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mikkmagro
Malta1513 Posts
Reality Check: State of SC2 - Jason Bass, COO Complexity It was pretty obvious that the viewership was declining and my personal opinion was that it was due to several factors but the most important being content saturation...Can you imagine if the Dallas Cowboys played the Houston Texans 3 times a week? coL deserves the hits, read up here: http://www.complexitygaming.com/news/3922/ | ||
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kochanfe
Micronesia1338 Posts
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Kluey
Canada1197 Posts
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Rebel_
Canada94 Posts
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Yorbon
Netherlands4272 Posts
I don't really see how this should be a reality check :$ | ||
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OkStyX
Canada1199 Posts
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mikkmagro
Malta1513 Posts
The next thing would be for Blizzard to put more control on who can and can't run an SC2 event. We need a pro and amateur circuit. I am not advocating killing off all of the small events, but we do need some controls in place to make sure some baseline level of criteria is met before Blizzard gives a tournament license This is pretty interesting. What do you think about Blizzard having such a degree of control over the competitive scene? | ||
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SlayerS_BoxxY
United States64 Posts
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ledarsi
United States475 Posts
Not sure if I like the idea of Blizzard preventing people from holding tournaments for arbitrary reasons, like another tournament being scheduled at that time. This could work if strictly limited, such as not having pro tournaments concurrently so that it splits the professional player base, with some attending each. But amateur tournaments should not be limited by Blizzard in any way. | ||
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packrat386
United States5077 Posts
On December 15 2012 08:02 mikkmagro wrote: This is pretty interesting. What do you think about Blizzard having such a degree of control over the competitive scene? I guess it seems like somebody has to. Kespa was bad in some respects, but look at how successful they can help make things like proleague and OSL. When you have a lawmaking body you can limit oversaturation without having to wait for companies to fail. You also give the community as a whole some sort of way to get behind stuff as a whole. No tournament or even group of tournaments could probably get a TV contract, but if a rulemaking organization could ensure that, for example, other big tournaments wouldn't broadcast at the same time, then they might be able to do something like that. | ||
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packrat386
United States5077 Posts
On December 15 2012 08:06 ledarsi wrote: The idea of a longer-term circuit is great. Having a Starcraft World Series, or a Starcraft Super Bowl is a great idea. Not sure if I like the idea of Blizzard preventing people from holding tournaments for arbitrary reasons, like another tournament being scheduled at that time. This could work if strictly limited, such as not having pro tournaments concurrently so that it splits the professional player base, with some attending each. But amateur tournaments should not be limited by Blizzard in any way. I think if there was going to be a body like this, limitations on small prize-pool amateur tournaments would be small, just like they are with similar institutions in traditional sports. The most important restrictions are on top teams and players. Teamleagues with a long running format like proleague are critical and tournaments need to make sure that name-brand players are there when they ought to be. | ||
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envisioN .
United States552 Posts
Don't get me wrong, it is great that we have so many amazing events. It shows that eSports as a whole is growing, and growing rapidly. The problem is that there are so many events that each tournament only really has any importance during that tournaments weekend, and winning a tournament isn't as big of a deal as I believe it should be for a player. In order to gain any lasting recognition as a truly amazing player, one must win multiple tournaments convincingly, which most players cannot do because of the nature of a constantly shifting meta game and the fact that everyone has slumps. One of the reasons the GSL is so prestigious is because the tournament is played out over the course of a month and a half. I think fewer, or more spaced out tournaments, would give much more importance to each tournament win, and make the SC2 scene as a whole much more interesting to watch. | ||
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TrippSC2
United States209 Posts
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Penev
28516 Posts
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Hrrrrm
United States2081 Posts
Maybe IPL or Dreamhack can make it happen. A simple 8 Team Double Elimination Tourney at an event. It would be grand! | ||
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Greenei
Germany1754 Posts
On December 15 2012 08:06 ledarsi wrote: The idea of a longer-term circuit is great. Having a Starcraft World Series, or a Starcraft Super Bowl is a great idea. isn't wcs/bwc exactly that? | ||
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divito
Canada1213 Posts
I think the better idea would be to incorporate results from all events though, rather than their own satellite events. | ||
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SigmaoctanusIV
United States3313 Posts
The scene is going to turn around for HOTS, we will have an influx of people playing just to check stuff out and they might love it or just be interested enough in it to come browse on TL and see what the scene is up to. | ||
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ishyishy
United States826 Posts
- Watching the game: if people dont like watching the game anymore, then they move on to something else. Just because the diehard fans of sc2 demand it of everyone that sets their eyes on a sc2 stream one time to stay glued to it for life doesnt mean it's going to happen. No one other than the players can choose how the players play the game, and if you dont like watching a zerg sit on their ass for 15 minutes and mass spines, then dont watch it anymore, or watch someone else. No one knows if it will be "the best" strat in the expansion, but if it is, there is only 1 entity to blame, blizzard. Not the players. Not the fans. - Playing the game: Pro and amatuer circuit? Who the hell is going to care or watch non-pro players? Cant say for sure that no one will, but I'll bet that there are less viewers for it than there is for the Pro matches lol, and I'll also bet that it wont be a sustainable or profittable business for long. I dont watch Playhem, I dont watch go4sc2 or any other small tournament, I only watch MLG and GSL because those 2 events have *the best* players playing, and I am only entertained by *the best players*. For example, Jason says "...basically anyone can run an event, regardless of quality, whenever they want. This creates a situation of white noise. Nothing seems important anymore." How does this make any sense at all? People will either like or dislike an event, and if an event is disliked enough times it will disappear. An MLG sure does seem a hell of a lot more important because everyone likes it, than some fucking joke tournament in some remote country that was ran poorly. IMO people are slowly getting bored with seeing the actual game. We dont live in an age where people stay entertained by the same shit for years and years anymore. New generation gamers always want flashy shit that changes often. Look at LoL, a flashy, somewhat easy to play game that changes several times a month because new skins and heros come out. Look at Call of Duty, they fuckin make a new game or 2 every year with a few new flashy eye candy bits in each game (not saying the actual gamplay changes, just the shit you see). In sc2, nothing changes, theres no flashy eye candy to keep kids entertained (not even a dis, its true), the changes we get are "reduce build time on [X building] by 5 seconds". Is that supposed to bring new players into the game? Blizzard is not making new ways to attract new players, and obviously everyone currently playing will eventually lose interest, thus you have a declining population, it's that simple. Sc2 is plain, dull, not entertaining to play for long periods of time for most people, and gets insanely boring to watch because pro players have figured the game out. The expansion wont change this. It will eventually boil down to a set amount of maps that are good, a set amount of builds that are good, and flip coins. It isnt going anywhere fast, and Jason, that is no ones fault other than the creator, the designers, and the main supporters of the game, Blizzard. | ||
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Hider
Denmark9433 Posts
Sc2 would decline eventually, regardless of the saturation. If fewer games were played, the duration might have been longer in terms of years, but in terms of total veiwerships of all games watched it wouldn't have mattered (or it would have been even lower). | ||
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