EPTAfreeca SC2 team disbands - Page 3
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sa1Ko
Argentina99 Posts
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Lexender
Mexico2655 Posts
Even now SC2 is way bigger than BW ever was. Blizzard does needs to make SC2 global, the only way KR players can survive is by giving them more chances todo play. KR teams will not come back but player will be capable of staying. | ||
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sh1RoKen
Russian Federation93 Posts
1. Become a senior game designer of the game. 2. Don't realize that you are not in a year 1998 and you have to compete with MOBAs for your potential player base. 3. Don't realize that 97% of your potential player base are casual players which will be playing in Silver league or below. 4. Make the game in such a way that 97% of your potential player base feels miserable playing the game and it is literally feels like working on a job for them. 5. Make the game in such a way that 97% of your potential player base spends 97% of their game time fighting with extremely boring and extremely hard PvE mechanics without any direct contact with their opponent. 6. Add a couple instant lose mechanics that punishes 97% of your potential player base for less than 1 second of inattention. Make this mechanics as frustrating as possible. 7. Don't realize the obvious correlation between the Player base -> Viewer base -> Sponsorship base -> Money investment for Esports events -> ProPlayer base -> Being a competitive sport. 8. Admit that you have completed Step 7: Our main goal for StarCraft 2 is to create the best game of its type that it can ever be, and not necessarily selling more copies of the game or increasing the playerbase. © David Kim Source: + Show Spoiler + http://us.battle.net/forums/en/sc2/topic/20749787793 9. By completing Step 8 ruin a professional gaming carrier for every pro player in a country which had your franchise being more popular than any other sport including football. 10. Stay calm like nothing happened. | ||
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207aicila
1237 Posts
On November 22 2016 00:56 Lexender wrote: Even now SC2 is way bigger than BW ever was. Uhh... if you're referring to your particular country or whatever, sure. Overall? Not even close. Sorry bud. | ||
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maartendq
Belgium3115 Posts
On November 21 2016 22:53 RoomOfMush wrote: So at which point will it become acceptable to talk about "daed gaeme" without getting banned? But seriously, this was a long slow process but we knew it for quite some time. We didnt want it to be true but we could feel it in our bones. It just makes me sad to think about all the things SC2 could have been and then having to see what it actually became. I don't think SC2 could have become anything more than it did at its peak around 2012-2014. It singlehandedly pushed eSports into mainstream attention, and eventually got overtaken by the more team-oriented and more accessible MOBA games. If 2016 turns out to be the final year SC2 still had somewhat good content I will have been glad to have been part of this for the past six years. I'll miss it but it's been a great ride. Considering the current state of the gaming industry it is a small miracle the game managed to stick around for as long as it did I think. | ||
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aQuaSC
717 Posts
On November 22 2016 01:37 207aicila wrote: Uhh... if you're referring to your particular country or whatever, sure. Overall? Not even close. Sorry bud. What are you sorry for, bud? What's the state of non-Korean scene in BW? | ||
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True_Spike
Poland3426 Posts
On November 22 2016 02:00 aQuaSC wrote: What are you sorry for, bud? What's the state of non-Korean scene in BW? In terms of overall numbers SC2 is crushing BW. A fuckload of people still play this game. BW is doing approx. twice as good as SC2 in Korea (at least when it comes to popularity in PC bangs) - pretty much only in Korea; It's still peanuts compared to popular games. I love BW and have enjoyed its Korean resurgence very much, but there's no point in making it bigger than it really is. | ||
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tokinho
United States792 Posts
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[16thSq] Kuro
1217 Posts
On November 22 2016 00:41 sa1Ko wrote: I would expect massive retirements , but this is not happening . That´s a positive side. Let's hope it stays that way but many are probably waiting with the decision for the WCS news. | ||
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Clazziquai10
Singapore1949 Posts
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RealityIsKing
613 Posts
On November 22 2016 02:00 aQuaSC wrote: What are you sorry for, bud? What's the state of non-Korean scene in BW? The magnitude of SC2's foreign esport scene is about 25% that of Korea SC2 in terms of competition, production, and viewership. Even at the last 2 years of BW broadcasting, BW viewership is still so much better than SC2's peak. Its not even questionable. | ||
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207aicila
1237 Posts
On November 22 2016 02:00 aQuaSC wrote: What's the state of non-Korean scene in BW? Who cares? Not us, the actual fans. What you're putting on the table is a non-argument. | ||
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Skytale1i
31 Posts
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aQuaSC
717 Posts
On November 22 2016 02:40 207aicila wrote: Who cares? Not us, the actual fans. What you're putting on the table is a non-argument. Where the hell did you see an argument here? That was a question on the state of non-Korean scene in Brood War, if you're saying that SC2 is not even close to BW popularity even now then you have to have some source on that, don't you? That was a legitimate question, asked because I'm curious, to me BW never was that internationally popular, it was mostly enclosed in Korea. There BW was bigger at it's peak than SC2 of course, but I don't think it was the case for outside of it | ||
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-IAEVAI-KolosS
Canada60 Posts
BW is doing approx. twice as good as SC2 in Korea (at least when it comes to popularity in PC bangs) - pretty much only in Korea; It's still peanuts compared to popular games. [/QUOTE] Just my two cents, but statement like these where people say "Twice as much" or throw random percentages in the air like "Broodwar's popularity is 25% less than ..." means ABSOLUTELY nothing without any sources because they are stated as facts. If you were to formulate the argument like this instead: "I feel like it must be twice as ... " then it indicates a personnal feeling and not and studied fact. | ||
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juvenal
2448 Posts
On November 22 2016 02:45 aQuaSC wrote: Where the hell did you see an argument here? That was a question on the state of non-Korean scene in Brood War, if you're saying that SC2 is not even close to BW popularity even now then you have to have some source on that, don't you? That was a legitimate question, asked because I'm curious, to me BW never was that internationally popular, it was mostly enclosed in Korea. There BW was bigger at it's peak than SC2 of course, but I don't think it was the case for outside of it the state of non-Korean BW is pretty much the same as the state of non-American baseball. BW indeed was mostly big in Korea for 2 obvious reasons: Koreans were much better players and esports as you know it now was non-existent outside of Korea. E.g. Blizzard sponsored zero Dreamhacks. | ||
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cutler
Germany609 Posts
Always sad to see a team disbanding. Good luck to the players to find a new opportunity. | ||
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Shield
Bulgaria4824 Posts
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KappaKingPrime
United States468 Posts
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xTJx
Brazil419 Posts
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