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cha0
Canada518 Posts
On January 07 2022 00:47 Puosu wrote: I know that BW isn't so popular with younger people, but I'm really surprised that FlaSh thinks that WC3 is doing better in this regard. Is WC3 doing well in Korea now? Not sure about Korea but WC3 has an extremely strong scene in China which might be what Flash is referring to. | ||
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M3t4PhYzX
Poland4289 Posts
On January 07 2022 00:47 Puosu wrote: I know that BW isn't so popular with younger people, but I'm really surprised that FlaSh thinks that WC3 is doing better in this regard. Is WC3 doing well in Korea now? it's doing decently well, afreecaTV is hosting at least 2-3 big tournaments a year for pro players. dunno about the amateur aspect but it seems to be doing okay. idk if it's bigger than the BW player pool though.. doubt it, tbh. | ||
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[sc1f]eonzerg
Belgium7088 Posts
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Edpayasugo
United Kingdom2223 Posts
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GTR
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ox.tQ
800 Posts
On January 07 2022 04:46 Jealous wrote: There are actually quite a few interviews of foreigners already on the site; they just don't attract as much attention, usually, so they get pushed down the sidebar pretty quickly IMO. https://tl.net/forum/search.php?q=interview&t=t&f=6&u=&gb=date&d= Thank you for the link. Some of these I did not know about. I will check them out before bed  I'm sure we could interview some more people. They deserve it and if they were to disappear, it would be a shame not to archive and celebrate their stature. The foreign community is very, very special indeed  | ||
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oxKnu
1267 Posts
On January 07 2022 05:11 M3t4PhYzX wrote: it's doing decently well, afreecaTV is hosting at least 2-3 big tournaments a year for pro players. dunno about the amateur aspect but it seems to be doing okay. idk if it's bigger than the BW player pool though.. doubt it, tbh. All of the money that Afreeca puts into the SC2 events are Blizzard's money. With no Blizzard involvement there is no SC2 content on that platform. | ||
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oxKnu
1267 Posts
On January 07 2022 04:46 Jealous wrote: There are actually quite a few interviews of foreigners already on the site; they just don't attract as much attention, usually, so they get pushed down the sidebar pretty quickly IMO. https://tl.net/forum/search.php?q=interview&t=t&f=6&u=&gb=date&d= The analogy here is if ESPN all of sudden started being obsessed with G-League teams over the stars in the NBA, because of some random trait like charisma etc.. BW is a skill-game. The most skilled will get all the attention. Even its most notorious troll (Larva) is a an all-time beast of a player FIRST. | ||
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DreamOen
Spain1400 Posts
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Puosu
7081 Posts
On January 07 2022 07:36 DreamOen wrote: Awesome interview, I've been out of the loop for a while , can anyone update on the crpyto scandal he is reffering to? https://tl.net/forum/brood-war/574711-flashs-crypto-scandal | ||
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MineraIs
United States846 Posts
On January 07 2022 06:58 oxKnu wrote: All of the money that Afreeca puts into the SC2 events are Blizzard's money. With no Blizzard involvement there is no SC2 content on that platform. Source? | ||
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M3t4PhYzX
Poland4289 Posts
On January 07 2022 06:58 oxKnu wrote: All of the money that Afreeca puts into the SC2 events are Blizzard's money. With no Blizzard involvement there is no SC2 content on that platform. I was talking about WC3, because he asked. But I agree with you about SC2 anyways. | ||
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lost dedicated
41 Posts
am i misinformed? and yeah.. i'd like to know what he has to say about the crypto scandal other than that he's sorry, but oh well. thanks for the translation. | ||
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oxKnu
1267 Posts
There is no official one, no reason to why those details would be public. However it's something that everyone that has been around for awhile knows about. Artosis has talked about it and it comes up whenever Blizzard gives the impression that they might pull out of SC2 completely, like before that ESL deal was put into place 1-2 years ago, about the same time when KSL was cancelled. Blizzard sponsors the prize-pool and "partners" with Afreeca to host and organize the tournament. Conversely, everything Broodwar, like ASL is 100% paid by Afreeca, sometimes -around the Remastered launch- even being taxed by Blizzard with tournament fees (that actually exceeded the total prizepool of the tournaments back then). There's a TL thread that talks about it too. I know Afreeca managed to get some side sponsorships for the SC2 events too, but those are rather infrequent and come and go a lot of the time. | ||
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oxKnu
1267 Posts
On January 07 2022 08:27 lost dedicated wrote: i find his comments on sc2 strange, because the korean scene for sc2 is pretty much dead. it's so dead in fact that koreans have started playing on NA. i couldn't even get a game on KR as a diamond player last time i tried it. meanwhile, brood war is supposedly making a huge comeback and the online user count reflects this second wave. am i misinformed? and yeah.. i'd like to know what he has to say about the crypto scandal other than that he's sorry, but oh well. thanks for the translation. I think I might have an explanation on his thoughts on that matter. I believe he's mostly talking about it from the point of view of the pros. Not the actual playing population/audience. He's basically saying that SC2 pros could sustain themselves playing that game as long as there are events, they don't depend on streaming much. Blizzard has artificially sustained that scene for a long time. Obviously in the early days there was A LOT of money flying around in SC2, and the vast majority of players that are at the top from Korea right now are dinosaurs from that era that have events that they can play in year-round. (plus team sponsorships etc). Even SC2 fans though, kind of know that the game has been dead in Korea for a couple of years now. But there is enough support coming from elsewhere that sustains those pros, and the security blanket that comes with ESL/Blizzard announcing 2-year long partnerships is something that is meaningful in the grand scheme of things. | ||
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ggsimida
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namkraft
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Dante08
Singapore4187 Posts
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evilfatsh1t
Australia8928 Posts
pretty bland interview tbh. hes been involved in a massive scandal recently and his future in streaming is uncertain at the moment yet the interview only asks the typical generic stuff weve probably already seen from his past interviews. | ||
Poopi
France13021 Posts
On January 07 2022 05:11 [sc1f]eonzerg wrote: Damn they should have asked FlaSh about Age of Empires IV. I hear sc2 progamers are switching to that game. Several AoE players go back to AoE2 so AoE IV probably won't do too well when the new effect wears off Barely any sc2 progamers are switching to AoE4, in EU the most notable is MarineLord but he was not the most active sc2 pro even before the release of AoE4. Other than that would be streamer/caster Demuslim but he has not been a sc2 progamer for years. In Korea one of the only players I see from sc2 is Leenock, but he was not very successful in sc2 nowadays | ||
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