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http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/tech/2011/12/09/intv-skorea-world-cyber-games-sutter.cnn
CNN attempts to do a story on WCG and Starcraft. I'm not sure they did it in a good way at all. The "gameplay" videos are actually from the campaign, and the guy talking sounds kind of dumb. It seems clear they didn't do any sort of research whatsoever. They obviously have no clue whats going on.
I'm all for e-sports growing and gaining more and more public attention, but this half-ass journalism/reporting imo is more detrimental than helpful. What do you guys think?
EDIT: So maybe "detrimental" isn't a good choice of words. The thing that I'm a little upset about is the lack of journalism involved. This story could have been so much better and could have reached a lot more people if a little more effort was put into it.
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How is it in any way detrimental? I think the phrase you are looking for is "less effective".
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Bad publicity comes with any publicity, although to most people who don't know that the campaign isn't the main part of SC, it isn't bad at all.
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To us starcraft-educated people this looks a little demeaning.
To the general public who are watching cnn, there's absolutely nothing wrong with this.
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The video looks fine to me. I just don't like how he inflects his sentences at the end to make them sound like questions.
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Any publicity is good publicity...and comes with bad publicity.
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Seems like a perfectly fine story to me. Talks about eSports in general and highlights StarCraft specifically, because it's "one of the biggest games in the world", how is that bad? Yeah they show footage from the Campaign but that's not very relevant. Good publicity I'd say.
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United States1105 Posts
After watching the video it didn't seem to be to bad, they talked about the event focused in Starcraft when talking about the games. He didn't really talk to much about players or anything just a brief over view of the game and what we enjoy about it. the one issue i took with the video is the spent 60% of it talking about how gaming is dangerous and what the South Korean government is doing to make it safe. I feel that's a normal media thing though focus on the few extreme cases but still i wish it was more about the event and the game then anything else.
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It's not bad, but I wish they waited until the finals day so they could get shots of the hyped up crowds and stuff.
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On December 10 2011 04:54 Phaint wrote:
How is it in any way detrimental? I think the phrase you are looking for is "less effective".
I wouldn't necessarily call it detrimental. But they could have done a much better job also the amount of the time they devote to talk about gaming addiction and the negative side of things is very biased compared to other sports. If you think about the negative aspects of professional basketball or soccer those are way bigger than those of esports but very rarely do you hear someone talking about those.
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The more exposure the better imo
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On December 10 2011 05:03 hmsrenown wrote:
Any publicity is good publicity...and comes with bad publicity.
This is dumb. Bad publicity doesn't necessarily have to have a bad impact but it also doesn't really help esports to have bad publicity.
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All publicity is good publicity, even bad publicity
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Caldeum1977 Posts
Could it have been better? absolutely. Was it bad for e-sports? no.
It would have been cool to show some 1v1 battles or the cheering crowd but at the same time at least it's getting out there.
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I think the take-home of this story to most lay-persons will be the deaths of Koreans from gaming exhaustion as well as the government laws restricting underage gaming at night.
It was favorable that they depicted StarCraft as "chess"-like, but again, that's overshadowed
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It's good exposure. Almost no mainstream news articles have real expert knowledge. The fact there is even an article is a good thing for esports.
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On December 10 2011 05:00 BigBadBeaver wrote:
To us starcraft-educated people this looks a little demeaning.
To the general public who are watching cnn, there's absolutely nothing wrong with this.
This.
We just happen to stumble about such things because we are part of the subculture that is being talked about. Reports on other subjects mayprobably be made in the same way, we watch them everyday and we just don't realize because we know too little about those subjects.
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What do you expect from CNN?
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Gaming addiction has killed what, 4 people in the world in the last 5 years?
Football causes 9 American deaths per year on average.
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On December 10 2011 05:03 hmsrenown wrote:
Any publicity is good publicity...and comes with bad publicity.
True, the beg of the video was alright, the content of SC2 was terrible, It would of been better if they showed gamers actually playing the game, instead of this singleplayer crap T_T
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