Microsoft to Sponsor WCG 108
xIcemanx writes "Microsoft has announced that it will be sponsoring the World Cyber Games through 2008, providing the world's largest e-sports competition with software, hardware, and marketing. let's hope this doesn't mean radical changes in the games we see at the championships."
Emergency Games (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Emergency Games (Score:1)
Heart of Darkness (Score:3, Funny)
Of course not! Microsoft is in this out of the kindness of their pure heart.
Re:Heart of Darkness (Score:2, Insightful)
Changes? Preposterous! (Score:3, Funny)
There will only be one tiny little change. It will now be called the World XBox Games. But honest, it'll still be the WCG you know and love.
broodwar better still be in this (Score:2, Insightful)
Fun! (Score:2)
Re:Fun! (Score:2)
Re:Fun! (Score:4, Funny)
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You only want to play Starcraft for pink slips.
True competition is a test of skill in a fair and balanced situation, not a means of throwing money around to back up your testosterone. Unless you're playing poker. Betting, gambling, etc only makes things "interesting" because it's a metagame. You get to play two games instead of just the one. However, it's irrelevant to your skill as a player, and therefore not a judge of player quality. Frankly, if you're the type of person who gets excited just because you're betting, it would probably be wiser not to bet at all.
Re:Fun! (Score:2)
http://www.answers.com/topic/competition [answers.com]
The very first definition invalidates your entire point. To quote (and I double-checked this with my personal dictionary, it states the exact same thing) "1. The act of competing, as for profit or a prize; rivalry."
Re:Fun! (Score:2)
Gambling certainly qualifies as a competition, but, as I think I said, it is a metagame. It is an entirely different competition layered on top of the sport.
Poker is about the only sport where gambling is allowed, and that's only because gambling is the point of the game. You eve
Re:Fun! (Score:2)
Re:Fun! (Score:3, Funny)
Yeah, pot plays a role in my gameplaying too.
-Eric
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Re:Sony and Playstation missing entirely (Score:2)
Oh come off it. If that's what they were doing, they'd simply supply a lifetime of free pizza and beer.
It'd be far cheaper than buying...er..."sponsering" these games.
Re:Sony and Playstation missing entirely (Score:4, Insightful)
The deal also asserts that Microsoft Windows and Xbox 360 will be the exclusive gaming platforms for the PC and console for the events, meaning that other console titles for Sony or Nintendo platforms will not figure in the competitions.
Of course, you can't really expect them to provide anything else, as they are supplying all the hardware/software. Would you really expect them to buy Playstations?
If WCG didn't like the conditions, they didn't have to do the deal, that simple.
RTFA.... =) (Score:4, Informative)
-elf
Re:RTFA.... =) (Score:1)
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Good exposure. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Good exposure. (Score:1, Redundant)
Re:Good exposure. (Score:4, Funny)
Satoshi, meet sarcasm. Sarcasm, meet Satoshi.
In other news... (Score:5, Funny)
I'm playing Wesnoth (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:In other news... (Score:3, Insightful)
As to upcoming games, UT2007, Savage 2, and Enemy Territory: Quake Wars are all going to run natively in linux.
Nice try Mr FUD.
In other news...Bragging on the increase. (Score:1, Insightful)
Ok braggard. List those one hundred games.* Oh and just in case no one noticed, the majority of those are FPSers.
*I seriously doubt you can even get to fifty.
Re:In other news...Bragging on the increase. (Score:1)
Re:In other news... (Score:3, Insightful)
The simple fact is, Windows is THE platform for PC gaming, and naming a handfull of games that run on linux doesn't change that fact.
Re:In other news... (Score:2)
Unfortunately, it was true enough to be very funny to me, a Linux-only casual gamer (thanks for the heads up on new games I should be buying, btw! ;)
If we don't buy them, they will go away.
Re:In other news... (Score:1)
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If you define a "gaming platform" as "has a lot of commercial games," then you're absolutely right. I would, however, point out that Linux is not significantly worse for game development than any other platform, IMHO.
No, but it does make it easier for those of us who want to just run Linux. :)
Re:In other news... (Score:1)
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Why spend $100 on a slower OS just so youll need to spend an extra $100 on hardware to make your games run faster? Give me Linux + GeForce 6600 o
Re:In other news... (Score:1)
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mainstream linux-native...
