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zhurai
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States5660 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-05-04 19:20:14
May 04 2012 19:18 GMT
#81
I like how the Blizzard COO interview brings in like...4-5 other people from blizzard to answer the questions too.

There have been problems with foreign teams poaching skilled players from Korean Starcraft II teams. Are you worried that KeSPA teams might do the same?

Those things could happen, player transfers and such. I wouldn't call it poaching – we've all been in this industry for a long time, and I don't think anyone would really 'poach' a player. I do think that talk of transfers is possible, and ideally that kind of thing would happen after the Starcraft II team federation and KeSPA have talked, worked it out, and put in some regulations.


Hi TSL

What did you think about the GSTL finals decision?

Personally, I do think that bad decisions are part of the game.

Of course, from our perspective, we would be dissatisfied, because we think our player had the advantage. But also, the opponent would obviously think it was a re-game situation. So everyone is bound to have their own opinion in that respect.

The problem was that the entire process wasn't as smooth as it could have been, the way the judges went around it, it was a bit unprofessional.

The way they handled the matter wasn't ideal – we didn't have the situation explained to us well enough, and what happened was that while we were still talking to the officials, the foreign announcers just announced a re-game out of nowhere.

@Casters: Next time, try to verify, and if they are still talking about it.......... don't announce it? >_________>

On May 05 2012 03:02 itkovian wrote:
The blizzard interview was a good read. I like their continued emphasis on making a great product above all else.

Strangely, it sounds like they have more in mind for Blizz Dota than I originally imagined. I thought it would just be a fun little mod, but the e-sports director mentioned how he is in contact with the dev team on almost a daily bases. How big do they intend it to be? The market for dota games is already pretty saturated...

if they don't plan to do micro transactions+make the client free or so, then they'll fail

All 3 of the big players are all F2P now (from what I get dota2 is f2p with micro transactions too, so lol, hon, and dota2 are all f2p+microtransaction based.....)
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Doomtrain2
Profile Joined February 2012
Germany45 Posts
May 04 2012 20:16 GMT
#82
Long interviews, great ones. ALthough some of the answers were realy diplomatically appeasing, like politicians do it, to not lose their popularity... Sometimes as a reader I would like to know the real facts. Maybe as an interviewer you can ask some tricky questions to find out more facts, and make italic comments on what you are trying to achieve with that. It's pretty hard of course. I'm rarely seeing this or rather perhaps I just don't notice it.
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Corinthos *
Profile Blog Joined February 2006
Canada1842 Posts
May 04 2012 20:21 GMT
#83
Great job Wax
Gladiator6
Profile Joined June 2010
Sweden7024 Posts
May 04 2012 20:43 GMT
#84
I really like the ST coach a lot
Flying, sOs, free, Light, Soulkey & ZerO
RusHXceL
Profile Joined August 2010
United States1004 Posts
May 04 2012 20:59 GMT
#85
how long was it?
shabby
Profile Joined March 2010
Norway6402 Posts
May 04 2012 21:11 GMT
#86
On May 05 2012 05:43 Gladiator333 wrote:
I really like the ST coach a lot


Same here. He seems very intelligent.
Jaedong, Gumibear, Leenock, Byun
enigamI
Profile Joined May 2010
Canada385 Posts
May 04 2012 21:46 GMT
#87
God, these interviews get me fired up. Particularly loved the Blizzard interview! Thanks a lot for this...
Brett
Profile Blog Joined October 2002
Australia3822 Posts
May 04 2012 21:55 GMT
#88
Outstanding!

Thanks, TL news team!
sc14s
Profile Joined March 2011
United States5052 Posts
May 04 2012 22:09 GMT
#89
HOLY wall of text batmang!

my hats off to how much work that took sir.

Hmm well it was a fairly interesting read but not that much new info was hoping for more specific details on leagues (i.e bw players in gsl and ogn with current gsl players ect ect.
Roggay
Profile Joined April 2010
Switzerland6320 Posts
May 04 2012 22:15 GMT
#90
Really good interview, very informative!
Audio
Profile Joined March 2010
United States60 Posts
May 05 2012 00:34 GMT
#91
You know I have been playing a lot of dota2 lately, and i can only imagine what starcraft 2 would be like if valve remade it on the source engine and hired david kim haha ^.^ <3 valve. I actually think some of these responses seem awkwardly professional because valve has had such a big voice in the eSports scene lately. Gabe is a real person, I actually don't remember any of the names from the interview i just read.

It actually seems like the management over at blizzard is holding back the employees from creating the resume from replay option. I could be wrong though who knows.

The people at team liquid are so passionate. Really juicy interview good job ^.^
windsupernova
Profile Joined October 2010
Mexico5280 Posts
May 05 2012 01:16 GMT
#92
On May 03 2012 20:18 Marou wrote:
Amasing interviews Such an outstanding job by the TL Staff, props


Show nested quote +
On May 03 2012 18:43 Geisterkarle wrote:
Great Interviews! I like looking inside the heads of people behind SC2!
Nice touch with the question about LAN also interesting answer. Maybe we will see something for HOTS?


I doubt it. There will be no LAN. Ever. They just dodged the question in a more friendly manner than usual that's all. Most likely we'll have some kind of autosave system like there was in Warcraft3.


Dunno about that. Wasn´t the KESPA feud one of the major reasons they didn´t want to include LAN?

Well.... hopefully at least tourneys get LAN mode...
"Its easy, just trust your CPU".-Boxer on being good at games
CinnaBuns
Profile Joined August 2011
United States34 Posts
May 05 2012 02:47 GMT
#93
Thanks for the interview and the insightful questions. Keep them coming!
DanceSC
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States751 Posts
May 05 2012 04:47 GMT
#94
That took a while to read @_@.
But from my understanding, are they trying to combine the Proleague and GSL?
Dance.943 || "I think he's just going to lose. There's only so many ways you can lose. And he's going to make some kind of units. And I'm going to attack him, and then all his stuff is going to die. That's about the best prediction that I can make" - NonY
Sleed
Profile Joined June 2011
Canada181 Posts
May 05 2012 05:05 GMT
#95
Excellent Interviews. Very insightful.
SoniC_eu
Profile Joined April 2011
Denmark1008 Posts
May 05 2012 05:22 GMT
#96
NIce interviews, good content and layout Well done waxangel!!!
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Justikhar
Profile Joined May 2011
United States56 Posts
May 05 2012 05:27 GMT
#97
Very solid interview w/ good follow up questions. Bravo!
Shock710
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
Australia6097 Posts
May 05 2012 05:34 GMT
#98
On May 05 2012 03:59 Endymion wrote:
thanks for these great interviews, blizzard's COO is a bit eccentric but it's interesting that he recognizes the importance of PC bangs for SC2's growth in korea. I wouldn't be surprised to see a move to a more pc bang friendly model for the KR server atleast..

all the more reason for lan, i go to internet cafes cause of lan in games i mean its so awesome to play with friends, talk aloud casue they're right next to you, and play with no delay/lag <3 internet cafes
dAPhREAk gives Shock a * | [23:55] <Shock710> that was out of context -_- [16:26] <@motbob> Good question, Shock!
VoirDire
Profile Joined February 2009
Sweden1923 Posts
May 05 2012 06:30 GMT
#99
That was a really good interview.
EatThePath
Profile Blog Joined September 2009
United States3943 Posts
May 05 2012 06:47 GMT
#100
Finally had a chance to sit down and read this through. Amazing material. Thank you TL!!!
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