EPTI fail to see the reason Blizzard has been holding this for this long, it's totally reasonable for Kespa to take their current stance (I'm not quite sure what's going on between Kespa and MBC/OGN, please forgive me if I get this fact wrong).
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TheOnly92
Malaysia804 Posts
I fail to see the reason Blizzard has been holding this for this long, it's totally reasonable for Kespa to take their current stance (I'm not quite sure what's going on between Kespa and MBC/OGN, please forgive me if I get this fact wrong). | ||
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Rodiel3
France1158 Posts
[QUOTE]On May 09 2011 22:52 Soloside wrote: [QUOTE]On May 09 2011 21:26 Puosu wrote: Hell, it's about time. Overused, yes, but so very appropriate.[/QUOTE] I would be careful! Maybe BLIZZARD will charge you for using that statement.[/QUOTE] Haha :p + Show Spoiler + ![[image loading]](http://funboxcomedy.com/uploaded_images/The-Eye-Of-Sauron-754421.JPG) | ||
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eviltomahawk
United States11133 Posts
On May 09 2011 22:47 JustPassingBy wrote: I don't know why people start to talk about sc2. The agreement should be for starcraft 1 only, considering gomtv has the exclusive rights for starcraft 2. Some people are crossing their fingers and hoping that the agreement also gave out SC2 rights to OGN/MBC/KeSPA, which could potentially mean good things for the growth of the Korean SC2 scene. Then again, it's perfectly fine if only BW rights were agreed upon in the agreement. | ||
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AsianEcksDragon
United States1036 Posts
BW is still doing well and SC2 is still a work in progress with 2 expansions to be released. There is no reason for KeSPA to deviate from what is working right now. | ||
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Furycrab
Canada456 Posts
On May 09 2011 22:42 Milkis wrote: I don't represent "writers". I represent myself. Considering Blizzard initiated contact with KeSPA to negotiate with OGN/MBC, who knows what the terms were. You do know that just saying who was the first one to initiate contact can and may very well be a term of the contract? Blizzard showing good faith, KeSPA doesn't lose face. Like I said, I'd argue on this, but really, this deal is good for everyone. So I'd just take it for face value, regardless of what content you prefer to watch. | ||
BLinD-RawR
ALLEYCAT BLUES49496 Posts
On May 09 2011 22:54 eviltomahawk wrote: Some people are crossing their fingers and hoping that the agreement also gave out SC2 rights to OGN/MBC/KeSPA, which could potentially mean good things for the growth of the Korean SC2 scene. Then again, it's perfectly fine if only BW rights were agreed upon in the agreement. but it would be nice if they had shared rights for both games though,nice for growth,maybe MBC could actually make enough money from SC2 to finally hire stargirls. | ||
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tyCe
Australia2542 Posts
On May 09 2011 22:51 Milkis wrote: No, it more has to do with not many people play RTSes seriously in Korea anymore. Most people just play MMOs nowadays. BW just ingrained itself before MMOs took over everything in Korea That's correct. Most Koreans are playing MMO junk like Dungeon Fighter. In fact, half the world is playing MMO crap. Even Blizzard has said that SC2 was not worth it financially in an opportunity-cost sense, since an MMO with the same production time/cost would rake in far more. Sad times indeed. | ||
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DropBear
Australia4291 Posts
Good to know everything is going strong. The only problem now is what will GOMTV do? They signed a contract for those rights didn't they? | ||
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alypse
Vietnam2762 Posts
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BLinD-RawR
ALLEYCAT BLUES49496 Posts
On May 09 2011 22:56 tyCe wrote: That's correct. Most Koreans are playing MMO junk like Dungeon Fighter. In fact, half the world is playing MMO crap. Even Blizzard has said that SC2 was not worth it financially in an opportunity-cost sense, since an MMO with the same production time/cost would rake in far more. Sad times indeed. it was actually Activision that said that SC2 was not worth it financially in an opportunity-cost sense | ||
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Weavel
Finland9221 Posts
