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My Problem with Malaysian e-Sports, Can't brain it lah
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FXOUnstable
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 Nov 30 2011, 03:02 PM
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QUOTE(radkliler @ Nov 30 2011, 02:46 PM) Look. Here's the fact. Except for the few of the people here that are actively playing SCII competitively, SCII is not all that popular. The most popular competitive game in Malaysia has, and will be DotA and its variants for the foreseeable future. Unless you can make SCII as appealing to Malaysians when compared to DotA, this will happen all the time. We are not disputing the fact that majority of gamers play LoL/Dota. We are purely talking about the way malaysians view the events. I think you would agree swap sc2/Lol/dota around and the same issues would arise |
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FXOUnstable
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Nov 30 2011, 03:16 PM
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QUOTE(radkliler @ Nov 30 2011, 03:05 PM) Based on what I've seen. If you swapped out SCII and replace it with DotA, you will get a crowd regardless of whether or not there is free shit being given out. While I agree the crowd would be bigger due to the higher % of players. We were happy with the first crowd for our event. Any more than what we had last event can be too much for one weekend so its not so much the crowd that we are speaking of. Its the underlying attitude that has been seen. Which will haveto change if esports events will make money and not be kept afloat by sponsors then dissapear because they have no fallback |
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FXOUnstable
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Nov 30 2011, 03:39 PM
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QUOTE(radkliler @ Nov 30 2011, 03:29 PM) Malaysians are cheapskates. LoL/HoN , and F2PMMORPGs are popular because they don't have to pay a single cent upfront. If they want anything from the item shop, they will willingly spend the money to get it since they will think it is cheaper. DotA isn't free per se, its just pirated from hell to back in Malaysia. And with those private servers, hamachi and flying spaghetti monster, they don't need to pay a single cent to play it. SCII on the other hand is 200 ringgit upfront or no game. Guess which will appeal more? Th whole point to the argument Boss is bringing up is exactly this attitude, if this is the case, where is the incentive for sponsor to support a community who is admittantly biased to free things. their advertising will go nowhere since their product isnt free? |
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