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Keep any SC2 vs BW comments out of this thread. This is a thread about Brood War and Esports (Tekken Crash, Special Forces, etc) in general. If you discuss what this means for ESPORTS be sensitive about it.
snigor
Profile Joined October 2010
Norway129 Posts
July 27 2011 08:00 GMT
#301
This makes me a sad panda.
Torpedo.Vegas
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States1890 Posts
July 27 2011 08:00 GMT
#302
The Blizzard-Kespa thing probably was a factor in this I would think. I mean shutting down MBC without even trying SC2 for ratings purposes? I know its not that popular in Korea, but still, all that infrastructure for gaming getting shifted into a music channel? Maybe another BW gaming organization bought the gaming related sections, like Hero?
kdgns
Profile Joined May 2009
United States2427 Posts
July 27 2011 08:00 GMT
#303
Lets hope for a silver lining, perhaps by cutting off one of its roots BW is finally leaving home and heading out into the world, first stop China. If everything is happening in Korea, BW never got a chance to see if other countries can support it, lets use this proleague final to promote BW instead of lamenting over it
entocheets
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Australia367 Posts
July 27 2011 08:01 GMT
#304
Very sad news. Hopefully this doesn't deter markets in other parts of the world who had inklings of thoughts of starting up a dedicated games channel.
##creepers 4 lyf
Novac
Profile Joined August 2010
Denmark23 Posts
July 27 2011 08:01 GMT
#305
This is ridiculous. Instead of putting some effort into making SC:BW available to a global audience, it is fading into nothing.

GomTV should start a SC:BW tournament in response to this and have English commentators. If a little effort was put into the foreign community SC:BW would get a lot more registered/paying viewers.
Ryo
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
8787 Posts
July 27 2011 08:01 GMT
#306
On July 27 2011 16:56 Sawamura wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 27 2011 16:54 Ryo wrote:
On July 27 2011 16:51 ZeroChrome wrote:
On July 27 2011 16:49 Ryo wrote:
On July 27 2011 16:48 ZeroChrome wrote:
On July 27 2011 16:46 Sawamura wrote:
On July 27 2011 16:45 wenyuan wrote:
So sad that MSL will be gone. Will MBC Game Hero be gone as well?


We do not know but it's possible that mbc game hero is finish too....


It probably will be gone. MBCgame was running at a deficit and the switch to music programming is most likely a business decision so that they don't go bankrupt.

This has less to do with going bankrupt than MBC Plus Media being asses.


Well I would think that if the company had good finances then they wouldn't risk moving on to an already well established market. But you know a lot more about it than me ofc.

MBCGame channel itself is not turning much profit yes but it's pretty much always been this way. The problem lies with the parent company, MBC Plus Media, which has money but sees no point in investing it in the gaming channel.


so in other words they think changing it to a music channel will generate more revenue for them instead of mbc game channel ???? fucking kidding me...

Yep. When the CEO (or was it director?) of MBC Plus Media passed away early in the year, there was some indication that the company would make changes to its subsidiaries.

Anyway, they're a bunch of morons. More so than ever.
영원히 엠비씨게임 히어로 팬.
ffreakk
Profile Joined September 2010
Singapore2155 Posts
July 27 2011 08:01 GMT
#307
OMG NOOOO !!

T_T
T_T
T_T

Ahhhh :'(
Sea
Look. Only Forward. See. Only Victory.
IntoTheEmo
Profile Joined February 2009
Singapore1169 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-07-27 08:02:34
July 27 2011 08:01 GMT
#308
Good work MBC, go compete with the other music channels.

This is ridiculous, it's great watching a game with so much quality lose out to garbage kpop.

These SC2 guys need a taste of their own medicine, whenever something happens in the BW scene like retirements and the STX thing, they just jump on it and ignore the fact that the rest of us are affected by the news negatively. Maybe one day MC will retire and play SC3 or something.

I'm usually quite reserved with regards to comments about these people, but seriously? One of the 2 major GAMING channels in Korea is in trouble and all you can think about are the potential SC2 benefits?

People these days... no respect at all.

