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German SC2 article of GOM WC in Spiegel - Page 2

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Iamyournoob
Profile Joined August 2010
Germany595 Posts
April 05 2011 09:33 GMT
#21
A pretty good article and very positive about esports and StarCraft 2 in particular. PR like this is badly needed especially in a country like Germany, where a lot of (mostly older and conservative) people believe that computer games turn you into rampaging psychopaths.

The "Spiegel" is Germany's most important weekly magazine (iirc) and stands for a high standard of journalism, like The Guardian or the New York Times do.
nepeta
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
1872 Posts
April 05 2011 10:11 GMT
#22
Funny there are two versions up now, guess people don't read as much as they write :p

TN: Changed ROK into Korea in one of the subheadings, can't touch the op, please change it? It looks amateurish :p
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CCow
Profile Joined August 2010
Germany335 Posts
April 05 2011 10:44 GMT
#23
Well, one of the versions is done by a machine. So yours looks way better, just feels right. :p
Or did you mean that your version in the OP differs from your current one, then nvm. (:
Copymizer
Profile Joined November 2010
Denmark2107 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-04-05 10:53:56
April 05 2011 10:53 GMT
#24
Germany loves gaming Probably the most gaming centered country in europe next to sweden hehe. The biggest audience in europe.
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kazansky
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
Germany931 Posts
April 05 2011 11:17 GMT
#25
On April 05 2011 19:53 Copymizer wrote:
Germany loves gaming Probably the most gaming centered country in europe next to sweden hehe. The biggest audience in europe.


The majority in Germany still dislikes the topic gaming a lot. At the moment it has silenced down a bit, but usually right-wing politicians call out computer games on a regular basis as evil (and have a broad listening crowd), regardless of our good esports infrastructure and decent PR efforts on behalf of ESL.

But articles like this have grown in numbers constantly, and slowly pushing away the standard populist coverage besides of BILD (the biggest sold print media) and ZDF (the more conservative of the two public TV stations in Germany)
"Mathematicians don't understand mathematics, they get used to it." - Prof. Kredler || "That was more one-sided that a mobius strip." - Tasteless
Skez
Profile Joined February 2011
United States46 Posts
April 05 2011 11:43 GMT
#26
Wow, Der Spiegel is such a major publication. It's great that Starcraft is getting such attention, and a sign that people are recognizing the popularity of gaming among young people. Although it's true that many conservatives in Germany dismiss the credibility of such things imo, this article is proof that times are changing (I hope!)

Fantasic translation btw, I'm really impressed.
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Special Endrey
Profile Joined June 2010
Germany1929 Posts
April 05 2011 11:49 GMT
#27
very wellw ritten article i must see im surprised
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kapeka
Profile Joined April 2010
Germany41 Posts
April 05 2011 14:25 GMT
#28
Well, SC will be big when its gonna get its own section in the Sportschau ;-)
Copymizer
Profile Joined November 2010
Denmark2107 Posts
April 05 2011 18:13 GMT
#29
On April 05 2011 23:25 kapeka wrote:
Well, SC will be big when its gonna get its own section in the Sportschau ;-)

haha cheers man :D Sportschau is amazing, i watch it even tho i'm from Denmark cus you really have the best football magazin in europe i think
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.syL
Profile Joined August 2010
Germany85 Posts
April 05 2011 18:20 GMT
#30
Just for a little perspective, the online edition of DER SPIEGEL is huge as far as traffic and impact goes, it's easily the most popular news site in Germany. As someone mentioned before, they've had several articles about SC2 in the last couple of months.
imperator-xy
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
Germany1377 Posts
April 05 2011 18:46 GMT
#31
On April 05 2011 20:17 kazansky wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 05 2011 19:53 Copymizer wrote:
Germany loves gaming Probably the most gaming centered country in europe next to sweden hehe. The biggest audience in europe.


The majority in Germany still dislikes the topic gaming a lot. At the moment it has silenced down a bit, but usually right-wing politicians call out computer games on a regular basis as evil (and have a broad listening crowd), regardless of our good esports infrastructure and decent PR efforts on behalf of ESL.


sadly politicians of every party use to say stupid things about video games. that will change as more and more politicians will be from our generation though.

by the way, do we even have right-wing politicians that are respected in the public?
FliedLice
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Germany7494 Posts
April 05 2011 18:55 GMT
#32
OK article I'd say, not the best, but at least they don't bash gaming in it.
Kevmeister @ Dota2
coma
Profile Joined March 2010
Germany86 Posts
April 05 2011 18:56 GMT
#33
According to this article the world beat korea! yay!

Nice to see some attention, although articles like this have always popped up from time to time... hopefully the frequency will increase a bit.
Lowell
Profile Joined October 2010
Germany346 Posts
April 05 2011 19:21 GMT
#34
On April 06 2011 03:46 imperator-xy wrote:
by the way, do we even have right-wing politicians that are respected in the public?


He doesnt talk about the NPD, he talks bout CDU/CSU & FDP (They are conservative, or right wing in other words) ;P So yes, yes there are.
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