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bubblegumbo
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
Taiwan1296 Posts
August 01 2008 05:12 GMT
#61
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thunk
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States6233 Posts
August 01 2008 05:16 GMT
#62
A sponsor better than no sponsor. I hope that someone high in Item Mania can take a critical look at Hanbit's lineup and create a winning team again.
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RamenStyle
Profile Joined September 2004
United States1929 Posts
August 01 2008 12:11 GMT
#63
On August 01 2008 10:44 ZidaneTribal wrote:
the first game company to sponsor a gaming team w00 o.O


No. Wemade and Hanbit are game companies. OGN is a channel focused entirely on games. Same for MBCGame. And before modern days, there were other sponsors who were based on gaming for a living. For gods sake, ItemMania is less related to games than Wemade or Hanbit.
HanN00b
Profile Joined October 2005
Germany1441 Posts
August 01 2008 13:34 GMT
#64
On August 01 2008 05:39 dinmsab wrote:
KTF= telecommunications firm, specializing in mobile phones.
SKT= South Korea Telecom.
CJ=In the business of Production, Films, Food, Transport.
Samsung= World's largest electronic company.
Item Mania=Selling you WoW gold.

seriously, they just dont fit in.


Item mania is not a serious company.
OGN, MBC are gaming channels, ok they are gaming related but at least they are serious companys.

Imagine Item Mania would sponsor a soccer club like Real Madrid. Its just a joke. Even if they pay more money than any other sponsor. Before they bought HanBit the western and chinese esport sponsors were different. Korea had normal sponsors like soccer clubs. Western esports mostly only gaming known companys (mb except INTEL). With Item Mania this changed.
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Pafnucy
Profile Joined October 2002
Poland1124 Posts
August 01 2008 18:55 GMT
#65
In response to earlier posts: you guys made up IM_Free, the IM_ tag which looks much better than ItemMania. Second option sounds bad, but my first thought was -we got used to "OGN Sparkyz" ugly logo, "WeMade" isn't irritating anymore so lets be optimistic as we can take any dumbass name they make up ;-)
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IzzyCraft
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
United States4487 Posts
August 01 2008 19:04 GMT
#66
www.itemmania.co.kr

Try to connect *fears for the future*
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MyStiC_Chaos
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States499 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-08-01 20:53:19
August 01 2008 20:51 GMT
#67
IM Stars.

That sounds genius.

IM_free

get it? Lol

EDIT: Oh, seems like it's been said. But in case you didn't get it. IAm_free.
anch
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
United States5457 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-08-01 21:35:46
August 01 2008 21:32 GMT
#68
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RamenStyle
Profile Joined September 2004
United States1929 Posts
August 01 2008 23:07 GMT
#69
On August 01 2008 22:34 HanN00b wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 01 2008 05:39 dinmsab wrote:
KTF= telecommunications firm, specializing in mobile phones.
SKT= South Korea Telecom.
CJ=In the business of Production, Films, Food, Transport.
Samsung= World's largest electronic company.
Item Mania=Selling you WoW gold.

seriously, they just dont fit in.


Item mania is not a serious company.
OGN, MBC are gaming channels, ok they are gaming related but at least they are serious companys.

Imagine Item Mania would sponsor a soccer club like Real Madrid. Its just a joke. Even if they pay more money than any other sponsor. Before they bought HanBit the western and chinese esport sponsors were different. Korea had normal sponsors like soccer clubs. Western esports mostly only gaming known companys (mb except INTEL). With Item Mania this changed.


Once again, you are wrong. There are plenty sponsors in football that are not necessarily top of mind brands. Real Madrid has bwin, a bets/gambling company, same for Sevilla with 888.com, Everton has Chang beer for sponsor, a beer that having drank asian beer, I wouldn't touch, and those are at least kinda known due to watching them on european leagues. But there are a lot of teams that don't have first rate company sponsors, but they get paid, which is what matters.

So according to you, any lesser company that is not in the Forbes top 20 shouldnt have a right to advertise in any team as sponsors. Well, theres two kind of advertising, the one to make you stay in the top of mind of consumers(Samsung in Chelsea or Samsung Khan) and the one to make yourself known to the consumer(all the sponsors you find unworthy, including ItemMania). So everytime, in any sport, when a brand that is not CocaCola, Samsung, Microsoft, Toyota, and such kinds sponsors a team, thats a step backwards?

I'm not saying ItemMania is the best thing to ever happen to progaming, and for sure it wont have the economical backup that sponsors like KTF or SKT can bring up, but it is in no way a step backwards. If HanbitStars didn't get a sponsor and had to disappear, THAT is a step backwards.

Who knows, maybe Lotte offered to sponsor, but what they were offering was way worse than what ItemMania offered. Which i doubt, cause the team sucks, the teams ACE is famous for choking and has zero charisma, and among all the bottom 4 teams, it seems to have the less potential and less attractiveness to fans and audience. So you do the math and tell me who the hell would want to sponsor an almost dead team whos best player didn't go anywhere in the individual leagues and his performance in PL has been anything but stellar. Thank god someone got interested.
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