"Riot levies €5,000 fine against Meet Your Maker for threatening player"

[kane_magus]

Here's some more serious fucking business surrounding video games, related to that other serious fucking business. The very fact that a video game developer is, apparently, able to levy the USD equivalent of a $5701.33 fine (or any amount at all that isn't in make believe video game money) against players, even "professional" players like this,

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[owsf2000]

Well, on the one hand, this is all about contract law for the most part. It'd be the same kind of situation on any "sport

[owsf2000]

From what I gather it's not so much sports as it is betting and hoping you win the bet - of course being the player gives incentive to making sure you win that bet I guess.

I wonder if any team's been known to throw a match and have a friend bet against them, for them. ^^

[kane_magus]

"I wonder if any team's been known to throw a match and have a friend bet against them, for them. ^^"
Oh, they absolutely have.

[kane_magus]

It happens in "professional" fighting game tournaments as well, what with fighting game players being another group that consider their hobby to be Serious Fucking Business™ like MOBA players.