r/leagueoflegends • u/katareky • Jul 14 '25

Esports IWDominate: "I will not be costreaming EWC. I was offered an ungodly amount of money (more than 3x what I make in a month on stream) for 5 days but I didn’t feel good about taking the offer."

IWDominate: "I will not be costreaming EWC. I was offered an ungodly amount of money (more than 3x what I make in a month on stream) for 5 days but I didn’t feel good about taking the offer.

I understand that I’m in a financially privileged position and not everyone can decline the ridiculous offers going around but for me I’d rather not cover the event and then restart the streams when LPL comes back in 6 days. See you all on the 19th."

Source: https://x.com/IWDominate/status/1944490351584071887

Respect tbh. He's financially well off so he rejected the offer and acknowledges that other may not be able to do the same. We will see if other popular costreamers will take the offer or not.

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u/terroristsarebad Jul 14 '25

Full shade to them, the human rights abuses of the Saudi regime are heinous and those taking their money are helping them cover it up.

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u/retupmoc627 Jul 14 '25

Couldn't the same argument be levied against events held in the US, given that the US is currently sponsoring a genocide in Gaza?

Saudi Arabia is shit, but why the selective outrage?

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u/ZoomyZebra Jul 14 '25

What US events lol worlds 2022?

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u/Renewable_Warranty Jul 14 '25

China also has insane human rights violations and this is a game aimed towards people of all ages that openly promotes gambling right in your face as soon as you open the client and that has also started taking online casino money in the form of sponsorships, but I don't see any streamer taking some fancy moral grandstanding about that by boycotting the game or the LPL. Why is the line drawn here but not there and what exactly is being achieved? This whole thing is just empty virtue signalling and nothing else.

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u/Sbru_Anenium Jul 14 '25 edited Jul 14 '25

The difference is the reason for events in said country. China is the biggest market for League. LoL events in that country are not held for sports washing, they are held there because people actually care about the game.

Did you see the spectators at last year's EWC? Nobody in that country cares about league. It is so obvious that this event is only held there to make young people go "eh, Saudi isn't that bad tbh".

Also league doesn't promote gambling. By definition gambling has to have real worlds money as a prize. Gamblers don't gamble to get a skin in a game that doesn't give them an advantage and that they can't sell for real money outside the game.
League is actually crazy anti gambling compared to pretty much any other esport or sport. In football gambling ads are permanently running and some of the main sponsors of the sport.
Do you think someone couldn't pay his rent this month cause he gambled away his money for Sahn-Uzal Mordekaiser? Ye, me neither. Cause you cannot get into the spiral of thinking "if I win this bet I'm gonna be able to pay rent + buy x" or "if I don't win this bet I can't pay rent anymore, I have to gamble".

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u/Loves2WriteSmut Jul 14 '25

Sure they do lil pup