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Regardless of the situation, we will still action upon "dead game" comments. As this is a sensitive issue for SC2 fans, please do not come into this thread and talk about SC2 players switching over to BW. This thread is also not about bashing Blizzard, David Kim, or the WCS system. |
On October 18 2016 14:30 sc2chronic wrote:Show nested quote +On October 18 2016 14:27 Grettin wrote:On October 18 2016 11:21 BisuDagger wrote:
SC1 lost proleague and is more exciting then ever. It's up to the dedicated SC2 fans to keep it going. Exactly this. While this is sad news, look forward to the future! yea totally cant wait for third party vendor sponsorships and fan made content *mom makes you the sandwhich bread hot dog* "see? it aint so bad! just like a real hot dog!" You take that back, bread hot dogs are great.
What's not great is how people are all saying "well, SC2 was never popular in Korea, this was inevitable" without realizing how that happened in the first place. SC2 was the sequel to Korea's most popular game ever, there was no good reason it shouldn't have been popular. The blame should fall firmly on Blizzard and KeSPA. This shouldn't have happened.
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Rof16 and on of GSL usually had the "better" games, but I really liked the unpredictability of the proleague matches
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I never thought teams like SKT and KT would disband. Incredible.
Whatever goes on at Blizzard headquarters, without blaming anyone or anything, as the creator and owner of Starcraft franchise I can't believe how Blizzard could let it come to this point.
I'm speechless.
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On October 18 2016 14:31 SpunXtain20 wrote:Show nested quote +On October 18 2016 14:26 corydoras wrote:
One more thing is demographics. Teenagers don't play Starcraft as much as they play team games like OW/LoL/CS:GO (the latter outside Korea). And 'old people' in late 20s and early 30s who spent their high school and uni lives playing BW and/or SC2 will not be a playerbase big enough to generate sufficient viewership to justify sponsorong SPL for SC2. Its an interesting point but i think youre right that the general skill level of kids these days is quite low. Its the reason LoL and Minecraft had such big viewerships, because the talent pool has nose dived in no small part thanks to "video playthroughs" and trolling behaviours which can demotivate. Youd be hard pressed to find many children whose APM is above 400 these days (except like Dotaesque games where they just spam click rather than precision click) and that can often preclude them from games like SC2.
Well, I never made a point about skill. If TaeJa casually went top500 on Overwatch which is definitely not as mechanics-based as BW/SC2, then I'd say it works the other way around.
There are no next Marus or TaeJas because younger players simply aren't playing SC. And they aren't because they prefer getting perfect shots with Widowmaker or improving their flanking skills with Genji. And hanging out with friends in the process.
I can understand that. 1v1 BW/SC2 is stressful as f..., so is sucking and losing in OW or Heroes when you play solo. But just from my experience: last week I spend a couple of hours playing Hereos like a true bronze league hero after a yearlong pause and I had tremendous fun getting rekt just because I was playing with friends with an open voice channel.
People don't even want to play SC2 with me because they can't invest time to practice mechanics. I get why this results in few new viewers and decreasing playerbase.
It's not a drawback, it's a feature. That's why we love RTS and also why 1v1 RTS are for few masochists who want to play this way. Most people don't.
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There goes my interest in SC2 with it.
We knew this was coming but its still a shock
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so sad
but i laughed so hard
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Sad news, but the SPL part is not surprising. It really sucks that 5 teams completely disbanded their sc2 rosters though, didn't think that would happen.
Well now sc2 in Korea will look more like outside of Korea. At least they announced more KeSPA Cups for StarCraft and GSL is confirmed too. With WCS there will still be a lot to play in for Korean players, now I really can't wait for Blizzard's plans. It will be interesting to see how many players will retire and how many get new sponsors or teams.
This is the end of an era with proleague ending and those 5 teams leaving sc2, but it's not the end of sc2 at all.
JAGW is epic btw, I hope they grab a player or two.
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Hopefully blizzard opens the region lock or i really fear for SC2 in Korea...
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I really hope GSL and SSL would still survive
if proleague is gone, there is no way they can't keep GSL and SSL
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I am really really sad about this. StarCraft 2 is my true love in competitive gaming. I hope Blizz is going to do anything about this, otherwise the Pro- / eSports-Scene as we know it will die soon. (A big part of it already died)
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Only followed sc2 scene since early 2015 and this happened already. 
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That is why I named myself 180DegreeTurnaroundS
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On October 18 2016 15:03 Musicus wrote:
With WCS there will still be a lot to play in for Korean players, now I really can't wait for Blizzard's plans. It will be interesting to see how many players will retire and how many get new sponsors or teams.
This is the end of an era with proleague ending and those 5 teams leaving sc2, but it's not the end of sc2 at all.
In Mike Morhaime's passion for the Starcraft brand (and his huge middle finger towards accountants and shareholders who will tell him there is no business case for WCS) we trust.
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Today is a sad day indeed.
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StarCraft 2 is dying =( and it saddens me so much
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I wonder if this explains the slumps of a lot of players recently.
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ah this is so sad, hopefully there are enough tournaments to feature the korean players next year and beyond
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Not surprised. Rumors were KT was going to disband...people called that hearsay...turns out it was a lot worse whoops.
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