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League fans furious as Riot reportedly removes ability to costream from Worlds 2023

Don't expect to see your favorite streamers watching Worlds this year.

The 2023 League of Legends World Championship is right around the corner, scheduled to start on Oct. 10. We’re slowly in the period of preparation for the biggest event of the year, and it seems as if Riot Games won’t allow League streaming icons to costream the event.

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According to a report from esports journalist LCS Eevee on Twitter on Aug. 24, Worlds 2023 won’t have any costreams this year. The sources for this, reportedly, are Nick “LS” De Cesare and Marc Robert “Caedrel” Lamont.

https://twitter.com/LCS_Eevee/status/1694623491457233185

The fans are outraged by this and swarmed to League’s subreddit as they loved having the option to watch their favorite streamers cast, especially if they didn’t like the hand-selected staff for that day. 

Related: What LoL patch will Worlds 2023 be played on?

“They want to unopen Pandora’s box, costreaming is such an insanely good deal for the streamers but hurts Riot’s control over the narrative and viewership. I want to watch costreams over Riot stream, but I understand why they don’t want costreams, their own fault was allowing it in the first place,” said one League player, nailing down the issue in its core. 

While streamers easily benefit from costreaming, Riot can’t really control and moderate what’s going on on their broadcasts. More importantly, their official streams on Twitch and Youtube have lower viewership because of it.

Related: Riot Phreak slams LoL community for playing on autopilot: ‘Players don’t read’

Fans, however, enjoy more casual streams where they can get a deeper insight and pro player-level analysis, and the community is now asking for at least one separate stream that would be more chill.

The simplest solution here, as one player suggested, is to sell costreaming rights. Although this could be a step forward, it’s quite possible the overall revenue Riot makes from ads is far greater and streamers simply may not be able to compete with that.


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Izabela Tomakic
Staff writer and World of Warcraft lead
Staff Writer & World of Warcraft lead. Izabela has a long history with writing and games like World of Warcraft, League of Legends, Fortnite, and The Sims. Before finding her home at Dot Esports in 2021, Izabela was an English teacher and a freelancer at Hotspawn, GGRecon, and Gameranx. In her free time, you’ll find her writing novels, wandering Azeroth, or inting on Summoner’s Rift.
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