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Letall
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ROOTheognis
United States4482 Posts
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TheRPGAddict
United States1403 Posts
On February 23 2011 02:28 Sueco wrote: I agree with this post completely. This is kinda how I feel about this situation, not that I enjoy or not enjoy the casting of HD or Husky or others but this principle should be the biggest considered for eSports to grow. I've got no idea but I hardly think He'd pass up on fully paid job doing what he already does on youtube all week. Wrong. Years of experience mean jack. The game is not as complicated as you'd like to think it is. You want to make the e-sport massive and profitable, not a niche, overcomplicated thing for people who take it a little bit too seriously. Essentially, you want to reach out to the average guy, not pander to your trekkies. You pick the fun guy that makes the game fun to watch, not the brainiac that crunches numbers and looks at you like he's reading the global economy forecast even though he's just casting a computer game. Don't you guys know anything about marketing? | ||
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StutteR
United States1903 Posts
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RevRich
United States218 Posts
On February 23 2011 02:18 JimSocks wrote: Maybe husky sent a bad audition vod. He makes six figures doing his Youtube "casts" so maybe he doesn't want to go to Korea? Please post a source that he even applied. Oh, and just because he somehow has 400k subs doesn't mean he is anymore qualified to cast games then moletrap. I'm still rather confused what the draw to Husky is, I watched about 5 of his casts and unsub'd. | ||
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Zorkmid
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On February 23 2011 02:47 TheRPGAddict wrote: I agree with this post completely. This is kinda how I feel about this situation, not that I enjoy or not enjoy the casting of HD or Husky or others but this principle should be the biggest considered for eSports to grow. The "grow eSports huge and make even non-gamers love it" is one theory. The other one is that eSports is and will in all likelyhood ALWAYS be a niche market, and content should be aimed at gamers. eSports cannot expect to CREATE fans by stealing from baseball and football markets.....the average joe isn't interested in video games as a spectator sport. HD and Huskies subscribers? You think they're not gamers? It should be capitalizing on what is a growing niche market.....GAMERS! | ||
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Godstorm
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Ponyo
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starfries
Canada3508 Posts
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isleyofthenorth
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lakrismamma
Sweden543 Posts
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Eishi_Ki
Korea (South)1667 Posts
On February 23 2011 02:47 TheRPGAddict wrote: I agree with this post completely. This is kinda how I feel about this situation, not that I enjoy or not enjoy the casting of HD or Husky or others but this principle should be the biggest considered for eSports to grow. Because moletrap is that guy? If anything I'd consider moletrap NOT to be that guy which is why I'm so excited about him going to SKorea. His experience can only help in telling the stories of the players and he is CERTAINLY deserving. He is one of the three reasons I was able to initially get into BW so I owe him alot for that alone, never mind the countless hours of entertainment on his channel. Anyone else know his first name? Reckon it'll be quite funny when that one comes out, not that it's particularly silly or anything just.... uncommon. | ||
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RevRich
United States218 Posts
Wrong. Years of experience mean jack. The game is not as complicated as you'd like to think it is. You want to make the e-sport massive and profitable, not a niche, overcomplicated thing for people who take it a little bit too seriously. Essentially, you want to reach out to the average guy, not pander to your trekkies. You pick the fun guy that makes the game fun to watch, not the brainiac that crunches numbers and looks at you like he's reading the global economy forecast even though he's just casting a computer game. Don't you guys know anything about marketing? Wrong. You want the best combination of the two. Either it be two separate people (i.e. tasteless the crowd pleaser, artosis the analyst) or a person who is a good combination of the two. If you throw in a bunch of Husky-ish casters you'll alienate the more serious crowd. I know you love your husky and will die to defend his honor, but he simple doesn't do it for the entire sc2 audience. That being said, Day9's deep thought out analysis doesn't do it for the entire audience either. Life's all about balance, or so I've been told. | ||
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ILIVEFORAIUR
United States173 Posts
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chenchen
United States1136 Posts
Moletrap is a great caster who knows what he's talking about, has a clear voice, and more e-sports street cred. | ||
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TheTenthDoc
United States9561 Posts
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HaruHaru
United States988 Posts
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Pangolin
United States1035 Posts
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-miDnight-
Taiwan455 Posts
So for me, fun cast is what I want to see in Code A match. Or they can find another ex-BW pro to cast. I know a lot of people don't like HD-Husky. But when they co-cast in MLG, that is the most professional cast that can compare to NFL or other popular sport cast. It will be fun if they can have HDH to cast the code A. But I know it's impossible cause there are too much heat from TL for those 2 and there is "rumor" that they are despite each other. Oh, and they already have decent living doing cast on youtube. | ||
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TheTenthDoc
United States9561 Posts
On February 23 2011 03:29 miDnight_SC wrote: to be fair, other than artosis. I anyone else I will just not listen to the cast. When you already have some knowledge. There is no point to hear the same thing you already knew. So for me, fun cast is what I want to see in Code A match. Or they can find another ex-BW pro to cast. I know a lot of people don't like HD-Husky. But when they co-cast in MLG, that is the most professional cast that can compare to NFL or other popular sport cast. It will be fun if they can have HDH to cast the code A. But I know it's impossible cause there are too much heat from TL for those 2 and there is "rumor" that they are despite each other. Oh, and they already have decent living doing cast on youtube. I think Day9 and DjWheat are the most professional MLG casters, unless I'm missing something huge. I mean, c'mon, would HDH have been able to handle the shitstorm that was the MLG finals? I don't think so. | ||
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