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SlickR12345
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Macedonia408 Posts
May 21 2008 04:39 GMT
#1
Starcraft is huge e-sport and basically a national sport in Korea.
The question that naturally arises now is if Starcraft 2 replaces Starcraft in Korea and if so in what time, what will happen to e-sports in general and similar questions.

I feel that Starcraft 2 will eventually replace Starcraft but it’s not going to be an instant process. It will take at least 6 months before Korea starts adopting Starcraft 2 and I’m guessing probably a year until the end of competitive Starcraft comes!
On a more global level I can see more countries strengthening their e-sports, Starcraft 2 competitions in particular.

Blizzard are basically making Starcraft 2 to be a competitive game and improving battlenet as well, what specific things are new in battlenet we'll have to wait a bit more to see but I think Blizzard will be revealing more on battlenet at the WWI 2008 in France!

As far as the gameplay goes it looks good but hopefully we'll either see some automations removed, degraded or new stuff added to compensate for the loss of skill automations contribute.


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Nitrogen
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States5345 Posts
May 21 2008 04:47 GMT
#2
i see korea either taking it instantly (~a month) but there still being a few good players who haven't moved on to sc2, or they completely reject it and keep with bw.
UNFUCK YOURSELF
zoLo
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
United States5896 Posts
May 21 2008 05:01 GMT
#3
I see Korea switching to SC2 in terms of OSL, MSL, etc when the game feels ready. What I'm trying to say is that SC2 won't be 100% perfect, but will take some patches for it to be ready for competitive play. Hopefully it won't end up like CS 1.6 and CS:S where most of the players in the 2 communities hate each other for playing a "bad" game. So far Blizzard has done a great job and I hope by the end of the 2008 WWI or Blizzcon that there will be a public BETA.
SlickR12345
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Macedonia408 Posts
May 21 2008 05:19 GMT
#4
Some 5 star ratings pls, this is serious talk. Anyways i'm giving the first 6 months for patches to bring more balance and then korea gradually adopting starcraft 2!
H
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
New Zealand6138 Posts
May 21 2008 05:21 GMT
#5
On May 21 2008 14:19 SlickR12345 wrote:
Some 5 star ratings pls


lol
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SlickR12345
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Macedonia408 Posts
May 21 2008 05:31 GMT
#6
On May 21 2008 14:21 H_ wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 21 2008 14:19 SlickR12345 wrote:
Some 5 star ratings pls


lol

banned
prOxi.swAMi
Profile Blog Joined November 2004
Australia3091 Posts
May 21 2008 05:34 GMT
#7
On May 21 2008 14:31 SlickR12345 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 21 2008 14:21 H_ wrote:
On May 21 2008 14:19 SlickR12345 wrote:
Some 5 star ratings pls


lol

banned

how's he going to 5star you now?
Oh no
paper
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
13197 Posts
May 21 2008 06:29 GMT
#8
SlickR = lod-mika???

1/5 stars
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Play
Profile Blog Joined November 2007
Australia608 Posts
May 21 2008 09:09 GMT
#9
On May 21 2008 15:29 paper wrote:
SlickR = lod-mika???

1/5 stars


he should have been ip banned
jmascis
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