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Did SC2 lead you to watching BW? - Page 3
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mmdmmd
722 Posts
This is true for me. Not some bw fan boy rant. | ||
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Rodiel3
France1158 Posts
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L3gendary
Canada1470 Posts
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cuppatea
United Kingdom1401 Posts
On June 27 2011 00:51 d_so wrote: just out of curiousity, do u think having proleague games professionally broadcast in english + consistently translated interviews would have helpd maintain ur interest in pro BW? Not really because I have more interest in SC2 and there's so many events happening for that game that I can barely keep up with them. Also, I was more of a fan of Flash than BW, really. My interest was at it's height when there was still the question of "will Flash become a bonjwa?" or "can Flash beat Jaedong in a bo5?" or even "can KT win a Pro League?" Now all those questions have been answered the BW pro scene just seems less interesting to me. | ||
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Copymizer
Denmark2094 Posts
On June 27 2011 00:11 JesusOurSaviour wrote: Now if only all of the TL posters in SCII forums would think like you  there would be so much more peace and less BW v SCII flame wars.haha thanks, but yeah im a huge fan of bw while i like watching sc2 equal as much  . also sorry about my all of my grammar mistakes in the beginning, i should've read it through but i hope you know what i mean. (editing typos now). I actually find it sad i didn't find tl.net many years ago and not until now so i could follow the build up of the players and season after season | ||
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mmdmmd
722 Posts
On June 27 2011 00:51 d_so wrote: just out of curiousity, do u think having proleague games professionally broadcast in english + consistently translated interviews would have helpd maintain ur interest in pro BW? In China, this theory has already been tested and the result is looking nice. From what I've seen in the viewing numbers, number of Chinese BW views has increased 30-40% since GSL issued copyright notices and shut down all GSL restreams. Much of this increase in views is because of their main caster. That caster's BW knowledge is unlike anything I've ever seen in the entire history of BW(perhaps with the exception of Kor caster but I don't speak Kor). When this Chinese caster moved to SC2 GSL casting, BW views fell. A great example of the importance of a good caster can be seen in a recent series in BW (I forgot which one and can't be bother to look). In the LR thread here in TL, there were a lot of posts that agreed it was a boring series. However, in the Chinese site that host these VoDs. The same series have a very high rating. This is all because the casting is making the viewer see the game in a "pro"'s eyes. So yes, Casters are V important in any e-sport broadcast. | ||
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PeZuY
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Daudr
Sweden275 Posts
I was a somewhat casual viewer of the BW proscene though, watching moletrap, klazart, diggity and those guys on YouTube as well as Day9 dailies. The only thing I tuned in for live were the OSL/MSL finals as well as the TSL. And I don't think I ever hit anything above D+ on iCCup, so I was never a particularly skilled player either. Anyway, yeah I don't watch as much BW as I did before SC2. | ||
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Bibbit
Canada5377 Posts
Used to watch damn near every bw game, now I watch maybe one or two per week. | ||
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Torte de Lini
Germany38463 Posts
I can say SC2 got me considering of learning more about BW than before. | ||
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Coraz
United States252 Posts
I still prefer watching bw, kind of sick of sc2 til hots comes out I watched bw long before sc2 came out :D | ||
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DropBear
Australia4374 Posts
On June 26 2011 23:55 d_so wrote: The issue of pertinence is exactly that (moved to BW from sc2). That's like 95 percent of the reason why i want this poll, to show that sc2 can potentially create a new field of BW watchers by introducing them to the concept of RTS where they may have previously been oblivious. I don't know what you will use this "data" for, but I fit perfectly into the category you are looking for! I had Brood War on Nintendo 64 for a long time. I didn't know of the existence of Proleague or even Team Liquid until last year. My friend told me about sc2 and I was excited! We only recently god good internet so this was to be my first opportunity for an online multiplayer game. A bloke in the Escapist (a general games website I visited) forums recommended HD for beta videos, which led me to Husky, who crapped on about TL in most of his videos. I watched and followed much of the first GSL on TL user restreams and was SEVERELY disappointed in the games. It just so happened that I came across the Bigfile MSL writeup while extremely bored during one of the games and was intrigued. I watched the first game of this proleague season, SKT v KT, with Best taking out Flash in the ace match and never looked back! I never would have found TL or known anything about the Korean scene if not for sc2. I will never go back to sc2 however. The games are far more interesting, the players more entertaining, plus the people in the Brood War forum make it great and I can't stay away. | ||
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Daimai
Sweden762 Posts
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Necosarius
Sweden4042 Posts
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lungo
Denmark276 Posts
i watch SC2 since i think its interesting, and the whole world is in it, but as i saw more and more of it, i came to "conclude" within myself that the game wasnt as interesting as broodwar. i watch broodwar duo to my passion for broodwar, and since ive been following the scene for 10years my self, so im quite able to understand the game. this might just be because i havent really gotton into SC2, and i dont want to make another "bw" experience, im too old for that now. | ||
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Amanebak
Czech Republic528 Posts
Let's see how sc2 will develop after expansions but so far I keep watching BW over sc2. | ||
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therockmanxx
Peru1174 Posts
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TRAP[yoo]
Hungary6026 Posts
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Coraz
United States252 Posts
On June 27 2011 01:46 Daimai wrote: I started playing in SC2, but I just can't get into watching BW. The bad graphics make it hard to understand what's going on for a newbie. ... SC2 has too many explosions and too much going on at once to even tell whats going on, BW is clean and crisp and way easier to understand whats going on -_________________________-; | ||
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simme123
Sweden810 Posts
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