No Blizzard games is the finishing blow for WCG then I guess. But there are so many tournaments rising like NASL and GSL, so it doesn't really matter. Sucks for WC3 though, isn't WCG the biggest WC3 tournament?

asmgrad

Serbia26 Posts

February 25 2011 13:02 GMT

#142

WCG would be promoting blizzard games (sc2 mostly) to other gamers and world(its world compatition) instead of gom/nasl/mlg that does not promote them to anyone except starcraft 2 viewers/players.

stefftastiq

Norway205 Posts

February 25 2011 13:05 GMT

#143

guess this is was differs e-sports from regular sports...

aupstar

Australia912 Posts

February 25 2011 13:05 GMT

#144

Why should Samsung pay blizzard to advertise their games?

Sounds a bit ridiculous to me...

xZiGGY

United Kingdom801 Posts

February 25 2011 13:05 GMT

#145

beyond the game o.o

SmoKim

Denmark10305 Posts

February 25 2011 13:07 GMT

#146

i hate to join the Doom choir, but i also believe that no SC2, BW and WC3 might hurt WCG more than it can recover from =(

not do disrepect CS and all the other games/community but i honestly believe that without those 3 games, WCG is in a horrible situation

oh well, back to praying everything works out!!!!!

Taf the Ghost

United States11751 Posts

February 25 2011 13:07 GMT

#147

Rock, meet Hard Place and his brother IP Rights.

Rekrul

Korea (South)17174 Posts

February 25 2011 13:10 GMT

#148

i find it hard to believe that a compromise will not be reached and blizzard games will be discluded

Frankon

3054 Posts

February 25 2011 13:19 GMT

#149

On February 25 2011 22:10 Rekrul wrote:
i find it hard to believe that a compromise will not be reached and blizzard games will be discluded

If they reach the compromise it would lower the chance of OGN winning court case. Samsung is smart. It waits till there would be decision of the court to take action.

Also paying 3 broadcast fees (wc3, sc:bw, sc2) to Gretech would be a bit of strain on WCG i believe

legaton

France1763 Posts

February 25 2011 13:26 GMT

#150

I'm very happy that Samsung is strongly standing behind Broodwar. Blizzard should just accept that SC2 will always, or at least for a long time, come second in Korea to Broodwar. They have the entire world (except, maybe, for China) to develop their new game, but they decided to fuck up everything trying to force feed koreans with SC2, then dropping the hammer with the IP rights suit. I actually love the status quo, a great SC1 korean scene and a nice and growing SC2 scene for foreigners.

mesohawny

Canada193 Posts

February 25 2011 13:27 GMT

#151

really pathetic how much of a stranglehold blizzard has put on esports since SC2 came out, they're only shooting themselves in the foot.

on another note, do people still play cs 1.6? the north america scene seems pretty dead to me

Highways

Australia6120 Posts

February 25 2011 13:29 GMT

#152

Why can't kespa and blizzard just reach a compromise.

Put the fans first ffs.

raga4ka

Bulgaria5679 Posts

February 25 2011 13:34 GMT

#153

On February 25 2011 20:55 Weavel wrote:
How the fuck Samsungs gets to decide that wc3 can't be played?!?!? Kespa doesn't seem to give a shit about wc3.... For fucking sake...

OGN doesn't have the rights from Blizzard to cast WC 3 , BW or SC2 so it's only natural to exclude those games from WCG since Blizzard is suing them for it and OGN will be the main broadcasting station for WCG in korea . Nothing wrong with Samsung wanting to drop those games from WCG .

I personaly will miss them , but will still watch the WCG . There are a lot of good RTS out there besides WC 3 and SC that were not given the attention they need it .

schimmetje

Netherlands1104 Posts

February 25 2011 13:36 GMT

#154

Yeah.. this seems very counterproductive to me. Possibly kills off WCG and I'm not quite sure how this'll help BW (and thus Kespa) either. As for Blizzard.. well I guess they'll just have to go get recognized in one of them other great many tournaments popping up all over. Poor guys.

cuppatea

United Kingdom1401 Posts

February 25 2011 13:44 GMT

#155

I would think WCG needs Blizzard a lot more than Blizzard needs WCG.

eviltomahawk

United States11135 Posts

February 25 2011 13:54 GMT

#156

Kinda sad to see WCG, the last bastion of the non-Korean BW scene, suddenly be in this terrible situation. WCG restricting Blizzard games does nothing to the Korean BW scene or the foreign SC2 scene, though it will heavily damage the foreign BW scene and result in a lost opportunity to promote the Korean SC2 scene.

It's surprising to see the Blizzard vs KeSPA court case suddenly affect something as global as the WCG. IMO, Samsung is making a bad decision to consider pulling out funds for WCG, especially since it will have a significant impact on all of e-sports.

WCG may have degraded as an event, but historically, it has brought us great matches (Mondragon vs Savior, Flash vs Jaedong in WCG 2010). For many lesser RTSes such as Dawn of War, Command and Conquer, and Age of Empires, WCG was the height and highlight of their popularity as e-sports, and I think it would be detrimental to the global e-sports scene if we lose the opportunity to experiment with an alternative to Starcraft.

IMO, the best case scenario would be if Blizzard makes WCG an exception for OGN and if Samsung retracts their demands to not feature Blizzard games. Heck, I think Samsung was quite childish in their demands since it's obvious that everyone loses if WCG drops Blizzard games.

vyyye

Sweden3917 Posts

February 25 2011 14:03 GMT

#157

If there's anything retarded about e-sports it isn't the nerd stereotype, it's the politics. Seriously what the fuck?

DennizR

Sweden653 Posts

February 25 2011 14:10 GMT

#158

WCG will probably just die out without any Blizzard games. Unless they solve the whole IP rights thing, they perhaps could make an exemption for just this tournament... Because I believe it is in the interest of both WCG and Blizzard to keep their games in it.

PikaXchU

Singapore379 Posts

February 25 2011 14:10 GMT

#159

Someone has to give in at the end of everything. If blizzard and samsung maintains their stand, esports might actually crumble with this year's wcg being the start