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Starcraft II Gets Adult-only Rating in Korea - Page 8

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Tanatos
Profile Joined April 2010
United States381 Posts
April 17 2010 02:00 GMT
#141
If KeSPA wants win this battle over e-sports, they better make some new RTS games. Right now there's only two Proleagues they are supporting, the BW and the Special Force(FPS), and SF is not doing well as BW and BW won't last forever. They abandoned W3 because of, of course, corruption that was found. Game company in Korea is not interested in making package game due to well developed network environment They better stop making another amazing MMOs. It's flooding really.
Vei
Profile Joined March 2010
United States2845 Posts
April 17 2010 02:03 GMT
#142
Can't Blizzard just be like, hey, kespa, you can no longer use SC stuff without our permission, and then bankrupt them? If I was Blizzard I would just buttrape them fiscally, but yeah
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GreEny K
Profile Joined February 2008
Germany7312 Posts
April 17 2010 02:04 GMT
#143
Pretty much kespa just sealed the deal on not being the leading country in sc2 as they were in sc1.
Why would you ever choose failure, when success is an option.
lolnoty
Profile Joined December 2005
United States7166 Posts
April 17 2010 02:06 GMT
#144
On April 17 2010 11:03 Vei wrote:
Can't Blizzard just be like, hey, kespa, you can no longer use SC stuff without our permission, and then bankrupt them? If I was Blizzard I would just buttrape them fiscally, but yeah


This is assuming South Korea chooses to enforce Blizzard's request. If Blizzard just now said "okay, no more BW for you," do you really think it would be enforced?
"PPD is a very angry guy. He controls us." - Arteezy
muta_micro
Profile Joined February 2010
United States183 Posts
April 17 2010 02:12 GMT
#145
lol drug use?? what is raynor mainlining heroin now? lol
http://www.comedycentral.com/videos/index.jhtml?videoId=264911&title=smoking-smarties
You know when you see a planet and you see that light, that planet isn't even there thats just a light, that's just your neighbor shining a flashlight into your backyard looking for coons.
Half
Profile Joined March 2010
United States2554 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-04-17 02:14:00
April 17 2010 02:13 GMT
#146
On April 17 2010 11:12 muta_micro wrote:
lol drug use?? what is raynor mainlining heroin now? lol
http://www.comedycentral.com/videos/index.jhtml?videoId=264911&title=smoking-smarties


Pretty sure stim packs=future speed.
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TestSubject893
Profile Joined September 2009
United States774 Posts
April 17 2010 02:15 GMT
#147
On April 17 2010 11:06 lolnoty wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 17 2010 11:03 Vei wrote:
Can't Blizzard just be like, hey, kespa, you can no longer use SC stuff without our permission, and then bankrupt them? If I was Blizzard I would just buttrape them fiscally, but yeah


This is assuming South Korea chooses to enforce Blizzard's request. If Blizzard just now said "okay, no more BW for you," do you really think it would be enforced?


I've read previously that in Korea, owning a copy of a game is enough to legally broadcast any game you play over a LAN. I don't remember which thread it was in exactly, but it was in one of the threads here on TL talking about SC2 not having LAN. (Also, the person who said it didn't cite a source, so I can't really guarantee accuracy, but it made sense to me so I believed him. )
SiegeFlank
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
United States410 Posts
April 17 2010 02:20 GMT
#148
Giving SC2 an adult rating is the largest double standard I've seen in a long time.

I'm curious to how blizzard, the korean public, and the pro-gamers themselves will react to this.
Bird up
alexanderzero
Profile Joined June 2008
United States659 Posts
April 17 2010 02:36 GMT
#149
E-sports doesn't need KESPA to be successful. The fans are already organizing their own tournaments, and their finding corporate sponsors for them as well (Just look at the HDH invitational). Times are changing, and E-sports have been around for a while now. KESPA would have been a booster for SC2's success as a spectator game, but it is certainly no longer a requirement.
I am a tournament organizazer.
ymirheim
Profile Joined April 2010
Sweden300 Posts
April 17 2010 02:40 GMT
#150
I never manage to understand the logic in "protecting" children from bloodsplatter and whatnot in the first place.

