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

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

GreEny K

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.

lolnoty

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?

muta_micro

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

Half

United States2554 Posts

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.

TestSubject893

United States774 Posts

April 17 2010 02:15 GMT

#147

On April 17 2010 11:06 lolnoty wrote:

Show nested quote +

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

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.

alexanderzero

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.

ymirheim

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... -.-

goswser

United States3519 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.

HunterX11

United States1048 Posts

April 17 2010 02:42 GMT

#152

It's like an eSports chaebol...

LunarDestiny

United States4177 Posts

April 17 2010 02:42 GMT

#153

Starcraft quotes(NSFW?):

Apoptosis

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?

danl9rm

United States3111 Posts

April 17 2010 02:51 GMT

#155

On April 17 2010 08:29 Half wrote:

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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.

Hyperion2010

United States122 Posts

April 17 2010 02:51 GMT

#156

I hope you all realize that they are just trolling for a bribe right?

d(O.o)a

Canada5066 Posts

April 17 2010 02:53 GMT

#157

Stimpacks in broodwar don't count as drugs? KESPA this is sad.

-orb-

United States5770 Posts

April 17 2010 02:56 GMT

#158

why is kespa such a load of jerks

goswser

United States3519 Posts

April 17 2010 02:58 GMT

#159

epic win video posted by lunardestiny.

0neder

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.