RPGs:
Neverwinter Nights
BG/IWD/BG2 some day when GemRB is finished
MMORPGs:
Second Life
Puzzle Pirates
Runescape
A Tale in the Desert
Daimonin
Vega Strike
Vendetta Online
RTSes:
Homeworld
Total Annihilation: Spring
Kohan: Immortal Sovereigns
Majesty Gold
Myth 2
and more FPSes:
Quake 3
America's Army
Return to Castle Wolfenste
Re:In other news... (Score:1)
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Seriously, though, if you sponsor a conference or event, you don't have to make them use your software!
World Community Grid??? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:World Community Grid??? (Score:1)
Re:World Community Grid??? (Score:2)
Alright, we can finally built a sentient computer network that we can put in charge of all our nuclear missle silos! Can you imagine the savings in labor costs alone?
-Eric
Bad guy (Score:2, Insightful)
The games: (Score:5, Funny)
Whack-a-Who-da-punk: Hit a person with no face before they destroy Microsoft from within by engaging in serious discussions about the relative inadequacy of the bloated management structure.
Windows Vista: TBA.
Re:The games: (Score:2, Insightful)
Let's think... (Score:5, Informative)
From TFA:
The deal also asserts that Microsoft Windows and Xbox 360 will be the exclusive gaming platforms for the PC and console for the events, meaning that other console titles for Sony or Nintendo platforms will not figure in the competitions.
Games offered last time [wikipedia.org]:
-Counter-Strike: Source
-FIFA Football 2005
-Need for Speed: Underground 2
-StarCraft: Brood War
-Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne
-Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War
-Dead or Alive Ultimate
-Halo 2
I'd wager a "No."
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Re:It's not a sport for champions... (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:It's not a sport for champions... (Score:2)
Re:It's not a sport for champions... (Score:2)
It draws pretty much everyone in.
Well, most people with 3 or more neurons to rub together.
It can be as technical as you want, or purely leightweight tv viewing. Chess involves a lot of skull sweat.
...in America (Score:3, Informative)
From the article:
Two cable TV networks, known as Ongamenet and MBCgame, compete for viewers with their own 24-hour programming dedicated to PC and console gaming. Fierce gaming competitions are held, backed by major corporate sponsors, and studios overflow with live audiences trying to catch a glimpse at players who are practically given celebrity status.
Their number one program is called Ongamenet Starleague, which i
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Re:It's not a sport for champions... (Score:1)
So don't watch the players, watch the screens. All these things need is untalented directors, just like real sports.
Scale Proportion = 999% (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Scale Proportion = 999% (Score:2, Insightful)
While I agree with you, they didn't always "SELL!" I think there is a very real potential for console games to become competitive with the introduction of standard online-play. Hopefully Nintendo will host their own competitions.
Even though I disagree with you, your comment was legit and your point had substan
Re:Scale Proportion = 999% (Score:2)
Re:Scale Proportion = 999% (Score:2)
2) I am speaking from the perspective of increasing the awareness of competitive gaming.
3) Sure I can. Better luck next time?
Consoles? (Score:1)
I can play anything right now:PC games,Emulated console game(most of them),Online games.
Without being put into limits of console manufacturers and corporate overlords.
Console is essentialy a cheap limited computer made to run games.
Re:Scale Proportion = 999% (Score:1)
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Re:"E-sport" (Score:1)
And don't diss the hand muscle! That's the same one that opens the mayonaise/jelly/soda bottle when your wife can't - granting instant "my hero" points.
Does this mean that quake 4.... (Score:2)
Re:Does this mean that quake 4.... (Score:1)
fool (Score:3, Informative)
No, just in the gaming platform. RTFA - it's now Xbox-only. WCG just got assimilated.
Olympic Decathlon (Score:1)
Actually, no changes. (Score:3, Insightful)
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Re:Actually, no changes. (Score:3, Insightful)
Yeah! It's not like Microsoft has a history of astroturfing, assimilating and destroying!
Re:Actually, no changes. (Score:1)
Well... (Score:1)
It's about time! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:It's about time! (Score:2)
-Eric
Finally (Score:1)
WCG windows version2.0.0.6 (Score:1)
Testing (Score:2)
Well.... (Score:1)
In fact , forget the WCG!
Re:e-sport? No. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:e-sport? No. (Score:1)
Their cheerleaders will be so disappointed.
Re:e-sport? No. (Score:2)