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On March 07 2011 17:17 Torpedo.Vegas wrote:Show nested quote +On March 07 2011 17:14 Eywa- wrote: I don't know why people even associate failgame2 to Starcraft:Brood War, Just because they have the same name and Blizzard calls it a sequal doesn't mean they should be associated. Shoulda been called Warcraft in Space. Also I love how so many failgame2 fans post here saying BW IS DEAD!! MOVE TO SC2!!! We don't spam ur shit. And for the reccord, Brood War has always been a mostly Korean E-Sport, so even if the Internationnal Brood War fails, Brood War lives on. Only people who transfer from Brood War to SC2 are a) Lazy b) Bad c) Going for the cash(and not quality of the game). You just flame-baiting this thread...
Nah, It has it's merits but he should have removed the 'failgame2' statement so that we can take it seriously.
On March 07 2011 17:26 Ryo wrote:Show nested quote +On March 07 2011 17:16 Torpedo.Vegas wrote: Why are people saying the end of BW is the end of competitive Starcraft as a whole? By the time BW becomes less profitable for Korean pro-gamers in Korea, I suspect SC2 will have been patched and established globally to warrant a transfer of at least a significant portion of old pros. Not to mention new pro-gamers will skip BW and cut their teeth on SC2.
In terms of viewership, I would expect the viewership in Korea to be lower for SC2 then BW since one has been out for less then a year and the other has had years upon years to refine and establish themselves. But even barring that fact, viewers cant follow both at the exact same time, so attention will likely be split anyway.
I suspect some Korean pros will retire/go to army, but many will also transfer over since all their hard work in BW will pay off still in SC2 with their pure mechanical skills. Especially since now they have an entire world of leagues to play in with a disproportionate amount of raw talent in their favor. Fish in a barrel for some time to come. So tired of this kind of "logic".
YES THIS SERIOUSLY NEEDS TO STOP! It's getting on the nerves!. If banlings could (I doubt but I'm still hopeful and thankful for them) just warn/temp banned shitty logic like the bolded statement. Flame wars can really be averted.
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Whenever did money > quality of game?
Also, I don't really care if a bunch of starcraft 2 fans getting butthurt over what I said. Sick of seeing their BS, they dont even say anything that makes sense, just "Go SC2, Brood War Gonna Die" "Its not about fun/playability, its all about the money".
User was temp banned for this post.
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On March 07 2011 17:28 aimaimaim wrote:Show nested quote +On March 07 2011 17:17 Torpedo.Vegas wrote:On March 07 2011 17:14 Eywa- wrote: I don't know why people even associate failgame2 to Starcraft:Brood War, Just because they have the same name and Blizzard calls it a sequal doesn't mean they should be associated. Shoulda been called Warcraft in Space. Also I love how so many failgame2 fans post here saying BW IS DEAD!! MOVE TO SC2!!! We don't spam ur shit. And for the reccord, Brood War has always been a mostly Korean E-Sport, so even if the Internationnal Brood War fails, Brood War lives on. Only people who transfer from Brood War to SC2 are a) Lazy b) Bad c) Going for the cash(and not quality of the game). You just flame-baiting this thread... Nah, It has it's merits but he should have removed the 'failgame2' statement so that we can take it seriously.
Its still a terrible post, and makes us bw fans look bad.
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On March 07 2011 17:30 Megaliskuu wrote:Show nested quote +On March 07 2011 17:28 aimaimaim wrote:On March 07 2011 17:17 Torpedo.Vegas wrote:On March 07 2011 17:14 Eywa- wrote: I don't know why people even associate failgame2 to Starcraft:Brood War, Just because they have the same name and Blizzard calls it a sequal doesn't mean they should be associated. Shoulda been called Warcraft in Space. Also I love how so many failgame2 fans post here saying BW IS DEAD!! MOVE TO SC2!!! We don't spam ur shit. And for the reccord, Brood War has always been a mostly Korean E-Sport, so even if the Internationnal Brood War fails, Brood War lives on. Only people who transfer from Brood War to SC2 are a) Lazy b) Bad c) Going for the cash(and not quality of the game). You just flame-baiting this thread... Nah, It has it's merits but he should have removed the 'failgame2' statement so that we can take it seriously. Its still a terrible post, and makes us bw fans look bad.
it is a terrible post, but it does have a point, I could modify it.
