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Have you wondered why Activision/Blizzard quotes sales numbers minus asia? It's an underhanded ploy to add more hype to the fire before people realize what a bad game it really is.
August 2, 2010. According to Gametrix, an internet cafe research service, SC2 posted 12th in playtime with only 2.6%. The playtime metric is used to ascertain game popularity. Released on the 27th last month, SC2 posted a dismal 20th in internet cafe playtime but was expected to climb much higher on the weekend, with hopes that old-time starcraft fans would feel nostalgic and rush out to play SC2.
But, on the 31st of last month, the first saturday after release, playtime was at a meager 2.49% (12th). Although the numbers continued to rally to peak at 2.6%, it failed to reach a critical level. This is in stark contrast with SC1, which kept its popularity, hanging on to the 6th spot.
Game industry experts commented that the first weekend after release usually decides whether a game will be successful or not. Taking into account the huge advertisement campaign and the success of the previous installment, the results were somewhat dissappointing. To add further concern, this period coincided with school holidays, a period considered the one of the golden peaks of gaming. So the question remains, where has all the interest gone?
But, what about outright sales you ask? Surely, sales must be going through the roof since SC2 is such a great game. Unfortunately, SC2 is not even in the top10 games sold in korea.
Dissappointingly, Blizzard's new game Starcraft 2 is struggling even in retail channels. With expectations that SC2 would enjoy a second wind in sales at the beginning of August now thoroughly crushed, some are cautiously predicting SC2 will turn out to be Blizzard's black sheep.
One industry expert said: "SC2 should have entered the top games list if it were to become a big success, but it failed. Even after organizing huge sales events where lots of freebies were handed out, SC2 is not even in the top10 of most purchased games. I think this is due to the marketing, it targeted the wrong audience, but more fundamentally, the game itself is not as good as the first one."
Industry experts say SC2's entry into e-sports will be unclear if this trend continues,
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In my opinion, it'll take a bit longer. We need to be patient. Once OSLs etc start swapping, things will change.
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junk account?
industry experts  though being more culturally tied to BW than anywhere else, it makes sense that they'd be resistant to change
and they didn't add they asia numbers because they couldn't, at least in korea players either use timecards or get it with wow subscription
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On August 04 2010 13:45 Qwerty. wrote:
junk account?
probably.
how about some sources for your claims.
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source please, and time will tell.
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Can you link to your source for this info? Just curious to read the actual article.
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Even Broodwar took quite some time to be where it's currently at, but I guess they're comparing SC2's popularity level to the rest of world.
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I love how many times the term "industry experts" is used without once referencing a name or source.
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On August 04 2010 13:44 Wolf wrote:
In my opinion, it'll take a bit longer. We need to be patient. Once OSLs etc start swapping, things will change.
Thats the main thing. SC2 taking off was always going to require the death of BW. Why bother play the new game when there is still a bunch of money to be made in the old one?
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His name is Junk account.... troll I think?
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Yeah would like to see sources. But I like how you say "before people realize what a bad game it really is." Its actually a good game have you even played it?
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Would be nice if you could post sources.
But even if it's true, I wouldn't read too much into it. Right now we're coming up on the Proleague Grand Finals in SC:BW, which is bound to generate a lot of excitement and keep most SC fans interested in watching/playing BW at least for another week.
Although I will say that Blizzard's little war with KeSPA was not good for publicity.
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You need to take into account that one day broodwar will be gone in some way. So i think when this happens there will be, may name it, kind of a 2nd release.
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On August 04 2010 13:45 Qwerty. wrote:junk account? industry experts
You made the post before I could haha. I think the account name was overkill, it *almost* could have worked.
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Funny stuff. Gave me a laugh.
Edit - All his posts are about SC2 being horrible and failing. Someone just ban this guy please.
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Also if you look at this guy's posts most of them are how sc2 is going to fail and be like the WC3 in korea lol. Wouldn't really take anything this guy says seriously imho.
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I want to hear from IdrA/Tasteless/Artosis, they could tell us what it's like there.
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Have you wondered why Activision/Blizzard quotes sales numbers minus asia? It's an underhanded ploy to add more hype to the fire before people realize what a bad game it really is.
Excuse me? Find me a single prominent person in the BW competitive scene who says that SC2 is a bad game, and then we'll talk.
And I second (third?) the request for sources. Obviously SC2 isn't doing amazing in Korea, but it's hardly a failure. The real potential is in the e-sports field...where things seem to be going along fairly well, considering it's been less than a week since launch.
Time will tell. Premature declarations of failure are stupid.
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On August 04 2010 13:50 blade55555 wrote:
Also if you look at this guy's posts most of them are how sc2 is going to fail and be like the WC3 in korea lol. Wouldn't really take anything this guy says seriously imho.
maybe it's an alt of Misrah's lol
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