On September 17 2013 16:06 xuanzue wrote: once upon a time, OGN transmitted starcraft.
now they are only streaming LoL.
we need coach park makes a miracle and save starcraft
The only ones who could have saved it was Blizzard but they didn't listen.
Oh well, more ex-pros for Afreeca BW !! :D
I'm not convinced of that, honestly.
If Blizzard did everything perfectly, would the current situation (which is actually still pretty good for an esport, mind you) be 100% avoided?
I doubt it.
I'm not saying Blizzard doesn't bear blame, but we knew literally years ago that there were too many Korean SC2 players. 16 teams was just an unsustainable number, especially with the rise of MOBAs. We will see it shrink back to 8 teams and probably see at least 5-10 more retirements until we finally get to a reasonable level of players in Korea again.
100% perfect from an esports perspective would be F2P. However, that likely wouldn't make sense from a monetary perspective (at leat it would be very risky - as Blizzard doesn't have enough experience with this type of business model).
On September 17 2013 16:04 ETisME wrote: copied and pasted from the other thread: with all these kespa pro retiring (and I am expecting a lot more soon to follow up due to age and military training etc), I wonder what will PL do soon. the KR scene barely has any upcoming player now
KR scene has plenty of upcoming players now. Those players aren't in KeSPA though, they're in the eSF.
any example? I had been missing out on Code A and GSTL, so maybe I am missing something?
That's disappointing but not unexpected. A lot of these KeSPA guys werent getting a whole lot of opportunites outside of the now defunct (for the time being) proleague. These teams were built for better times.
On September 17 2013 16:04 ETisME wrote: copied and pasted from the other thread: with all these kespa pro retiring (and I am expecting a lot more soon to follow up due to age and military training etc), I wonder what will PL do soon. the KR scene barely has any upcoming player now
KR scene has plenty of upcoming players now. Those players aren't in KeSPA though, they're in the eSF.
any example? I had been missing out on Code A and GSTL, so maybe I am missing something?
On September 17 2013 16:04 ETisME wrote: copied and pasted from the other thread: with all these kespa pro retiring (and I am expecting a lot more soon to follow up due to age and military training etc), I wonder what will PL do soon. the KR scene barely has any upcoming player now
KR scene has plenty of upcoming players now. Those players aren't in KeSPA though, they're in the eSF.
any example? I had been missing out on Code A and GSTL, so maybe I am missing something?
Bunny, HammEr, Sora, SonGDuri, Pigbaby, hitmaN, SSanaEE, Trust and Solar are all new-ish (meaning no significant BW experience, if at all) Kespa players with potential
I think before KeSPA players would just retire quietly after a lack of success for a while. Publicizing these retirements once per week is a bit questionable from a PR perspective.
It shouldn't be surprising that the Korean scene loses so many players and teams. I mean earlier there where two games, bw an sc2. Now all the players from both game are playing the same game, but there aren't that many more tournaments. So this is the logical consequenze....
On September 17 2013 16:38 nimdil wrote: I wonder why all the players won't announce retirement at the same time.
To continually shock and disappoint us over a long period of time.
I actually wonder if this is better or worse. Guess it partly depends on if you think the resulting continued publicity of this might have any positive effect. People are already shouting that the game is dead with this trickle, imagine what they would be saying if it was a mass retirement in one go.
EPT
I liked flying...
