On March 25 2012 03:54 Aunvilgod wrote: BW can´t survive in the long term. It´s 2D. Most BW fans underestimate that hardly any SCII fans wouldn´t watch BW just because it´s 2D. Not pretty enough.
NSMB Wii is the third highest selling game this generation behind those amazingly 3D Wii Sports and Wii Fit. 2D is not why people don't watch BW. It's because it's not accessible enough, you can't watch a BW game and then pick up and play it with any hope of winning games.
If only BW had WC3 type of BNet, with Blizzard putting iCCup's level of effort...
Recent thread basically said the lowest players on iccup would be SC2 Masters or High Diamond. Lol @ trying to get new people to play.
On March 25 2012 03:54 Aunvilgod wrote: BW can´t survive in the long term. It´s 2D. Most BW fans underestimate that hardly any SCII fans wouldn´t watch BW just because it´s 2D. Not pretty enough.
NSMB Wii is the third highest selling game this generation behind those amazingly 3D Wii Sports and Wii Fit. 2D is not why people don't watch BW. It's because it's not accessible enough, you can't watch a BW game and then pick up and play it with any hope of winning games.
If only BW had WC3 type of BNet, with Blizzard putting iCCup's level of effort...
Recent thread basically said the lowest players on iccup would be SC2 Masters or High Diamond. Lol @ trying to get new people to play.
I'm not talking about improving bnet now. I'm talking about having that kind of online service as soon as it was possible (let's say WC3's release). Certainly thing would've been very different. A ton of people got discouraged because compared to WC3 it's a hassle to get a game in BW (although the system has its benefits for the more competitive players), let alone get an evenly matched opponent.
So a thread opened in sc2 general (also in community news) with essentially same information.
One thing is that SK planet sponsored the two seasons for the SK planet proleague. It seems that all of this discussion is always based on Blizzard/Kespa relations (with the good suggestion by someone I'll post here):
On March 25 2012 02:34 MetalLobster wrote: I don't see why they have to eliminate BW
I think that BW isn't doing that well financial, they have a hard time to find sponsors and Blizzard is willing to sponsor a OGN SC2 proleague. OGN wants Blizzard's money, but viewers won't watch SC2 over BW so they have to drop BW. This is just me speculating ofcourse.
Does SK planet, as the sponsor of the proleague, have any say in this? It seems to me that Blizzard is coming in trying to make/negotiate OGN to incorporate sc2. What does the actual sponsor of the league get to say?
On March 25 2012 04:16 dcsoda wrote: Hmm didn't realize they'd be rotating on a game by game basis that's odd. I thought they'd have two different smaller tournaments running together. What are the chances of getting some English-casted BW games if this happens? At the very least I'll be curious to see how this looks if the format stays that way, but I would not be surprised to see a change before its final.
Everyone would be fine with BW and SC2 parallel SPLs, keep Stork/Flash/Bisu and co. in BW and send out B-teamers to SC2 SPL, maybe this is the only way Paralyze will get some play time in SC2....
On March 25 2012 04:38 N.geNuity wrote: So a thread opened in sc2 general (also in community news) with essentially same information.
One thing is that SK planet sponsored the two seasons for the SK planet proleague. It seems that all of this discussion is always based on Blizzard/Kespa relations (with the good suggestion by someone I'll post here):
On March 25 2012 02:34 MetalLobster wrote: I don't see why they have to eliminate BW
I think that BW isn't doing that well financial, they have a hard time to find sponsors and Blizzard is willing to sponsor a OGN SC2 proleague. OGN wants Blizzard's money, but viewers won't watch SC2 over BW so they have to drop BW. This is just me speculating ofcourse.
Does SK planet, as the sponsor of the proleague, have any say in this? It seems to me that Blizzard is coming in trying to make/negotiate OGN to incorporate sc2. What does the actual sponsor of the league get to say?
KeSPA is comprised of the sponsors. The head of KeSPA is actually an SK representative, so yes, SK most certainly has a say in the matter.
On March 25 2012 03:27 dsousa wrote: Here is why its a good idea, even if you're a BW purist and dislike SC2.
Businesses only survive by growing, they can't survive a sustained decline in market size as a stand alone business because rather than growing their employee base they'll need to be constantly shrinking it. This causes internal turmoil, which makes the decline faster.
