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On August 21 2010 20:15 Arm4n wrote:Show nested quote +On August 21 2010 20:08 PlosionCornu wrote: So,having a pro gamer license actually sells your soul to kespa? I mean,If I'm a pro football player,and out of my curiosity I want to partecipate to some other sport event,like,a rally, I can't?
are you talking about football? then yes you can. if you're talking about soccer who cares go die. Yeah,handegg :D
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This is a dick move unlike anything I've ever seen before. I didn't think it was possible for me to respect KeSPA any less, but again they found a way to make it happen. I hope the organization crumbles down to the ground.
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On August 21 2010 20:18 Reaper9 wrote:Show nested quote +On August 21 2010 20:16 hacpee wrote:On August 21 2010 20:09 Narien wrote: Yes, any organisation that forces children to forego all social life, work long hours every day of the week and basicly end their careers before 25 are good, and no, i'm not talking about taiwan shoe-factories :D No one forces anyone to do anything. They an easily quit the team and move on to their regular lives if they so choose. It is not so easy. Starcraft is mostly what they know. There are some that concentrate in school, but for the most part, practicing for 12-13 hours a day without studying will destroy their career opportunities. Of course they can still go back to school, but I am not an expert on Korean culture and society.
Its not like they hide the conditions of the B team members. The players know what they're getting in to when they join. Its like the people who want to be movie stars. They know that they'll most likely end up working at starbucks or wal-mart for the rest of their lives but they still try to be movie stars.
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It would be extremely interesting to know how the Korean community is reacting to this. I bet kespa was trying to shut down the matches without their name being thrown in as this incident will no doubt just give more publicity to the games and make it more apparent how kespa is working towards sc2 not growing in Korea.
It's amusing how SC2 is the perfect opportunity for esports to become mainstream everywhere in the world and there's two companies that could potentially benefit hugely from this, yet they're both doing stupid shit and making it harder and harder for SC2 to succeed.
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Nada is indirectly a Kespa employee. I totally understand. But Kespa shouldn't have let Nada participate in the show match in the first place.
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Seems like an abuse of power. I didn't realize kespa controls rights for SC2 as well as BW.
I mean, it's kinda like the NBA's player's union telling Charles Barkley that he can't play a televised round of charity golf, isn't it?
just dumb that they have that sorta control over the korean BW players & teams.
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haha this is amazing. 1st Blizzard fucks up big in the last 2 days with their bnet 0.2 and now KESPA comes to their rescue doing even more stupid shit. <3
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On August 21 2010 20:23 Tadzio wrote: Seems like an abuse of power. I didn't realize kespa controls rights for SC2 as well as BW.
I mean, it's kinda like the NBA's player's union telling Charles Barkley that he can't play a televised round of golf for charity, isn't it?
just dumb that they have that sorta control over the korean BW players & teams. they dont control sc2 , they control nada who's still an active bw player. thats the problem. as far as i know they have no power on idra for example.
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On August 21 2010 20:02 AyJay wrote: And NOW I fully understand why Blizzard didn't want to negotiate with KeSPA
Makes me support any Blizzard decisions x100 times more even if that means profit for Activision.
I agree with you
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OMG...Kespa did it again...
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Massive abuse of power. I don't live in that type of society, so i can't exactly comment.
Blizzard is lucky. The LAN issue got pushed back because KeSPA did something even more stupid.
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On August 21 2010 20:23 Tadzio wrote: Seems like an abuse of power. I didn't realize kespa controls rights for SC2 as well as BW.
I mean, it's kinda like the NBA's player's union telling Charles Barkley that he can't play a televised round of charity golf, isn't it?
just dumb that they have that sorta control over the korean BW players & teams.
Unlike the NBA, or even any other major sport league, the players don't have a players association to fall back on. Such a shame, really.
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On August 21 2010 19:56 sva wrote: I was waiting for this thread to pop up, i wont be surprised if it gets locked quickly.
What does this even mean? :/
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If they settled on stream in eu/us only, they "legally" could kill the game, but seriously, how realistic is the idea of controlling internet users in Korea ? For Christs sake, even in countries where internet is banned/government controlled you can "sneak things in"... That was failure waiting to happen with this decision.
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On August 21 2010 20:18 Reaper9 wrote:Show nested quote +On August 21 2010 20:16 hacpee wrote:On August 21 2010 20:09 Narien wrote: Yes, any organisation that forces children to forego all social life, work long hours every day of the week and basicly end their careers before 25 are good, and no, i'm not talking about taiwan shoe-factories :D No one forces anyone to do anything. They an easily quit the team and move on to their regular lives if they so choose. It is not so easy. Starcraft is mostly what they know. There are some that concentrate in school, but for the most part, practicing for 12-13 hours a day without studying will destroy their career opportunities. Of course they can still go back to school, but I am not an expert on Korean culture and society.
KeSPA, as far as I have gathered, also has been pretty much the only game in town, so to speak. If they were to quit their teams, it'd be highly unlikely that they would get to play in another major, since so many of the top dogs are a part of KeSPA.
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On August 21 2010 20:24 SkelA wrote: haha this is amazing. 1st Blizzard fucks up big in the last 2 days with their bnet 0.2 and now KESPA comes to their rescue doing even more stupid shit. <3
haha, yeah its almost funny, bet blizzard are were thinking "phew, thank god KeSPA did this, else all the flames would be towards us!"
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Hey Blizz, when you're trying to shove your own monopoly on a community you had no part in creating, you can expect that the people in charge won't let their contracted players advertise for you.
Thanks Blizz.
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On August 21 2010 20:23 Tadzio wrote: Seems like an abuse of power. I didn't realize kespa controls rights for SC2 as well as BW.
I mean, it's kinda like the NBA's player's union telling Charles Barkley that he can't play a televised round of charity golf, isn't it?
just dumb that they have that sorta control over the korean BW players & teams.
The NBA can't because barkley doesn't work for the NBA anymore, but ESPN can if its in the contract.
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On August 21 2010 20:26 IntoTheWow wrote:Show nested quote +On August 21 2010 19:56 sva wrote: I was waiting for this thread to pop up, i wont be surprised if it gets locked quickly. What does this even mean? :/
Probably that this seems like the kind of topic that would start a flame-war. People get pretty vitriolic when it comes to KeSPA / Blizzard / ESPORTS
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anyone got the VODs? I missed it.
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