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Charlie.Sheen
662 Posts
On April 11 2013 05:46 rename wrote: 20 million koreans use GomPlayer to watch PPV/ad-supported porn, im sure the company as whole is not very dependent on GSL/Blizzard CEO said it himself, he can't control the direction of the company anymore. | ||
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Rccodes
11 Posts
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LighT.
Canada4501 Posts
On April 11 2013 05:36 Charlie.Sheen wrote: Quote myself from the announcement thread. Also GreTech is a puppy company now, Blizzard makes all decisions for them. No wonder its CEO resigned several weeks ago. OGN being happy is a good for SC2 growth. ever since MBC decided to takeaway their gaming channel OGN is the only remaining cable-access gaming channel in Korea from what I know... So when kids tune into to watch progaming, they're going to tune into OGNand having sc2 4 days a week is a good thing. I think SpoTV is a specialty channel in Korea | ||
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LighT.
Canada4501 Posts
On April 11 2013 05:46 hulskiey wrote: wait wait.. If offline part of WCS:NA will be all koreans when will people chant USA USA USA? When polt wins? | ||
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zanga
659 Posts
On April 11 2013 05:42 tylerf wrote: The biggest problem with this for me (in NA) is not that I want to see foreigners win especially bad, but this just isn't interesting. A foreigner code S would be interesting, even if the level of play isn't the highest. Now it's basically just become a lesser KR GSL. The level of play isn't the best AND it doesn't have anything special about it. To touch on some of what tylerf wrote: I couldnt care less where players are from.... its just that the majority of koreans have zero personality and are taught to be so. Never say what you really think, never stick out and repeat the same quotes all the time "I want to show you good and entertaining games"..... ZzzZzZzzzzZz. I know competition is primarily about winning and results - but why do your best to make it as boring as possible? It makes people lose interest in everything... It's just not entertaining - the one prime example who goes against the current is MC, The Boss Toss.... He does "his job" so perfectly, has earned the most and perhaps the most loved SC2 player of all? (even if MVP is The Best so far - imo!). Respect MC!  Sorry, perhaps a bit off topic :D | ||
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Schelim
Austria11528 Posts
On April 11 2013 05:51 zanga wrote: To touch on some of what tylerf wrote: I couldnt care less where players are from.... its just that the majority of koreans have zero personality and are taught to be so. Never say what you really think, never stick out and repeat the same quotes all the time "I want to show you good and entertaining games"..... ZzzZzZzzzzZz. I know competition is primarily about winning and results - but why do your best to make it as boring as possible? It makes people lose interest in everything... It's just not entertaining - the one prime example who goes against the current is MC, The Boss Toss.... He does "his job" so perfectly, has earned the most and perhaps the most loved SC2 player of all? (even if MVP is The Best so far - imo!). Respect MC! Sorry, perhaps a bit off topic :D i honestly believe that if there were tournaments without Koreans, people would realize that most foreigners aren't much different. we just don't see it because foreigners don't win tournaments. hell, they don't even win matches in tournaments anybody cares about. | ||
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forsooth
United States3648 Posts
On April 11 2013 05:43 blackone wrote: It's still more than before. And I think what's lacking the most in NA is lower level tournaments for newer players to show themselves. I don't think a tournament designed to be a competition of the best of the best should have development of inferior scenes as it's main goal. The trouble with that though is that the vast majority of foreign teams don't and can't pay their players a reasonable enough wage to permit them to focus exclusively on gaming, and if every tournament out there with a big prize pool has a dozen Koreans finishing at the top, all they can do is fight over scraps. This was a chance for Blizzard to give NA players some pretty good money to play for over the course of the year and give our guys some actual incentive to pursue progaming as a career, but instead it's going to be like every other international tournament now. | ||
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zanga
659 Posts
On April 11 2013 05:54 Schelim wrote: i honestly believe that if there were tournaments without Koreans, people would realize that most foreigners aren't much different. we just don't see it because foreigners don't win tournaments. hell, they don't even win matches in tournaments anybody cares about. Yeah you may be right.. I dont know... | ||
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Crownlol
United States3726 Posts
 ...curse you Hearthstone!!!! | ||
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Plansix
United States60190 Posts
On April 11 2013 05:59 Crownlol wrote: Man, Blizzard is 2 for 2 with really disappointing me on big announcements ...curse you Hearthstone!!!! I was kinda looking forward to that. I like card games and deck building.... | ||
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BearStorm
United States795 Posts
On April 10 2013 18:11 KillAudio wrote: Wow, majority of them are Kespa players. Are there some Kespa player I don't know about? It doesn't look that way at all. | ||
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Fjodorov
5007 Posts
On April 11 2013 05:31 ShatterZer0 wrote: We know Koreans are the best... Koreans are angry that even though they're the best, they can't get shown because they have the same number of spots as NA/EU... Why not just Split Korea into 2-3 divisions? Korea West/Central/East and then have 15-16 Korean invites, 8 EU, and 8 NA? Then 4/8 groups of 8/4 person round robin. -> ro16 I know it costs more... but just making Koreans fly around the world and stomp the shit out of all the foreigners doesn't seem to be a very forward thinking approach. The Koreans deserve more seats according to their "skill density". It's not fair to create a Korean bloodbath, and it's not fair to have Foreign scenes have a much lower chance to sprout by crowding them with Code S caliber players. I agree with you. I wish blizzard hadnt rushed this and kept us in the dark. I mean everything they release gamewise has lots of flaws and gets improved by community and pro feedback. Why would such a big change to the structure of esports be any different. | ||
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m0ck
4194 Posts
On April 11 2013 05:46 rename wrote: 20 million koreans use GomPlayer to watch PPV/ad-supported porn, im sure the company as whole is not very dependent on GSL/Blizzard edit: that data is from 2007 tho, so no idea how the non-esports section is doing these days Funny if true, but 2007-2013 is a really long time in the internet world. | ||
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DifuntO
Greece2376 Posts
So i guess he will play to get a spot in the EU Challenger League..? | ||
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Specialist
United States803 Posts
1. He can be an American citizen, better life, better opportunities 2. Dodge army | ||
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Godwrath
Spain10126 Posts
On April 11 2013 06:22 SpecialistSc wrote: Polt should marry Korean American and become American in that way: 1. He can be an American citizen, better life, better opportunities 2. Dodge army Don't give Fionn ideas... | ||
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jdp216
United States9 Posts
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Mlhockey16
United States8 Posts
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Santi
Colombia466 Posts
On April 11 2013 06:22 SpecialistSc wrote: Polt should marry Korean American and become American in that way: 1. He can be an American citizen, better life, better opportunities 2. Dodge army Better opportunities/life in the USA? lol | ||
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