By introducing SC2 and expanding their potential fan base, OGN will be able to broadcast BW for more years than if they continued to focus on BW alone. There certainly still is a market for BW, but because its shrinking, OGN is put in the bad position of having to find other area's of growth.
Opinions on BW vs SC2 are irrelevent. There is enough real market data for a business to make the right decisions.
OGN has to find growth, any business does. BW no longer provides it, hopefully SC2 will and not LOL.
LoL market surpasses SC2 by infinity and it is much bigger than BW, apparently, by your logic the season after the next one will be LoL only.
SKT better prepare a tough LoL roster!
I think the theory is, that SC2 has been artificially held back in KR because the hive-mind rejected it because the top BW players and teams rejected it. Basically, Kespa made it not cool and that significantly hurt the growth of SC2.
If Kespa makes it acceptable, maybe things will be different.
I agree with this and the fact that when sc2 came out for quiet awhile it was 1 base all ins which I imagine made a lot of bw folks hate on it even more (which I can't disagree with, game was so boring when it was all 1 base all in 50% or so of the games ).
I imagine many bw people haven't looked at sc2 much since then and thus dont' realize the game has changed a ton since then. I dunno i'll still be sad if next season is bw's last proleague season :/.
The game hasnt changed that much, maybe they dont all-in as much but the game is pretty boring(1 big fight into roflstomp of one player or another), the only matchups worth watching are TvZ and Code S class TvP.
This makes as much sense to me as adding checkers or tetris into Proleague. They aren't the same game or even that similar of games and it makes 0 sense to mix them together.
not that im not happy for sc2 coming to the proleague, i dont think this is how it should be done, it just doesn't click in my head as to why they'd do this ?
i'd like to have both in seperate leagues under the same management or just one of them rather than trying to mix them together like pb&j
I know its sacrilegious to the BW crowd, but they need to have Flash, Jaedong and Bisu play SC2. Otherwise it will just be another EWS weekly type event that draws 2000 foreign viewers.
If they make a show of the trinity playing SC2, they'll get 200,000+ foreign viewers.
so......
if they do use Flash in SC2, they'll be showing they want the foreign audience, if they don't they'll just be trying to promote SC2 a little in KR, probably with Blizzard subsidizing.
We'll see.... Flash is their biggest asset currently, what he does means the most in reflecting their ideas.
On March 25 2012 03:27 dsousa wrote: Here is why its a good idea, even if you're a BW purist and dislike SC2.
Businesses only survive by growing, they can't survive a sustained decline in market size as a stand alone business because rather than growing their employee base they'll need to be constantly shrinking it. This causes internal turmoil, which makes the decline faster.
By introducing SC2 and expanding their potential fan base, OGN will be able to broadcast BW for more years than if they continued to focus on BW alone. There certainly still is a market for BW, but because its shrinking, OGN is put in the bad position of having to find other area's of growth.
Opinions on BW vs SC2 are irrelevent. There is enough real market data for a business to make the right decisions.
OGN has to find growth, any business does. BW no longer provides it, hopefully SC2 will and not LOL.
LoL market surpasses SC2 by infinity and it is much bigger than BW, apparently, by your logic the season after the next one will be LoL only.
SKT better prepare a tough LoL roster!
I think the theory is, that SC2 has been artificially held back in KR because the hive-mind rejected it because the top BW players and teams rejected it. Basically, Kespa made it not cool and that significantly hurt the growth of SC2.
If Kespa makes it acceptable, maybe things will be different.
I agree with this and the fact that when sc2 came out for quiet awhile it was 1 base all ins which I imagine made a lot of bw folks hate on it even more (which I can't disagree with, game was so boring when it was all 1 base all in 50% or so of the games ).
I imagine many bw people haven't looked at sc2 much since then and thus dont' realize the game has changed a ton since then. I dunno i'll still be sad if next season is bw's last proleague season :/.
The game hasnt changed that much, maybe they dont all-in as much but the game is pretty boring(1 big fight into roflstomp of one player or another), the only matchups worth watching are TvZ and Code S class TvP.
On March 25 2012 06:27 fabiano wrote: Funny how people who don't follow BW actually think Flash has time to spend to play SC2 or any motivation to do so.
Don't be illuded SC2 fans, Flash won't switch from day to night... neither will all the other top tier BW pros.
You know, BW demands continuous practicing, no time to waste.
