[News] Item-Mania rejected by KeSPA - Page 3

On August 06 2008 13:00 Ilikestarcraft wrote:
i sort of think kespa did the right move. Itemmania isnt actually the ideal sponsor. My friend bought a sc cd key there and the cd key was already used by someone.

On August 06 2008 14:07 thedeadhaji wrote:


wow... now that is some revealing shit, if they're THAT shady.

On August 06 2008 14:53 bubblegumbo wrote:
Criminalizing cheating, hacking and obtaining a virtual advantage through real life monetary transactions are what Blizzard is well known and applauded for, all for the sake of allowing gamers to all exist in a fair environment where skill and personal effort are rewarded.

If you idiots don't understand why a gold/item selling company shouldn't be associated with E-sports, think about how much corruption will take place if people are allowed to pay to get powerleveled on a SC/SC2 online ladder, and allowed to reap the benefits from doing so with no punishment.

If item/gold selling was legalized by Blizzard in WoW, the game would not be as successful as it is today, take a look at games like Lineage II, where their virtual economy is ruined by rampant gold/item sellers.

Most of these RMT MMO companies uses exploits/hacks/bots and or hire dirt cheap labor to gain their virtual wealth. This is not uncommon knowledge either, especially for any Blizzard gamer fans.

On August 06 2008 15:36 RivetHead wrote:


Lol are you serious? For the 80 millionth time itemmania and WoW have absolutely nothing to do with each other. They provide a legal service. Just because a bunch of conservative Korean nannie fannies on the kespa board don't like the idea of a homegrown industry thats sprouted from the demand of the gaming community itself, doesn't mean anything. Beyond their name on Uniforms and stuff like that, there is absolutely no link between the type of service item mania does and starcraft. Power leveling a ladder? as if anyone cares about getting high up on some ladder, once you ran into real talent it would be quickly exposed that its a crap account playing. You can't grind winning in an rts.

On August 06 2008 15:55 bubblegumbo wrote:


Blizzard owns Starcraft and WoW, what part of that do you not comprehend? Blizzard is the reason why Itemania hasn't touched WoW.
Blizzard is hyper protective against gold selling companies and their very existence is against Blizzard's own policies for every single game they've produced. Blizzard has sued against entities that have broken their terms of agreement of their games, such as bot makers and gold selling spammer inside WoW.
Having a Starcraft team sponsored by such a company would be against what Blizzard stood for, obviously Kespa does not want to do anything that will force Blizzard's hand.

On August 06 2008 19:15 Jayson X wrote:
Well that they want to sponsor the team is one thing but how on earth do they make that amount of money to buy a pro team? Looks focking fishy to me. They may be able to support the team now, but in the long run?

KeSPA probably steps in because the contract between sponsor and team is too short and they want stability for the team giving them a bridge to find a safer company.