On May 09 2011 22:56 tyCe wrote: Actually the guy who said that was from Activision not Blizzard. That's correct. Most Koreans are playing MMO junk like Dungeon Fighter. In fact, half the world is playing MMO crap. Even Blizzard has said that SC2 was not worth it financially in an opportunity-cost sense, since an MMO with the same production time/cost would rake in far more. Sad times indeed. | ||
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kinray
Bulgaria49 Posts
On May 09 2011 22:57 DropBear wrote: Excellent, maybe Musou and Grobyc won't get their streams shut down for no reason anymore! Good to know everything is going strong. The only problem now is what will GOMTV do? They signed a contract for those rights didn't they? To answer your last question. GOMTV returned the rights for sc:bw to Blizzard a few weeks ago. | ||
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eviltomahawk
United States11133 Posts
On May 09 2011 22:57 DropBear wrote: Excellent, maybe Musou and Grobyc won't get their streams shut down for no reason anymore! Good to know everything is going strong. The only problem now is what will GOMTV do? They signed a contract for those rights didn't they? GOM already gave up their rights to BW several weeks ago. They are only doing SC2 from now on. edit: ^my post got sniped. Well played, good sir. | ||
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MangoTango
United States3670 Posts
YAYAYAYAYAYA this makes me so happy :D | ||
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Toads
Canada1795 Posts
On May 09 2011 22:44 Weavel wrote: Awesome news. Maybe Sc:bw and sc2 fans can finally live in peace without the stupid bw vs sc2 wars. Waiting for an official statement of course... Looking how this thread goes... i don't think so unfortunalely  | ||
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Aelonius
Netherlands432 Posts
Every single pro-BW enthousiast is looking at the game as being superior in every way. Claims of BW being bigger while in essence the game died outside Korea, save for TSL1/2 in past (before I knew about sc). So people are trying to compare a single country of 40 million inhabitants against the rest of the world with 6+ billion inhabitants. Korea is one country, one small damn country. If the game doesn't hit on there as much, so be it. But the world is more than just "Korea" and "Broodwar".Get off your high horse and accept that people think different. Else you'll eventually turn the BW community into a bunch of less intelligent species. And no, I didn't play BW. I do intend to play it later but I am tired of the arrogance and bullcrap. | ||
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Shana
Indonesia1814 Posts
On May 09 2011 22:57 DropBear wrote: Excellent, maybe Musou and Grobyc won't get their streams shut down for no reason anymore! Good to know everything is going strong. The only problem now is what will GOMTV do? They signed a contract for those rights didn't they? Gomtv have given back their rights over BW in Korea to blizzard edit: sniped | ||
Kipsate
Netherlands45349 Posts
From a buisness standpoint of view this could be a good thing for Blizzard, remember that the BW infrastructure is already in place, if they get royalities, they get money and none of the production costs. What they tried (as far as I know ) was to kill BW(fools) and broadcast SC2, that way they would have had marketting, full control of the scene and alot of cash due to the former. This didn't go that well. Right now I don't even know if the GSL is making money, frankly I wouldn't be suprised that it is losing money at the moment, good thing they have sponsors, but that is not the entire thing. The GSL production costs should be very high(the production quality is good, Kpop groups ain't cheap etc). Now blizzard realizes that, they decided to take what they could(royalties) and step back. | ||
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Boblion
France8043 Posts
On May 09 2011 22:39 eight.BiT wrote: *logs on iccup* 700 players.. Koreans don't play on Iccup. Take a look @ Asia / US West / Brain / Fish etc... | ||
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Xkalibert
United States1404 Posts
On May 09 2011 22:40 nihlon wrote: Ok thanks. Do you know the viewers for the gsl? Or do they not get released other than the vods? In the recent GSL semifinal, Nestea vs Sc on Korean Gomtv.com got 405k views and Gomtv.net (english) get 125k views just on the vods alone. Which dIdn't include live viewership numbers. source: http://ch.gomtv.com/450/28439/423112 http://www.gomtv.net/2011gslsponsors3/vod/65246 | ||
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