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Blizzard Games may be excluded from WCG2011 - Page 11
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Pandahats
United Kingdom13 Posts
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Mioraka
Canada1353 Posts
On February 25 2011 22:05 aupstar wrote: Why should Samsung pay blizzard to advertise their games? Sounds a bit ridiculous to me... Because that's how the law and the real world works. You know why Apple has to pay to use a singer's song in their Ipod advertisment? Or why the tv commercials rarely put any products with a name other than their own? the same reason why kespa and samsung needs to pay blizzard. "But they are advertising your song in their advertisment too!" is an argument that was never accepted by law or by any means. | ||
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whoso
Germany523 Posts
On February 26 2011 01:52 mierin wrote: Well, congratulations ActiBlizz. WCG is as good as dead w/o WC3 and SC:BW so you're acting like its blizzards fault that they get excluded from wcg. why so smart? | ||
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wiesel
Germany727 Posts
When big companies fight , usually the fans are the losers. | ||
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Gorlin
United States2753 Posts
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StarStruck
25339 Posts
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NIIINO
Slovakia1320 Posts
WCG is the only big tournament for WC3 and not just for it but for every single Blizzards game, they are acting like kids. every one wants money money and money WTF is going on ? I know that this problem is complicating but this is wrong ! | ||
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SaltTheWound
Germany72 Posts
Like 2008 in Germany there were so many asians just to watch Starcraft anf warcraft.. Imagine without those vierwers... Only CS 1.6 and some other crappy games or what ? Vote for sc2 and wc3! | ||
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ZasZ.
United States2911 Posts
Retarded. | ||
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Kuri
Canada88 Posts
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mierin
United States4943 Posts
On February 26 2011 02:03 whoso wrote: so you're acting like its blizzards fault that they get excluded from wcg. why so smart? You're right, that was kind of a knee-jerk reaction on my part. I'm much more pissed off at the possible dissolution of proleague than the absence of Blizz games in WCG, so I suppose I'm biased. | ||
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Herculix
United States946 Posts
on top of that, it's not something that hurts only blizzard or hurts blizzard more than themselves or WCG. i doubt blizzard could give a crap about WCG right now, they've given up on WC3 and the lawsuit over BW is their only current interest in it, meanwhile they've got a starleague in korea with one in the US popping up while MLG is about to go international with starcraft 2 as one of the flagship games, with leagues in europe too. they have things covered world-wide whether WCG uses their games or not. i'm sure blizzard appreciates the free advertisement, but i highly doubt they invest into it the same way samsung does. from WCG's standpoint, it seems impossible to have the event without these games and expect to survive, so even though they might have issues paying for an event the magnitude they're used to, i really do think it's in their best interest to find new sponsors. there are people with money everywhere, but there aren't games with competitive notoriety everywhere. it's a lose-lose situation for them though. | ||
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Torpedo.Vegas
United States1890 Posts
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Kinky
United States4126 Posts
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darmousseh
United States3437 Posts
The reason is because samsung needs to ask permission from blizzard to broadcast the games, but if they do that, then essentially they are telling blizzard "Yes you own the rights" and OGN is suddenly in a terrible position in their lawsuit. 1. Samsung asks for permission to broadcast blizzard games. Blizzard says ok with fee, OGN loses lawsuit. OGN sues kespa, KESPA loses hundreds of thousands. 2. Samsung doesn't ask for permission. Blizzard sues samsung in US court. Blizzard wins millions. 3. Samsung doesn't show blizzard games. WCG terrible event, no one watches. #3 is actually the most profitable in the sense that samsung wastes less money than #1 or #2. | ||
Milkis
5003 Posts
On February 26 2011 02:40 darmousseh wrote: Lol, samsung is being played. The reason is because samsung needs to ask permission from blizzard to broadcast the games, but if they do that, then essentially they are telling blizzard "Yes you own the rights" and OGN is suddenly in a terrible position in their lawsuit. 1. Samsung asks for permission to broadcast blizzard games. Blizzard says ok with fee, OGN loses lawsuit. OGN sues kespa, KESPA loses hundreds of thousands. 2. Samsung doesn't ask for permission. Blizzard sues samsung in US court. Blizzard wins millions. 3. Samsung doesn't show blizzard games. WCG terrible event, no one watches. #3 is actually the most profitable in the sense that samsung wastes less money than #1 or #2. samsung has nothing to do with broadcasting. | ||
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FlashIsHigh
United States474 Posts
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BamBam
745 Posts
Its companies trying to go after more cash beyond the sale of the game that really screw any development of the game. | ||
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darmousseh
United States3437 Posts
On February 26 2011 02:43 Milkis wrote: samsung has nothing to do with broadcasting. No, samsung doesn't have anything to do with broadcasting, but their main broadcasting source is OGN. I imagine they would want to broadcast wcg in korea with OGN. That is the problem. | ||
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dkim
United States255 Posts
someday it will all blow over... that day is not today | ||
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