Riot Games CEO Nicolo Laurent say you can't think of esports as marketing. This is interesting to me, prior to hearing someone in such a strong position in gaming/esports say this I would assume most game developers would only use esports as a form of marketing and continued
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relevancy. So the question is this, how do companies/developers take their game and create a sustainable business with their esport? How can they make their esport profitable outside of driving traffic towards their game? I think if more developers designed their esports for
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the long run you might see a more successful "ecosystem" around their game and esport. The word ecosystem being use by Nicolo Laurent when explaining LoL esports. It definitely feels like Epic/Fortnite has esports tacked on rather than trying to create something sustainable.
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Bruh, literally said thishttps://twitter.com/Veineless/status/1202327953251733505 …
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Marcel @Veinelessyo we need devs to start realizing the potential their games have for esports, and properly develop them towards that goal... Sure, maybe shortterm it's not the way to go for making money but if you look at League and CS, people always end up falling back to those because -Show this thread2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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OKAY BUDDY SO NOW WE'RE JUST STEALING THOUGHTS OUT OF MY MIND NOW? I thought you were better than that.
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How do i steal your thought when you stole the thought from Riot Games CEO
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