On March 25 2012 06:05 dsousa wrote: I know its sacrilegious to the BW crowd, but they need to have Flash, Jaedong and Bisu play SC2. Otherwise it will just be another EWS weekly type event that draws 2000 foreign viewers.
If they make a show of the trinity playing SC2, they'll get 200,000+ foreign viewers.
so......
if they do use Flash in SC2, they'll be showing they want the foreign audience, if they don't they'll just be trying to promote SC2 a little in KR, probably with Blizzard subsidizing.
We'll see.... Flash is their biggest asset currently, what he does means the most in reflecting their ideas.
First off all,no sc2 event has had 200,000 + viewers at a time. Best was like 80 k or something. The best BW players won't play sc2 because they practice BW full time,B teamer's will play sc2 in this scenario because they don't get play time at all right now in the PL or very little.
On March 25 2012 06:05 dsousa wrote: I know its sacrilegious to the BW crowd, but they need to have Flash, Jaedong and Bisu play SC2. Otherwise it will just be another EWS weekly type event that draws 2000 foreign viewers.
If they make a show of the trinity playing SC2, they'll get 200,000+ foreign viewers.
so......
if they do use Flash in SC2, they'll be showing they want the foreign audience, if they don't they'll just be trying to promote SC2 a little in KR, probably with Blizzard subsidizing.
We'll see.... Flash is their biggest asset currently, what he does means the most in reflecting their ideas.
wrong. Why would we need them to play a game we don't want to watch? If anything, it seems like the SC2 crowd is more desperate for them to switch over because they need that validation and star power in order to survive or to finally kill that elephant for good.
Besides, those pros will probably just retire and go to military if BW goes down, not play SC2.
On March 25 2012 04:38 N.geNuity wrote: So a thread opened in sc2 general (also in community news) with essentially same information.
I'm pretty surprised at the number of BW supporters who seem to be shitting up that thread as much as SC2 supporters here. I know everyone is entitled to their opinion, but you kinda lose your moral ground when it's on their house. >.>
@N.geNuity I know, I'm talking to those posting on that thread but I guess some people like to be confrontational in both communities. I mean it's expected but we have our own space to discuss the news here...
On March 25 2012 04:38 N.geNuity wrote: So a thread opened in sc2 general (also in community news) with essentially same information.
I'm shockingly appalled at the number of BW supporters who seem to be shitting up that thread as much as SC2 supporters here. I know everyone is entitled to their opinion, but you kinda lose your moral ground when it's on their house. >.>
Actually from the ~20pages I read here, there has only been a handful of guys shitting that thread. Nearly everyone thinks it's the wrong decision to mix it up, even sc2 guys. I haven't read the other thread though apart from the OP :s
?? It's not an invitation to shit up that thread. Just posting that it's been elevated to community news now.
Anyways,
On March 25 2012 06:05 dsousa wrote: I know its sacrilegious to the BW crowd, but they need to have Flash, Jaedong and Bisu play SC2. Otherwise it will just be another EWS weekly type event that draws 2000 foreign viewers.
If they make a show of the trinity playing SC2, they'll get 200,000+ foreign viewers.
if they do use Flash in SC2, they'll be showing they want the foreign audience, if they don't they'll just be trying to promote SC2 a little in KR, probably with Blizzard subsidizing.
Everything in the west is so small in comparison to what expanding to china already could provide (in terms of viewership). Having sc2 in proleague is a factor of blizzard pushing for it.
On March 25 2012 06:05 dsousa wrote: I know its sacrilegious to the BW crowd, but they need to have Flash, Jaedong and Bisu play SC2. Otherwise it will just be another EWS weekly type event that draws 2000 foreign viewers.
If they make a show of the trinity playing SC2, they'll get 200,000+ foreign viewers.
so......
if they do use Flash in SC2, they'll be showing they want the foreign audience, if they don't they'll just be trying to promote SC2 a little in KR, probably with Blizzard subsidizing.
We'll see.... Flash is their biggest asset currently, what he does means the most in reflecting their ideas.
As someone who mostly watches and plays SC2, but also appreciates and loves BW, I would say that this idea is not as bad as everyone is making it to be. It would get more exposure to SC2 to korean fans, as well as more exposure to BW to international fans, at least until bw is still alive (which will not be for much longer sadly).
I personally would find this very cool as I would watch both games with interest