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Blogs \ A split SC community?
lipton @ 31st March 2009 23:20 (Read 373 times).
A Segmented Starcraft community when SC2 comes out, will it happen?

djWheat runs a great podcast discussing eSports in general. In his 2nd episode he brings up the possibilities of a community segmentation within the Starcraft community with the release of StarCraft II. A similar split occurred between Counter-Strike 1.6 and Source.

Check out the podcast I'm speaking about here:
http://www.djwheat.tv/2009/01/29/live-on-three-e02-cheating/


Will there be a split?

The surrounding events that led up to the Counter-Strike split were a far different animal than Blizzard releasing the sequel to the best RTS game ever made.

What I'm talking about here is that at the time CS was still the premiere competitive game in N.America when CS Source came out. The crash and burn of the CPL also meant the death of the biggest event for Counter-Strike players. The mechanics changed so much between 1.6 and Source that 1.6 gamers swore by their game and stuck to it. That was the CS split...

djWheat could go into way more detail about the CS community than I could, so lets take a look now at the StarCraft community.


The biggest difference here is that SC gamers have been waiting for a sequel for over 10 years now-- a game that would surpass the original in both technical aspects and complexity as an eSport.

CS gamers still do not have a true sequel to their game; 1.6 and Source were rather 2 different "expansion" / "version" upgrades. Not being a true sequel to original CS, Source I feel was just a pretty version of the game with major game play changes. This is what caused the split IMHO.

The StarCraft community on the other hand will be getting a true sequel a decade later. StarCraft II is a game with a plethora of complexity being built into it right now, and Blizzard has actually put together an in house eSports team which will help foster a great competitive transition from SC to SC2. Basically Blizz is taking an active approach to the success of SC2 as an eSport, while SC was an accident.

Check out the rest of my article here:
http://starfeeder.gameriot.com/blogs/The-Starfeed/A-Segmented-Starcraft-community-when-SC2-comes-out-will-it-happen
 


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