MBCGame to shut down? - Page 60

On July 28 2011 02:00 Achromic wrote:

Exactly.

Do you honestly think SC2 is thriving globally? It's very unstable to build a business on top of a single game anyway since games constantly evolve over time and this is why Starcraft BW in Korea is so amazing. SC2 just smells like a fad and I doubt it will become huge.

On July 28 2011 02:02 Black[CAT] wrote:


True, true. If foreign esports has even a toothpaste ad or even a retail outlet ad or something along mainstream lines(cant think of examples, sleepy), I wouldn't call the western scene legit in terms of sustainability.

On July 28 2011 02:15 doubleupgradeobbies! wrote:
These are exactly why this is bad for BW, SC2 and ESPORTS.

The foreigner eSports scene is indeed a joke, as it is now. Aside from SC2 it is no more popular than it has been anytime in the past years, and even the SC2 sponsors are the same ones that traditionally sponsored every other game that has been popular for a short time and then disappeared. The problem with these sponsors, is that they MUST promote newer games in place of the old ones in order to sell their products, it is a system that inherently cannot be sustainable.

MBC, being a pillar of the BW model, represented an economic model that was upheld by sponsors, in who's interests was not to intentionally break an existing eSports scene in order to make way for every new game that comes out.

While I find it honestly hard right now to even care what happens to eSports in general, in lew of the effects of this on BW, I find it hard to believe that people do not see that the 'thriving foreigner scene', that people are looking to light the way of eSports, is exactly what it looked like a decade or more ago, the exact system that has failed to promote anything even resembling a sustainable eSport to date.

On July 28 2011 01:46 AlBundy wrote:
Guys, Korea is pretty much the only country in the world where ESPORTS is mainstream. If sc2 scene doesn't survive in THIS country, then how do you think it will fare in other countries???

On July 28 2011 02:06 raistline123 wrote:
Well I hope everyone is gonna be proved wrong on the whole this will kill ESPORTS scene, I for one don't want to see it vanish.

And if what most of you are saying turns out to be true what will happen with our beloved TL community. Considering BW is pretty much dead, and from what everyone else is saying the soon to be SC2 death after it there would be no re4ason to continue having this site.

On July 28 2011 02:20 Mannerheim wrote:


Yeah, if anyone remembers how Counter-Strike was at its prime, the current SC2 scene is pretty much a carbon copy of it. Some sponsored teams, lots of online tournaments and ladders, a few major events per year. Only the online content delivery technology has evolved since then, international eSports is still pretty much the same, i.e. very little advancement in the past decade.