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Synastren posted:If you want to see a replay of me getting punched in the face constantly: https://sc2replaystats.com/replay/23429387 Skipping it because of who is organizing it, but I hate pig's casting, so double good. Happy that some SC2 pros will get extra money.
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DTurtle posted:DOTA 2 has a prize pool of $15 million. Dota dethroned SC2 as the crown jewel of esports a decade ago or better. Valve jumped in with both feet, while Blizz sat around and shook their fist at those kids.  Also, worth considering that even if the winning team gets 5m, that's still maybe 1 mil per player on the team, assuming no alternates, and that the prize money isn't also shared with the staff and org.
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I want to think League of Legends dethroned StarCraft II and Brood War in 2011.
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Synastren posted:Dota dethroned SC2 as the crown jewel of esports a decade ago or better. Valve jumped in with both feet, while Blizz sat around and shook their fist at those kids. I mean, 500k isn't nothing, but Starcraft (Remastered + 2) is only a very small slice of the pie there.
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DTurtle posted:I mostly posted those numbers because the OP gave the impression that there was a huge prize pool for Starcraft. 500k was the prize pool at IEM Katowice, the ultimate tournament of the previous professional season. The prize pool for the real tournament at this Saudi event is 400k. TI2022 (the ultimate Dota2 tournament) had just shy of a 19m prize pool. The prize pool at this tournament is 15m. It looks to me like they're comparable events within their own scenes! Within the overall scope of sc2, this upcoming tournament is a big payout. Within the overall scope of esports, it is sizable, but not enormous. SC2 is a niche esport anyone who cares about esports is at least aware of, if not has experience with, Dota2, or League, or CS, or Fortnite, or Apex.
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that's 500k not going towards buying bonesaws for dissidents
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League of legends is an interesting eSport. Riot ruled it with an iron fist from the outset and that structure and backing made for a strong scene but I do wonder if it's only a popular spectator sport because so many people play it. I feel like StarCraft 2 and Dota and even CS have a level of reach outside of just people who play the games (me for example), and riots locked down approach may hurt it one day if the playerbase shrinks. People like big, important tournaments and not being allowed to compete at big events must hurt the scene
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not much faith in his mom's new offering then clearly!
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Didn’t he already found a game company?
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Ornery and Hornery posted:Didn’t he already found a game company? No, but he's worked with and consulted at a few of them.
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I don't watch his stream very often anymore. Does he play a lot of Age of Empires? I'm curious why he is making a RTS when he seems to mostly play Dota and Magic the Gathering.
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Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see any mention of the genre of the game.
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yeah he's been doing tcgs for a long time I believe, seems most likely it would be something in that domain if anything. rts are extremely not the domain of small design studios as far as anyone can tell
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Oasx posted:Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see any mention of the genre of the game. Tweet says "multiplayer PC strategy game" When I type that out, I realize that doesn't necessarily mean RTS.
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Played a really fun ZvZ vs. CatZ on ladder: https://drop.sc/replay/23471553.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9q-x_N8KuIA This is really funny despite the dumb click bait title/thumbnail. I almost didn't watch it because it looked too click baity
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Round of 16 has started in GSL
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Win or lose Byun always has fun games.
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Fozzy The Bear posted:Anyone else watching GSL? I haven't seen any yet, but I am going to work through the youtube playlist!
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Fozzy The Bear posted:Anyone else watching GSL? The games have been fun but oof it's tough watching them reduced to this remote format and asking for donations.
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If we’re in for a meta where Terrans just win all the time then I might just stop watching.
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rjmccall posted:If we’re in for a meta where Terrans just win all the time then I might just stop watching. Gyuri is gone, so welp
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I'm almost done watching Group B and enjoying this season so far. Glad the robot voice got tuned down after Group A video. I didn't realize that Byun is #3 overall on aligulac.com, I feel like last time I looked he wasn't near there. Really enjoyed watching his games!Fozzy The Bear posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9q-x_N8KuIA Same about almost not watching, but it was valuable. I went back and watched the match he references. With knowledge of the "lie" it is interesting how many times the casters talk about the players making the wrong move and their reasons for why it's something they still might do. Made it kinda clear how much difference there is between a Pro player and a GM. Also made me feel better that GMs don't play perfect either.
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12:20 (in game time) in the winner match GSL RO8 Group B SOOOOO GOOD!!
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GSP TOP 4!~!!!!!
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Frost Giant just announced that they'll start closed external pre-alpha testing for Stormgate in July, it'll be under NDA but they said they'll at least show off gameplay before that starts: https://www.reddit.com/r/Stormgate/comments/13jroe1/stormgate_closed_testing_update/
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Cicero posted:Frost Giant just announced that they'll start closed external pre-alpha testing for Stormgate in July, it'll be under NDA but they said they'll at least show off gameplay before that starts: https://www.reddit.com/r/Stormgate/comments/13jroe1/stormgate_closed_testing_update/ thanks for reminding me, I'll post it to the Stormgate thread: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4004432 Fozzy The Bear fucked around with this message at 02:14 on May 18, 2023 |
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GSL finals were ok, a few exciting games. I skipped some of the games. 
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I will review and see if I want to watch. Thank you for the update!
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I love Terran and all but that was a lot of TvT to sit through. Hopefully there’s a better mix in the next season!
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I played a few games tonight, and they only came in one of two flavors: Allins with <40 workers Completely, utterly passive turtle opponent what the gently caress happened here, this is awful
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Synastren posted:I played a few games tonight, and they only came in one of two flavors: I'm sort of curious what sort of MP scene SC2 has these days, I guess this answers my question! Back in the day I was a big fan of the Life's a Glitch guys (they did the "When Cheese Fails" videos) and now they are casting SC2 games again. People send them replays so... there must be some people out there playing? https://www.youtube.com/@LifesAGlitchTV
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GSL finals were very good. I skipped the Ro4 and half of Ro8 because of so much TvT. Also it's tough to keep up with the tournaments, I've only got so much time in a day I can spend on starcraft. I was super happy to hear at the end that next season is offline competition. I wonder what kind of deal was made to fund that change.
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Its been a few years since I've watched live Starcraft. Is this new Twitch change going to change ESL or whatever tournament? https://twitter.com/zachbussey/status/1666111296209661953
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Probably not, but they also tweeted like 5 hours later that they were going to change it again, so...
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What is a burned in ad? On where the streamer switches their feed to an ad instead of letting twitch cover up the stream?
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ilmucche posted:What is a burned in ad? On where the streamer switches their feed to an ad instead of letting twitch cover up the stream? I'm sure someone else can better describe them. Its like in GSL, where they have those ads for energy drinks. Its part of the stream itself. Its burnt in, meaning if you watch the VOD, those same ads are part of it. Twitch ads are played over, on top of the normal stream, if you watch the VODs here, the ads are gone, because they were just played over the stream.
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