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Straylight
Canada706 Posts
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GunsofthePatriots
South Africa991 Posts
On January 30 2009 01:43 emucxg wrote: No worries about Moon, he is just too good and popular... not sure about grubby What? Grubby is probably as good as Moon and has been for a while now. He just beat Moon in WCG 2008! | ||
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TeMiL
Peru545 Posts
maybe MYM is going to safe money to buy a spot in korean proleague ^^ | ||
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Sonu
Canada577 Posts
On January 29 2009 23:34 IdrA wrote: that'll make the sc2 beta team-forming frenzy alot more interesting very true.. but its still sad for the e-sports community.. mYm was a very respected tag | ||
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thunk
United States6233 Posts
On January 30 2009 07:12 TeMiL wrote: both players will survive ^^ maybe MYM is going to safe money to buy a spot in korean proleague ^^ It'd be really cool to have a foreign team in Proleague. Eh, given economy, I guess I'm more surprised I haven't seen more pay teams do the same. I wonder where all the players will go though. | ||
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GGQ
Canada2653 Posts
On January 30 2009 04:05 MrHoon wrote: Reading the comments here makes me remember something Boxer once said Boxer really said that? Man, why is he so awesome? | ||
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emucxg
Finland4559 Posts
On January 30 2009 06:51 Straylight wrote: What's Crow going to do now? He did a lot of coverage for SC / War3 yeah, mym was the best foreign sc coverage site | ||
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mIsUZu
New Zealand528 Posts
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FREEloss_ca
Canada603 Posts
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SilverSkyLark
Philippines8437 Posts
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Orlandu
China2450 Posts
On January 30 2009 05:56 MYM.Testie wrote: It's played by more people by leaps and bounds. It's just not spectator friendly. With a low cost and decent popularity, it's ok to keep and not to cut. Who cares what you think the best game is? Dota is played by far more people. For instance on GGC: This is the number of people playing dota right now. (Basically, you can maybe take off 5,000 of these max)? 124,320 Here are the number of people playing WC3 right now 4,200 Not that I'm supporting Ixion, but WarCraft 3 and DotA aren't mutually exclusive. Many, MANY DotA players are or were heavy WarCraft 3 players. DotA is just much easier and relaxing to play for most people, and it attracts a lot of people who are bad at WarCraft 3, people who just want a break from WarCraft 3, or even people who are wanting to ease their way out of competitive play but not quite quit the game altogether. Of course there are many people who don't fall under those categories (such as yourself for example), but using numbers to show which game is more popular can be quite a bit misleading, especially in the case of DotA and WarCraft 3 where there is such a huge overlap. Most people can't play two games simultaneously. Granted, nowadays DotA should and probably does have a larger player base than WarCraft 3, that really doesn't take into account the large group of people that no longer play either but still watch a lot of WarCraft 3 replays and events. Which, if you're talking purely in terms of popularity, should be accounted for. Aside from that I totally agree with your post, it makes much more sense in my opinion to keep a DotA team as opposed to a WarCraft 3 team. It's much less costly and at this point DotA is looking to last for a bit longer. Even though MYM was always one of the top contendors in WarCraft 3, nowadays team competitions have such low prizes compared to what they paid their players, and individual competitions are always very intense and only Moon and Grubby were really winning anything for MYM, and those were rarely guaranteed victories. Although I think MYM probably shouldn't have ditched their WarCraft 3 team completely (just cut back a bit and maybe lower salaries some), keeping the DotA team was most likely a wise decision. | ||
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KewlBeanZ
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zoLo
United States5896 Posts
On January 30 2009 06:51 Straylight wrote: What's Crow going to do now? He did a lot of coverage for SC / War3 Crow covers every game not just SC and WC3. Just because he posts coverage on here doesn't mean he doesn't do coverage for CS or DotA. | ||
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Straylight
Canada706 Posts
On January 30 2009 08:54 zoLo wrote: Crow covers every game not just SC and WC3. Just because he posts coverage on here doesn't mean he doesn't do coverage for CS or DotA. Yeah, I guess my bigger concern is that MYM is really the only site that regularly has video interviews with foreigner SC players and who knows if they'll continue now. | ||
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RoieTRS
United States2569 Posts
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Raithed
China7078 Posts
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[X]Ken_D
United States4653 Posts
On January 30 2009 04:05 MrHoon wrote: Reading the comments here makes me remember something Boxer once said Yeah that is sad. Commercializing the game where the biggest groups are those that don't even play the game | ||
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IdrA
United States11541 Posts
On January 30 2009 15:08 [X]Ken_D wrote: MYM shutting down is their BW team is a bad sign for the future of progaming. The though of SC2 outside of Korea is looking kind of grim right now. lolol | ||
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Sadist
United States7328 Posts
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mindspike
Canada1902 Posts
99% of companies are downsizing...esports teams getting cut was inevitable. | ||
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