I hope the scene makes it through; this is so sudden. Man I'm sure the coming MSL group selection ceremony is going to be awkward.
MMOs kill APM. However Proleague plus BW Proscene music increase APM -> 100. 이제동 Fighting! Highest ranked Jaedong owner in FPL10 = clearly #1 Jaedong fan~! <- Keeping my sig from 2010
TheKefka
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Croatia11752 Posts
July 27 2011 08:01 GMT
#309
For how long now has MBC broadcasted games?
Cackle™
Fraidnot
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
United States824 Posts
July 27 2011 08:02 GMT
#310
What is going on in Korea? I'd like to tap Super Daniel Man on this, he was always talking about the decline in popularity of BW, but I had thought that was primarily bitter ranting.
Whisperkill
Profile Joined December 2010
Canada76 Posts
July 27 2011 08:02 GMT
#311
I feel a big void inside myself :/. It's like a terrible news, so you expect to hear ''April's fool'', but realize we're in july so the bad news is real...

WHY?!
RIP 우정호, best broodwar player.
Sawamura
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
Malaysia7602 Posts
July 27 2011 08:02 GMT
#312
On July 27 2011 16:56 GTR wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 27 2011 16:56 Sawamura wrote:
On July 27 2011 16:54 Ryo wrote:
On July 27 2011 16:51 ZeroChrome wrote:
On July 27 2011 16:49 Ryo wrote:
On July 27 2011 16:48 ZeroChrome wrote:
On July 27 2011 16:46 Sawamura wrote:
On July 27 2011 16:45 wenyuan wrote:
So sad that MSL will be gone. Will MBC Game Hero be gone as well?


We do not know but it's possible that mbc game hero is finish too....


It probably will be gone. MBCgame was running at a deficit and the switch to music programming is most likely a business decision so that they don't go bankrupt.

This has less to do with going bankrupt than MBC Plus Media being asses.


Well I would think that if the company had good finances then they wouldn't risk moving on to an already well established market. But you know a lot more about it than me ofc.

MBCGame channel itself is not turning much profit yes but it's pretty much always been this way. The problem lies with the parent company, MBC Plus Media, which has money but sees no point in investing it in the gaming channel.


so in other words they think changing it to a music channel will generate more revenue for them instead of mbc game channel ???? fucking kidding me...


the sad reality is that it is true.
what's even sadder is that mnet and km are the only two relevant music channels on cable in korea. mbc's new channel probably wont make a dent in their ratings.


NO !!!! I don't like the idea of mbc game channel being sacrificed to be some sort a nobody channel who is not even relevant to the music industry and can't even compete with the other channel ? This isn't happening T_T
BW/KT Forever R.I.P KT.Violet dearly missed ..
Torpedo.Vegas
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States1890 Posts
July 27 2011 08:02 GMT
#313
On July 27 2011 17:01 Novac wrote:
This is ridiculous. Instead of putting some effort into making SC:BW available to a global audience, it is fading into nothing.

GomTV should start a SC:BW tournament in response to this and have English commentators. If a little effort was put into the foreign community SC:BW would get a lot more registered/paying viewers.


BW is kind of ugly to the untrained eye, it would be a hard sell to an audience that knows nothing about it.
Byyk
Profile Joined December 2004
457 Posts
July 27 2011 08:02 GMT
#314
Everything is fu...d up right now!
Ma Jae Yoon, sAviOr, the greatest player of all time.
Ryo
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
8787 Posts
July 27 2011 08:02 GMT
#315
On July 27 2011 17:01 TheKefka wrote:
For how long now has MBC broadcasted games?

10 years.
영원히 엠비씨게임 히어로 팬.
HeIios
Profile Joined May 2010
Sweden2523 Posts
July 27 2011 08:03 GMT
#316
I feel for the SC:BW guys, my condolences.
Ryo
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
8787 Posts
July 27 2011 08:03 GMT
#317
On July 27 2011 17:02 Torpedo.Vegas wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 27 2011 17:01 Novac wrote:
This is ridiculous. Instead of putting some effort into making SC:BW available to a global audience, it is fading into nothing.

