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Jehct
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
New Zealand9115 Posts
September 20 2011 13:55 GMT
#61
"We don't have anything to say yet but we're sure we didn't break French law so don't hate us guys! Life is complicated and we're busy. Please take our word and ignore the Complexity statement which had total transparency (from a group who can't afford to lie). We'll talk to Complexity now that you're all mad!"

Why would you post this? Either tell the community something which sheds light on the situation or leave a one-liner in the existing thread (Millenium: "We are engaging in talks with Complexity. We don't want eSports to be tarnished by misunderstandings."). All this post can possibly do is make people mad - it's not even an announcement of an announcement; it's an announcement that nothing will be announced.

No good PR should come of this.
"You seem to think about this game a lot"
Roggay
Profile Joined April 2010
Switzerland6320 Posts
September 20 2011 13:56 GMT
#62
On September 20 2011 22:54 KeksX wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 20 2011 22:52 Roggay wrote:
On September 20 2011 22:46 KeksX wrote:
On September 20 2011 22:44 Roggay wrote:
On September 20 2011 22:42 Lixo wrote:
More and more hate.
You guys don't have anything better to do than hate on a topic you basically don't know anything about ?

It is exactly because we don't know enough about this topic that we are not pleased with statements like that...

Or maybe you just want to create more drama.

Guys, they said that they are talking to complexity.
What do you want? A public skype conference?

Why releasing a statement if you don't want people to comment it?...
I really don't understand you.

Their statement is that they are trying to solve the issue.

What else do you want? That is my question.

Ofc they are trying to solve the issue, this is a nobrainer.
What we want? Useful information?
ch33psh33p
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
7650 Posts
September 20 2011 13:57 GMT
#63
"Shit we fucked up. Lets put out a statement that says absolutely nothing"

Classy as always.
secret - never again
LeLfe
Profile Joined February 2011
France3160 Posts
September 20 2011 13:57 GMT
#64
On September 20 2011 22:55 kmh wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 20 2011 22:53 Sandermatt wrote:
He did sign a contract with col, but Millenium told stephano that there are loopholes in it according to french law and he should therefore ignore it.


Interesting. Can you source this statement?


that's what they said in French on Millenium TV when they "explained" the situation yesterday 7.30pm CET
Writer for Red bull (Fr) and Iron Squid (En/Fr) @ClemLeLfe on twitter
banzaiib
Profile Joined August 2010
United States53 Posts
September 20 2011 13:58 GMT
#65
Why do people care about this? Someone please explain to me how Col was harmed by Stephano. In my opinion, the only thing harmed by all this is Stephano's credibility. <shrug>
Roggay
Profile Joined April 2010
Switzerland6320 Posts
September 20 2011 14:01 GMT
#66
On September 20 2011 22:58 banzaiib wrote:
Why do people care about this? Someone please explain to me how Col was harmed by Stephano. In my opinion, the only thing harmed by all this is Stephano's credibility. <shrug>

No, the real deal here is the credibility of the contracts in general in the scene.
If a player can sign a contract and then do whatever he wants anyway, it is not a good sign, hence why this matter is important.
Atleast now, players will think twice before doing something like that, really bad PR for them.
Jehct
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
New Zealand9115 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-09-20 14:02:48
September 20 2011 14:02 GMT
#67
On September 20 2011 22:58 banzaiib wrote:
Why do people care about this? Someone please explain to me how Col was harmed by Stephano. In my opinion, the only thing harmed by all this is Stephano's credibility. <shrug>

If the situation was unexplained it would look like CoL had tried to poach Millenium's player. When Millenium found out they got him back (after CoL's announcement they had acquired Stephano).

Essentially, if no one said anything CoL would look bad. After Complexities statement, Millenium looks awful. People care because reputation is incredibly important to teams and players (as well as sponsors, to some extent). Law is also a big deal for international businesses (and esports in general).
"You seem to think about this game a lot"
rontol
Profile Joined June 2011
71 Posts
September 20 2011 14:03 GMT
#68
Is this a statement? @@

lol... ok at least we got something...

sorry but Millenium could express their situation better...

from what written there, they're in a middle of a "talk" to say sorry to coL?

Life is a (fateful) choice
Nabutso
Profile Joined April 2011
351 Posts
September 20 2011 14:06 GMT
#69
The problem here really is that it may not be completely worth it for Col to spend the money on lawyers to beat Mil in a court game over this.

It's really just up to Col whether or not they want to make a point and lose money, but create a good precedence that players should be honor their contracts, or take no legal action.

Atleast Mil and Stephano will have all the negative PR in the world over this
hephaestos
Profile Joined September 2010
France54 Posts
September 20 2011 14:07 GMT
#70
On September 20 2011 22:29 Denizen[9] wrote:
millenium made stephano to sign a permanent contract, thats probably the worst thing stefano could do

There is no such thing as a "permanent contract", at least in France. There are countless ways to (legally) get rid of an employee, or to leave your employer, especially when on undetermined duration contract (the kind signed by Stephano).
Quintum_
Profile Joined May 2011
United States669 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-09-20 14:09:44
September 20 2011 14:08 GMT
#71
On September 20 2011 22:53 Sandermatt wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 20 2011 22:51 JustPassingBy wrote:
On September 20 2011 22:18 Millenium wrote:
We now want to enter a discussion phase with coL to try and find a solution consistent with the professionalism and respectful practices in the growing scene of eSport that both structures wish to promote and support. If anything, this unfortunate series of event has pointed out the impending necessity to ease worldwide communication between structures, and players, to avoid this kind of situation from ever occurring again.
[...]
Source : Official news



I don't think the lack of communication is to blame. The question remains whether Stephano signed a contract with complexity right before signing a contract with you guys. If he did, then he is 100% to blame for signing another contract with you guys afterwards (assuming you didn't know about that), if he didn't then complexity is to blame for telling lies. Somehow this seems like an incredibly clear situation to me.


