EPTGood luck in your future endeavors, can't wait to read that article.
Na`Vi.FXOpen disbands - Page 2
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Demicore
France503 Posts
Good luck in your future endeavors, can't wait to read that article. | ||
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AlternativeEgo
Sweden17309 Posts
They were obviously supplying the best hoodies in the bizz. | ||
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marcesr
Germany1383 Posts
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Ichabod
United States1659 Posts
I wonder if it was FXO.Boss' [who is no longer with FXO, iirc] labor of love the whole time and whether the incremental advertising cost was simply not competitive to other advertising methods. I wish the remaining squad the best. | ||
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MyaurA
United States50 Posts
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SoniC_eu
Denmark1008 Posts
On November 02 2013 05:45 MyaurA wrote: Could see this coming, FXO is no longer the SC2 business. Why would they be? This game offers nothing anymore. Let us chill with the naysaying. GL to you guys!  | ||
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Radicalness
United States271 Posts
 I really hope Strelok can find a team. He was my first favorite Terran. | ||
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Holdenintherye
Canada1441 Posts
Good luck to everyone | ||
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chipmonklord17
United States11944 Posts
On November 02 2013 05:45 MyaurA wrote: Could see this coming, FXO is no longer the SC2 business. Why would they be? This game offers nothing anymore. FXO had more than a SC2 team that they stopped funding (if I've read correctly they at least have a dota team as well) Its not SC2 its FXO EDIT: Unless of course I've misunderstood and FXO is still sponsoring their dota team | ||
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Targe
United Kingdom14103 Posts
best of luck | ||
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mikkmagro
Malta1513 Posts
1) I think everyone can understand that FXOpen wasn't exactly a company which would benefit that immensely from eSports. The reason why they were investing so heavily in eSports, is that some or more people in upper management were passionate about eSports, and managed to convince the rest that it will be a big thing, and that investing in it would be good. Once said person/s withdrew from FXO, and once the FXO employee in charge of the team also decided to leave, FXOpen probably found it hard to justify the expense to start again from scratch. Once the agreement between Na'Vi and FXO ran out, Na'Vi probably decided against having to fund the team by themselves. 2) The reason why Na'Vi doesn't seem to care as much about SC2 is because Na'Vi want two things: They want their teams somehow Ukraine-based, as this is part of their character, and they want their players to be world contenders. The truth is, that a team of foreign players can never be as dominant as Na'Vi wants their teams to be - and I can't see Na'Vi picking up Korean players, because Na'Vi has always been about being Ukraine/CIS based. Both their Counter-Strike, and Dota 2 teams are amongst the best in the world, and they need to keep up their reputation. Apart from their SC2 team, another one of their teams didn't reach these objectives. Their League of Legends team, and it was dropped within a matter of months. 3) To be fair, Na'Vi had ample occasion to create a good SC2 team, but they missed their chances when they failed to pick up the best in Ukraine. White-Ra, and DIMAGA would have made the organisation as popular as mouz or Millenium at least in the SC2 scene, but they didn't do this. BTW: Minato has joined Cascade HappyZerg, it seems, will be sponsored by CIS broadcaster ESFX TV and he will be ESFX | FXO HappyZerg (I don't really understand FXO either) LoWeLy will be going inactive. Strelok, nothing announced yet, but I guess he'll go to Empire or Virtus.pro. | ||
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FXOBoSs
337 Posts
If viewers had followed the twitter accounts or whatever and clicked on the esfxtv stream links and produced good numbers they would have stayed in the sponsorships or trimmed teams to the ones who drew traffic. I think unstable touched on this in his leaving video. But there isn't really much else to say about it. | ||
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Greendotz
United Kingdom2053 Posts
On November 02 2013 02:03 Let it Raine wrote: Lowely was really good. The case of Lowely is pretty heart breaking. He actually had decent success throughout the latter half of wings and showed a lot of promise but has just made zero impact in HotS. Can't help but wonder if things had been different if he had just received a seed in WCS season 1 (which arguably he did deserve). Minato has potential but just can't seem to get a break out. | ||
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BaneRiders
Sweden3630 Posts
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Vo-one
Ukraine456 Posts
I guess NaVi made much less on their second try to create SC2-team. NaVi was only a tech-sponsor this time. So there's nothing to be surprised at this time. They just don't give a F about SC2, but want their name to represented here. Best of luck to the players and manager of ex-NaVi.FXO. | ||
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VArsovskiSC
Macedonia563 Posts
Hope the guys find a new team though.. hope they get their talents better shown | ||
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AlternativeEgo
Sweden17309 Posts
On November 02 2013 08:27 VArsovskiSC wrote: What happened to BBK though ??, wasn't he a member of the team as well.. Hope the guys find a new team though.. hope they get their talents better shown He moved to Millenium a while ago *First of September | ||
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Betelgeuse
Canada210 Posts
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ETisME
12763 Posts
i was quite sure you will find a sponsor soon | ||
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chaos021
United States258 Posts
On November 02 2013 06:45 FXOBoSs wrote: I hate reading threads like this. Mostly because of the insane speculation that goes on. For as long as ESFXTV.com exists they are still in e-sports but in a different way. I think the ultimate reason why FXOpen stopped sponsorship is because the players either 1) refused to stream or 2) couldn't draw viewers to esfxtv.com which in my opinion is a silly platform based on a silly idea. If viewers had followed the twitter accounts or whatever and clicked on the esfxtv stream links and produced good numbers they would have stayed in the sponsorships or trimmed teams to the ones who drew traffic. I think unstable touched on this in his leaving video. But there isn't really much else to say about it. If this is the case, then a lot of teams in general do a spectacularly crappy job of advertising, getting the word or whatever you want to call it. I didn't know anyone on any FXO teams had a twitter that they cared about. EG players, most notably iNcontroL, asks viewers to do things for them, and guess what.... they do it. People will do things to keep teams and/or players going, but they don't read minds. Tons of sheeple to herd out there! | ||
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