GomTV should start a SC:BW tournament in response to this and have English commentators. If a little effort was put into the foreign community SC:BW would get a lot more registered/paying viewers.


BW is kind of ugly to the untrained eye, it would be a hard sell to an audience that knows nothing about it.

No. More like Gom doesn't have the finances to do so.
영원히 엠비씨게임 히어로 팬.
doothegee
Profile Joined December 2009
Korea (South)3011 Posts
July 27 2011 08:04 GMT
#318
I know it's Fomos and it's probably illegal to post, but

http://www.fomos.kr/board/board.php?mode=read&keyno=119604&db=issue

+ Show Spoiler +
MBC게임이 채널 변경과 관련해 포모스에 공식적인 입장을 전해왔다.

MBC게임의 제작을 총괄하는 장재혁 제작팀장은 “음악 채널로 바뀔 수 있다는 내용이 단순한 루머인 것은 아니다. 하지만 아직까지 결정된 것은 아무 것도 없다. 내부에서도 의사 결정이 진행 중이며 여기서 어떤 결론을 내릴 지는 확정된 상태가 아니다. 또한 결정이 된다고 하더라도 방송통신위원회에서 허락을 맡아야 하는 등 서류상으로 절차들이 남아 있는데 아직 그 단계까지 간 것도 아니다”라고 말했다.

장 팀장은 이어서 “MBC게임과 관련된 소식으로 인해 e스포츠에 대한 우려의 시선들이 커지는 것을 원치 않는다”며 “채널이 바뀔 수 있는 가능성이 있듯 바뀌지 않을 가능성도 함께 있기 때문에 이 문제로 불필요한 파장이 더 이상 없기를 바란다”는 뜻을 전했다.

또한 장 팀장은“모 매체에서 MBC게임이 음악채널로 변경이 확정됐다는 식의 기사가 나간 것을 알고 있다. 분명히 지금 시점에서는 섣부른 보도”라며 이에 대해 이의를 제기할 생각이라고 밝혔다.


The article says nothing is decided yet and is very much in a preliminary stage. The article also mentions that the articles which have been published yet are very much exaggerating the matter as of the moment.
웅진 멘쓰즈
Phyrigian
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
New Zealand1332 Posts
July 27 2011 08:05 GMT
#319
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Legatus Lanius
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
2135 Posts
July 27 2011 08:05 GMT
#320
On July 27 2011 17:04 doothegee wrote:
I know it's Fomos and it's probably illegal to post, but

http://www.fomos.kr/board/board.php?mode=read&keyno=119604&db=issue

+ Show Spoiler +
MBC게임이 채널 변경과 관련해 포모스에 공식적인 입장을 전해왔다.

MBC게임의 제작을 총괄하는 장재혁 제작팀장은 “음악 채널로 바뀔 수 있다는 내용이 단순한 루머인 것은 아니다. 하지만 아직까지 결정된 것은 아무 것도 없다. 내부에서도 의사 결정이 진행 중이며 여기서 어떤 결론을 내릴 지는 확정된 상태가 아니다. 또한 결정이 된다고 하더라도 방송통신위원회에서 허락을 맡아야 하는 등 서류상으로 절차들이 남아 있는데 아직 그 단계까지 간 것도 아니다”라고 말했다.

장 팀장은 이어서 “MBC게임과 관련된 소식으로 인해 e스포츠에 대한 우려의 시선들이 커지는 것을 원치 않는다”며 “채널이 바뀔 수 있는 가능성이 있듯 바뀌지 않을 가능성도 함께 있기 때문에 이 문제로 불필요한 파장이 더 이상 없기를 바란다”는 뜻을 전했다.

또한 장 팀장은“모 매체에서 MBC게임이 음악채널로 변경이 확정됐다는 식의 기사가 나간 것을 알고 있다. 분명히 지금 시점에서는 섣부른 보도”라며 이에 대해 이의를 제기할 생각이라고 밝혔다.


The article says nothing is decided yet and is very much in a preliminary stage. The article also mentions that the articles which have been published yet are very much exaggerating the matter as of the moment.


i fucking hope so
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