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The possibilities of Starcraft and Warcraft 3 being excluded from WCG 2011 has been brought up recently.
Although four months has passed since the Grand Finals of WCG 2010 that took place in LA, there hasn't been any official statements regarding the place it will be held on[T/N: It's to be held in Korea, according to Fomos, but city hasn't been decided] nor the official events.
During all of this, there has been strong possibilities of Blizzard games being excluded as an official event. The source of the problem has to do with the Starcraft Brood War IP rights conflict.
This is because Samsung Electronics, a member on KeSPA and WCG's official partner, is strongly against Blizzard games being recognized as official events in the WCG. According to an industry insider, Samsung Electronics has explicitly ordered WCG to exclude Blizzard games from official events.
But WCG disagreed, claiming that it will have trouble promoting the event and getting other partners if Blizzard games are excluded. To this, Samsung Electronics responded by saying "Go and get money from Blizzard, and all other game companies, the fees needed to run the events and fees for choosing their game [T/N: or "fees associated with choosing their game"].
Thus, WCG has been conflicted whether to include Starcraft, Warcraft 3, and even Starcraft 2 as an official event.
There is also another obstacle WCG needs to handle before being able to choose Blizzard games as official events. This is because WCG's main broadcasting station, OnGameNet, is currently being sued by Blizzard for issues related to Intellectual Property.
There are many perspectives that note that even if WCG includes Starcraft, Starcraft 2, and Warcraft 3 as official events, as long as the intellectual property rights conflict is not resolved, it will be impossible for OGN to broadcast these games.
An insider familiar with the situation has noted that "WCG does not wish to exclude Blizzard games as official events. But because broadcasting it will be impossible and cooperation with networked organizations is very difficult, it will be difficult to even send out Korean representatives"
Continuing, he added that "They are currently considering including Blizzard Games as an official event under the condition that they do not broadcast the games within Korea and Korean representatives are not playing in the WCG".
WCG will soon release information regarding the official events of the WCG 2011 Grand Final
Source: http://www.thisisgame.com/board/view.php?id=599329&board=&category=13438&subcategory=&page=1&best=&searchmode=&search=&orderby=&token=
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MrHoon
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wtf that's terrible, that means WCG is unwatchable with the exception of CS!
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Rumors flying around on several sites that Busan will be hosting this years WCG.
And yeh, problems relating to Blizzard were bound to happen sooner or later. Will be interesting how this ends up.
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Why is Samsung against starcraft and etc? I can't understand
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On February 25 2011 16:46 TheOnly92 wrote:
Why is Samsung against starcraft and etc? I can't understand
Made even more perplexing because they sponsor a BW team. Sad.
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On February 25 2011 16:45 GTR wrote:
Rumors flying around on several sites that Busan will be hosting this years WCG.
And yeh, problems relating to Blizzard were bound to happen sooner or later. Will be interesting how this ends up.
It's definitely NOT going to be Pusan. There's another article shutting that down pretty well
Basically the pusan rumors came from a miscommunication leading to a chinese site reporting Pusan as the place. at this point they're still not decided on what city.
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Ugh, I'm none too happy about this. Not sure what exactly Samsung hopes to accomplish this way.
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Isn't WCG in china this year? If so it will be an absolute and complete failure without WC3. I wonder if this would include DOTA, being part of the WC3 engine?
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On February 25 2011 16:52 On_Slaught wrote:
Isn't WCG in china this year? If so it will be an absolute and complete failure without WC3. I wonder if this would include DOTA, being part of the WC3 engine?
It'll be a complete failure no matter where it is without three head-line games, excepting maybe an European location.
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On February 25 2011 16:46 TheOnly92 wrote:
Why is Samsung against starcraft and etc? I can't understand
they're against Blizzard. Samsung just doesn't want to give Blizzard any type of advertising in WCG.
BW has very little chance of being a candidate game since SC2 has basically replaced BW everywhere but Korea. Samsung is most definitely anti-SC2 given Blizzard's current actions against BW.
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ALLEYCAT BLUES51084 Posts
WTF?Seriously Samsung?Seriously?This whole shabang has to end on the 18th of March.
@udgnim please don't say current actions against BW....why are you starting a fight?
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possibility of no Korean reps? What bullshit, WCG is the best time of the year to get Progamer reps :\
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This is just ridiculous, the corporate world is trying to destroy everything! Simply quite speechless about all of their actions, afterall what ogn does is promoting BW, why is Blizzard suing anyway?
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It sounds like there is nothing conclusive at all. Not worth getting stirred up over pure speculation.
Best case scenario would be BW is included and SC2 isn't to give blizzard a little slap in the face for their bad ip rights decisions. I guess in any case it's a slap to blizzard, but WCG seems like nothing without BW.
EDIT: Having BW without Koreans would be a boost for the foreigner scene. That also might be good.
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Well that blows  . I really hope somehow they can get Blizz games in.
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Rofl, Samsung sank really low this time. So what else will be played @ WCG? Counter-Strike and some racing phone games?
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Any way of getting that translated?
And I'm a little confused by talking about WCG and Samsung as if they're separate...WCG doesn't exist without Samsung.
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On February 25 2011 17:05 divito wrote:
Any way of getting that translated?
And I'm a little confused by saying WCG and Samsung separately...WCG doesn't exist without Samsung.
WCG is a separate organization, it's just that Samsung Electronics is one of their main sponsors.
WCG had a huge deficit during WCG 2010 in LA, so they've been downsizing and such, which is why they're hosting in Korea from what I can tell
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On February 25 2011 17:05 divito wrote:
Any way of getting that translated?
And I'm a little confused by talking about WCG and Samsung as if they're separate...WCG doesn't exist without Samsung.
rockband/guitarhero ftw
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You can't blame samsung though. They could get sued some more for no reason...its sad that people have to go around suing others because people can't agree on things.
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