EPTThings could get really bad in one way or another if the Korean scene gets gutted down the middle.
Mike Morhaime "SC2 Proleague will open this year" - Page 22
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Treetop
United States140 Posts
Things could get really bad in one way or another if the Korean scene gets gutted down the middle. | ||
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jpak
United States5045 Posts
On March 17 2012 22:32 johnny123 wrote: i can tell you what feels artificial, Your post! One look at your posting history and you can see clearly that you are a person that hates starcraft 2 and jumps at every opportunity to bash it. I mean how can you stand here and say "Oh the scene looks artificial" . Take a look at the sponsors, Westerners feeling they are the main piece of the pie for Gom tv income is laughable. Sony Ericson, Pepsi, GSkill Ram, Hot Sixx energy drink. I mean how is this any different than samsung sponsoring pro league? be fucking real come on. If you wanna talk about artificial, talk about league of legends. They buy themselves into every tournament . Now while i would love if every develop does this, Its not a scene that started without Riot heavily investing into the product. I would bet my bottom dollar that Riot paid OGN alottttttttt of money to put LOL on t.v ( i see you praise league of legends alot on your post history) . IPL 3= LOL buys in MLG = LOL buys in KOREA = LOL buys in I dunno if you even realize, but since day 1 of starcraft 2 releasing in korea, kespa has been against it because agreements could not be made, Its only recently kespa has started to make deals. With Gomtv getting more and more audiences each time with every gsl final, Its growing slowly but steadily in korea, all for a game that isnt on korean TV as yet. With the expansion the tables will get reset a little so to say , which put the best pros on even ground for a while with some of the broodwar pros and that is when i believe the real Starcraft 2 scene will kick off in Korea, As the first expansion is released and deals are set for sc2. The future looks bright. I personally believe LOL is a bubble and it will be pulled from tv within 1 1/2 years for low ratings in korea after the novelty wears off. I do not deny that sc2 succeeded in the west. I just assert that it is on life support in KOREA. SC2 started off on the wrong foot in korea with the airplane ad debacle and the Kespa- Blizzard fight. Blizzard had a whole year to try and fix it, but were stubborn and stuck with GOMTV. Now, most koreans are pretty apathetic towards the game, and most korean exchange students I met say that the game is just not fun for them. As for LoL, I have not seen that kind of buzz and excitement over a game like that in korea since... BW in 1999. Somehow, LoL was able to capture the hearts and minds of many koreans there, and the upcoming LoL tournament is a reflexion of that. If you need some perspective on what is happening in Korea, just go read MrHoon's blog. A lot of what he said is still relevant, and should be reflectrd upon. | ||
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SeaSwift
Scotland4486 Posts
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Aunvilgod
2653 Posts
On March 17 2012 15:54 naux wrote: people think this is good news? gomtv might get owned just because this guy thinks kespa deserves to have exclusive rights to sc2 meaning no gomtv for most of you that didnt understand what the OP wrote If you need to hate please do it with good knowledge. This is ABOUT getting two SC2 Leagues. | ||
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Vindubs
United States110 Posts
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Azhrei16
United States284 Posts
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shaftofpleasure
Korea (North)1375 Posts
On March 17 2012 23:06 jpak wrote: I do not deny that sc2 succeeded in the west. I just assert that it is on life support in KOREA. SC2 started off on the wrong foot in korea with the airplane ad debacle and the Kespa- Blizzard fight. Blizzard had a whole year to try and fix it, but were stubborn and stuck with GOMTV. Now, most koreans are pretty apathetic towards the game, and most korean exchange students I met say that the game is just not fun for them. As for LoL, I have not seen that kind of buzz and excitement over a game like that in korea since... BW in 1999. Somehow, LoL was able to capture the hearts and minds of many koreans there, and the upcoming LoL tournament is a reflexion of that. If you need some perspective on what is happening in Korea, just go read MrHoon's blog. A lot of what he said is still relevant, and should be reflectrd upon. I can attest to this! From what I heard from the Koreans that studies to learn English here is that SC2 is doing poorly and they mainly play LoL/BW when they play at cafes. They are very obnoxious with their shouting. Full of emotions. Disturbing the Peace in the internet cafes wherever they play.  | ||
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a5mod
France61 Posts
Suck it LoL User was warned for this post | ||
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goiflin
Canada1218 Posts
On March 17 2012 23:10 Vindubs wrote: What does this mean for KeSPA does this mean that they will have a more direct role in policing/player rules in sc2? are foreigners who compete in Korea going to be subject to KeSPAs rules? They're not giving KeSPA exclusive rights to SC2. They're just removing GOM's exclusive rights, and negotiating a tournament license fee with KeSPA (which they never wanted to pay for brood war in the first place, but are paying for it now). So if anything, it'll just be KeSPA having policies within their tournament only. | ||
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imPermanenCe
Netherlands595 Posts
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Jongl0
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stfouri
Finland272 Posts
Its not like all the sc2 pro's switch to team based easymode game. Player skillcap is so low in LoL that it hurts my eyes, it all boils down to team tactics and champion picks who works great with who against who. Observe a game of LoL without casters and you notice what im trying to say, cause dem LoL casters just rock! Damn they are good, they are the only thing why Im watching that game at all :D. It ofcourse too gets more views, cause there is literally 5x more players playing that game than there is SC2 players. Playing a match of LoL is stress free, cause you can allways bitch how bad your team is if you are losing. You can't do that with SC2. Unranked games and the fact that you get "money" for playing their game is addictive as hell. Riot is seriosly pushing their game for the consumers trough esports. It was just few months ago when none was intrested in the game, now? Well my guess is, the hype will fade but its here to stay. Now lets just hope both GSL and Proleague would make it possible for the players to play in both tournaments, Koreans need more tournaments and thats a fact! | ||
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figq
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There's only one horrible prospect - if OGN don't intend to fix their 4:3 aspect ratio. That would mark the end of the world. edit2: hah, poster below me mentioned it too, before I edited ^^ | ||
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JiPrime
Canada688 Posts
Dat 640*480... I guess this will quicken the end of BW? | ||
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Aunvilgod
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Hesmyrr
Canada5776 Posts
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QuothTheRaven
United States5524 Posts
On March 17 2012 23:30 Aunvilgod wrote: I strongly doubt that BW and SCII can coexist. As soon as one gets a viewer advantage they will get even more viewers. SCII has the foreign scene. Goodbye BW. BW has the Korean scene, though, which is an important consideration for a Korean television station. | ||
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jayhorn
England131 Posts
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zezamer
Finland5701 Posts
On March 17 2012 23:34 QuothTheRaven wrote: BW has the Korean scene, though, which is an important consideration for a Korean television station. Then they just need to find a way to make korean scene to swap to sc2 and they get both. But yea I really doubt that, most likely bw and sc2 will co exist for some time | ||
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zeehar
Korea (South)3804 Posts
On March 17 2012 23:24 stfouri wrote: Playing a match of LoL is stress free, cause you can allways bitch how bad your team is if you are losing. do you not see the contradictory nature of your statement | ||
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