Boycott WCG USA - Page 9

On April 20 2009 16:50 Rekrul wrote:
well if all you all are gunna boycott i'm gunna play and win

TY

On April 18 2009 01:35 G5 wrote:
WCG should just sit down with me for 30 minutes and I will tell them how to run a good, lan latency / AH / good maps / fun tournament where everyone is happy. I honestly could have ran a better tournament when I was 13....

Seriously....

On April 20 2009 16:50 Rekrul wrote:
well if all you all are gunna boycott i'm gunna play and win

TY

On April 20 2009 16:50 Rekrul wrote:
well if all you all are gunna boycott i'm gunna play and win

TY

I will do whatever i can to help foreign progaming.

On April 21 2009 06:12 radar14 wrote:


congrats, you've found a logical inconsistency in one of rekrul's posts

it's like you took 4 years to pass 6th grade

On April 21 2009 06:16 radar14 wrote:
then it's ok because you were able to drive all the hot junior high chicks around in your car

On April 18 2009 07:49 Tadzio wrote:
Isn't this called a strike, not a boycott?... and don't they tend to fail if you don't have some sorta player's-union (that even crappy players join) backing you up? I hope I'm not being too picky about word choice here... it's just a strike and a boycott are very different strategies. One bottleneck's supply, the other cripples or eliminates demand. Both are a fairly dangerous games to play with a company that's supports other videogames over BW already. What sorta options do you have?

For 1) WCG isn't just about BW. If you organize a boycott, the corporates may interpret that as the game being dead. That's bad for BW as e-sports. Demand for BW must remain high. So...

2) A strike may seem in order, but this'll require some organization. You wanna start up a nation-wide (or even international) player's union? I wouldn't suggest half-assing it if you do, cuz it is really easy for a strike to be broken if there isn't a strong union. If the strike breaks, what you're doing becomes an empty gesture that only hurts yourself and those you convince to follow you. I mean... if you were a superstar or you could convince a superstar to follow you, you might be able to affect something, but unfortunately I don't believe USA BW has anyone that qualifies as the face of BW.

There's a third option, I guess... you could force capital flight (get WCG's sponsors to back out), but that'd be bad for e-sports in general, would involve massive scale letter writing campaigns, boycotts and strikes (or a new federal tax on e-sports sponsorships, lol) and I wouldn't suggest any of that.

A fourth option would be to start up a competitor...

Sigh... I think I'm sounding a bit too negative. I think ideally you should work with WCG to make their BW tournaments top-notch... but if they're not listening to you it becomes a really rotten situation. Sad to hear about.

Good luck with whatever you decide. If you want it to work, take it seriously and go all the way with it.

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On April 21 2009 06:37 AttackZerg wrote:
Sean.

I think if you were able to win usa wcg and then very publicly denouce wcg, the admin staff and key players and short comings and then withdrew. It would affect wcg alot more and give it alot worse light then you boycotting at this stage.