Love SC:BW to death but i can't say i'm not excited about the possibility of SC2 OSLs and korean pros getting into SC2. Blizzards just has to fix a lan option so the OSL etc. won't have to rely on blizzards servers.

QueueQueue

Canada1000 Posts

June 13 2010 17:37 GMT

#102

I would think in the realm of 2-4.

SilentCrono

United States1420 Posts

June 13 2010 17:51 GMT

#103

maybe 5 or 6.

Lexpar

1813 Posts

June 13 2010 18:04 GMT

#104

2 to 4 sounds about right. It's really a question of how quickly sc2 catches on there (assuming it does catch on).

wiesel

Germany727 Posts

June 13 2010 18:22 GMT

#105

Love SC:BW to death but i can't say i'm not excited about the possibility of SC2 OSLs and korean pros getting into SC2

I think something inside of me would cry if jaedong would have to micro the newbish sc2 mutas lol. Interesting 70% for 2+ so far.

Sok4R

Germany124 Posts

June 13 2010 18:59 GMT

#106

depends on how well SC2 does in Korea. If it finds it Fanbase and (new) ProGamers, SC1 won't have that big leagues since I don't think there are enough sponsors to support two games. If SC2 doesn't beat SC1, there could be a lot more StarLeagues, since Korea was always kinda separated to the rest of the world, mostly Europe and the US, where SC2 will rule the next few years as supreme RTS (not to hard to know that =)

overt

United States9006 Posts

June 13 2010 19:16 GMT

#107

I think it'll be perfectly reasonable for them to do both a Brood War and StarCraft 2 OSL at the same time. It'll just depend on the pros attitudes after SC2 comes out. There will probably be plenty of them, including a lot of the bottom tier players who will want to switch over to SC2 but I think there will be at least some people who will want to stick with Brood War.

I really don't see any huge downside to letting the pros decide if they want to compete in a Brood War or SC2 Starleague so I wouldn't be very surprised if they allow both games to have OSLs simultaneously.

NEgroidZerg

United States244 Posts

June 13 2010 19:41 GMT

#108

Voted 2-4. Although I do believe it's perfectly plausible for brood war to run forever, I just don't think it will happen.

SoL[9]

Portugal1370 Posts

June 13 2010 20:59 GMT

#109

zrules

United States88 Posts

June 13 2010 21:34 GMT

#110

Hopefully they can run them both, but that would probably be too difficult.... I still don't know if SC2 has the staying power of SC:BW cause it is so well "polished." Instead of making a game that has weird quirks in it, they made a game that they wanted to be played professionally... and because it came out of that I'm not sure people know yet how to make a professional scene game, they try to, but atm, SC:BW is cooler.

Taekwon

United States8155 Posts

June 13 2010 22:08 GMT

#111

Thought the sponsors would start to immediately transition in an open statement

Tiazi

Netherlands761 Posts

June 13 2010 23:08 GMT

#112

2 more. Brood war is burning my eyes since I know starcraft II

DemiSe

883 Posts

June 14 2010 00:34 GMT

#113

I hope that we'll see more than 10 OSL, but I think we'll only see 2-4. (Sadface)

Wr3k

Canada2533 Posts

June 14 2010 00:47 GMT

#114

1. Can't wait for pros to amaze us with SC2 play.

jgad

Canada899 Posts

June 14 2010 01:10 GMT

#115

5+ at least. SC2 isn't even out yet and there are two OSLs a year. WC3 and SC both run tournaments at the same time, I don't see why SC and SC2 can't live side-by-side either. Surely the legacy of SC players and teams and coaches, etc, are not going to simply pack up and move on. In economics you would consider it capital investment and it is always of foremost interest to make best use of your existing capital infrastructure before moving on and upgrading.

This is why companies continue to do things the "old way" for a good while when better alternatives exist. If you already have machines to do function X, it's best to keep using them, now that you've paid for them and they exist, until they wear out. Then, when it's time for replacements, you finally go for the new stuff. At present there are a lot of stellar SC players and coaches, each of whom has a lot of mileage left in them. When the kids start showing up at the SC2 team practice houses instead of the SC team practice houses, then the teams will start to atrophy and the tourneys will begin to wind down.

Until that time, though, the SC world has an enormous fan base who love their favourite players. They're not going to simply abandon their heroes because technology changes and a shiny new game shows up. Those people who skip school to bring signs to support their beloved players won't simply stop caring about them and go watch some n00b nobodies play SC2. It will take time for SC2 players to develop fans and it will take time for SC to lose its fans. I say 5+ OSLs easy.

Lightningbullet

United States507 Posts

June 14 2010 01:16 GMT

#116

On June 13 2010 08:16 moopie wrote:
At least 5. As long as there is demand (and Blizzard stops trying to kill it), BW will live on. SC2 OSL would be boring as hell to watch.

errrrr... you do realize that Blizzard is part of the problem, right? Especcially since negotiations with Kespa ended.

writer22816

United States5775 Posts

June 14 2010 03:16 GMT

#117

10+

SC2 sucks.

D3lta

United States93 Posts

June 14 2010 04:28 GMT

#118

Ill just quote what I said amongst the rabble of artosis's interview thread with Hwanni (http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=130668)

Anyone who actually thinks the competitive BW scene is going anywhere for at least a few more years is completely naive. It's going to take years for sc2 to get to the competitive level required to completely replace BW as spectator entertainment. Even if (and I do think think its a big IF) sc2 becomes more popular in Korea a year or so from now, BW will have to becomes decidedly unpopular for them to actually stop hosting tourneys, (especially considering how much spectator overlap could be cultivated.)
A lot of this anti-sc2, Brood War forever sentiment displayed on this forum is evidence of why BW won't simply fade away. And call me crazy, but I have a feeling this attitude is even more common amongst Koreans than that of EU/NA gamers. There not looking for a replacement, if anything, there's a healthy population that is threatened by the concept.
Equally naive is this assumption that most known top gamers, would consider "switching" out. As many more pragmatic posters have touched on already, a large part of the skill in BW is related to dealing with an interface that is simply outdated. It doesn't make the game less compelling to watch or in anyway take away from the talent these guys show, but its a reality I think people would do best to accept. Why would someone who knows their amongst the best in the world at BW (i.e. flash, jaedong ect) want to switch games to something they may very well not be not as proficient at?
It wouldn't surprise me if BW matches were still showing 6 years from now. Or if the real last OSL was a decade from after sc2 release.

I think its a little presumptuous to assume sc2 WILL replace sc1 altogether, and completely unfounded to assume sc2 will be so much more popular, it will destroy the majority of interest in sc1.

wiesel

Germany727 Posts

June 14 2010 05:49 GMT

#119

People are just hyped, it's normal same happened with wc3, everyone was like uhh BW is getting replaced even Boxer lol. How little he knew.
sc2 is even more unclear than wc3, so i doubt it will replace anything

AlwaysGG

Taiwan952 Posts

June 14 2010 06:34 GMT

#120

5+ imo

10+ sounds unreal. lol