He did sign a contract with col, but Millenium told stephano that there are loopholes in it according to french law and he should therefore ignore it.


Great attitude for millenium to grow e-sports, ignore that countries laws because we dont like them >.>. If an American player signed a french contract i would expect him to honor that contract and be punished under french law if he broke it. I was waiting for a statement by millennium to clear this up as maybe it was not as bad as it sounded but apparently it, them pouching coL's player, worse even them stealing a player from coL.
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Count9
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
China10928 Posts
September 20 2011 14:08 GMT
#72
After a long discussion, Stephano understood his mistake and decided to stay with Millenium for the next 12 months

On your own website you have this posted in another news article. Unless it's a mistranslation or I'm misinterpreting that statement, you obviously did not speak to coL in that long discussion where he "realized his mistake" and now you say there needs to be more communication between teams and you want to resolve this with the other team in the best way possible after the fact? That's just a tad bit disingenuous.
Attiicus
Profile Joined November 2010
United States84 Posts
September 20 2011 14:08 GMT
#73
So.... All I got out of that wall of text was "nut-uH, he's ours. But please calm down and don't make a big deal of this"

Want we want is an idea of what happened, not excuses.
KingVietKong
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States170 Posts
September 20 2011 14:13 GMT
#74
I'd rather not get a statement at all than get bullshit, I get enough of that in regular news as it is. Give us details, give us facts, refute or deny your antagonizes with some sort of solid evidence and present your case, or don't give us anything at all. I don't need to know how confident you are, or that you're in "discussions" (which is a synonym of 'ether' coincidentally), and I sure as shit don't need to be lectured on "internet gossip," though the 'gossip' in this case is Complexity's entire detailed statement.

You are not fucking helping yourself Millenium. If you don't give a shit about what we think (as it would seem from this statement) then it would be best to hang up your keyboards.
cactusjack914
Profile Joined March 2011
United States183 Posts
September 20 2011 14:14 GMT
#75
we would like you to understand that Internet gossip is not always ground truth, and that things are often more complicated than they might seem to be



Ohhh okay. I guess there was just a big misunderstanding. So were your allegations against coL just part of that misunderstood gossip? oohh i see now.
"starcraft isn't a hobby, its a lifestyle."
kudjuk
Profile Joined February 2011
15 Posts
September 20 2011 14:15 GMT
#76
I might be wrong but Millenium never posted to reply to trolls and such things, so dont expect more then that statement.
From an american PoV you might argue that this is how its done and that you want to know all the details, but from a french PoV, they do things behind closed doors and not publicly.
However I am pretty choked at CoL's PR statement pointing finger and saying they have proof when they actually didnt show any and might not have any. I mean Millenium is saying there was no contact with CoL and CoL is saying we were bidding...
If you ask for facts from Millenium why not ask for proof from CoL? Be reasonable this is PR and flaming will not get you answers, it will just prove to Millenium that they are right to keep in formations from the public.

Millenium let Huk and ToD go for other gaming house, was there any problem before? the answer is simply NO. So if they claim there was a problem with CoL, I would give them the benefit of the doubt until things are resolved.
JustPassingBy
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
10776 Posts
September 20 2011 14:15 GMT
#77
facts of this whole incident:

- Stephano signed with complexity
- Stephano signes with Millenium afterwards
- one of Milleniums staff states on stream that complexity's contract is invalid in french law
(which might very well be true)
- Millenium leaking statement that hints at that they think they are in the right

I don't really care who is right or wrong legally, but I sure know who lost a lot of credibility and respect from me...
cactusjack914
Profile Joined March 2011
United States183 Posts
September 20 2011 14:17 GMT
#78
but from a french PoV, they do things behind closed doors and not publicly.
the first thing they responded with was that coL "disoriented" stephano into signing the contract. sounds like closed doors to me.
"starcraft isn't a hobby, its a lifestyle."
Termit
Profile Joined December 2010
Sweden3466 Posts
September 20 2011 14:17 GMT
#79
Do you even know what a statement is?
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Ylrahc
Profile Joined September 2011
France496 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-09-20 14:24:40
September 20 2011 14:19 GMT
#80
If you want a chronology of what happened, see http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=267130&currentpage=136#2701
I am indeed a bit biased towards M, but I tried to be as neutral as possible.

There have been two critics to this post, first being that M & coL spoke beforehand, see my answer here : http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=267130&currentpage=140#2790

Second is coL did nothing wrong by going directly to Stephano and not speaking to M, my answer here :
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=267130&currentpage=140#2798

I agree the statement feels a bit empty, however it does say there was an oral agreement between M and Stephano prior to the coL & Stephano contract, and one should not dismiss this fact easily.

As far as I am concerned, biggest mistake was made by Stephano, not M who is only trying to protect its interests as any company would do.
I do not support Stephano actions, but I (mostly, the trashtalk about the coL contract and the wrongly worded first statement could have been avoided) support M ones. If that matters, I don't think coL did anything legally wrong either, though speaking to Millenium the weeks before the signup would have avoided all this mess.
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