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eSports is hurting eSports - Page 2
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Battleaxe
United States843 Posts
3/5 for the effort though | ||
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Megaliskuu
United States5123 Posts
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bonifaceviii
Canada2890 Posts
Setting the anti-SC2 bias aside, one of the main points of this blog (that the eSports scene is being driven from the top-down by business interests and isn't growing organically like the Korean BW scene did) is not a new one. What is new is that the OP is criticizing the model for being successful. | ||
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Linwelin
Ireland7554 Posts
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BLinD-RawR
ALLEYCAT BLUES50612 Posts
On December 01 2011 02:29 Megaliskuu wrote: You make BW fans look bad. Yeah....  | ||
]343[
United States10328 Posts
I suspect this would've been better-received without all the "SC2 sucks" stuff... but you asked for it hehe. Or maybe you wrote that to filter out all the mindless fanboys who would just rage and leave before finishing the read? (Some SC2 fanboys did manage to finish the blog though!) I guess I agree with your assessment that SC2 is still an eGame. A shiny, not-bad game with a lot of time and money invested into it (and I don't think you should just automatically discount that!), which makes it seem really popular and awesome (and maybe some think it is), but... it's a game. On the other hand, I'm not sure BW is that much more of a sport; match-fixing can occur as long as there's money being bet on the side. And I agree somewhat with your main (?) point: that the concept of "eSports" is really just a (nearly) empty battle-cry to rally behind. It's good for game and competitive gamers to get bolder and try to become more mainstream; if they don't try, it's never going to happen! But I think a lot of people have some sort of (mis)conception that whatever game they're playing is the whole world and the most mainstream and nothing bad will ever happen to it, blah blah blah. Even BW is in its last breath; not sure SC2 can last much longer (after all the expansions are released) without the artificial support it's getting now... | ||
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skindzer
Chile5114 Posts
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kammeyer
United States275 Posts
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Iranon
United States983 Posts
On December 01 2011 01:45 mmp wrote: Most of all, a real sport does not have a steering committee to shuffle the rules of the game on a monthly basis. Sports do not release expansion packs. I'm not quite sure what you're going for here, since it certainly sounded like you considered BW an e-sport but not SC2. You remember that it took many balance patches and expansion pack to make SC1 the game it is, right? For that matter, you call chess a sport, but even chess is the (admittedly very long-standing) last game in a chain of related games lost to mists of history. Of course the rules of games change over time, that's true of ANY sport. Tennis is a sport, and has been around since the mid-late 19th century, but there wasn't a tie-breaker rule until the 70s... With a video game that change just happens very quickly at the beginning before things stabilize. | ||
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Saturnize
United States2473 Posts
Sports do not release expansion packs. Sports do not come with "intellectual property" restrictions and license agreements dictating how you may play and whom you may play with. Sports do not tolerate lag. This a million times. | ||
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EatThePath
United States3943 Posts
On December 01 2011 01:45 mmp wrote: Warning! Long meandering rant ahead! [rest of OP] I think this covers it?? Spare your breath, fair TLers, the hot air quota has been attained. | ||
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Synwave
United States2803 Posts
On December 01 2011 02:26 SenorChang wrote: There are lots of things I don't enjoy but I don't make threads about them to belittle them and convince other people that they shouldn't like it either. 1/5 for the blog and quoting this because SenorChang basically covers my exact feelings reading this. | ||
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Calt
Finland1140 Posts
On December 01 2011 02:27 Battleaxe wrote: Started with some promise, ended with a bunch of shit. 3/5 for the effort though Pretty much this. There were some good points but they were buried in a pile of crap. I love it when random people in the internet tell me that I am in fact not having fun watching Starcraft, Im just pretending. Glad I can now drop my act and admit that this game is terrible and Ive been actually suffering the whole time Ive been watching/playing it, you saw right trough me. Right. | ||
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Itachii
Poland12466 Posts
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D4V3Z02
Germany693 Posts
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DtorR
Australia171 Posts
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tofucake
Hyrule19192 Posts
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thoraxe
United States1449 Posts
On December 01 2011 01:45 mmp wrote: Warning! Long meaningless rant ahead! You posted this 10 years early. Starcraft 2 is not hurting anything because it's still in it's infancy, it is trying to discover itself by doing so many different things and you are treating it as an adult. Waaaay to early man, cya in 10 years. | ||
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Archvil3
Denmark989 Posts
Out of the ashes of a once great eSport a new king will be crowned. Yes it is going happen and no amount of arguing, kicking, screaming and crying will stop it. I could post a fine wall of text with wellwritten arguments like you did brave one, but how about I just end it with "Time will prove you wrong" | ||
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aike
United States1629 Posts
User was warned for this post | ||
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