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[sojusucks]

http://kotaku.com/5688166/hey-korea-why-you-so-down-on-starcraft-ii

[jzrossef]

I see why Blizzard likes to control over game network, but I think it's a short-sighted move. They're probably gonna make more profit by selling Starcraft II than not being able to sell and encourage Koreans to pirate the game just for campaign, then switch back to old Starcraft for online games. There was a similar issue in China, where Bill Gates tolerated Windows piracy in Chinese mainland, thinking that selling really cheap Windows software being used in China is better than having Chinese people relying on other OS.

[pkang0202]

Starcraft 2 is already free to anyone playing World of Warcraft in Korea.

[ThingsComeAround]

GOMPlayer and Sony Ericsson are having a good ole time promoting SC2

They are picking up where KeSPA left off.

Dont forget, KeSPA embarrassed Blizzard when it was known they were taking bribes/kickbacks to throw games

What sucks is that GOM doesn't have the know-how to get fans and keep them. I watched a game in Seoul last weekend. They told us to be there at 6.. They started the show at 7:30. And then, they talked to the players' moms. I don't want to listen to their moms 'praise' their babies when in fact they first thought them insane to play SC professionally. Went online to catch replays and they were charging $19.95

The Korean version, which I posted first, shows they are already planning for the Open Season 3. English site? Nothing....

I agree that Blizzard screwed up bigtime with cutting LAN and the quarantine. What also stinks is making a username is sooo difficult (they want my email? for what??) so the number of people wanting casual play will quit and play ol skool.

[Steelrails]

Yeah I don't know what's going on.

For the first two weeks it was out the arcade was deserted.

Then kids slowly trickled back.

I was at a PC Bang recently and 10% of the kids were playing Starcraft II and the rest were playing FPS games.

I can't wrap my head around Starcraft II, I'm too old to learn a whole new game like that when I know pretty much everyone else can already smash me.

[geldedgoat]

I myself was turned off by SC2 when, prior to its release, Blizzard made a big stink about taking the higher road by not using DRM, only to later find that they were passing it over in favor of canning LAN and implementing Steam-esque connection-testing.

Blizzard just keeps getting less and less attractive the longer it remains under the yoke of Vivendi.

[asylum seeker]

The thing is, the situation has changed so much since Brood War first came out.
When Brood War came out there were far fewer online games for people to play in Korea; now there are so many and what's more most of them are free.
Kids just aren't going to pay money to play SC2 when they can play Dungeon and Fighter, Sudden Attack, FIFA Online, Maple Story, Kart Rider etc. etc. without coughing up a single won.
I understand that Blizzard felt they had to get rid of LAN because of piracy but it mean SC2 is unlikely to repeat the success of Brood War unless the GSL becomes wildly popular.

[darkjedidave]

[ThingsComeAround]