![]() ![]() If I had people making my product successful, moving copies of my product on store shelves, I wouldn't charge them a goddamn penny.īut you know what, let Blizzard kill themselves on their own hubris. Now blizzard is just getting greedy and wants in on the broadcaster's pie. No, these are the people that make Starcraft successful and breath fresh life into the game over the long years, the same way korean broadcasters have. What if he got so big that he had to host his own website instead of using youtube? Would Husky be "repackaging" starcraft and selling it as his own? What happens next when Husky gets sued for hosting tournaments when he starts pulling in lots of cash? Why don't they go after people like HDStarcraft or HuskyStarcraft or any other livestream/youtube broadcasters? Those guys make money by commentating starcraft games, and hosting tournaments. The broadcasted games are on legal copies of Starcraft, and if watching Starcraft being played on TV makes viewers want to own the game as well, they will go buy legal copies of starcraft, not Starcraft : KeSPA edition. He basically accuses these broadcasters as "repackaging" starcraft and then reselling it. ![]() Hopefully the agreement will see the hosts of the OSL and MSL using a little of their muscle to give competitive StarCraft II a helping hand. However, SC2 has yet to reach anywhere near the same level of popularity the original had in South Korea, due in part to the GSL being the only big league in town. GOMtv went on to host an excellent StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty competition, the Global StarCraftII League (GSL). This was a bit of a slap to the face for KeSPA, as many of its members had shunned the online broadcaster and the league it hosted for the original StarCraft. In May 2010, Blizzard granted South Korean licensing rights exclusively to Gretech-GOMtv, meaning Ongamenet and MBC would have to sublicense from GOM. Licensing fees of an undisclosed amount will be paid annually, and Blizzard's logo featured in their content. ![]() This'll allow them to host tournaments, broadcast StarCraft series games, and get up to other things they've been doing for yonks anyway. The trio were due in court on May 13 but this has now been postponed, as Fomos reports Ongamenet and MBC will be signing up for StarCraft licenses. Unsurprisingly, and justly, Blizzard was somewhat displeased by their refusal to play ball and called in the lawyers. It also seemed a little cheeky that Blizzard waited until they, with other companies, had helped make StarCraft hugely successful in South Korea. The companies respectively had hosted the OSL and MSL, two astonishingly popular leagues for the original game, for years and felt Blizzard had no right to demand these fees. South Korean television networks and KeSPA members Ongamenet and MBC Game broadcast competitive StarCraft games without the licenses or fees demanded by Blizzard. Fomos reports that Several members of the body, the self-declared representative of South Korean professional gaming, are soon to settle with the maker of the StarCraft series. The hostilities and legal battle between Blizzard and the Korean eSports Players Association over StarCraft broadcasting rights are seemingly drawing to a close. ![]()
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