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On September 14 2009 17:40 SpiritWolf wrote:
The blacklisting of gom really doesn't surprise me. Gom is supported by blizzard. Kespa doesn't want blizzard to encroach on their market so they are discouraging players from doing gom. When SC2 comes out kespa will get owned and back down or gom will become the main source for sc2.
GOM decided not to cooperate with Kepsa before Blizzard even got involved from what I'm aware. Blizzard supported GOM in season 3, after a lot of teams decided not to participate.
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Thx Blizzard for supporting GOM season 3, now we don't have season 4 anymore.
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On September 14 2009 17:53 Too_MuchZerg wrote:
Thx Blizzard for supporting GOM season 3, now we don't have season 4 anymore.
Thats like saying 'Thanks mom for buying me a new car, I just crashed it into the neighbors house'.
Blizzard is not the one to be furious at right now.
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Osaka27140 Posts
On September 14 2009 17:53 Too_MuchZerg wrote:
Thx Blizzard for supporting GOM season 3, now we don't have season 4 anymore.
I think it was doomed either way, but perhaps with Blizzards support it might not disappear.
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The GOM tournaments had some really great games. I hate to see it being fucked by Kespa.
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On September 14 2009 17:52 FabledIntegral wrote:Show nested quote +On September 14 2009 17:40 SpiritWolf wrote:
The blacklisting of gom really doesn't surprise me. Gom is supported by blizzard. Kespa doesn't want blizzard to encroach on their market so they are discouraging players from doing gom. When SC2 comes out kespa will get owned and back down or gom will become the main source for sc2. GOM decided not to cooperate with Kepsa before Blizzard even got involved from what I'm aware. Blizzard supported GOM in season 3, after a lot of teams decided not to participate.
Any additional info on this?
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On September 14 2009 17:52 FabledIntegral wrote:Show nested quote +On September 14 2009 17:40 SpiritWolf wrote:
The blacklisting of gom really doesn't surprise me. Gom is supported by blizzard. Kespa doesn't want blizzard to encroach on their market so they are discouraging players from doing gom. When SC2 comes out kespa will get owned and back down or gom will become the main source for sc2. GOM decided not to cooperate with Kepsa before Blizzard even got involved from what I'm aware. Blizzard supported GOM in season 3, after a lot of teams decided not to participate.
True, but before gom wasnt large enough to be a real threat. With blizzards backing and starcraft 2 on the horizon gom has the potential to expand massively. kespa is putting alot of pressure on teams to not compete in gom in order to kill it before it can hurt their korean esports monopoly.
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This sucks ass. If theres no more gomtv period, i hope ogn or mbc gets their shit together and hires tasteless, superdanielman and artosis so we can get more english casted pro sc.
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fuck, no 
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On September 14 2009 17:30 Manifesto7 wrote:
Time for foriegners to fill in the void and make GOM international.
I know Tasteless is in America until Oct 3rd or so according to facebook.
TSL 2 presented by GOM.
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Aotearoa39261 Posts
Moved to news
The death of any SC league is terrible news =[
Hope thing work out for you Tasteless and SDM
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motbob
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On September 14 2009 18:18 GTR wrote:Show nested quote +On September 14 2009 17:30 Manifesto7 wrote:
Time for foriegners to fill in the void and make GOM international.
I know Tasteless is in America until Oct 3rd or so according to facebook. TSL 2 presented by GOM.
Why are you joking about this and not actually making it happen
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come Kespa, you can't be serious rite!
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Look, no one is in the "wrong" here. All parties are fighting for their interests. I wish people would stop being ignorant fools and stop blaming KeSPA. Every esthablishment will fight to keep themselves relevant. Nothing one is to blame here, maybe except the system because this is how the system works. This is just business/politics, and innocent people will suffer along the way. That's just the reality of it all. No one has all the information on the matter so picking sides is just jumping the gun and really useless. Just see how things play out and hope Esports survive in Korea, and grow everywhere else.
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On September 14 2009 18:04 SpiritWolf wrote:Show nested quote +On September 14 2009 17:52 FabledIntegral wrote:On September 14 2009 17:40 SpiritWolf wrote:
The blacklisting of gom really doesn't surprise me. Gom is supported by blizzard. Kespa doesn't want blizzard to encroach on their market so they are discouraging players from doing gom. When SC2 comes out kespa will get owned and back down or gom will become the main source for sc2. GOM decided not to cooperate with Kepsa before Blizzard even got involved from what I'm aware. Blizzard supported GOM in season 3, after a lot of teams decided not to participate. True, but before gom wasnt large enough to be a real threat. With blizzards backing and starcraft 2 on the horizon gom has the potential to expand massively. kespa is putting alot of pressure on teams to not compete in gom in order to kill it before it can hurt their korean esports monopoly.
Then again moving from KeSPA to Blizzard monopoly doesn't sound that good either.
Suddenly new patch comes up and game is broken and there can't be new games because Blizzard controls what leagues to be played (b.net 2.0). Would be sad those players who get to play games with working patch and those who don't (they buffed, for example, zerg too much and suddenly there is going to be all zergs at top for few months messing up everything).
Wondering if b.net down because of hackers (or just maintenance, random server crash etc) so games can't start live because of that. Wonder if MBCGame or OGN would like that.
There are some/huge flaws how KeSPA makes things happen. Still e-sports is young business compared to other mainstream sports.
I am just scared if same thing will happen to SC2 as did to WC3. I just hope SC1 wont die too soon or else there would be soon only Sudden Attack to follow :D
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Fuck KeSPA. I haven't heard anything positive about this idiots in so long. Seems every time I look they're disqualifying another gamer for coughing too loudly.
I don't care whether or not they're fighting to keep themselves relevant or not. Companies have the right to increase their profit margins by dubious practices, and we have the right not to buy their products. Seriously, fuck them.
Blizzard should release a SC patch specifically aimed to fuck these wankers.
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RAGE .
Really, for me they could have killed Proleauge, the MSL or the OSL (or non at all  )... BUT NOT GOM...
Let's just go on with tourneys with stupid preliminaries and a Proleague which just isn't as exciting as a BO3+ Tourney .... If they at least would bring back the Winner league format...
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Blizzard should flex its legal muscele against Kespa.
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On September 14 2009 17:24 Chrispy wrote:
Well then.
I think I speak for the entirety of Foreign Broodwar fans when I say...
Fuck you, Kespa!
You may speak on my behalf!
I don't deny Kespa has done a lot for BW and ESPORTS in general. But when was the last time they came up with something that was actually good for the players and/or the fans?
DQ drama, Free agents, GOM, you name it... Last couple of years have seen terrible decisions by Kespa. I wouldn't mind them crashing and burning.
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