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Deleted User 26513
2376 Posts
On October 28 2018 21:20 TheBloodyDwarf wrote: I have been always wondering where warchest funds go to? To support scene? But how and where exactly? Probably for a thing called WCS. You might've heard of it. | ||
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Musicus
Germany23576 Posts
On October 28 2018 21:20 TheBloodyDwarf wrote: I have been always wondering where warchest funds go to? To support scene? But how and what? Apart from the last NationWars, they haven't been transparent about where the money goes. Although it also doubled the prize money of ShoutCraft Kings back then. | ||
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Charoisaur
Germany16024 Posts
On October 28 2018 21:20 TheBloodyDwarf wrote: I have been always wondering where warchest funds go to? To support scene? But how and where exactly? to make the rich guys richer. The Blizzcon winner getting an extra 80k is really important for keeping the scene alive. | ||
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TheBloodyDwarf
Finland7524 Posts
On October 28 2018 21:25 Pr0wler wrote: Probably for a thing called WCS. You might've heard of it. So vague. Its never told more precisely. So Blizzard was already paying for WCS before warchest. Now Warchest pays part of it or what? Or "we" funding HomeStory Cup? Or..? Or..? EDIT: Im not talking about the Blizzcon prize pool. Im talking about the rest of the money | ||
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Deleted User 26513
2376 Posts
On October 28 2018 21:29 TheBloodyDwarf wrote: So vague. Its never told more precisely. So Blizzard was already paying for WCS before warchest. Now Warchest pays part of it or what? Or "we" funding HomeStory Cup? Or..? Or..? EDIT: Im not talking about the Blizzcon prize pool. Im talking about the rest of the money I think that it's obvious that the rest of the money goes for WCS and whatever other tournament they decide to fund. Before the warchest they were paying 100%, now they are paying less and are adding crowd funding. Of course there is the possibility that Kotick bought a new car with the money, but I highly doubt it. | ||
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ParksonVN
Australia370 Posts
Watching English stream for Korean is like watching a Bulgarian or Russian streams for most of you guys, it's just unwatchable. | ||
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uummpaa
238 Posts
On October 28 2018 21:29 TheBloodyDwarf wrote: So vague. Its never told more precisely. So Blizzard was already paying for WCS before warchest. Now Warchest pays part of it or what? Or "we" funding HomeStory Cup? Or..? Or..? EDIT: Im not talking about the Blizzcon prize pool. Im talking about the rest of the money warchests went into IEM WC, shoutcraft, nationwars and blizzcon prizepool, not 100% of it, but i think blizzard earned some money with them as well. as already mentioned above, they just support already bigger tournaments (nationswars beeing the exeption here) where the prizemoney is already huge, but i guess hype > allowing more pro gamers to earn some money for some people which is why i skipped the second warchest for the topic: warchest or not, blizzard just should pay two korean casters, i think the reasons are (or should be) obvious to anyone.... | ||
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opisska
Poland8852 Posts
Probably not, but to be fair, gaming really is one of the key sources of English language skills for the young generations in non-English speaking countries, at least by my limited observation of my freinds' kids. Of course it would be nicer for Blizzard to provide Koreans with aq native language stream, but acting like they are some kinds of terrorized victims is way overdone. There has never been a stream of an SC2 event in my native language (I am natively Czech, just living in Poland) and so is the case for a large part of the world. | ||
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uummpaa
238 Posts
On October 28 2018 21:48 opisska wrote: Maybe Blizzard is secretly trying to help educate Koreans by forcing them to learn English, which is the main avenue of breaking the cultural barriers between the western and eastern cultures? Probably not, but to be fair, gaming really is one of the key sources of English language skills for the young generations in non-English speaking countries, at least by my limited observation of my freinds' kids. Of course it would be nicer for Blizzard to provide Koreans with aq native language stream, but acting like they are some kinds of terrorized victims is way overdone. There has never been a stream of an SC2 event in my native language (I am natively Czech, just living in Poland) and so is the case for a large part of the world. i didn't know that the czech republic is the dominating force in sc2 (or maybe esports in general) with 50 % of the pros at blizzcon and there very own branch of WCS. can we please stop to sell the point, that korea is just an other country when it comes to starcraft? | ||
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Ve5pa
United Kingdom252 Posts
If the cast used more 'standard English' and not just meme's or 'in jokes' then it would be easier for non native speakers to understand it. All that besides, when blizzard set up the 2 region system, WCS Circuit and Korea Circuit then surely in terms of competition that states that Korea is equal to the rest of the world, therefore they should have their own cast to go along side the English one. Whilst they do have 'a cast' surely they should invest to give the fans the cast they want. The same guys why cover the Korea Circuit (including GSL's) all year round. | ||
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AntiHack
Switzerland553 Posts
On October 28 2018 18:38 DarkGamer wrote: I think it would be great for the koreans to have a korean caster team. but on the other hand why cant the korean watch the english stream? english is THE language all over the world. there are players and spectators from all over the world whose first language isnt english too. im from germany and i dont demand a german stream. Koreans commentators have a very different style then western ones, even the few Koreans that speak English get bored to death with the Eng Commentary. 700k$ out of skins, I can't wait for Brood War to have skins too. | ||
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True_Spike
Poland3426 Posts
I'm glad I skipped on warchest this time around. | ||
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xelnaga_empire
627 Posts
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gnuoy00
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Schluppik
Germany2 Posts
What's so weird about Germany is that you are forced to learn more than one foreign language (English is ok) if you go to a grammar school. Why should you learn French? There are only 5 European countries using this language - 3 of them being extremely small - and the rest is in Africa. And Spanish makes even less sense here. | ||
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kinsky
Germany368 Posts
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avilo
United States4100 Posts
On October 28 2018 19:17 RxMidnight wrote: Blizzard's casual disrespect for the scene that kept their esports relevant for years never ceases to amaze me. They've honestly disrespected the scene for years with their lack of patching/support, and then when they do patch there's usually massive issues that remain in the game for the next 1-2 years, people realize it's destroying the game, then they come out with another 1 off huge patch that doesn't address any pertinent gameplay issues. Rinse repeat that cycle - it's all the SC2 community has ever known, which is why some naive people start to get all excited when they hear word of any sort of patch, regardless if the patch doesn't even address pertinent gameplay issues - people are just excited for the bread scraps when it comes to sc2. It's not surprising this type of debacle it seems blizzard gave up on sc2 a while ago. Mostly it's the community now that keeps the game kind of relevant amongst ourselves. | ||
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Deleted User 26513
2376 Posts
On October 28 2018 22:35 Schluppik wrote: Btw. The most-spoken language in Europe is German and not English. When I was in the Netherlands and people noticed, I was German they started talking in German instead of English. Same thing happened to me in northern Italy with the exception that these Italians only spoke Italian and German. Just an hour ago I spoke to a German living in Denmark (Sonderborg-region). She can't talk English so I wanted to know how she is communicating with the Danes and she said they all speak German because she is still learning Danish. What's so weird about Germany is that you are forced to learn more than one foreign language (English is ok) if you go to a grammar school. Why should you learn French? There are only 5 European countries using this language - 3 of them being extremely small - and the rest is in Africa. And Spanish makes even less sense here. Start the outrage about german stream ! I mean, this is how the internet works. | ||
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Ignorant prodigy
United States385 Posts
regardless of the excuse.. i feel like this a huge issue | ||
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Rodya
546 Posts
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