scene.
You can't just have 5 good people in your team and surprise everyone. Franchise team will just play against other franchise teams.
This will also affect viewership. Not at the beginning or maybe in the first 1-2 years. But in a long term. It will just get boring because it's always the same.
And with less viewers = less people will play game or start new with it.
It also means that no new Orgs will invest in the game and their team. It's just useless. They will focus on other games.
At the end Riot will destroy their game and help games like CS:GO. Because those Orgs will invest there and not in Valorant."
TLDR: Learn to read.
Mmm it looks complicated but if there is a chance that some very low tier pros will start to look at cs
riot dont like jermans apparently
Who do they think they are going to kill with the franchise?
4 spots for asia rmr lul
I think so, they have the money and they will need it
Trembolona do not forget that you are still 1 team region
No oce org?
I didn't know it was still in cs lol
Expected
No, the gap between loud and the other teams is currently quite high
I have no idea how large the Mexican player base is, let alone if there are enough talented players to make a decent team
Geographically they are considered na, but in valorant they are considered latam north.
Contenders to reach the playoffs in the vlr spain rising
Yay played very well during the whole tournament, he could easily get the MVP of the tournament
Let's hope that next year there will be at least one event in Brazil
Man riot should look into that optic technical pause bullshit
It would be very complicated to do something like this
Lets go loud, now you have the chance to beat them in the final
Ange1 has to start playing well or at some point he will be cut
In my case windows 11 works excellent although I had to delete and deactivate all the windows crap to be able to use it
Xset XDDDDDDD
Today the good valorant won 🚬
Surely drx don't will choke Clueless
Clash of throwers kekw
drx trying to not choke (IMPOSSIBLE)
Met up with my duo, it wasn't awkward at all. Met her friend thats really close to her, red flag?? After we went for a walk at korea town, got Boba and corn dog together, I notice she meows randomly in middle of conversations like she does in valorant and she told me she wants to bark at random strangers especially children weird but I dont mind cause I was fine with it in valorant. We went to Canada's wonderland after (better than Disney world imo and never been there) that's when I started getting comfortable with her hanging my hand on her shoulder whenever Im tired. she asked me to hold hands, at first I said no but we did hold hands eventually. At night we went to jollibe for her first time, she liked it. Then night ended. Should I go for another date, if so any tips?
Where is vk?
I would have liked them to win but they choke on map 2.
I like him even though I hate his community most of the time for reasons that are already known to most people
TL 2-1 FNC
fnatic pls disband
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