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by Brian Leahy, Nov 01, 2010 3:00pm PDTBack in May, Blizzard signed an exclusive deal with Gretech in South Korea to carry and sub-license broadcast rights to its games including StarCraft: Brood War and StarCraft II. Companies that had been running Brood War tournaments and broadcasting them were required to negotiate terms with Gretech in order to continue legally, according to Blizzard and Gretech.
MBCPlus Media, which operates the network MBCGame, has been sued by Blizzard (via TeamLiquid.net) for continuing to run StarCraft: Brood War tournaments without acquiring a sub-license from Gretech and Blizzard.
"We did our absolute best during last 3 years to state a fair and balanced negotiations, but we never received any fair terms stated, and it is unfortunate that we must find our solution in the courts as our final resort," said Blizzard COO Paul Sams. "We've always believed firmly that StarCraft leagues can co-exist with GSL [StarCraft II league], and we hope that MBCGame can continue broadcasting StarCraft tournaments and events. But, for this to happen, it is important to finish licensing negotiations in order to protect our IP rights first."
It is unclear if the current Brood War leagues run by MBCGame will continue or if the courts will order an injunction until the legal issues can be worked through.
This all follows difficult negotiations between Blizzard and the Korean eSports Players Association (KeSPA). I hope this can all be worked out to preserve the Brood War leagues for a bit longer, but I do want some of my favorite pro-gamers to make the transition to StarCraft II.
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"So WoW, the game every MMO wants to be, the game every company wants to make isn't good?"
That is THE problem for the last five or so years. Companies WANT to make another WoW. Do you think WoW started out as 'Lets make another WoW."? God no.
How much money do you think Da Vinci made off the Mona Lisa? Do you think he said "I want to make another Mona Lisa because it sold well!" when he made it?
That's how fucked up things are now. Developers are forced to stare at metrics for WoW or MW2 and are told 'Make another game that is just as good as this!' which is something they'll never be able to accomplish. The drives are completely different and your goal line not being your imagination, but something else that already exists is fruitless. They'll never, ever, EVER be able to surpass either of those two games thinking like that and all the finance department can see is money. Most CEOs can only see money. People like you can only seemingly see MONEY too.
APB was told 'Make another GTA only as a MMO' and you know what happened to that? I didn't even hear about it till it went down flaming, that is very sad for a multi-million dollar MMO.
"Money, Popularity, Fame, Power"
If that is how life told you how to be successful you need to find other drives, because NONE of those are long lasting or fulfilling. Why do you think so many people in such positions are so unhappy and try to cut so many corners to just make a little more? Because the thirst never ends.
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