{"id":45350,"date":"2026-07-08T08:56:41","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T07:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/08\/riot-has-almost-made-league-of-legends-esports-sustainable-hint-they-had-to-stop-taking-themselves-so-seriously\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T08:56:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T07:56:41","slug":"riot-has-almost-made-league-of-legends-esports-sustainable-hint-they-had-to-stop-taking-themselves-so-seriously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/08\/riot-has-almost-made-league-of-legends-esports-sustainable-hint-they-had-to-stop-taking-themselves-so-seriously\/","title":{"rendered":"Riot has almost made League of Legends esports sustainable. Hint: they had to stop taking themselves so seriously"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a long time, the running joke in the gaming world was that esports is just a massive, incredibly expensive black hole for cash. Publishers threw millions of dollars at giant stadiums, flashy trophy ceremonies, and broadcast production values that rivaled the Super Bowl, all while whispering&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esports.net\/news\/riot-esports-sustainability-changes\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a long time, the running joke in the gaming world was that esports is just a massive, incredibly expensive black hole for cash. Publishers threw millions of dollars at giant stadiums, flashy trophy ceremonies, and broadcast production values that rivaled the Super Bowl, all while whispering&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45350"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}