EPTWCG and Starcraft on CNN - Page 2
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PhiliBiRD
United States2643 Posts
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Noam
Israel2209 Posts
Listen to a nerdy tech reporter that can't stop saying "you know" in every sentence for 50 seconds, suddenly that traditional british news caster from cnn shouts "Tell us more about these starcraft games." Felt some chills when that happened. This is definitely good exposure. | ||
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1st_Panzer_Div.
United States621 Posts
On December 10 2011 05:04 Baum wrote: 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. Have you ever watched a CNN coverage on another sport? It's usually some negative aspect about greed, or drugs, or gambling scandals. CNN isn't a sport channel, they don't really care about advancing sports. This is about as positive an outlook on any sport as I've seen CNN do. If you want something well written and awesome, check out the article in the economist instead. That said, publicity on a major tv station is awesome! | ||
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StimedSheep
United States51 Posts
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LXR
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NietzscheanKant
Finland92 Posts
On December 10 2011 05:08 Primadog wrote: All publicity is good publicity, even bad publicity One of the more idiotic maxims of our time. The video itself was... fine-ish qualitywise, with mostly positive/neutral description of the event, eSports scene and Starcraft, however, the final third or so of the report being dedicated to bringing up the "dangers" of gaming (gotta keep 'em old white people scared!) was severely disappointing. | ||
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carloselcoco
United States2302 Posts
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hmsrenown
Canada1263 Posts
On December 10 2011 05:08 Baum wrote: 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. The point is it doesn't matter how it is presented. Haters are gonna hate. And there's a lot of haters out there watching CNN. | ||
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d00p
711 Posts
Maybe I shouldn't say disapointing since this is exactly what you'd expect. | ||
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gozima
Canada602 Posts
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Arcane86
United States68 Posts
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OWNAJason
United States24 Posts
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cmen15
United States1519 Posts
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Dakure
United States513 Posts
On December 10 2011 04:53 slicknav wrote: 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? While CNN focused too much on the gaming addiction aspect, in my opinion, the actual coverage of WCG was pretty good. The guy described essentially what it was: an olympic of gaming. He described how serious it is in terms of how much practice goes into these games and some of the monetary incentives for competing at such high levels. When asked to talk about StarCraft, he gave a description about the game that is fairly accessible to everyone, and even brought in the factor of APM--which shows the difficulty of the game when you need '400 apm' to compete at high levels. Sure, the gameplay videos weren't the most exciting, but to someone who does not know what is going on in the game, it clearly depicted unit variation, combat, and defensive and offensive positions. Can you please explain how it's "clear they didn't do any sort of research" and why you think the guy talking sounds dumb? | ||
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publicenemies
458 Posts
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Souljah
United States423 Posts
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carloselcoco
United States2302 Posts
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zhurai
United States5660 Posts
On December 10 2011 06:03 carloselcoco wrote: I hate how they actually made emphasis on the part where they say that people have died because of this game (literally) -.- ... people did? | ||
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turdburgler
England6749 Posts
On December 10 2011 05:09 Valiver wrote: 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. the fact you can easily say it could of been done better when talking about a multinational news corporation says a lot imo. the fact they put so little effort in shows that they care less about this than they do the other slow news day stories they normally run. i agree it didnt hurt, but on a personal level its a little belittling On December 10 2011 06:01 Souljah wrote: I'm surprised to see some of the negative reactions here from the addictive side of gaming reported. Whether we want to admit it or not, gaming can become an addiction when it becomes detrimental to a persons every day life. Gamers getting divorced, dropping out, losing their jobs because of their gaming habits are great examples of this. It's fun and all, but it should be played in moderation IMO. gaming is not addictive, its compulsive, theres a difference. | ||
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Snorkle
United States1648 Posts
Also, pretty sure the people who have died have always been associted with MMO's not with RTS games. My grandma knows I play starcraft, and I would sure hope she doesn't see this news piece. | ||
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