Riot Games Push Sean Gares & DDK Into Retirement
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"We work together, me, the liquor, and the clack of the keys." Well it's official boys Richard is now Jim Lahey. The question is does that turn Sam into Randy?
Smokey
@@thijsb9953 Man's gotta eat Rich
Richard's like the Christopher Hitchens of eSports
Had he said "We work together, me, the liquor, the cocaine, Dunhill, coffee, weed, Heineken, Shivas, Acid, champagne" his writing would be on Hunter S. Thompson's level. For those who don't know, this is not a joke, this was Hunter's almost daily routine, especially before sitting down to write, look it up. After reading and watching "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas", the author's habits don't surprise me.
i like richard but don't disrespect lahey like that man
I met DDK he’s such a cool dude… Went out of his way to chat up with me and my friends at an event once. I don’t really watch much Valorant, but the last time I happened to catch him and Sean casting and they did great.
Only issue with your article is thinking Zoomers will read it
millennials are no better, just balder and fatter
DDK retiring in shithole Valorant when he was one of the top casters in CS is sadly hilarious
It's absurdity.
He hasn't been a top caster in cs for several years. actually shit that riots pushed him out though
He always sucked
He doesn’t cast cs anymore?
I can't believe they did this. No disrespect to the other casters in the Valorant scene, but it just won't be the same.
DDK & Zoot casting QuakeLive holds a special place in my
this! legendary.
Their loss is my gain, I am beyond thrilled DDK is GM of my favorite team. So much respect for him and the way he views the big picture.
Love the insight to your writing style. It’s very real and super interesting as someone who writes a lot less than they’d like to. Love the videos. Thanks for the content!
Dude richard had me cracking up for 30 minutes straight. Luv u mate from murica
Riot is stupid for this one. The rest of the casters are pretty garbage. Ddk and Sean were by far the best.
I'm glad tarik is streaming alot of the games. And it shows that everyone feels the same cus his streams now always match or surpass the official streams
It's hilarious how most of the co-streams always get more viewers than the main stream in almost All valorant events i have seen
Mate, both yourself and Duncan are the absolute beacon of integrity of this scene, watching your content is a breath of fresh air. I will never understand the people who hate on you both (guess its because sometimes you say big meanie words or go against the current Reddit narratives/beloved corporate overlords?)
Anyway, fuck Riot. These guys didn't deserve that, but not unexpected from that fucking garbage company.
A JUMPING DOUBLE FOR RIOT
esports dad doing his best work on the daily. bless
Richard this piece was great. Really captured the way things seem at Riot these days in a way that goes into the real motivations behind what's going on. I know gameplay isn't so much your area so much as esports, but I would really love to see someone come out and really bring to light the manipulation and deception that are going on within Riots games. Everything they have created is built from the ground up to be a skinner box slot machine addiction engine (especially the matchmaking structure). I started collecting some basic data and testing some ideas, but I'm not a journalist and I don't have the time or access to do the research I really wanted to. Would love to see this come to light. Cheers
the intro needs to be louder, bring back the old days.
I've had you in mind after seeing your Destiny ban tweets, and here I am listening and just being blown away. God damn you are one hell of a journalist. I can feel the passion emanating off you, and I come out of your videos feeling I understand much more than I did
Read your article, it was great!!
2:05 this will be very useful for me with doing commentarys. I don't really script anything anymore but doing this with specfic notes and the general order for the video to flow right. This will be useful for me. So thanks Richard. 👍
Great takes and a great clip! Man if i had to speak for that long even in swedish i would have said some horrible thing that would have had me cancled. Great reporting
DDK and sean are very reminiscent of Machine and Spunj in CSGO. One is the main play by play talker, the other more of an analyst who explains the strategy. Thats what makes that duo so good. Horrible move by Riot.
Ddk and sean now with 100t is interesting. They seem to be sticking together now
I talked to DDK once at a small CS event at Take's bar. It was really nice and cool talking to him.
