World of Warcraft: Current Year
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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
Go here and give us your nominations!Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!
Malakriss
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Blizzard accused of disabling authentication to stop users deleting accounts during boycott
Multiple Blizzard users are reporting that the company won’t let them authenticate and close their accounts.
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Koushirou
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This is not for unsubbing but for doing a full account and data delete, so it requires different info.
Alright, help me out here. I logged onto my level 110 priest on retail to see what holy was like and ran a random dungeon when I had 150% rested xp. I got out of there with only 50% rested left. Where did all that xp come from? Doing randoms on other alts with rested didn't give anywhere near that much. Dungeon was that creepy Nazmir one if that matters.
Big Phoenix
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Would have canceled my account but the one I was using wasnt even mine so cant do that. What I can do is stop playing OW and finally play that long backlog of Steam games. Ill start with Witcher 3.
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The South Koreans did just fine without Blizzard creating tons of hype about Starcraft esports. Heck, people even invented new esports like MOBA's with Blizzard games, and Blizzard slept right through it.
In fact Blizzard trying to cash in on the esports hype with Starcraft II and micromanaging it to death just killed a lot of hype.
Fyff
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How many concurrent viewers did the Korean StarCraft events get? Just curious because I don't think I have ever watched anything StarCraft related.
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Original SC? I think it'd be hard to count since it aired on TV, not on Internet. Still does afaik, although numbers are much lower. It was also mainly many years ago, so point of comparison with today's numbers is entirely moot. That'd be like comparing Dota1 events with LoL Worlds, there wasn't even Twitch(or Justin.tv) to stream to back then.
I'll say Blizzard did a much better job with OW than they did SC2, at least numbers wise. I honestly thought the whole forced league shit where companies had to buy slots would die horribly, but it worked out alright. It's artificial as fuck but there's viewers and when comparing to SC2(which did ok numbers very infrequently then terrible numbers the rest of the time) and HotS(more or less dead on arrival) it's certainly a big difference. Hell even the 6months of GOAT shit didn't seem to hurt their numbers too much even though it was the most boring shit ever.
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I think it's easier to link you to the Wikipedia article: StarCraft in esports - Wikipedia
"The two major game channels in South Korea, Ongamenet and MBCGame, each ran a Starleague (Ongamenet Starleague, MBCgame Starleague), viewed by millions of fans."
Esports permeated South Korean culture much more than in the west, and with it the surrounding countries, e.g. the Phillipines:
Compare that to China where one of the most successful romcoms is "Love O2O", taking place in an MMO:
Love O2O (TV series) - Wikipedia
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I have said it before but ActiBlizz if they were smart would crowd source so much free work from dipshits who love making this stuff and are stupid enough to get exploited out of it, they could probably cut their dev team in half while being able to release content 2-3x faster.
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Merrith
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