Starcraft II Gets Adult-only Rating in Korea - Page 14

On April 18 2010 00:58 NuKedUFirst wrote:
Wow this is a real shame, imagine if Starcraft II doesn't take off in Korea, This would be a major lose in e-Sports / MLG, potentially ruin the Starcraft II competitive market aswell if there aren't enough hardcore players, It will be very interesting to see how this plays out!!

On April 18 2010 00:09 psychopat wrote:

It took 12 pages, but someone finally made a somewhat decent metaphor. The amount of horrible comparisons of IP to physical property in other people's posts is astounding. At least in North America, the laws governing these two are very different; you can't apply one to the other just because it makes an argument to support whichever side you're on; it's a fallacy.

Lots of people are babbling on when it seems they have no clue what the basic principles of licenses, intellectual property and broadcasting rights are. Do you honestly believe that the various sports leagues don't make a ton of cash from the TV stations that choose to broadcast their games (and from there make even more cash by selling the advertising spots)? Do you really think that bands aren't compensated when their music is played on the radio?

On April 18 2010 01:04 Tdelamay wrote:


Foreign games are fun to watch to!
What's important is to have both player be on even level to get interesting games. Even if Korean gets in the game late, it won't slow the foreign scene. It might even be the opposite. It's possible that Korean will turn to the foreign scene to watch SC2.

On April 18 2010 01:08 nimoraca wrote:


It isn't that simple. The music being played on the radio is the content, while the game itself is not a content the people are interested in. Its just a tool used to create the content. The fans are really interested in the games and their favorite players/teams, not the BW or SC2. Blizzard does not have the rights to the games being played the same way Adobe or Autodesk does not have the rights to the content being created with photoshop or 3dsMax.

What it really boils down to is what the Korean laws say about this. It doesn't matter what is written in the license agreement of the game if it's against the Korean laws.

On April 17 2010 07:03 anch wrote:

i dont remember any gore, but the Zeratul slicing the hydralisk CG was pretty sick.
we dont get that in BW.

On April 17 2010 07:01 Hier wrote:
Violence? There's so much less gore in unit death animations than in BW.
Language? They can't dub it withOUT foul language?

Drug use?
Yeah Raynor is in the gutter unfortunately.

On April 18 2010 01:35 psychopat wrote:What people are interested in isn't the crux of the issue though. Kespa is broadcasting Blizzard's intellectual property without permission, which is illegal in North America. Even if you don't believe this, you could use your own argument for regular sports... and yet broadcasting rights are still multi-million dollar propositions.

On April 18 2010 00:55 cognizantfire wrote:
In my own view, both Blizzard and KeSPA are just money-loving organizations. Without the money they can make from eSports, KeSPA will not exist. The same goes for Blizzard. Without the money they can make from the progame scene, they would not have even bothered to ask for royalties.

But think about it. Away from Korea and everything, do you think TL should pay Blizzard royalties when they stream TSL? Maybe not. I agree that broadcasting is in a much larger scale, but in principle, isn't it just the same?

I do agree that Blizzard game developers have put a lot of thought and work into developing SC2, but then when it comes to negotiating about the royalties, it is not the game developers who are doing the job. It is the financial officers of Blizzard who do this, and why would they want the royalties? No, not for game developing. They want the money so that they can report more in profits and their stock price will rise. Do the finance officers care about the development for the game? No, as long as they deliver on profits and gain the market's approval.

What about KeSPA? Enough said in previous posts, they are a bunch of corrupt money-loving people as well.

My conclusion? Both are evil and let's just hope they can negotiate something out of it. It would be a shame for SC2 to have no proleague in Korea (imagine no more Flash vs. Jaedong matches). And it would be a shame for TL to pay when they are so amazing to stream SC2 vids and keep up with TSL.

On April 18 2010 01:48 Polis wrote:


No I can't, Blizzard didn't made leagues, they didn't made that content they had made the software.

On April 18 2010 00:58 NuKedUFirst wrote:
Wow this is a real shame, imagine if Starcraft II doesn't take off in Korea, This would be a major lose in e-Sports / MLG, potentially ruin the Starcraft II competitive market aswell if there aren't enough hardcore players, It will be very interesting to see how this plays out!!

On April 18 2010 02:33 Mr.E wrote:
How easily can Korean minors get a hold of mature rated games?

On April 18 2010 02:29 Prometheus2011 wrote:
Why has no one pointed out some big facts...
You will never OWN a copy of sc2
he'll you don't even OWN your copy of windows

when you BUY software you are actually licensing it. At no point do you ever own the intellectual property

now then, when you use this software you are licensing you accept the agreement often a Eula or tos
in this tos or Eula it says that you may not redistribute or rebroadcast the content without permission
permission that will cost money