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Smartphones and social networks... they've been killing our humanity, now they're killing esports
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Al Bundy
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Smartphones and social networks... they've been killing our humanity, now they're killing esports | ||
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Tobblish
Sweden6404 Posts
I thought SC2 was actually pretty big in Korea so that ACE could still be there when the transition happened. | ||
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TheAmazombie
United States3714 Posts
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Xiphos
Canada7507 Posts
On July 23 2012 12:30 Tobblish wrote: This is so sad I thought SC2 was actually pretty big in Korea so that ACE could still be there when the transition happened. It goes LoL, BW, Sudden Attack or any other CS remakes then a shitload of MMOs. Afterward, you got SC2. ACE is suppose to target their local audience. With that in mind, they are better of introducing LoL into their program than SC2. | ||
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Tobblish
Sweden6404 Posts
On July 23 2012 12:32 Xiphos wrote: It goes LoL, BW, Sudden Attack or any other CS remakes then a shitload of MMOs. Afterward, you got SC2. ACE is suppose to target their local audience. With that in mind, they are better of introducing LoL into their program than SC2. Seriously is it really that bad? | ||
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Cinquedea
Canada144 Posts
On July 23 2012 10:41 Clefairy wrote: However the rise of smartphones and social network services has caused progaming to decline. I can see how smartphones could maybe correlate with programing decline it's a bit of a stretch. also how the hell does SNS affect progaming??? | ||
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X10A
Canada9837 Posts
omfg so sad, need to cry myself to sleep after this Need to watch all the good Ace games and victories They were becoming a strong force in proleague the past few seasons, such a shame | ||
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Xiphos
Canada7507 Posts
Yes that is the statistics provided by the amount of players at each games in the PC Bangs. | ||
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TR
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polishedturd
United States505 Posts
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JSy
149 Posts
Blaming SNS/casual gaming is such an easy excuse. It's a totally logical hypothesis that these things would steal from the BW's player base, but it assumes you have to play BW to be introduced to BW as an e-sport. With how many copies of BW were sold in Korea (and how many copies weren't "sold"), audience of players was a big force in making the scene possible. More than ten years later, it's hard to swallow the reasoning that the industry has been kept alive primarily by people actively playing BW. It's a mindshare thing. You still have to compete with SNS/casual gaming for mindshare, but fighting for mindshare and competing from players are two different things that needed two different approaches. | ||
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asdfOu
United States2089 Posts
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DNA61289
United States665 Posts
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Archers_bane
United States1338 Posts
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Ribbon
United States5278 Posts
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Xiphos
Canada7507 Posts
On July 23 2012 12:39 JSy wrote: Sad to see such a landmark team go... Blaming SNS/casual gaming is such an easy excuse. It's a totally logical hypothesis that these things would steal from the BW's player base, but it assumes you have to play BW to be introduced to BW as an e-sport. With how many copies of BW were sold in Korea (and how many copies weren't "sold"), audience of players was a big force in making the scene possible. More than ten years later, it's hard to swallow the reasoning that the industry has been kept alive primarily by people actively playing BW. It's a mindshare thing. You still have to compete with SNS/casual gaming for mindshare, but fighting for mindshare and competing from players are two different things that needed two different approaches. The thing is that there will be no longer BW to be played in the future after this season. So its kind of useless to continue. | ||
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Gatsbizzle
United States132 Posts
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hydrogg
United States377 Posts
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Probe1
United States17920 Posts
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TheRealNanMan
United States1471 Posts
I mean it does make sense but i was just not ready for it | ||
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