coL Goes Source: We Lead Rather Than Follow

20-1-2007 15:41

An exciting move announced just last night, might change the balance of things in the Esports scene. As rumored previously, Complexity has officially decided to go Source. Will this change the balance of the scene? It remains to be seen!

Such an important team as complexity might steam up other possible contenders, that will also join Source and reinforce the whole scene around it. We might witness the moment that would change the face of gaming by turning around it's main game, purpose, the main money adder.

Incredible funds announced by DirecTV's event, attracted even complexity which has been characterized as a team "with limited financial sponsorship". The funny thing is, what Angel Munoz tried to create two years ago and got criticized for it, it's now happening spontaneously, maybe a bit pushed away from the back by the greens power.

While other teams preferred to be precocious about rushing into choices, Jason Lake, owner of the Syndicate declared officially that coL will only concentrate on Source and stick with 1.6 for fun:

We will still play our beloved 1.6 for fun and encourage our fans to do the same if they wish. However, at this time our professional Counter-Strike will be centered around the Source platform.

Regarding the side effects expected as a result to their decision, Jason Lake commented convincingly:

We are well aware of the criticism being levied against us. Accusations of "selling out" and being "money hungry" have flooded our forums, and we have intentionally let you, our fans, vent your frustrations with little to no censorship. In fairness, however, we ask you to remember that no top organization in gaming history has endured more and accomplished more with limited financial sponsorship than compLexity.

We have stayed the course and sacrificed greatly in order to pursue our passion for gaming- and winning. Yes, there may be financial benefits to this decision, but if you have been following our organization over the years you would be misguided to believe the financial incentives are the true reason for our switch.

Our driving motive is the honest belief that this is the best way to move compLexity and E-Sports forward into a future that will benefit professional gaming as a whole. We are prepared to weather this storm of criticism and welcome it as a growing pain.

Also interesting to mention is the fact that Jason Lake is not too optimistic to begin with. He asks for patience from the fans and hopes for the best in the future: "We also ask for your patience, as CS:S is a new game and we have no false illusions that we'll be #1 right away. "

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i´be always been a big coL fan but this time is over....

2007-01-20 11:06

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#1 true. I always liked 3d vs col @ 1.6 I hope they read some comments at some site's that they mabye understand that this is a wrong move.

2007-01-20 11:27

Its bad :/ I hope 1.6 lasts.

2007-01-20 11:44

zet0r source? .........

2007-01-20 12:33

Sellouts. Though it doesn't really matter that much: The thing is, Europe = Counter-Strike, and in Europe 1.6 dominates (could be because Europeans are actually good at it, not like Americans). It doesn't matter what US does, as long as Europe sticks with the better game, 1.6 is no where near dying. coL picked up source only because of DTV and the money, not because source is good or anything. Thus, when DTV fails, everybody returns to 1.6 and things will be back to normal.

2007-01-20 12:46

The problem is, DTV isn't neccesarily going to fail. Complexity is a team that's exists for the sole purpose of putting money in jason lake's pocket, and we can't blame him for it, he's done alot of the community in the pursuit of making himself more money. From a business perspective, moving to source is a great move, but for the average player that just wants to have fun, 1.6 is superior and thus it isn't going anywhere. If anything this will just result in a different community of 12 year olds building up around source.

2007-01-24 17:08

pff source sucks plz come back 1.6

2007-01-20 12:56

even if col was my favourite team, they're just americans, who cares americans? europe > america in every shape, now fnatic will be my fav team :D

2007-01-20 12:58

Source Sucks =| And it´s bad that big teams only want for the money ! =X

they don´t lead they go the way of all the other american 1.6 teams...

2007-01-20 13:14

It's not a really good example for all there fans. Just a stupid mentality. The skillz remain, the mentaliy maybe fade away.

2007-01-20 13:20

source govno

2007-01-20 13:26

:( source sucks please 1.6

2007-01-20 14:02

this was the wrong way to go col... GL zet!

2007-01-20 14:22

WE WANT 1.5 BACK!! :P p.s. Promod sux :)

2007-01-20 16:15

as always north america does something stupid.

2007-01-20 18:01

Go away source!

2007-01-20 18:09

what a shit

2007-01-20 20:39

Hope it works out.

2007-01-20 20:42

Ah geez... I hate source. The game sucks so bad that they have to pay people to play it. :-/

2007-01-20 21:02

*Flameproof cloak on* Maybe it is money, but in my opinion they did it, as they knew that in 1.6 there are many teams that can kick their asses, while Source is quite 'young' and still lacks true stars. Imo it's running away and trying to find an easier place to earn money.

2007-01-21 01:52

coL will fail.

2007-01-21 15:31

This is though a good chance for new American teams to try the "pro" scene

2007-01-21 17:34

move coL and E-sports ahead? That's just stupid imo, it's clear that there are a lot of people against Source, people who have played 1.6 have rejected source over all this time, it's not like they will change now that coL goes source. Anyways gl to them, loss for the 1.6 scene but there are still enough teams around to fill their spot

2007-01-21 19:39