EPTMike Morhaime's letter to the community - Page 6
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Achilles
Canada385 Posts
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RandomAccount#49059
United States2140 Posts
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konadora
Singapore66364 Posts
On October 07 2010 22:34 Achilles wrote: TBH, Blizzard are the ones in control of the korean proleagues. Don't renew the SC:BW contract with the proleagues, but give them an option for SC2. no all they're doing is holding it hostage because of that retarded IP rights + time slot issue | ||
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floor exercise
Canada5847 Posts
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0mar
United States567 Posts
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btlyger
United States470 Posts
Can't wait to see some of these new changes in, and can't wait for the seasons to start. Thanks mike. | ||
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ArghUScaredMe
United States712 Posts
Then I realized everything is politics, PR, and ass-kissing. This open letter came immediately after the Mike vs Minister of Korean Culture mouthing off to each other. Mike is just trying to appease to their main audience - Korean gamers. In short, $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$. | ||
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Achilles
Canada385 Posts
On October 07 2010 22:40 konadora wrote: no all they're doing is holding it hostage because of that retarded IP rights + time slot issue And from a purely business standpoint Blizzard should then hold the BW hostage if they want SC2 to explode and make money in that market. Valve did it for CSS when DirectTV had their CGS program on. Unfortunately DTV doesn't know how to run a company. | ||
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DragonDefonce
United States790 Posts
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Wolf
Korea (South)3290 Posts
Also, seasons... I'd like to see them be as long as traditional seasons. Would be interesting to have Fall/Winter/Spring/Summer seasons each year. I think four month periods are the perfect times for ladder resets. | ||
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Legace
Sweden342 Posts
On October 07 2010 21:51 Art_of_Kill wrote: "I’d also like to mention that we are actively encouraging the creation of amateur StarCraft II tournaments as well, and we look forward to supporting more community tournaments at that level. " aha, like delaying HDH2 until GSL preseason 3 is over interesting way of supporte Amateur tournaments refers to tournaments where participants are not professional. I.e. having professional gamers like idrA and TLO competing in HDH2 disqualifies it as an "amateur tournament". | ||
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potatoedoughnut
United States334 Posts
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MuteZephyr
Lithuania448 Posts
I'm excited about the new semi-pro/pro leagues too, makes it more apparent where you really are skill wise. The difference between HuK for example at the top of diamond and the average mid-diamond player is HUGE. Both should really not be in the same league :D | ||
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StifSokSamurai
United States120 Posts
On October 07 2010 17:30 Sprouter wrote: holy fuck blizzard really wants korea to play sc2 It was at this point I went O.o "holy cow" too. Not that it matters much to us a WoW noob is a WoW noob no matter what country they are from. | ||
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zergporn
Estonia156 Posts
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sleepingdog
Austria6145 Posts
On October 07 2010 23:15 Wolf wrote: I want more information on the 'Pro' and 'Semi pro' leagues. Sounds to me like we're just going to get a new Diamond league that most people get into eventually. well, if they are serious about this, then I don't see why this should be the case if we compare it to iCCup they could make it so semi pro league basicly resembles B- / C+ while pro is A- / B+ up....or something like that it will definitely be percentage-wise and not point-wise; currently, I think about 6-7% are in diamond; if the top 1% overall get moved into "semi pro" and the top 10-20% of "semi-pro" into "pro", then this could work, don't you think? | ||
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Phrencys
Canada270 Posts
I would probably had kept my WoW account active if they rewarded me with a free SC2 for doing so. SC2 is about 5months worth of WoW game time. And then you get to basically force players to keep their WoW account active saying "if you deactivate your WoW account, you will need to buy SC2 to continue playing it". It sounds pretty smart. I wonder why they didn't do it in other countries? | ||
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Piy
Scotland3152 Posts
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thehitman
1105 Posts
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dcemuser
United States3248 Posts
On October 07 2010 18:06 DiamondTear wrote: Gretech wants BW to die. Depending on their contract, Blizzard might or might not want it. Gretech doesn't want BW to die - keep up with the current negotiations. They've recently said all they want is the IP rights and an -extremely- small fee (considering the profits the companies are making). At the moment, it really sounds like MBC is the one acting out of line, and they're the ones paying for it. KeSPA just wants both MBC and OGN to broadcast it and Gretech isn't happy with MBC. Hopefully it will get worked out. On October 07 2010 23:48 Piy wrote: They don't really mean any of it though. They'd have made the obvious changes to Bnet2 2 weeks in if they did. Because it's easy to develop a shitload of content in 2 weeks. Seriously? | ||
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