On July 28 2003 17:51 GundamVX wrote:
I know everyone here loves Brood War, and Starcraft has been popular for over 5 years now, and that it would completely heartbreak many people if BW were to be excluded from WCG (or WCG stop altogether).

But one very negative effect of BW has been its iron graps on the Korean gaming community and market. Because BW has been so popular for so many years, many Korean game development companies have died out. Of course, there are still good games like Lineage and Ragnarok, but many of the old school companies went bust.

People have talked about the negative effects Counter-Strike had on the game development scene. It's the mod that's keeping Half-Life alive just as long as SC/BW, and although it has done a lot for gaming (generate interest, inspire people to develop mods, etc), the negative effect it has on the industry is also far reaching.

If and when BW dies, it will be sad, but also a good thing.

Id prefer one well made game than many shitty games, Its obvious those companies died out cause they produced crap :D Gotta love this logic.

x[ReaPeR]x

United States3447 Posts

July 28 2003 12:50 GMT

#26

CS is overrated. Goldeneye (N64) is so much more fun!

nullmind

1303 Posts

July 28 2003 12:56 GMT

#27

haha sad but it's true. Korea's best cs team [1v1] (I dunno about now but they represented Korea for 2001 + 2002) said in an interview few weeks before WCG Final that they are not the same level as last year and improved a lot and will do great. They couldn't even win their group =(. I believe record was something like 1-3-1.

ilnp

Iceland1330 Posts

July 28 2003 13:15 GMT

#28

bw had more people in STL than other games, too.

assuming WCG isnt so damn intrusive, people will always come back year after year in the USA to play (some may not if it requires lengthy drives on two occasions followed by paying for a flight somewhere). it will probably be like this since it's highly doubtful UCGA will do it next year (they signed a contract for 02/03, and obviously failed pretty hard this year) and other people tend not to be as stupid/lofty with the "qualifiers all around the US" type of bullshit.

there aren't really any tournaments year round so if you're a foreigner there's no reason to play otherwise :o

United States371 Posts

July 28 2003 14:29 GMT

#29

It says on the blizz page that 2d games are a thing of the past, so I would assume that sc2 will be in 3d

Kacas

Brazil3143 Posts

July 28 2003 19:16 GMT

#30

remeber that for 2003, wcg results of the pool, "wich game you want in wcg 2003" Starcraft won by far!
^^
StarCraft Rox
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pooper-scooper

United States3108 Posts

July 28 2003 19:30 GMT

#31

On July 28 2003 17:25 NewbieMcNasty wrote:
Just some Pittsburgh WCG statistics, both prelims combined:

Counterstrike: 1 team (5 people)
UT: 1 team (5 people)
Warcraft 3: 2 people
FIFA: 1 person (me)
AoM: 4 people

Brood war: 20+ people

more people showed for BW than all the other games combined. I don't see any reason for them to discontinue the game that is by far the most popular.

People have been saying BW has been dying for the past 5 years. Its not.

Good call thanks for posting that, it makes me feel better