So starcraft/broodwar was fine because stuff just died? And death is something that clearly won't affect young children, hundreds of their little fantasy characters running into a blanket of siege fire and getting terminated is just something that is pretty natural. But now in starcraft 2, things break apart and bleed when it dies! That clearly is unacceptable, death sure but living beings containing blood? Thats fucking over the line right there, that will mess kids up... -.-
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goswser
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
United States3548 Posts
April 17 2010 02:41 GMT
#151
lol, they add a language filter on sc2 that filters basically everything, even words that shouldn't be filtered(such as 'gay'). And the Korean Ratings Board slaps an adult rating on it? Come on...drug use was in sc1 too, and that wasn't rated adult, pretty much every single terran marine/general/ghost smoked, threw their cigars on the ground, themes of suicide at the end of the terran missions, and language. Unless Kespa is looking at cinematics that I'm not, then this is just stupid. And a year to re-review it, if they make appropriate changes?? Really? How can it take a year to review like 13 minutes of cinematics and a couple simple death animations.
say you were born into a jungle indian tribe where food was scarce...would you run around from teepee to teepee stealing meat scraps after a day lazying around doing nothing except warming urself by a fire that you didn't even make yourself? -rekrul
HunterX11
Profile Joined March 2009
United States1048 Posts
April 17 2010 02:42 GMT
#152
It's like an eSports chaebol...
Try using both Irradiate and Defensive Matrix on an Overlord. It looks pretty neat.
LunarDestiny
Profile Blog Joined August 2008
United States4177 Posts
April 17 2010 02:42 GMT
#153
Starcraft quotes(NSFW?):
Apoptosis
Profile Joined February 2004
United States78 Posts
April 17 2010 02:49 GMT
#154
There seems to be a lot of talk of KeSPA involvement with this decision. Do we have any sources to back this up or is that just an assumption many are making? I don't disagree that KeSPA may be involved, but I would like to see such a claim backed up. Is there something I missed?
www.apopd.com - If you see the flash, it's already too late.
danl9rm
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States3111 Posts
April 17 2010 02:51 GMT
#155
On April 17 2010 08:29 Half wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 17 2010 08:27 Lemure wrote:
On April 17 2010 08:22 LaNague wrote:
well, this doesnt hurt blizzard who dont really profit from progaming in korea and im sure they are working on a "clean" version of sc2 for other countries like germany anyways.

So the only thing this does is delaying potential sc2 progaming in korea for a few months.
Oh that and probably summoning the wrath of blizzard, whatever form that has.

I thought one of the biggest reasons was kespa not agreeing to pay the excessive licensing fee that they pay for SC1 that Blizzard is demanding for SC2 so it should be quite a bit of cash they make from Korea.


They don't pay anything for SC1.

>0 is not excessive. I think its rather reasonable.


has anyone part of a business ever actually bought software? that can get excessive. i don't care what blizzard is asking for licensing, it's not excessive.

the man-hours put into sc2 is crazy, such that even 100k licensing would be an incredibly low figure.
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Hyperion2010
Profile Joined April 2010
United States122 Posts
April 17 2010 02:51 GMT
#156
I hope you all realize that they are just trolling for a bribe right?
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d(O.o)a
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Canada5066 Posts
April 17 2010 02:53 GMT
#157
Stimpacks in broodwar don't count as drugs? KESPA this is sad.
Hi.
-orb-
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
United States5770 Posts
April 17 2010 02:56 GMT
#158
why is kespa such a load of jerks
'life of lively to live to life of full life thx to shield battery'
how sad that sc2 has no shield battery :(
goswser
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
United States3548 Posts
April 17 2010 02:58 GMT
#159
epic win video posted by lunardestiny.
say you were born into a jungle indian tribe where food was scarce...would you run around from teepee to teepee stealing meat scraps after a day lazying around doing nothing except warming urself by a fire that you didn't even make yourself? -rekrul
0neder
Profile Joined July 2009
United States3733 Posts
April 17 2010 03:01 GMT
#160
I'm curious as to if this relates to the single player campaign or multiplayer. Surely it can't be multiplayer, which is somewhat tame compared to BW. Blizz can probably just tame down some single player stuff and be okay.
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