|
Hey,
Bit of a random rant, but I'm starting to get really bored by mainstream news websites obsessing over 'fashionable' online activities and completely ignoring what's popular.
I'll paste my recent complaint as an example:
Hey, I've been following the BBC tech section for many years now, and I've noticed recurring themes with ridiculous minority subjects such as second life whilst a complete lack of comment on significant gaming competitions such as the GSL sc2 finals today which had thousands and thousands of viewers (the restreams alone were on 10,000 viewers each) and a prize fund of $100,000. Would it be possible to get some kind of gaming/technology writers who can tell the difference between what is 'popular' and what is 'fashionable'.
It's probably a losing cause, but maybe if a bunch of people to send complaints, they'd be tempted to employ at least one tech writer who actually had some insight into what is actually interesting in the tech/gaming world.
|
thousands of viewers is honestly nothing. lumberjack, eating, spelling, poker, and strongman competitions absolutely dwarf SC2 viewership numbers. just fyi. start a letter campaign if you want to then more power to you. it would help to post an address you want people to write to and a form letter for them to send
|
It is an interesting idea. Unless the BBC is assured their readers care about 100k USD tournaments of SC2 they will not publish anything about SC2. Do enough of their subscribers care? I do not know. The burden of proof is on the community.
|
Over 10,000 viewsers is a big deal...
|
Norwegian national broadcasting has actual done a bit of esports stuff, but not on any regular basis.
|
Yes but unlike those shitty competitions (cept poker of course) SC2 is a fascinating new phenomenon, and with the prize pool and momentum going its way, it's more interesting than those old things. And I hope you know, that even if those things do have more viewers, that's partially BECAUSE NETWORKS REPORT ON THEM.
|
in general. it would be sweet for TV station to show stuff about starcraft and E-sport
i heard rumours about Eurosport concidering it for IEM, but it didn't happen
but regardless, it would be awesome
|
United Kingdom12041 Posts
Sadly, it'd never work. Even though the GSL is hosted at 10AM our time, I just don't see the BBC broadcasting it.
|
ESPN has a 15 minute show/week here =(
|
On October 02 2010 20:58 yomi wrote:
thousands of viewers is honestly nothing. lumberjack, eating, spelling, poker, and strongman competitions absolutely dwarf SC2 viewership numbers.
Then why the heck do people talk about a football game? Ten of thousands is a lot.
|
As long as I can watch tournaments over TL.net, I´m happy enough!
Although more money for the players would be a good thing. THX to GSL so far.
|
|
|
imo, ask them to report it yourself, maybe just start on the website, advertise it all over to get hits, then it MIGHT go mainstream,
gather your stuff together to proove to thwm its worth it, get pictures and statistics and all kinds of shit that makes the guys your pitching to, want to have it on their webspace
(could even get you a job outta it haha)
|
The BBC doesn't advertise. It only plugs. 
|
In the UK football, rudgy and tennis(if the 1 player we ever has is doing well) is the only things that get reported on usually.
|
I'm no expert on these things, but could they be getting paid by Second Life and other things for the coverage? It would make a lot of sense, considering how un intuitive and garbage second life is compared to something action packed and thought (strategy) provoking like SC2.
One last thought: You could submit an article to them covering it yourself! That way, all they would have to do is post it after some editing. 
|
Totally agreed. We must bring SC2 to the world scene.
|
Video games are still not mainstream culture even though it's a bigger industry then Hollywood. That should tell you plenty. You'll not see SC2 on TV until mainstream culture accepts it. Now why Twitter could do this while starcraft hasn't quite done it? I have no fucking idea.
|
The problem is, the mainstream looks at those above mentioned sports events and sees some people with above average skills in otherwise common areas (everyone can lift some weight or chop wood but not as good as those competitors). However when mainstream looks at a starcraft match, sees an overly complicated cartoon with too many fast moving objects that make no sense. This is even true for FPS games.
|
I do agree with the OP, it's not so much about how SC2 compares to other already well established sports but the tendency of news outlets to constantly spout misinformation regarding what's popular. This trend has been going on for years, gimmicky games and websites are constantly reported on as if they were actually relevant, yet those who are relatively more influential keep getting overlooked time and time again.
But then again, mainstream journalism is trash so this is nothing short of expected.
|
|
|
|
|
|
EPT
