So, as a vietnamese-american, what I've noticed a lot recently is that on SC-related websites like TL or gosugamers.net there tend to be a lot more players from vietnam than there are from japan. I just wanted to hear some possible reasons for this from people, seeing as how japan is obviously a developed country and is not some kind of backwater ditch. One thing that instantly occured to me was the overall cultural difference possibly, but I'd like to hear any other ideas.

haley

64 Posts

February 16 2010 05:26 GMT

A lot of games that are not computer hardware demanding are popular in Vietnam. Starcraft is one of them.

leejas

United States440 Posts

February 16 2010 05:27 GMT

As far as I know, Japan has a very very developed duelfighting gaming community. They're good at that by the same way Korea is good at SC.

TheBeardedWonder

United States67 Posts

February 16 2010 05:27 GMT

Starcraft isn't kawaii enough.

The6357

United States1268 Posts

February 16 2010 05:27 GMT

poor country play SC...u haven't read Cuban starcraft story...go check it out..

KawaiiRice

United States2914 Posts

February 16 2010 05:28 GMT

I've never actually seen a Japanese player on iCCup... lol

eMbrace

United States1300 Posts

February 16 2010 05:29 GMT

Japanese aren't very big on home computers, let alone gaming on them.

It's all about cell phones and nintendo. When I did my homestay over there I was with a very well to do family, and when I asked to use a computer they had to dig some old laptop out of the closet.

geetarzero

United States217 Posts

February 16 2010 05:32 GMT

On February 16 2010 14:27 The6357 wrote:
poor country play SC...u haven't read Cuban starcraft story...go check it out..

I remember that, extremely suprising really. Almost like knowing there was a proscene on Mars.

Funnytoss

Taiwan1471 Posts

February 16 2010 05:33 GMT

Well, arcade gaming (like SFII) is really popular in Japan when compared to PC gaming and while I was there it seemed that most people didn't really use computers to play games that were really competitive like SC - single player RPGs seem to be more common.

Saturnize

United States2473 Posts

February 16 2010 06:31 GMT

#10

lololool japanese people

JohnColtrane

Australia4813 Posts

February 16 2010 07:06 GMT

#11

On February 16 2010 15:31 Saturnize wrote:
lololool japanese people

???

OhThatDang

United States4685 Posts

February 16 2010 08:16 GMT

#12

On February 16 2010 15:31 Saturnize wrote:
lololool japanese people

hmmm maybe he is anti-japanese

anywho, japanese people enjoy the arcade games more like the recent street fighter 4, tekken, blazblue =D they also like console shooters and rpgs obvioiusly
i guess they just never got into pc gaming ??

deL

Australia5540 Posts

February 16 2010 08:19 GMT

#13

On February 16 2010 16:06 JohnColtrane wrote:

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???

lol don't act offended I know you're Aussie, whitey

JohnColtrane

Australia4813 Posts

February 16 2010 08:22 GMT

#14

On February 16 2010 17:19 iCCup.deL wrote:

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lol don't act offended I know you're Aussie, whitey

lol im not offended, i just think its no laughing matter that the japs dont like PC games :C

Zidane

United States1684 Posts

February 16 2010 08:30 GMT

#15

Da vietNam

De4ngus

United States6533 Posts

February 16 2010 09:37 GMT

#16

EVERYONE should watch Redskirt(Japan) vs Machine from IEF lololol.

Prof. Protoss

Germany744 Posts

February 16 2010 09:55 GMT

#17

On February 16 2010 14:27 The6357 wrote:
poor country play SC...u haven't read Cuban starcraft story...go check it out..

where?

JohannesH

Finland1364 Posts

February 16 2010 09:56 GMT

#18

On February 16 2010 15:31 Saturnize wrote:
lololool japanese people

I agree

haduken

Australia8267 Posts

February 16 2010 12:06 GMT

#19

There are definitely Japanese SC players. Goto JPN-1 on west or any other server there are at least a good dozen of players. I don't think they ever developed into a large enough community though.

SCC-Faust

United States3736 Posts

February 16 2010 12:12 GMT

#20

Well there was that team Lzuruha that had all those Japanese people...

Like Network... and those two Japanese really cute girls... Ayumi? And someone else?
Too bad it turned out that Shakti was playing on the Japanese girl account(s) for WGTour a while ago and never got banned or penalized despite all the proof and matching hotkeys. And Network was a smurf.