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Post by feedback on Sept 23, 2010 20:12:08 GMT -5
You know all this crap that Blizzard has been putting out lately makes me wonder if Blizzard even bothers testing it's crap before moving it straight to production. Or if they even have any real high level players giving them feedback on their ideas and implementations. So far it just looks like they're shooting themselves in the foot and unfortunately I haven't seen any sign of this changing any time soon.
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Post by feedback on Oct 1, 2010 18:24:25 GMT -5
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Post by buhwhyen on Oct 1, 2010 22:35:21 GMT -5
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Post by buhwhyen on Oct 7, 2010 1:44:08 GMT -5
So apparently there are articles floating around about Mike Moringhime (blizzard ceo) met with the Korean minister of culture (this was supposed to be to help further negotiations) MM tried to tell the minster off about how people weren't following the law, blah blah about IP rights, and the Minister responding to basically fuck off, that he is "just the ceo of an ordinary company, how dare he try telling the Korean minister of culture off."
Also apparently Kespa has offered between 300-500k in compensation/royalties but Gomtv has turned down their offer.
Most surprising is that I learned that Samsung actually owns WCG? And the ceo of WCG announced that they were still strongly considering having broodwar in WCG 2011. Lol.
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Post by dyuman on Oct 11, 2010 23:16:10 GMT -5
Someone posted a snippet of a blog post on PGR21.com, of a guy who posted a first person account of a meeting between Mike Morhaime and the Department of Culture's vice Minister. Due to its sensitive nature, the blog post was quickly deleted by the writer. However, small portions were recoverable by using search engines, and me being a curious little bugger google searched everyline and used the preview to recover the entire post 8)
Gives you a little bit of an idea of what's truly going on, huh
+ Show Spoiler +
Rough Translation:
"The Government Shouldn't be shaken by Blizzard" -
Last Month, Blizzard's President Mike Morhaime met with the Vice Minister of Korean Department of Culture. The related articles were published saying "A Warm, Accepting Atmosphere", "Promise to continue negotiating", "Progress Seen", but reality was a little, no, a lot different.
As soon as they met, Mike Morhaime started "protesting", exclaiming "Korea isn't following international rules, huh!" "What are you gonna do about people not respecting intellectual property rights!!!". The Vice Minister of course responded angrily, saying "Who do you think you are to say these things to the Minister? You're just a president of an ordinary corporation!!!" [T/N: lines are said in a much angrier tone on statements from both MM and Minister]. orz....
So the people around recovered the demolished atmosphere and disbanded after agreeing to talk about next time, but the dominating viewpoint that Blizzard has already given up any hopes of being able to negotiate with Korea. KeSPA has offered money to settle rather late (3~500 million won), but Blizzard didn't even flinch, and yesterday there was people talking about "GSL may be going overseas...".
Personally I think they have no reason to stay when it's now certain that they're looked upon scornfully especially when they have to fight against the Government, but after looking at the statement said by the opposing party, I was reminded of when Blizzard vented "You guys are going too far just because we're a foreign company" orz... I'm reminded of the materials released yesterday about how China is buying a lot of Korean companies and how China's gaming industry is invading Korea, and as always, I think the comedy is continuing.
About President MM... It's something he won't hear even if he meets Obama, so because he just had a very unique experience he will never have again, he should be satisfied with that? (huh?)
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