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really wish they could of kept both BW and sc2. I thought they were going to kill off BW for a year since wcg is in korea this year, not kill it off entirely.
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On March 07 2011 17:26 Ryo wrote:Show nested quote +On March 07 2011 17:16 Torpedo.Vegas wrote: Why are people saying the end of BW is the end of competitive Starcraft as a whole? By the time BW becomes less profitable for Korean pro-gamers in Korea, I suspect SC2 will have been patched and established globally to warrant a transfer of at least a significant portion of old pros. Not to mention new pro-gamers will skip BW and cut their teeth on SC2.
In terms of viewership, I would expect the viewership in Korea to be lower for SC2 then BW since one has been out for less then a year and the other has had years upon years to refine and establish themselves. But even barring that fact, viewers cant follow both at the exact same time, so attention will likely be split anyway.
I suspect some Korean pros will retire/go to army, but many will also transfer over since all their hard work in BW will pay off still in SC2 with their pure mechanical skills. Especially since now they have an entire world of leagues to play in with a disproportionate amount of raw talent in their favor. Fish in a barrel for some time to come. So tired of this kind of "logic".
If its wrong I'll edit it out. But It seems pretty sound to me. Brood War has had 12 years of game sales and patches, as well as organizations and tournaments to iron out the issues and advertise the e-sport. 12 years to convince companies to subsidize and invest in teams and tournament series as well as create player legacies and histories.
Those are big shoes to fill for SC2 to do in less than one year. Pros who were accustomed to Brood War and had high mechanical skill were able to nit pick every bug and exploit in the game early on as well as play around with the game pre-release. We didn't have that for pre-Brood War and had to ramp up to your top tier gamers.
It is arguably inevitable that SC2 would have fallen short of expectations. I do not understand how viewers/players could expect the jump to be linear from BW to SC2. The polarized community didn't help either....
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On March 07 2011 12:08 sawedust wrote:Show nested quote +On March 07 2011 12:02 razorsuKe wrote:On March 07 2011 11:49 HKriceboy88 wrote: I'm sad, but i guess this was bound to happen one day. No more auto 1,2,3 finishes for Korea. =[ what makes you think korea won't take 123 in sc2? Happened at IEM where Koreans dominated a decent, but not strong western field. I don't see why it couldn't happen again at WCG. With WCG being more of a global tournament I can understand why they switched from BW to SC2. SC2 is catching on day by day in the western world for both competitive and casual gamers, whereas BW was left just for the hardcore gamers. It's sad to see the change, but it was one that was necessary. How was IEM a decent field foreign wise? Id call it strong.
Meanwhile the Koreans ALL lost round ONE of Code A. So yeah, Korea 1-2-3 could happen.
Banned Eywa for his inability to argue without calling people faggots.
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Saw this coming, but I'm glad they went with SC2 at least instead of no Starcraft at all. Now that would suck. I wonder if they're going to be able to broadcast SC2 this year because of the whole Korea-WCG-Blizzard-Samsung thing.
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On March 07 2011 17:33 Eywa- wrote:Show nested quote +On March 07 2011 17:30 Megaliskuu wrote:On March 07 2011 17:28 aimaimaim wrote:On March 07 2011 17:17 Torpedo.Vegas wrote:On March 07 2011 17:14 Eywa- wrote: I don't know why people even associate failgame2 to Starcraft:Brood War, Just because they have the same name and Blizzard calls it a sequal doesn't mean they should be associated. Shoulda been called Warcraft in Space. Also I love how so many failgame2 fans post here saying BW IS DEAD!! MOVE TO SC2!!! We don't spam ur shit. And for the reccord, Brood War has always been a mostly Korean E-Sport, so even if the Internationnal Brood War fails, Brood War lives on. Only people who transfer from Brood War to SC2 are a) Lazy b) Bad c) Going for the cash(and not quality of the game). You just flame-baiting this thread... Nah, It has it's merits but he should have removed the 'failgame2' statement so that we can take it seriously. Its still a terrible post, and makes us bw fans look bad. it is a terrible post, but it does have a point, I could modify it.
to be fair every time any thread comes up about a player switching to SC2 from BW or anything about a transition from BW -> SC2 in any way using anything or anything about the lawsuit is brought up in the sc2 forums all they have to read is a bunch of flamers from the BW section about how sc2 takes no skill/is bad ect ect. that just fuels more antagonism. if you don't want to see SC2 players flame BW then stop giving them a reason to, stop posting how you hope sc2 dies or you want kespa to win the lawsuit ect ect instead talk about how you want BW to continue and how awesome proleague truly is and how you don't find starcraft2 as entertaining as BW because of the awesomeness in BW ect.
it needs to stop from both sides if we want to get our boards less divided and more like pre sc2 times.