This sort of stuff makes me glad I don't really follow Valorant or League anymore. I mean other companies do weird shit too when it comes to their esports titles but Riot seems to take the crown in terms of control at all cost.
I'm no journalist and haven't done deep research on this but from what I experienced Blizzard is sort of bipolar in the esports scene (blind to opportunity with Starcraft until it was too late and a desperate megalomaniac with HotS and Overwatch) while Valve is sort the weird stepdad who doesn't talk much and pops in randomly to give you a (sometimes shitty) present with no explanation just to disappear for 1 1/2 years again. At least with Valve I associate the least "powerplays" like this although they probably did happen and often I think they're just pressured into a more reasonable course of action by the community.
Would love to hear your opinion on their recent 100T pickup! Especially with the rumours they could be cutting Hiko, seems like they're keeping their word about striving to win (never had any doubts about that) and not just keeping him for fan service.
Love Sean, no clue why he left anything in CS for anything in Valo.
New oppoturnity in something big and skill set to capitalize on it, not really too questionable. Just that he missed the memo it is RIOT.
@@kavinh10 in what way? Valve don’t hire talent…
@@kavinh10 valve who lets anyone run tournies with anyone even on majors is somehow worse than riot?...
The hero we need, not the one we deserve.
I wish nothing but the best for DDK and Sean at their new roles in 100 Thieves. They can 100% provide a huge amount of value to their Valorant division, we just need Nadeshot to actually keep them on the books for longer than 2 weeks. What they did to ec1s etc. was stupid so lets hope our boys can provide some good stability.
I discovered ddk through his Quake Live casting days, sad this happened to him, he seems like such a chill dude
ive alwys herd it calledd the AWP but i dont play valorant. but watching pros streaming they call. it an awp or. maybe “op” for operator
First 3 minutes are very good advice for anyone wanting to write anything!
Soon DDK and Sean will be streaming Football Manager
Not just any bitcoin exchange. Brady's wife owns/has a stake in the account. Was an ad for their service as much as anything.
Judging by Rich's opening comments about the article he wrote it sounds like the opinion piece is more Richard Litttejohn than Richard Lewis.
It has begun
writing a book at the moment. Feel the start something fierce
Riot being petty control-freaks as per usual
100Thieves snapped both of them so quickly too. Hopefully they enjoy their new roles.
2:00 LOL I can relate
Riot are in a better place financially having Sean costream instead of being on the broadcast. Very sad
Please write about riot canceling sinatraa tho there is no conviction against him. Riot telling organisations you cant have teams for their competing games. The most annoying thing are their brain dead tos and if you lose it or just be a tad bit bitter to them, they will come at you tryna harming your team more and blaming you for their petty ego.
bangin
27:15 🟩
Your a legend richard.
Seeing big streamers like Shroud, or Pokimane, XQC, ... etc costreaming Valorant is funny, cuz these guys have nothing but big leverage, they could just bend Riot so hard or walk away if not convenient for them
Unlike Dom, LS, or Ceadreal who more depended on costreaming
Riot games punishes you for being too good at your job
The only reason I watched valorant was because Sean gares was casting.
riot are rats. where is Spam Margera with his stapler when we need him?
Sean BAE Gares...except to riot
Was this whole video just an advertisement for your article?
No. How would that work exactly?
Comment for the algorimthmoid.
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When you make your two best casters retire. No wonder why no one watches the main streams for Valorant. Crappy casters so everyone watches watch parties.
maybe in riots opinion he was too expensive?
Read the article
@@miguelpereira9859 quote from it how you are sure its not the case instead of making me analyse it to make sense of your comment
@@adaml2910 Bro just read the article seriously it's really good
But I have
Come back to CS:GO Sean
RUCK FIOT
forget Valorant, come back to CSGO
Another great duo was Moletrap and KellyMilkies
;)
Valorant = trash
I'm so glad I don't follow Riot Games' Esports, CS FTW.