Morhaime said "We've been negotiating with the association about intellectual property rights for the last three years, and we've made no progress at all...

TL said "We've been arguing about about intellectual property rights for the last 32 pages, and we've made no progress at all...

lol jk

Although I am very interested in the topic and the future of esports, I don't know enough about either organization to form an educated opinion =(

danbel1005

United States1319 Posts

May 08 2010 11:29 GMT

#642

Blizzard ftw

TTSA_SBR

Australia64 Posts

May 12 2010 11:31 GMT

#643

kespa probably tried to challenge them to a game of sc for the ip rights...

antelope591

Canada820 Posts

May 12 2010 15:54 GMT

#644

I can see why people could see Blizz's demands as unreasonable. However there is no other company that's even come close to making a competitive RTS of Blizz's quality and with the industry FPS obsession there likely never will be. So why should Blizz allow Kespa to freely profit off their game when they have a complete monopoly over competitive RTS game-making?

TriniMasta

United States1323 Posts

May 14 2010 05:23 GMT

#645

This is horrible >=0
EDIT: KeSPA should just pay them. Or make some kind of compromise!

Two_DoWn

United States13684 Posts

May 14 2010 05:32 GMT

#646

What kind of business model and future do you have envisioned for Battle.net?
Paul Sams: Battle.net will be a hub for all of Blizzard's games, and help develop the community and e-sports. The specifics of our business and service model can change from game to game, and region to region.

Translation: we are going to do everything we can to price discriminate between regions in order to ensure that we make a ton of money. Luckily we can use the craptastic bnet lat as an excuse!

jackofclubs81

United States196 Posts

May 24 2010 00:10 GMT

#647

without KeSPA there would be NO BROODWAR TOURNAMENTS.
this means NO BOXER NADA YELLOW OOV SAVIOR(not so much him anymore after the scandal ;P) BISU FLASH or the DONG.
there would be very few people who would watch scbw without these ppl having lived
and so i thank KeSPA greatly for providing me with these programmers

Issor

United States870 Posts

May 24 2010 02:51 GMT

#648

^
it could even be argued that without KeSPA there would be no SC2 period! The interest in BW certainly would have waned without KeSPA's organization and whatnot.

nubarb

United States11 Posts

May 27 2010 20:51 GMT

#649

On April 25 2010 14:04 dani_caliKorea wrote:
Just wondering how much money does Blizzard even make off of Esports in Korea?

None. That's the whole issue. They are making millions of dollars a year off of someone else's property, and the said owners of the property are getting absolutely no return (and if box sales is a counter-argument, I will proceed to laugh).

sAAvior

Poland248 Posts

May 27 2010 21:36 GMT

#650

Good thing law in Korea is different than in America. I don't think Blizzard should have slightest rights to tell who and how will play their game. It's like balls producer saying football teams to pay them for playing. Crazy.
Go Kespa and thanks for turning professional bw for what it is today !

Prev 1 31 32 33 All

Please or register to reply.

Live Events Refresh