Rumors circulating in Korean E-Sports scene - Page 11

On October 13 2010 05:21 MoriyaGXP wrote:
SC2 will be the new main e-sport


everyone is jumping ship cause of the money.

BW will die... Blizzard has successfully accomplished according to their future plan LOL

On October 13 2010 05:24 OutlaW- wrote:

With all due respect, sir, to me, an opinonless observer (who loves SC but knows that it's going to die soon anyway, every major evolution starts with a collapse of the old), you are the one being thick-skulled, trying to keep BW alive with your comments on these forums. The logic behind that, I do not understand. There are always people who deny the new, the thing that will become norm, and I see you exactly as that, trying to pull any argument to feel good about winning an internet argument.
The paraolympics picture comes to my mind.

On October 13 2010 04:48 matjlav wrote:
I've already explained that I won't be that upset if SC2 turns out better than BW and has a thriving proscene, even if BW dies in that process. What's upsetting is that BW may be forced out by Blizzard's bullshit.

On October 13 2010 04:49 TOloseGT wrote:


Lol, get off your high horse.

On October 13 2010 04:53 matjlav wrote:


Learn to read instead of making stupid assumptions.

On October 13 2010 05:07 TOloseGT wrote:
I'm done talking to you extremist fans.

On October 13 2010 05:24 OutlaW- wrote:

With all due respect, sir, to me, an opinonless observer (who loves SC but knows that it's going to die soon anyway, every major evolution starts with a collapse of the old), you are the one being thick-skulled, trying to keep BW alive with your comments on these forums. The logic behind that, I do not understand. There are always people who deny the new, the thing that will become norm, and I see you exactly as that, trying to pull any argument to feel good about winning an internet argument.
The paraolympics picture comes to my mind.

On October 13 2010 05:16 konadora wrote:
i give up trying to explain us BW fans' stand because some people are just too thick-skulled and i'd probably get banned.

On October 13 2010 05:30 Jyvblamo wrote:
To be fair, it's kind of shameful how hostile some of the BW veterans are to 'SC2 fans'.

On October 13 2010 05:27 dubRa wrote:


You need to calm down. BW right now is still the most advanced esport in terms of sponsorship, leagues etc. Please check out the history on the database here on TL or liquipedia and compare it to any other game.

I started following BW in 2007 and I really like SC2. I enjoy watching both and I really wish a healthy SC2 and BW scene could coexist.

On October 13 2010 05:34 Shizuru~ wrote:


the fact remains that E-Sports can only grow so much with BW, have you ever seen so much attention been put to a single game for non-koreans demographics? the only time that korea has even made an effort to expand E-Sports beyond its borders is the GomTV classics tournament, we all know how that ended up because of a certain organisations selfish act?

SC2 is a great way to unite all sort gamers under one "roof" and be driven as the spear point of E-Sports development GLOBALLY, an unfortunate consequence that the old must make way for the new, but this is the chance for E-Sports to expand beyond korea.

i understand the pains that some might have with the changes, i myself have had great time and memories with the BW scene, but nothing last forever, changes is a part of life that we all must learn to adapt and accept, and BW have to brought down to encourage further development of E-Sports. it is painful i know, you guys should come to terms with reality, that there's nothing any of us here can do stop the changes, in the long run it will be for the greater good. so bear with it please.

On October 13 2010 05:26 Jyvblamo wrote:
It speaks volumes when the man that built SCBW has already left for SC2. I think people give too much credit to Blizzard for peeling apart the BW scene, when its very core is crumbling from the inside.

To clarify, the way BW has evolved over the years into a fiercely competitive, cutthroat and unforgiving sport might have facilitated its rapid collapse.

On October 13 2010 05:31 konadora wrote:

oh. my. GOD.

why is it that you guys cant see our points? what we're angry is NOT about sc2 replacing bw as "the better esports game", but about how us BW fans arent given an opportunity to stick to what we like. as people mentioned in the other thread, if BW died a natural death then i wouldnt give that much a thought either, but here, blizzard is strangling the BW scene to death. THAT is what i am so pissed about.

and although i still think sc2 isnt a good a game as BW, i also believe given time, it too can develop into a good game.

On October 13 2010 05:35 VPC wrote:


Most advanced in the way of an e sport game? No its not. Look at Halo 3 or CS teams. Just because there was a huge fallowing in Korea doesn't mean that the rest of the world fallowed. Perhaps before you spout off again and tell me to check liquipedia, inform yourself about what is going on.

On October 13 2010 05:35 VPC wrote:


Most advanced in the way of an e sport game? No its not. Look at Halo 3 or CS teams. Just because there was a huge fallowing in Korea doesn't mean that the rest of the world fallowed. Perhaps before you spout off again and tell me to check liquipedia, inform yourself about what is going on.

On October 13 2010 05:38 kinray wrote:


How can you say Blizzard have something to do with BW going down when from all the rumors in the OP we all can see that some Korean corporation is just trying to switch from BW to SC2?

All this hate between bw and sc2 fans is absolutely pointless and useless. The "bad guys" are not SC2 fans but corporations that want more money.

Players are just a bunch of kids (if you are in your late teens and early 20s you are a kid ) that want to make a living and you can't want them to stick to losing cause because you like that cause.

In the end there is only one thing that sums it up: Money talks...

On October 13 2010 03:30 PoP wrote:


Thing is, the fans should decide this, not the money.

(Korean) BW isn't dying because the korean fans want to watch SC2 all of a sudden. There were TONS of people showing up at every single live event in Korea last year. They still love the game and many foreigners still do, too. And it didn't become that way because whatever companies threw huge amounts of money and proclame their game the new greatest e-sport, it became that way because the game was loved by the players and by the fans and has been so for 10 years full of awesome stuff .

TLDR: Money should go where the fans want to go, not the other way around. The way things seem to be occuring seems everything but natural, and that's really really sad.

On October 13 2010 05:34 Shizuru~ wrote:


the fact remains that E-Sports can only grow so much with BW, have you ever seen so much attention been put to a single game for non-koreans demographics? the only time that korea has even made an effort to expand E-Sports beyond its borders is the GomTV classics tournament, we all know how that ended up because of a certain organisations selfish act?

SC2 is a great way to unite all sort gamers under one "roof" and be driven as the spear point of E-Sports development GLOBALLY, an unfortunate consequence that the old must make way for the new, but this is the chance for E-Sports to expand beyond korea.

i understand the pains that some might have with the changes, i myself have had great time and memories with the BW scene, but nothing last forever, changes is a part of life that we all must learn to adapt and accept, and BW have to brought down to encourage further development of E-Sports. it is painful i know, you guys should come to terms with reality, that there's nothing any of us here can do stop the changes, in the long run it will be for the greater good. so bear with it please.