League of Legends isn’t going to last forever, but the dedicated development team behind the MOBA expects players to gank lanes and jungle for years to come. Riot Games VP of eSports, Dustin Beck, and Coca Cola's head of gaming, Matt Wolf, recently spoke at the Digitial-Life-Design conference in Munich, Germany about the expanding online project. Instead of focusing on new Champions or upcoming items, the duo covered the current landscape of LoL in the sporting community.
"eSports hasn't really existed on this pro level before, and we wanted to treat our fans, League of Legends players, the same as any fan would come to expect of a European Premier League match or NFL game,” Beck explained. "Really, to control that broadcast quality we were like, 'do we hire someone from BBC sports or FOX sports to go build this out if they have no game knowledge it's really hard for them to do?' We've really had to home grow this entire division within Riot to broadcast these games. We wanted to make sure it stayed authentic.”
Just how long can it all last, though?
"It's a sport like just like anything else,” Beck continued. “Baseball has been around 110 years. I'm not saying League of Legends will be around that long, but we see the shelf life of LoL as hopefully decades."
With the numbers the larger competitions have been pulling, it’s safe to say that League of Legends isn’t going away anytime soon.
Source: OnGamers
