Do you support the WCS 2015 region lock? - Page 3
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denikarabenc
Serbia1 Post
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[PkF] Wire
France24184 Posts
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Ctone23
United States1839 Posts
On September 10 2014 10:11 Fall.182 wrote: hmm this whole situation seems very familiar... oh right. Affirmative Action. It's not like Koreans have an unfair advantage over other players that make them better... they just work harder. It's stupid how they should be handicapped for working harder. Like seriously? i find it highly insensitive and ignorant to compare oppressive social issues with a game developer trying to further their brand. Like seriously? | ||
Chilling5pr33
Germany518 Posts
Distribute the money by the amount of viewers the players attract, and distribute the points by skill. So we need this change. | ||
NyxNax
United States227 Posts
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NyxNax
United States227 Posts
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Gojira621
United States374 Posts
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rednusa
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NotSorry
United States6722 Posts
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Mikku
Czech Republic58 Posts
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ForgottenTheOne
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On October 05 2014 08:31 Mikku wrote: No. WCS leagues are the race to Blizzcon, and Blizzcon is established as Clash Of The Titans, the ultimate end of the whole season with the best players in it. Region lock means, that few of the best players in the world atm (yea, Koreans), will have to pass their spots to foreigners, just because of nationality. It is maybe the best solution for Starcraft and community, but it is simply unfair. Maybe there will be a 2nd Tourney, where there will be X amount of players from each region playing against each other and then deciding who'll go to Blizzcon. Also, remember that most tournaments with WCS points are held worldwide, without minding what your nationality is (IEM, Dreamhack, Homestory Cup, etc.), meaning that Koreans have big chances to play in Blizzcon if they win those tournaments. And those locks aren't so hard to overcome (most of players that play on EU/AM are playing there anyway). I strongly support this WCS Lock, because it will finally say who is the best in the region and not another "Worldwide" tourney. | ||
GrayFox90
Malaysia23 Posts
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custombuild
31 Posts
On September 23 2014 01:23 Gojira621 wrote: I don't have the link to the post, but viewership for WCS overall has dropped nearly 50% from 2013 to 2014, changes like this are necessary otherwise WCS just becomes even more of a sunk cost for blizzard, but I don't think they were planning to make much money from it anyway. Average fans want to see more non-korean stars. The koreans still play in every other tournament so I don't see why WCS being region-locked has to be such a big deal. It was region locked in 2012 and that year of WCS was incredibly fun to watch, seeing local heroes compete on a global stage at the end of the year. Be honest with yourselves, if a premier tournament final was to have, I don't know, Huk vs Scarlett, or like First vs. Cure which do you think will pull in more viewers? You are 100% correct. Sc2 is not even in the top ten list of most played games in korea. BW has more viewership than sc2. LoL has taken over and it seems that it is going to stay for a long time. Region lock should have happened sooner. I do not know if it will work this time. Like a previous poster said, it will end up in Pro koreans vs a no name. I wonder who will win at the end... | ||
Exitor45
United States72 Posts
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movac
Canada494 Posts
I find that the 2 WCS regions do not represent the players that come from that region. double the points from GSL if needed, but WCS NA and EU should represent the players of that region like it did back in 2012. I think many people have said that these 2 regions aren't interesting anymore once the tournament gets to the point where all the foreigners have been knocked out. Also there's no intrigue as to who will make top 8 in a season when it's fairly obvious who will make it. If koreans can't make the cut in WCS KR then so be it. They can still play in tournaments like dreamhack and IEM. | ||
Helios.Star
United States548 Posts
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NEEDZMOAR
Sweden1277 Posts
On September 09 2014 15:44 Synergysc wrote: And for the sake of Starcraft 2 actually surviving as a popular game in America and Europe. It's blatantly obvious at this point that people don't want to see 8 koreans in the ro8 of WCS "America" and a lower-tier kespa player like Pigbaby simply just waltzing in and taking 1st place, they want to see homegrown heroes with a great storyline playing on their home turf. The fact of the matter is Starcraft 2 has no chance of survival under an ideology that "if you don't go pro then you fail" because the only chance of actually winning something in a non-region locked system is if you give up just about everything to travel and train in Korea. It's just not viable. Most people would rather just get a job instead of risking their lives like that which is straight up stupid, if people dont appriciate the game for its beauty they might as well not appriciate it at all. as long as the korean region gets a ton of tournaments and at least 60% Of the combined prizepool I guess its fine. | ||
johax
Sweden165 Posts
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FreDMouL
France59 Posts
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LynxRage
Switzerland5 Posts
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