EDIT: @ jinro alot of NA players don't follow europe as much and so IEM seemed like a few of the big names and then a bunch of random euros + koreans to them, i know i haven't actually seen games of more than half of the foreign IEM field personally.
not that the view is correct but just explaining the view.
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On March 07 2011 17:04 jalstar wrote: Foreign BW is officially dead, not BW in general. SC2 in Korea is unsustainable, even with the huge prize pools there's no top BW players that have switched to SC2, viewership is lower than BW's as evidenced by the finals being mostly empty, etc. With NASL and MLG coming up to distract foreign audiences I don't see the GSL lasting too much longer. Finals being empty is a huge lie =/ They pretty much filled the arena they used for GSL3, I wasnt at GSL 4 finals so I couldnt tell you how that one went tho.
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Kinda sucks, but it's just Koreans stomping foreigners, and there aren't so many of those these days.
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He has a bit of a point though, it's getting really annoying going through this kind of thread or ForGG/HoGiL/matchfixers thread and having people go omg switch to SC2/Flash and Jaedong should switch now etc.
If you really were their fans you'd support them for the game they play.
Are people really that desperate for them to switch? Isn't MVP/Sangho/Nada/Boxer/Tester/Iron/July enough? How many gamers do you want to support lol ><
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I wonder what Samsung had to say about this.
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On March 07 2011 17:42 IntoTheEmo wrote: He has a bit of a point though, it's getting really annoying going through this kind of thread or ForGG/HoGiL/matchfixers thread and having people go omg switch to SC2/Flash and Jaedong should switch now etc.
If you really were their fans you'd support them for the game they play.
Are people really that desperate for them to switch? Isn't MVP/Sangho/Nada/Boxer/Tester/Iron enough? How many gamers do you want to support lol >< Its not an insult to BW to say you hope they switch, its because I think almost anyone who has seem them in BW want to see what they could do with SC2.
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On March 07 2011 17:37 Torpedo.Vegas wrote:Show nested quote +On March 07 2011 17:26 Ryo wrote:On March 07 2011 17:16 Torpedo.Vegas wrote: Why are people saying the end of BW is the end of competitive Starcraft as a whole? By the time BW becomes less profitable for Korean pro-gamers in Korea, I suspect SC2 will have been patched and established globally to warrant a transfer of at least a significant portion of old pros. Not to mention new pro-gamers will skip BW and cut their teeth on SC2.
In terms of viewership, I would expect the viewership in Korea to be lower for SC2 then BW since one has been out for less then a year and the other has had years upon years to refine and establish themselves. But even barring that fact, viewers cant follow both at the exact same time, so attention will likely be split anyway.
I suspect some Korean pros will retire/go to army, but many will also transfer over since all their hard work in BW will pay off still in SC2 with their pure mechanical skills. Especially since now they have an entire world of leagues to play in with a disproportionate amount of raw talent in their favor. Fish in a barrel for some time to come. So tired of this kind of "logic". If its wrong I'll edit it out. But It seems pretty sound to me. Brood War has had 12 years of game sales and patches, as well as organizations and tournaments to iron out the issues and advertise the e-sport. 12 years to convince companies to subsidize and invest in teams as well as tournament series as well as create player legacies and histories. Those are big shoes to fill for SC2 to do in less than one year. Pros who were accustomed to Brood War and had high mechanical skill were able to nit pick every bug and exploit in the game early on as well as play around with the game pre-release. We didn't have that for pre-Brood War and had to ramp up to your top tier gamers. It is arguably inevitable that SC2 would have fallen short of expectations. I do not understand how viewers/players could expect the jump to be linear from BW to SC2. The polarized community didn't help either....
It's not sound .. why??
