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On October 03 2013 15:17 Penguinator wrote: How the hell did the entire StarCraft 2 scene manage to collapse in the span of one year?
It grew fucking quick with SC2 and couldn't support itself. It's not completely fucked now, but it's going to keep shrinking until it levels out. That and kind of shitty support from blizzard. It's clear that the whole sc2 esports thing isn't big on their agenda.
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JD for BW .. fuck yeah~~! lol
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I have but one thing to blame: BW was too huge.
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I`m sad to see EGTL gone from PL evan if it was expected since may/june. The team grew soooo much from the start of PL through the 1st Stephano wins , to HerO becoming the god of Shin Dorim (spelling :/) and Coach Park magical touch on the team with aLive doing great games (special mention to JYP aswel for finding a rythm aswel). I wish that TL will make an appearence next season maybe in a different format who knows, but for me as a SC2 watcher was awesome to see them (winning or loosing - ok maybe winning more than loosing but was still fun).
On October 03 2013 15:17 Penguinator wrote: How the hell did the entire StarCraft 2 scene manage to collapse in the span of one year?
I belive everyone points the finger at the WCS system.
On October 03 2013 14:12 Traceback wrote: SC2 just feels really stagnant to me. That is my main qualm with it and where I feel is most falls short compared to other games.
The feeling of beeing stagnant comes from the 1v1 matchup. Let me expand on this a bit :
MOBA games have the option to rely on someone else to make you win evan if you perform poorly. SC2 is like ping-pong, mainly a solo competitive game. The better you get the bigger the ego grows, but while u inflate it, you also push people away. Myself have done that aswel without noticing it at start. Add up the fact that you become lazy after a while where the hype is gone or you played too much and that is the starting point when starcraft players start droping (ex : could be the fact that you preffer the pay to win system or enjoying to play with more than 2 friends online, or a better game coming out and the hype train just moves with you aboard, which I find nothing wrong wtih tbh).
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A good game will rise by itself. Pretty much expecting the Korean scene to be closed by next year.
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The monster got leashed. ;P
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On October 03 2013 16:07 Black[CAT] wrote: A good game will rise by itself. Pretty much expecting the Korean scene to be closed by next year.
I good game may rise by itself, but a good game alone cannot sustain itself. It must have constructive 3rd party support for that.
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On October 03 2013 16:11 Torpedo.Vegas wrote:Show nested quote +On October 03 2013 16:07 Black[CAT] wrote: A good game will rise by itself. Pretty much expecting the Korean scene to be closed by next year. I good game may rise by itself, but a good game alone cannot sustain itself. It must have constructive 3rd party support for that.
Depends what you mean by sustain.
For the most part games-turned-esports have grown and self-sustained (with or without dev support) for a long time before third parties started investing in them, especially the competitive side of things.
Starcraft 2 scene was actually among the rare few that got instantly jump-started because some people obviously thought that if they throw enough money at it and generate enough hype around it, they can fabricate what's supposed to grow on its own, and reap benefits down the road.
But in the end, there are no benefits and nobody is going to pay unreasonable amounts of money just to sustain a very limited marketing platform that fewer and fewer people have any real connection to or emotional investment in.
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so where will they all go now? Will Jaedong move to the EG Lair in America or stay in his parents house in Korea?
what about Taeja and HerO?
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Aww this is poor news. I really liked EGTL in the proleague
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On October 03 2013 17:04 Hadronsbecrazy wrote: so where will they all go now? Will Jaedong move to the EG Lair in America or stay in his parents house in Korea?
what about Taeja and HerO? They'd be stupid to poison their career by playing on the weakest server.
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I think they had good reasons for closing it and i don't think they sacrificed training in doing so. If they closed it i think they were confident they could continue training at the same level in other conditions.
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1a2a3a4a1a2a3a4a1a2a3a4a1a2a3a4a1a2a3a4a1a2a3a4a oh wait i don't have to do that anymore... 1a click.
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Sc2 is dying, and most of the oldschools like Hwanni will never switch to LoL which is very sad considering how huge LoL is.
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All I really care about in this mess is Jaaedong. I hope he goes back to playing brood war in SOSPA.
On October 02 2013 23:47 Liquid`Nazgul wrote:Show nested quote +On October 02 2013 23:07 Darkhoarse wrote: Kind of a shame. Where will their Korean players live anyway now that the house is closed? Speaking for Liquid we're exploring various options for HerO still. He is temporarily residing at the IM house. TaeJa always lived at home. Zenio has preferred to live at home ever since Park's departure some months ago. Snute right now is on a European trip where he played ATC, DH Bucharest, Millenium Finals, and a Norwegian tournament. He will go to IEM New York and from there go back to Korea for another month or so, where he will be staying with CJ under the watchful eye of our good friend Coach Park. That is really cool
Snute is lika his padawan learner.
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On October 03 2013 18:08 ftm wrote: 1a2a3a4a1a2a3a4a1a2a3a4a1a2a3a4a1a2a3a4a1a2a3a4a oh wait i don't have to do that anymore... 1a click.
more like 1a/s/h/p 2a/s/h/p 3a/s/h/p etc., depending on your hotkeys ofc.
Ontopic:
Bad news all over the place. Let's hope SC2 only shortens and does not die. I would really like to see it continue. Could someone please explain to me why WCS is ruining SC2 exactly?
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SC2 is a walking corpse with its lifejuice being supported by diehard BW fans and greedy sponsors. Maybe Broodwar fans will support SC2 more if it isn’t such a shit game and if Blizzard weren’t being a bunch of bitches.
Die hard BW casuals just wanna extend their love for Starcraft to a newer generation whilst former BW pros (Both ESF and foreign) wanted to get a piece of the prizepool rather than loving the game. When the Kespa pros began to switch to SC2 all the ESF and Foreigners simply quit the SC2 scene since they can no longer earn easy money whilst Kespa pros retire since they are forced to play a game fulltime which they don’t enjoy.
Then boom, there goes the SC2 bubble.
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On October 02 2013 23:47 Liquid`Nazgul wrote:Show nested quote +On October 02 2013 23:07 Darkhoarse wrote: Kind of a shame. Where will their Korean players live anyway now that the house is closed? Speaking for Liquid we're exploring various options for HerO still. He is temporarily residing at the IM house. TaeJa always lived at home. Zenio has preferred to live at home ever since Park's departure some months ago. Snute right now is on a European trip where he played ATC, DH Bucharest, Millenium Finals, and a Norwegian tournament. He will go to IEM New York and from there go back to Korea for another month or so, where he will be staying with CJ under the watchful eye of our good friend Coach Park. That's good news thx for clarifying~
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If you are surprised you need to "WAKE THE HELL UP". SC2 has no growth future in Korea. Be glad they held the torch for a very long time. Korea has jumped on the LOL bandwagon and is not looking back. Be happy we have WCS. I cant find the thread that I wrote a year or a year and a half ago about this subject. SC2 needs to move out of Korea.
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