They made it more difficult to leave, but people with genuine reasons e.g. work and in-person study at foreign universities still can do so. I think with some help from Red Bull e.g. a letter confirming that Yo is leaving for work he may be able to go.
Although I guess getting back in...
Absolutely insane news for AOE2, interesting dilemma for Viper and Hera on how to split their time.
Tens of thousands of dollars depending if they go all in on one game or try to play both at a world class level.
Exactly this. Yes, 4k Viewers would be a disaster in a $125K AOE2 tournament, but AOE4 is a completely different context. The game's playerbase and viewerbase is really small, so gaining large viewer numbers like 4-10K means that you were able to capture new people who aren't current AOE4 players.
Yes. that kind of format event is exactly what AOE2 needs. Golden League is perfect other than the game it is played on, so it's a shame it's going to perform so poorly commercially.
In theory yes that would be ideal - I agree with you that is the fairest thing, but in reality it just leads to unemployment.
The idea of comparative advantage is basically that labour rich, capital poor nations can offer labour at lower rates than labour poor, capital rich nations can...
The problem with Empire Wars is that it skipped too much.
6 vill start with 1 sheep under TC has no downsides as far as I can see however, and could easily become the new standard in RM if implemented.
Edit: Maybe Chinese civ bonus would need to be looked at.
I'd put it the other way round, when you're young is the good time to try something like this, there's plenty of time when you're older to move into a more traditional profession.
IIRC Hera was originally studying something like Business or Marketing which have a lot of crossover with content...
Yes, I'm not going to link or anything because it goes against reddit rules, but you can check the top posts of last 24 hours and find it, some people called for him to make a public apology video to BeastyQT. Lots are just generically angry.
If that's the case then that completely changes things! In that case, MS funding $95K out of 200K+ is much more reasonable.
I feel like if this type of information was much more public and easy to find, that would definitely help with transparency and prevent people from getting the wrong...
Right, but $100K is the prize pool for the event. Choosing to run the event as a LAN definitely costs more, but also provides more benefits via increased tournament viewership etc. In general, LAN events have been more successful.
I don't think including all costs of the event is appropriate...
Sure, I'm just saying let's wait and see if Nili follows similar principles in the future, and that grand slam event hosts receive equal splits of prize pool funding for their events or whether he forces them to risk more of their own money.
I'm saying we don't have the data right now, but we...
If the deal was that Nili supplies $5K and he receives $95K from the tournament prize pool, then I hope the same terms and conditions are applied to the hosts of other grand slam events.
The problem isn't whether or not N4C could have received this level of funding, the problem is whether or...
I don't think AOE2 players should consider the health or success of the scene. They should play games which are fun and watch streams which they enjoy. They shouldn't have to do things relating to AOE4 just to increase the size of the pie.
If AOE4 was a good game, and a good viewing...
But there is no evidence that tournament funding is correlated with playerbase. You even say yourself that the AOE2 playerbase remained stable despite record esports investment. Clearly AOE4's incredible rate of decline is not due to esports funding or streamer donations. The AOE4 leaderboard...
What does this mean exactly. If a person thinks that AOE4 is a poor quality game, then they should not feel 'forced' into trying to support it. 'Faking' your emotions is a toxic situation, it's always more healthy to be honest with yourself.
In addition, if a person has concerns over Nili's...
I hope that the event was successful enough that it ended up at least being cost-neutral for Nili, although I imagine that you would also want some positive return on investment for the time spent working on the project. That said, all the warning signs were there, although as Nili said he may...
The problem is that it might become difficult for Russian players to actually get paid from YouTube/Twitch, and there is the potential for Steam to withdraw all services from Russia too if there is a significant escalation, so it might not be something that any one has control over (as I imagine...
I think that's a function of Nili's class as a tournament host, he can make an incredibly engaging event which can hit 6 or even 7K average viewers in a relatively low quality game like AOE4, which is an achievement.
But if I were the host of that $125K online league, alarm bells would be...
I think if Nili has a front page arrangement with Twitch, or an advertisement on Steam then his 20K personal + 7K other goal is probably realistic for the finals. At the end of the day, $100K is a major prizepool and a lot of people will watch an event due to the high stakes even if the gameplay...
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