Starcraft 2 a failure in PCBangs - Page 13

Guys! I love you guys cause half of you think Koreans don't like SC2 and we suck, the other half think it we don't like it because it sucks and there are the few who know its environmental reasons.

So I bought it, online, took me like 45 mins to download with 1.5 mb/sec and yeah it's not much for me, but its quite a price jump from before at about 60 USD equivalent (just an estimate). Did I want a box set? Hell ya, did I know where to get one immediately? Um no, I mean they freaking sell SCBW in the 7-11's before or in the E-mart or whatever! So, screw it, I downloaded it, and I load it up and get a big old ' THERE ARE 2 VERSIONS, THE 12 YEAR & PLUS 18 YEAR OLD (yes its in the Korean equivalent of CAPS) PLAY THE RIGHT ONE.

So anyway, when I registered, there were like 3 payment plans, a $2 one, I guess for 24hours, (I forgot) $10 for a week or some crap and the $60 dollar one for unlimited. So if you're at the internet cafe, you're gonna pay $2 for the game, and the PC cafe costs $1 dollar per hour and you're gonna play with your friends for like maybe 2-3 hours or you are there for a hour for lunch, and you can't set up a LAN? or a freaking Icehunters etc, yes, I know you can do it all via battlenet, but why bother? For now anyways.

I don't the average Korean is gonna say SC2 sucks, its just that its not familiar yet and DAMN IT SCBW is fun. But I think with Blizzard Korea and Blizzard trying to control everything and the issue with E-Sports & KESPA, its like people know that SC2 is out, but its like they don't know either.

FOR INSTANCE: SC2 should have been in every major paper in Korea for the last week, how Korea is going to own the international gaming scene and its the second coming of a new e-sports age, etc. But there isn't, its just these articles about how Mom's want to buy a box set for their kids and the sales are disappointing.

BECAUSE: If Blizzard really was going to launch in Korea, it should have been a fucking 1 month celebration in Korea with the history of SCBW on tv etc, and all the pro teams giving their feedback and interviews with celebrities saying how much SC2 will bring out there inner gamer again. But that didnt' happen because of politics with KESPA but also Blizzards stance on the entire 'content for SC2' (I'm not going to get into that issue here), but after Aug, I'm sure a lot of things will change, because that is the ultra deadline for KESPA when Gomtech takes over everything. There are ALOT of sponsors waiting in the wings, my juniors run the OBS team and they ask me for business advice and they are getting swamped right now. So my freaking point is:

SC2 will rock all of Korea, but not right now, maybe in like 4 months after the leagues get set-up. Keep in mind that SCBW is a mainstream activity in Korea like baseball, and if you were launch a new MLB or NFL, trust me, it would have been a lot more marketing, the marketing in Korea was huge, dont' get me wrong, but not SCBW huge (ie. TV commercials, new articles, celebrity endorsements, talk shows, etc). Also, Blizzard are really doing things their way, opposed to simply just trying to sell stuff in Korea. Obviously Blizzard knows how important Korea is, and they don't want to make a mistake here. And for all you guys out there who say, 'who needs Korea'; ok, I know you guys are passionate, but 1. we don't hate sc2, 2. we aren't set in our traditional ways playing scbw and 3. well you name me one country in the world that games are a mainstream past time and specifically SCBW? You go to an esports event outside of Korea, and look at the fans, and you look at them in Korea. And yes, I speak for all of Korea and yes E-sports and SC2 needs Korea and Korea will love SC2 ( in 4 months ^^).