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geetarzero
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haley
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leejas
United States440 Posts
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TheBeardedWonder
United States67 Posts
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The6357
United States1268 Posts
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KawaiiRice
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eMbrace
United States1300 Posts
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. | ||
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geetarzero
United States217 Posts
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. | ||
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Funnytoss
Taiwan1471 Posts
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Saturnize
United States2473 Posts
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JohnColtrane
Australia4813 Posts
On February 16 2010 15:31 Saturnize wrote: lololool japanese people ??? | ||
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OhThatDang
United States4685 Posts
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 ?? | ||
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deL
Australia5540 Posts
lol don't act offended I know you're Aussie, whitey | ||
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JohnColtrane
Australia4813 Posts
On February 16 2010 17:19 iCCup.deL wrote: 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 | ||
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Zidane
United States1691 Posts
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De4ngus
United States6533 Posts
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Prof. Protoss
Germany744 Posts
On February 16 2010 14:27 The6357 wrote: poor country play SC...u haven't read Cuban starcraft story...go check it out.. where? | ||
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JohannesH
Finland1364 Posts
On February 16 2010 15:31 Saturnize wrote: lololool japanese people I agree | ||
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haduken
Australia8267 Posts
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SCC-Faust
United States3736 Posts
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. | ||
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kyzers0ze
Singapore1073 Posts
On February 16 2010 14:27 TheBeardedWonder wrote: Starcraft isn't kawaii enough. This. Games like sf4 blazblue kof doa are the major games in Japan. | ||
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FreshNoThyme
United States356 Posts
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Garnet
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Tom Phoenix
1114 Posts
On February 16 2010 14:24 geetarzero wrote: 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. I do not claim to be an expert on Japan, but I think there is a very simple reason for this and that is the fact that PC gaming was never really all that popular in Japan. Consoles and handhelds have preety much dominated the Japanese market throughout gaming history. Even nowadays, you would be hard pressed to think of a Japanese company (outside of hentai/dating sim/Touhou project game developers) that produces games for the PC platform (and even then, the product is most likely multiplatform and aimed at the markets outside Japan as well). So it should come as no suprise that there are relatively few PC gamers in Japan. That said, we kind of owe StarCraft`s popularity in Korea to Japan`s obssession with consoles/handhelds. Due to Korea`s (partial) ban on Japanese goods, consoles were never able to make much of a splash on the Korean market. This, combined with enormous investments in IT technology by the South Korean goverment, resulted in a enormous popularity of PC gaming, which provided fertile ground for a game like StarCraft. EDIT: Also, the fact that PC gaming is not big in Japan makes it all the more nerve wrecking that Capcom never released the PC version of Gyakuten Saiban outside of Japan. T_T Another ironic fact is that there is a Japanese version of StarCraft. | ||
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Achromic
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On February 16 2010 14:27 TheBeardedWonder wrote: Starcraft isn't kawaii enough. That too. | ||
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