And off it goes again this year...

WCG is a joke and allways will be. I sincerely hope some other company starts a new official world championship so this shit can stop.

Even though I'm obviously not american I can't help but feel for you guys. This shit is beyond arrogant towards the players.

DrTJEckleburg

United States1080 Posts

April 18 2009 19:50 GMT

#222

Laurent is still around?

Laurent

United States182 Posts

April 19 2009 03:55 GMT

#223

Blizzard has to approve all maps to be hosted in WCG Mode, just like KBK in the past. No need to say im clueless, when this is a little-known fact.

IdrA

United States11541 Posts

April 19 2009 05:03 GMT

#224

but the only reason it has to be hosted in wcg mode is so gamon recognizes it right?
so just change gamon to recognize a different game mode

Nightmarjoo

United States3359 Posts

April 19 2009 08:01 GMT

#225

Yeah last year's wcg, a friend of mine went 1-0 in his match, and then had to postpone it. An admin and his opponent agreed to it, but then his opponent wouldn't respond to him on msn to actually play the game. After some point the brackets were updated saying that my friend had lost. So we faked a replay and he emailed it to an admin, and then they updated the brackets saying my friend had won, just like that.
What I don't understand, is how there are horror stories like about USA WCG every single year. How incompetent do you have to be to make the same mistakes year after year, with feedback from the gamers themselves, with people like Incontrol actively communicating with people high up in wcg. It's amazing really. TSL's huge success alone completely undermines any plausible excuse for this imo.

Medix

Malaysia180 Posts

April 19 2009 14:19 GMT

#226

Are they seriously going to use this map pool for grand finals?

Tyrant

Korea (South)234 Posts

April 19 2009 18:32 GMT

#227

On April 19 2009 17:01 Nightmarjoo wrote:
...so we faked a replay and he emailed it to an admin, and then they updated the brackets saying my friend had won, just like that.

lol... wow... if you're telling the truth than WCG has more problems than i realized.

Nightmarjoo

United States3359 Posts

April 20 2009 03:31 GMT

#228

Or I'm just amazing at copying hotkeys...!

selboN

United States2523 Posts

April 20 2009 21:31 GMT

#229

On April 17 2009 16:44 sMi.SyMPhOnY wrote:
what? since when does wcg hire tools

edit: Shit, they always have.

Incontrol forget about it, wcg has never catered to the needs of bw gamers.

It's 2009, why now

Couldn't have said it better myself.

rS.Killa

United States9 Posts

April 21 2009 02:20 GMT

#230

I'll inform everyone of the problem with WCG though. Simply put; theres not enough money in WCG USA or to be had (yet). When theres no money in it theres no real trueinterest from the people operating it which means the capable, intelligent, experienced people that WCG USA needs just don't get hired.

I think once SC2 comes out with a lot of help from Blizzard stuff like this will definitely start to change.

But for now, we must deal with these idiots.

Laurent has been and still is one of the best gaming Admins in the world.. Should not just dismiss the situation as a "lack of funds" excuse as if better leadership was willing to work for less (or work for anything at all).

After reading this thread it seems many (including Laurent) are out of place, however next time maybe some of you should set aside the "glory" aspirations and take ownership of the situation and volunteer or apply with WCG.

Best of luck to everyone still taking part in the event.

Amber[LighT]

United States5078 Posts

April 21 2009 02:54 GMT

#231

On April 21 2009 11:20 rS.Killa wrote:

Show nested quote +

Though you may have read this thread, you didn't read much of the other two threads on this subject.

KwarK

United States41963 Posts

April 21 2009 03:04 GMT

#232

On April 19 2009 12:55 Laurent wrote:
Blizzard has to approve all maps to be hosted in WCG Mode, just like KBK in the past. No need to say im clueless, when this is a little-known fact.

Or you could just let people play the games on a selection of standard maps. If you want to get really keen I'm sure you could find a dozen people here to take some icc maps and rename them to WCG, have a bit of WCG related text pop up at the start etc...
The WCGUK admins let us play on whatever maps we thought appropriate provided we all agreed to it. Gameon is obsolete. The Blizzard maps are obsolete. Why is WCGUSA flogging a dead horse when the rest of the world either has the professionalism to update their shit or the wisdom to step back and let the gamers do what they do best?

Quanticfograw

United States2053 Posts

April 21 2009 03:57 GMT

#233

Well I have tried to do my best and reach out to both Inc and Laurent to put me in contact with some people who I could speak to and try to rectify this situation and both did not respond sadly. I tried my best to do all I could for WCG and recieved literally 0 feedback so I give up.

iNcontroL

USA29055 Posts

April 21 2009 04:50 GMT

#234

I got your message but I am going to be honest: A friend of Dino's administrating for WCG doesn't sound like a keen strategy. I appreciate your willingness to help but I think we have it (as much as possible) under control.

ShejtaN

Sweden59 Posts

April 21 2009 07:55 GMT

#235

We will see how this works out, hope it will go well .

Priapus

United States36 Posts

April 22 2009 06:25 GMT

#236

On April 21 2009 13:50 {88}iNcontroL wrote:
I got your message but I am going to be honest: A friend of Dino's administrating for WCG doesn't sound like a keen strategy. I appreciate your willingness to help but I think we have it (as much as possible) under control.

Don't you mean : INcontrol at the end...

sanger

Korea (South)5 Posts

April 23 2009 06:39 GMT

#237

As of right now, WCGZONE GamOn Launcher has been updated to include automatic support for LAN Latency. Currently, it makes all games default to LAN Latency (L=2)

Please test it and let us know how well it works on your system. and if there are any features that we should include, such as the variable Latency. (making room name ending with _L3 gives Latency 3).

If you already have WCGZONE GamOn, just start it and it will automatically update. If you do not have the client, you can download it at http://file.wcgzone.com/WCGZoneInst_080602a.exe.

Thanks!
Sang Hong
World Cyber Games / Manager of Contents Development
sanger at wcg dot com

fast ball player

206 Posts

April 23 2009 17:14 GMT

#238

I have been boycotting WCG since 2005.

It's clear the people in charge at WCG do not intend to think beyond "if we hold this video game thing, nerds will come, and we can cash in on advertising." They don't give a fuck about the integrity of the tournament or who wins.