EPTFirst Glimpse: 2012 Battle.Net World Championship - Page 6
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Wildmoon
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Jayson X
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On January 26 2012 18:23 pdd wrote: I think LoL is the becoming the biggest esport game at the moment. Sad but true. For a long time Blizzard ignored a lot of the complains that people had regarding balance, the map pool, and in general support to organizers (besides Gretech). That's why we had the travesty of the Blizzcon SC2 tournament. This interview, makes it sound like they're really trying to increase their support for it to really cater less towards casuals and more towards pro-players. Stop bringing LoL up all the time. I don't care about it. Apples and oranges. Dota games are absolutely pointless and boring to me, but if they get to be a successful E-Sport game I say good for them! It has absolutely nothing to do with Starcraft. I don't care for who has the biggest or longest. I do agree with your view upon Blizzard's lack of support for their game and Battle.net compared to others. Then again I don't instantly fall asleep when watching SC2, they did at least something right. This is good news. 2012 might shape up to be an ever better year for SC2. | ||
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WArped
United Kingdom4845 Posts
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nimdil
Poland3764 Posts
On January 26 2012 17:05 how wrote: By competing, it forces both organizations to try harder. Why have NASL and IPL? They should just work together. NASL and IPL can compete. But how can you compete with Blizzard? It's their game. It's their battle.net. Competing against Blizzard is competing against someone who has huge advantage. While I agree WCG could do better job, I don't think Blizzard should just throw super-global-tournament. It's really hard to tell whether it will stimulate the pro scene for SC2 or eclipse everything else (and make everything else worse). | ||
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Severian
Australia2052 Posts
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ZenDeX
Philippines2916 Posts
On January 26 2012 20:14 nimdil wrote: NASL and IPL can compete. But how can you compete with Blizzard? It's their game. It's their battle.net. Competing against Blizzard is competing against someone who has huge advantage. While I agree WCG could do better job, I don't think Blizzard should just throw super-global-tournament. It's really hard to tell whether it will stimulate the pro scene for SC2 or eclipse everything else (and make everything else worse). Competition is always good for the international scene. You know that they say, "The more the merrier." The only thing to worry about is scheduling these events so they don't conflict each other. Nobody loses that way IMO. | ||
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marcelluspye
United States155 Posts
On January 26 2012 14:17 TeamLiquid ESPORTS wrote: How would the release of Heart of the Swarm in the middle of the year affect the competition? Ilja Rotelli: We had that conversation and we had to decide. Obviously we don't have a release date announced yet for Heart of the Swarm, and we had to decide how eSports would behave in 2012 for StarCraft II. We felt that any form of switch whenever the date would be, from Wings of Liberty to Heart of the Swarm, would betray the nature of the sport. I can't tell a bunch of professional players because of marketing that "You know, you need to promote Heart of the Swarm, could you show up next month and switch the game you're playing?" So the entire 2012 season is going to be played with Wings of Liberty, regardless of when we launch Heart of the Swarm. This sounds to me like something that could very well backfire. If other tournaments switch to HotS immediately, and Blizzard isn't using HotS at all, then players would have to practice two separate [albeit similar] games, and if some switch and some stay, can Blizzard really say that whoever wins the championship is the best SC2 player in the world, and not just the best WoL player? Or worse, other teams might be considering switching to HotS, but once they see that Blizzard isn't doing it, they'll scrap their plans of using it and HotS wouldn't be played at all. This is assuming Blizzard isn't flexible in their plans, but considering that in most other answers they said that they were flexible/discussing the issue and in this one they state clearly that HotS will not be used, I have a bad feeling that they may not be flexible at all. | ||
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lambda-
Germany147 Posts
I always liked the concept of WCG as a global championship and i'm glad that this returns in some way. This approach from Blizard has IMO a great potential to be the most important Tournament, or at least the most prestigious one, out there. | ||
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Serimek
France2274 Posts
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Elem
Sweden4717 Posts
On January 26 2012 20:50 Serimek wrote: You never know. Well, Korean national championship will be a world cup into a world cup in terms of level of playing. (Sweden one also in a way.) Can't beat back the Koreans with that mentality, that's for sure tho! | ||
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Flowjo
United States928 Posts
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NekoFlandre
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tapk69
Portugal264 Posts
To all the LOL lovers , dont compare LOL with Starcraft ... LOL is an easy and free game , aimed for the 12-18 year old, SC2 is more mature and the skill level is so so so so high compared to moba games. Everyone can play moba games without much problems , as for viewership , while the kids are interested you get 200k viewers and things like that but its not eternal , Moba games are boring to watch... SC2 will have new maps , new expansions and new players... Also SC2 actually requires pro players to devote their lives to it, like normal sports so when we see MVP play we already know that is impossible for us to play like him . P.S : im in for Steppes of War or zelnaga caverns again ! | ||
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Roggay
Switzerland6320 Posts
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Iatrik
Germany159 Posts
But even more interesting for me: HotS in 2012 baby  | ||
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