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On May 17 2011 21:05 Milkis wrote:Show nested quote +On May 17 2011 13:16 GTR wrote:On May 17 2011 13:10 Highways wrote:
I don't know why everyone is so excited, BW still would've continued even if they didn't come up with an agreement.
What would be exciting is if OGN/MBC started their own SC2 leagues. the only problem i see is that they won't be taking over kespa-ran stuff on the schedule (so osl/msl/pl/sf pl) hopefully though, we'll see small tournaments being run in timeslots that are used for games like kartrider, sudden attack etc. Unlikely, since OGN i know for a fact is getting paid to hold kartrider leagues by Nexon. Plus, won't happen for a year or so anyway. Sudden Attack iirc is pretty popular too.
Any idea as to why they're not replacing Sudden Attack with CS 1.6? Did Valve object? They've got a really good team in Korea (two actually) and there are several other teams in Asia (mainly China). Sudden Attack looks extremely shallow compared to CS, imo.
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its one of the most popular online games in Korea iirc
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Hmm, why didn't CS catch on then? Pretty bizarre.
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On May 18 2011 02:03 maybenexttime wrote:
Hmm, why didn't CS catch on then? Pretty bizarre.
If i'm not mistaken the CS scene was very popular in Korea too, but unlike Blizzard, Valve went hardcore with their copyright so the Korean just dropped it and created sudden attack as a replacement.
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This is so good news. Phew!
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yah korea had like a top10 team (atleast) couple years ago but disappeared (1.6)
so it was probably pretty popular too
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great news!  good partnership
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HourraaaaH!
Though this isin't the most momentous thing, it's still nice to feel relief from those initial stresses when this whole ordeal all started, what not knowing if BW would be allowed to continue as we know it or if they'd be forced to stop it all together.
In any case, I'm glad to see it resolved, and now that they're in an agreement I wouldn't feel all that bad if OGN/MBC got into SC2
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This is great news, thank god it's finally over.
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wonder how much blizz gutted them for
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Small typo in Blizzards statement.
wiht > with
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good news for bw fans and sc2 in korea
bad news for match fixers. O-o
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Their statements are hilarious, but I'm sooo glad BW can continue without trouble. The last translation about the court case had me really worried.
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On May 17 2011 23:19 aimaimaim wrote:Show nested quote +On May 17 2011 22:20 xarthaz wrote:On May 17 2011 13:18 Liquid`Jinro wrote:On May 17 2011 08:56 aimaimaim wrote:
Now Blizzard needs to patch BW to be bug free when being played in Vista
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Patch increase build speed time of scouts and lessen its cost to 150/100. It is a a LOT of work and a very expensive process to patch a game as old as BW, as not that many people who made the game still work in that capacity. Or so Ive been told, and it makes sense I think. Looking at what Blizz has done to Diablo 2 in the past few years, no sane person would want them anywhere near "balancing" or bug fixing of the game..  On May 17 2011 15:39 BLinD-RawR wrote:On May 17 2011 15:25 AndAgain wrote:
So how many days (weeks?) from now can I expect Flash/JD/Bisu to start competing in SC2? About time for the big boys to show us how to play. 6 years tops. Yeah, would be about the age of Nada and July then, ready for pre-retirement career switch when they cant keep up with the young guys any more. Hammerdins .. anyone :D Hammerdins have been the best paladin build since 1.00 so thats not a patching issue, but blizzard patching in general seems to be somewhat inefficient for esports.
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wow that sounds ultra strange if blizzard and kespa say something nice about each other. but good to see broodwar will continue without any more problems.
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What is this about? can someone send me a message about whats going on here? lol thanks
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What these means for BW
Things go on as they've been going, except without a sword of damocles over the BW scene. Kespa and Blizzard pretend to be BFFs while secrectly hating each other. I think this board probably gets that better than I can explain, so I won't bother telling you all things you know 
What this means for SC2:
GSL stays on Anibox for at least 1 year. Chance of OS2L at MS2L increases dramatically. While GOM holds the rights to SC2, they have a strong incentive to allow other big tournaments (especially if they're not quite as big as the GSL). The Korean SC2 teams are getting ornery that washing out in the ro32 of the GSL gives you nothing to do for a whole month, and foreign players are openly saying they'll refuse a free Code A or even Code S spot because moving to Korea means being a Starcraft hermit because there's only one game in town.
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=224078
Later this week, GOM is going to announce a big change of format to allow for the MLG/GSL partnership, and an expanded role for the team leagues (Yay!). It's not impossible, but it is unlikely, that the SC2 fallout of the deal will come out this week (Because it might have been part of the deal). More likely later this year we'll see the real fallout.
In terms of who "won", Kespa got most of what they wanted, but Blizzard/Gretech benefits more from warm relationships between the SC2 and BW community. I don't think anyone loses, though.
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On May 18 2011 02:03 maybenexttime wrote:
Hmm, why didn't CS catch on then? Pretty bizarre.
if I recall, valve wanted to charge too much to PC bangs for CS, which caused most of them to ditch it for Korean CS clones that were cheaper.
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Blizzard manages to not kill BW. Can stop wondering if I would have to boycott or not now.
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Glad that Blizzard and Kespa were finally able to put a stop to the bickering for a while and come to terms on this deal... hopefully it will benefit SC2 in some way, but I just don't see Kespa supporting a game that isn't very popular right now in Korea when they are trying to keep BW running for years to come.
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