Poll of the Day > League of Legends players union goes on strike... Riot fires everyone

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Late Stage Capitalism

Well the Supreme Court did just rule that striking workers have no rights

Zareth posted...

Well the Supreme Court did just rule that striking workers have no rights

ya, I saw that. When is America gunna rebellion cuz, like, lolz

The LCSPA isn't actually a union in a legal sense, so they had zero legal protection to start anyway. That being said, I haven't seen anything about people getting fired, the most I've seen is Riot saying they would cancel the North American season.

riot seems intent to crash and burn their company right into the ground it seems

rjsilverthorn posted...

The LCSPA isn't actually a union in a legal sense, so they had zero legal protection to start anyway. That being said, I haven't seen anything about people getting fired, the most I've seen is Riot saying they would cancel the North American season.

by fired I mean de facto since they're paying a lot of money to scab players

league players are cringe

i should know, I used to be married to one

Lokarin posted...

by fired I mean de facto since they're paying a lot of money to scab players

I hadn't seen anything about them hiring scabs either. Not even sure how that would work, typically during a sports strike the individual teams would be hiring players rather than the league.

Honestly, having read the player demands, I've come to the conclusion that I don't know enough about how the whole e-sports thing works to even have an opinion if the demands are reasonable or not. I'm not even sure what some of the demands mean.

• Institute Valorant style promotion and relegation between the LCS and NACL.
• Allow LCS orgs to partner with affiliates for cost-sharing.
• Riot commits to a revenue pool for player salaries of $300,000 per NACL team per year.
• Institute a 3/5 roster continuity rule to provide players on released NACL rosters first priority in maintaining their slots in the upcoming NACL season if a majority continue to compete together.
• Riot guarantees LCS minimum contracts for the following year for the five players who win the LCS summer finals each year.

The tofu loving sofie won't like that since they liked LOL

I mean, it is pretty much expected. LCS has been a joke forever: terrible players, no viewership, no money, ect. Heck, the teams themselves are barely composed of Americans because the American top players don't want to play in it, preferring to stream instead, so it is an American sports league largely composed of foreign nationals who couldn't cut it on other teams, how exciting. Riot has been already making steps to slowly kill it off, so it is only a matter of time till it is gone for good. I would be surprised if it is around in 2024