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Esports teams think that their way of doing things is "industry standard" or the "way it's always been done" because they have virtually zero outside-esports experience. So much of what is done in esports is not equitable, standard, or correct relative to the wider world.
Seeing requests for examples. 1: Most involve the lack of CBA. Teams treat their contracts as inviolate and non-negotiable, but there are no CBAs in esports, so all contract terms are negotiable. 1/
Absent a CBA, saying something is how we've always done it and then getting upset when a player has leverage to negotiate is just silly. Telling players no outright because you don't change your contracts is also silly. 2/
With a CBA, you negotiate all of those legal terms separately. Then you can just focus on the business terms. Esports players often miss this as well and so think that an agent will do all of their work 3/
Some examples get into attorney-client privilege where I can't get into specifics that might identify the player/negotiation, but many go back to making assumptions about how negotiations should work or how the law operates that just don't hold in other commercial contexts 4/4
Also, this isn't a subtweet or in response to anything that happened recently.
So with that, a very discrete example: I shouldn't have to fight for standard company reps and warranties that carry virtually zero liability unless you're doing something really shady
So with that, a very discrete example: I shouldn't have to fight for standard company reps and warranties that carry virtually zero liability unless you're doing something really shady
