EPTFound this on Reddit yesterday and was surprised this didn't get posted on TL.
More High Profile Blizzard Esports Staff Set To Leave
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geokilla
Canada8255 Posts
Found this on Reddit yesterday and was surprised this didn't get posted on TL.
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Nakajin
Canada8991 Posts
Pretty sure the whole Hots debacle wouldn't have happen if she wouldn't have been on maternity leave. On a related note, I wouldn't be surprise if we see esport in general get dowsise in the comming year/months, no one is looking healty (aka most of it is not profitable) and the economy won't stay on the up forever. | ||
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WGT-Baal
France3577 Posts
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digmouse
China6333 Posts
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JimmyJRaynor
Canada18034 Posts
On June 03 2019 07:52 Nakajin wrote: Ouch if Kim Phan leaves too it's another bad oment for us, she has been at the head of the boat for a long time and she seemed like one of the last who had an interest in brand/community protection. meh, losing an esports person at a video game company is like an NFL team losing a wide receiver. If the QB and the offensive line sucks the wide receiver doesn't matter. Blizzard has been hemorrhaging active users for 2 years. They are down to 32 million active users. It doesn't matter what the esports people do if no new games are coming out and the current games have content that is not keeping the current user base interested. The way things are going it doesn't matter what Kim Phan does. Stopping the bleeding at Blizzard depends on the teams of game makers building great new games. | ||
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geokilla
Canada8255 Posts
On June 03 2019 12:05 JimmyJRaynor wrote: Blizzard has been hemorrhaging active users for 2 years. They are down to 32 million active users. It doesn't matter what the esports people do if no new games are coming out and the current games have content that is not keeping the current user base interested. The way things are going it doesn't matter what Kim Phan does. Stopping the bleeding at Blizzard depends on the teams of game makers building great new games. I disagree. If you look at CS:GO and LoL, both games are still extremely popular to play and watch right now. There's new professional players entering into the scene, there's constant patches to the game (for LoL) where new champions are released or balance is changed, and just overall there's a lot more action from the developers. Whereas with SC2, the only thing that changed from an esports perspective are the map pool. I can't say much about the other esports since I don't watch or play them, but isn't Dota and Fortnite also extremely popular? I thought they both have a very active and healthy esports scene? | ||
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pvsnp
7676 Posts
On June 03 2019 11:03 digmouse wrote: At this point, savor whatever you have in this year's WCS. Hey, look on the bright side. If WCS gets disbanded soon, the Korean scene won't collapse after all the pros got drafted. | ||
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JimmyJRaynor
Canada18034 Posts
On June 03 2019 12:19 geokilla wrote: I disagree. If you look at CS:GO and LoL, both games are still extremely popular to play and watch right now. There's new professional players entering into the scene, there's constant patches to the game (for LoL) where new champions are released or balance is changed, and just overall there's a lot more action from the developers. Whereas with SC2, the only thing that changed from an esports perspective are the map pool. I can't say much about the other esports since I don't watch or play them, but isn't Dota and Fortnite also extremely popular? I thought they both have a very active and healthy esports scene? how big was Blizzard's esports team in 1999? it didn't exist. Make the game great like Brood War and the esports will follow. Make an above average to very good game like Overwatch and people will move on a couple of years after the game is released. | ||
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geokilla
Canada8255 Posts
On June 03 2019 12:27 JimmyJRaynor wrote: how big was Blizzard's esports team in 1999? it didn't exist. Make the game great like Brood War and the esports will follow. Make an above average to very good game like Overwatch and people will move on a couple of years after the game is released. I haven't followed esports till after the release of SC2, but what does 1999 have to do with anything? Outside of Korea, I would guess esports didn't really took off until 2010s? | ||
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JimmyJRaynor
Canada18034 Posts
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Waxangel
United States33713 Posts
On June 03 2019 07:52 Nakajin wrote: Ouch if Kim Phan leaves too it's another bad oment for us, she has been at the head of the boat for a long time and she seemed like one of the last who had an interest in brand/community protection. Pretty sure the whole Hots debacle wouldn't have happen if she wouldn't have been on maternity leave. On a related note, I wouldn't be surprise if we see esport in general get dowsise in the comming year/months, no one is looking healty (aka most of it is not profitable) and the economy won't stay on the up forever. Well, I'd not read into THAT particular aspect any more deeply than the article itself states: morale is low at Blizzard. Whether or not this is good or bad for esports/SC2 in particular is dubious. The more worrying aspect is that traditional sports personnel have been brought in to oversee esports at Blizzard, and that "the focus has become commercializing the esports titles instead of making good programs for the community." One might look at this negatively for a game such as StarCraft II which has limited esports popularity (despite its growth) compared to the biggest titles. | ||
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Solar424
United States4001 Posts
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lechatnoir
392 Posts
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Vutalisk
United States680 Posts
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ZenithM
France15952 Posts
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digmouse
China6333 Posts
On June 03 2019 13:17 Solar424 wrote: Who would've thought that Activision would kill Blizzard from the inside? Stop making games the dedicated fans want, make more lootboxes and Call of Duty! Ironically, this year's Call of Duty ditched season pass and added full cross platform multiplayer, something the community has been asking for years. | ||
Pandemona
Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
Biggest issue for them as well is keeping the talent they have, so many big companies out there now to compete with and they can just try and get jobs with competitors. Hope Blizzard take note and try to change other areas instead of Esports areas. | ||
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Pandain
United States12989 Posts
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Anc13nt
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GreasedUpDeafGuy
United States398 Posts
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