1.) Mainly because BW is a Korean Scene. Foreigners still can try to compete but they don't have the work ethics or to do what these Progamers have been doing for years, add that to the coaching staff they have. Mondi, Draco, White-Ra, Ret, Idra, etc.,. All of these guys had their chance these guys can beat low teir progamers back 2009 and before. Like for Ssak and Classic beat Flash in the last SLs(Ssak and Classic = foreigners, Flash=Low teir progamer ).
2.) In Korea, If I don't have to be biased, the quantity of viewers still sides with BW because the scene is homegrown. It was not forced. Hell, even Giyom is accepted as a Pillar of SC:BW proscene up until now. People of all ages can understand what is happening in the game.
3.) BIG Korean Corporations and the Ministry of Culture backs the BW Proscene. How can you say its dead/needs to die?
to add ..
4.) Players of these proteams have salaries over $100,000. Do you see any games having their players have these large salaries and that are backed by big corporations? Players has a celebrity status. How can you say it needs to die?
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On March 07 2011 17:46 Liquid`Jinro wrote:Show nested quote +On March 07 2011 17:42 IntoTheEmo wrote: He has a bit of a point though, it's getting really annoying going through this kind of thread or ForGG/HoGiL/matchfixers thread and having people go omg switch to SC2/Flash and Jaedong should switch now etc.
If you really were their fans you'd support them for the game they play.
Are people really that desperate for them to switch? Isn't MVP/Sangho/Nada/Boxer/Tester/Iron enough? How many gamers do you want to support lol >< Its not an insult to BW to say you hope they switch, its because I think almost anyone who has seem them in BW want to see what they could do with SC2.
What he said. If you think it's insulting BW for SC2 fans to want the best BW players to switch, imagine how insulting it feels to come into a thread about BW being dropped in favor of SC2 and seeing a bunch of BW fans talking about how it sucks they're switching to an inferior game, how WCG is now worthless, etc. I'm not saying that they're right about it being insulting--I can understand how it would feel to be in the BW fan's position--but by the same token, try to understand why they might think "BW is greater than SC2 will ever be" might not be something an SC2 fan would be overjoyed to read.
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On March 07 2011 17:46 Liquid`Jinro wrote:Show nested quote +On March 07 2011 17:42 IntoTheEmo wrote: He has a bit of a point though, it's getting really annoying going through this kind of thread or ForGG/HoGiL/matchfixers thread and having people go omg switch to SC2/Flash and Jaedong should switch now etc.
If you really were their fans you'd support them for the game they play.
Are people really that desperate for them to switch? Isn't MVP/Sangho/Nada/Boxer/Tester/Iron enough? How many gamers do you want to support lol >< Its not an insult to BW to say you hope they switch, its because I think almost anyone who has seem them in BW want to see what they could do with SC2.
Yeah, that's true, it's not an insult, but it's really getting repetitive.
But yeah as an example just 1 page back there's some guy saying it's time for Flash and Jaedong to switch cause WCG dropped BW. Bit unreasonable don't you think? :\
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On March 07 2011 17:55 IntoTheEmo wrote:Show nested quote +On March 07 2011 17:46 Liquid`Jinro wrote:On March 07 2011 17:42 IntoTheEmo wrote: He has a bit of a point though, it's getting really annoying going through this kind of thread or ForGG/HoGiL/matchfixers thread and having people go omg switch to SC2/Flash and Jaedong should switch now etc.
If you really were their fans you'd support them for the game they play.
Are people really that desperate for them to switch? Isn't MVP/Sangho/Nada/Boxer/Tester/Iron enough? How many gamers do you want to support lol >< Its not an insult to BW to say you hope they switch, its because I think almost anyone who has seem them in BW want to see what they could do with SC2. Yeah, that's true, it's not an insult, but it's really getting repetitive. But yeah as an example just 1 page back there's some guy saying it's time for Flash and Jaedong to switch cause WCG dropped BW. Bit unreasonable don't you think? :\
I think thats just sc2 fanboy dreaming but yeah, its pretty unrealistic/unreasonable and repetitive. lolwut
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Will War3 be in it this year? How has starcraft 2 affected the competitive war3 scene?
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Well this isn't entirely unexpected. It's supposed to be a worldwide competition but the professional bw scene outside Korea is basically dead. I'm sad to see bw removed from such a high profile competition but it's not like there's a shortage of bw anyways so I won't be affected by this too much.
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