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Warcraft in Europe - Grim Reaper Calling
Former SK Gaming Editor-in-Chief Lawrence "Malystryx" Phillips explores the decaying European Warcraft scene on Replays.net.
By Samuel 'DarthBotto' Horton
Feb 3, 2010 20:14
Former SK Gaming Editor-in-Chief Lawrence "Malystryx" Phillips explores the decaying European Warcraft scene on Replays.net.Still taking a friendly stance from his position within the Replays.net community, Lawrence "Malystryx" Phillips decided to set out and collect testimony from figureheads in the eSports community. Fueled by the testimonies of individuals to the likes of SK Gaming's Alexander T. "TheSlash" Müller-Rodic, Fnatic's Kevin "RotterdaM" van der Kooi and WeMade FOX's Jae Ho 'Moon' Jang, Malystryx formed several interesting conclusions. These include the drastic overpricing of Warcraft III players, the preference of the Asian scene and the retirement of Warcraft III support, in favor of moving to StarCraft II.
In regards to major Asian players playing for professional European organizations, Malystryx shares his perspective on the recent trend of Asians joining in-house, heavily-sponsored teams, thereby shifting to a home front. For example, Xiang 'TH000' Huang and Weiliang 'Fly100%' Lu were the two most-successful players from Mousesports who have left in the relatively recent past. Fly joined EHOME and in all likelihood, TH000 may follow, as well.
This, of course, applies heavily to the South Korean scene, as well. Jae Ho 'Moon' Jang was the top performer from Meet Your Makers before the organization raised the bar for player compensation to a dangerous zone and caused its collapse this year. Because of this trend, (not entirely MYM's fault), South Korean players have increased expectations of European teams that cannot be upheld for such exorbient rates. The perfect example is June 'Lyn' Park, who built his reputation during his tenure with SK Gaming , but eventually was won over by WeMade FOX , which is a subsidiary of WeMade, a financially-superior software developer with ample resources.
To examine this paradox from the stance of a managing director of a major eSports organization, Alexander T. "TheSlash" Müller-Rodic discusses his position:
In an exerpt from Malystryx's article:
The remainder of Malystryx's article focuses upon the decaying European Warcraft III scene, which comes along with the inevitable transition to StarCraft II; a transition for both Warcraft and StarCraft players.
The full article is available on Replays.net.
Source: Replays.net
In regards to major Asian players playing for professional European organizations, Malystryx shares his perspective on the recent trend of Asians joining in-house, heavily-sponsored teams, thereby shifting to a home front. For example, Xiang 'TH000' Huang and Weiliang 'Fly100%' Lu were the two most-successful players from Mousesports who have left in the relatively recent past. Fly joined EHOME and in all likelihood, TH000 may follow, as well.
This, of course, applies heavily to the South Korean scene, as well. Jae Ho 'Moon' Jang was the top performer from Meet Your Makers before the organization raised the bar for player compensation to a dangerous zone and caused its collapse this year. Because of this trend, (not entirely MYM's fault), South Korean players have increased expectations of European teams that cannot be upheld for such exorbient rates. The perfect example is June 'Lyn' Park, who built his reputation during his tenure with SK Gaming , but eventually was won over by WeMade FOX , which is a subsidiary of WeMade, a financially-superior software developer with ample resources.
To examine this paradox from the stance of a managing director of a major eSports organization, Alexander T. "TheSlash" Müller-Rodic discusses his position:
"Though the landscape for tournaments and fanbase for WC3 shrinks, players demand more and more. We at SK feel this is the wrong direction and the consequences can be seen in our rosters. I am not blaming MYM or greedy players here, don't get me wrong, I am just pointing out what is happening and why it is happening."
In an exerpt from Malystryx's article:
"Europe is becoming more and more barren of opportunities for Warcraft3, even the WCG2009 saw huge cutbacks in the number of European countries hosting qualifiers, with Spain, Sweden, Norway, Finland and the United Kingdom all missing out on the biggest competition of the year. Couple this with the death of ESWC and the cancellation of the Samsung European Championships last year and its blatantly obvious that European players are left with slim pickings for a shot of international success."
The remainder of Malystryx's article focuses upon the decaying European Warcraft III scene, which comes along with the inevitable transition to StarCraft II; a transition for both Warcraft and StarCraft players.
The full article is available on Replays.net.
Source: Replays.net
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used to be one of the best guys in sk wc3 staff
very nice to read that !