On March 07 2011 11:49 saint_fu wrote:
So sad to see that foreign SC:BW is slowly fading out. I just hope bw remains strong in Korea for many years to come.

Nevertheless, BW outlived many, many games and it is still very successful.
Let's not forget SC2 is BW's child.

419

Russian Federation3631 Posts

March 07 2011 04:07 GMT

#123

Well, WCG at least gave us the best TvZ of all time.

Nevertheless, my reaction is mostly "meh".

matjlav

Germany2435 Posts

March 07 2011 04:08 GMT

#124

What confuses me the most is why people seem to think that this is actually big news... the foreign BW scene has been dead for a while now, and WCG is almost completely irrelevant to the Korean scene anyway. It was honestly silly that WCG had BW last year.

Sprouter

United States1724 Posts

March 07 2011 04:12 GMT

#125

meh it was going to happen eventually

Tsuycc

Canada269 Posts

March 07 2011 04:14 GMT

#126

I have to say that watching SC:BW is more exciting than SC2 but that's because people are getting comfortable with the gameplay and its just barely out, but i believe in time SC2 will get more exciting as more and more players willl discover more and more strategies

CCa1ss1e

Canada3231 Posts

March 07 2011 04:18 GMT

#127

makes sense.. so SC is a go considering the IP rights thingy?

jax1492

United States1632 Posts

March 07 2011 04:19 GMT

#128

sad news

Zim23

United States1681 Posts

March 07 2011 04:19 GMT

#129

Aw, so I guess SKorea won't be getting an auto-win this year.

Assymptotic

United States552 Posts

March 07 2011 04:20 GMT

#130

Well, there goes my chance of ever meeting TBLS in person. I don't see myself going to S.Korea anytime soon...

In addition, I remember Jaedong ROFLstomping some poor Protoss player from S.America who went a weird 2 gate first build...we'll never see that again. And to think I was considering raising my rank high enough on ICCup so I could have a shot at a progamer for shits and giggles.

thoradycus

Malaysia3262 Posts

March 07 2011 04:22 GMT

#131

Not surprising,BW is irrelevant outside SK atm.

Slardar

Canada7593 Posts

March 07 2011 04:23 GMT

#132

Didn't they announce they were going to pull ALL Blizzard games? Why isn't anyone addressing this?

Kazzabiss

1006 Posts

March 07 2011 04:24 GMT

#133

If I'm not mistaken there will still be BW played at WCG Korea, just not at the Grand Finals.

On March 07 2011 13:23 Slardar wrote:
Didn't they announce they were going to pull ALL Blizzard games? Why isn't anyone addressing this?

Those were only threats by Samsung, guess they didn't hold through

Blitzkrieg0

United States13132 Posts

March 07 2011 04:24 GMT

#134

On March 07 2011 13:19 Zim23 wrote:
Aw, so I guess SKorea won't be getting an auto-win this year.

I guess you haven't seen the IEM results.

eviltomahawk

United States11135 Posts

March 07 2011 04:25 GMT

#135

I agree with everyone else who says that this is the most logical decision for SC2. Looking at the player roster for WCG 2010, most, if not all, of the non-Korean players are currently playing SC2, and most of the more famous ones, such as Brat_OK and White-Ra, were already playing both SC2 and BW at the time. The total number of competitors that year was 19, which seems to be a shell of former WCGs.

We all watch WCG to see epic games between Koreans (Flash vs JD), epic games between foreigners (Idra vs White-Ra), and games where foreigners somehow scrape by with wins against Koreans (Mondragon vs Savior). Now that all the foreigners have switched, we only get to see complete unknown foreigners play low-level games, Koreans roflstomping them, and maybe Koreans playing some epic games that could've been seen in any other Korean league, assuming that KeSPA even allows their players into WCG.

This is a correct step for WCG. The foreign BW is, unfortunately, completely dead and replaced by SC2. Competitive BW only exists in Korea, and it would be unwise for WCG to cater only to Koreans at this point. The world is playing SC2, but only Korea is playing BW.

Now, I'm only worried about WCG's partnership with Samsung and OGN right now. Since WCG is no longer including BW, I wouldn't be surprised if Samsung pulls all their funding and OGN cancels their broadcasting partnership.

stork4ever

United States1036 Posts

March 07 2011 04:25 GMT

#136

koreans are still going to take sc2 gold, silver, bronze,

Yoshi Kirishima

United States10347 Posts

March 07 2011 04:26 GMT

#137

I believe in SC2 but the two games were different enough to co-exist. This is a bit sad, and much of the decision to remove it (permanently? or so they currently say) is probably from Blizz/Kespa having their fight over rights

WCG was always exciting to see foreigners get pretty far even though the Koreans would win in the end; I remember so many close matches where it was Korean vs Foreigner and sometimes the Foreigner was straight up better or just put up a really interesting show.

Good bye ;(

(hopefully it'll come back after Blizz/Kespa finish their talks xD)