WEM to drop CS - Report

28-3-2012 12:22

According to cnFrag.com, World eSports Masters has decided to drop its long standing titles Counter-Strike 1.6 and WarCraft 3 in favor of League of Legends and StarCraft 2.

Although no official announcement has been released from the WEM staff, cnFrag has reportedly found out that WEM 2012 will not feature Counter-Strike 1.6 or WarCraft 3 anymore, as both are dropped in favor of newer titles LoL and SC2.

The same organizers used to run World eSports Games which saw four seasons take place in Korea and China, which were won by NoA, Begrip and wNv. Two years later WEM replaced old WEG format, seeing mTw, fnatic and WeMadeFOX crowned as champions.

Last time for CS players to stand at the podium of a WEM event

Most recently in November, the 2011 WEM event was pushed back due to problems in negotiations with local Hangzhou government, although at the time WEM was still believed to feature CS as well.

Organizers of WEM are also in charge of the annual e-Stars Seoul tournament, so it is possible e-Stars might also be making the switch to newer games which would mean dropping CS, as World Cyber Games reportedly did earlier this week.

For people who want to write below that cs dies — if WEM dropped cs that doesn't really mean the death of counter strike, it is still alive... a little bit.

2012-03-28 17:17

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2012-03-28 17:19

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NOOOOOOOOOOOO SAVAGE

2012-03-28 17:36

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2012-03-28 18:07

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2012-03-28 18:16

youtube.com/watch?v=CBjd60TfTsA

2012-06-06 13:17

80,000 streaming viewers at IEM6 finals and tournament organizers are still dropping the game. Unbelievable.

2012-03-28 17:20

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WEM is not IEM

2012-03-28 17:22

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so? Who cares in which tournament cs got that number of views? The main point is that cs is still popular after 13 years and tournaments are dropping it

2012-03-28 17:25

they only care about their graphics obsessed fans...

2012-03-28 17:23

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2012-03-28 17:28

Starcraft: Brood War is still very popular in Korea, and the graphics of BW are even worse than 1.6.

2012-03-28 17:34

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So they're just stupid ? Wtf ?

2012-03-28 17:59

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gameplay > graphics edit : In south korea CS 1.6 is not very big. They do have a proleague for a game called special force tho, you can check it out on esportstv's youtube channel

2012-03-29 20:57

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yeah its big in the philippines also.. its looks just like 1.6 for the most part just 1000x's worse. every time i see kids playing it i just wonder why the fuck you would rather play that than 1.6

2012-03-31 13:43

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Well sf is pretty big in pc bangs from what i've understood. It's graphically decent but doesn't take a sick computer to run. Also they are currently playing SF 2 which is a lot more cod - like ( a hella lot more ) than cs like. Also i think it's because it's a korean production and because it's free that it was " pushed " and promoted that way.

2012-03-31 19:18

Yeah and, Special Force is also popular in Taiwan, Japan and other East Asia country etc but its gameplay is completely sucks =D

2012-06-06 11:20

It's probably the last year for BW all the remaning pro players of BW are going to switch to sc2

2012-03-29 02:25

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Yeah, bw is dead, cs 1.6 is dead. We've heard that a year ago, two years ago, three years ago ... but they are still there. And most BW pro will just retire. Only the less successful B teamers and some A teamers will take a shot at sc2.

2012-03-31 19:19

BW is still strong, even tho MBCGame was shut down. But the thing is , at the moment Onegamenet ( the tv channel who's hosting proleague and osl ) has to renegociate their license with blizzard, and blizzard will obviously try to force them to get starcraft 2 because SC2 is doing very poorly in korea. The gsl is alive thanks to the foreign viewers only. And SC2 numbers are not really growing, so blizz wants to get OGN to switch over to SC2 but i highly doubt that'll work out as well as they expect it to be. Also noteworthy : BW numbers have been dropping ever since the match fixing scandal involving savior etc ... but not by much. I think with chinese restreams, ogn still gets about a million people to watch especially on important matches such as SKT1 - KT ROLSTER. Just my 2cents

2012-03-29 21:00

SC: BW is quite dead there.

2012-03-30 12:13

Gameplay is what matters, baby... you only need good graphics if you wanna masturbate :O

2012-03-28 17:35

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hahahaha Well said dude ! true story .. :P

2012-03-29 01:59

LoL got 270k+ and SC2 got over 100k viewers at IEM

2012-03-28 18:08

80k is not a big number compared to the other game viewers, at least League of legends.

2012-03-28 18:14

What counts is how many premium viewers they had. You don't make a lot of money off ads, especially with only 80k viewers. No idea what the premium count was for CS, or any other game. But it would be a nice thing to compare.

2012-03-28 22:39

LoL daily streams have over 100k viewers and SC2 daily streams have about same amount of viewers as cs 1.6 finals. Why would they keep cs 1.6 if they can earn way more by having LoL and SC2 instead.

2012-03-29 13:58

sorry for replying you i.chzbgr.com/completestore/2012/3/28/ace..

2012-03-28 17:29

likeaboss

2012-03-28 18:51

shit starting to look like source..there i said it.

2012-03-28 21:49

no :(

2012-03-28 17:16

how fucked up is this

2012-03-28 17:17

:(((((((((((((

2012-03-28 17:18

Oh shooot..

2012-03-28 17:18

haha lol

2012-03-28 17:18

so it begins...

2012-03-28 17:18

CS is dead guyssss...

2012-03-28 17:18

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if you're talking about korean, yes it is

2012-03-28 17:21

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and brasilian cs too)

2012-03-28 17:25

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As well as the whole scene :)

2012-03-28 17:28

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nope, its just dead in America and Eastern Asia

2012-03-28 17:53

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and Moldova-.-

2012-03-28 21:34

next IEM?

2012-03-28 17:19

WEM never was big tournament. IEM for life :D

2012-03-28 17:19

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so one tournament for whole year would be just great cuz its a big tournament yes wait 1 year for this cs isnt dead axaxaxax

2012-03-28 17:46

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ESWC, Dreamhack, IEM, ASUS, Techlabs, SEC, ESEA, Gamegune, ICSC and etc. Not enough? LOL

2012-03-28 17:52

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techlabs nice joke

2012-03-28 17:53

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Ok, count without Techlabs. Still not enough?

2012-03-28 17:54

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then its enough

2012-03-28 17:55

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:D:D

2012-03-28 19:06

sry but no asus In future already

2012-03-28 20:17

CPH games

2012-03-28 18:12

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Yes ofc, there are more events, it was just some of them from my memory :)

2012-03-28 18:13

as of right now only esea is hosting another season in cs 1.6. eswc, dreamhack, iem, asus, techlabs (if more will happen), sec, gamegune and icsc have yet to announce new events featuring cs 1.6, as unfortunate as it is.

2012-03-28 19:59

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I know, but when we look at the latest prize money of these events, we can see they won't cut this game at least in 2 years :) But ofc, I don't know what will happen after CS:GO release. Will it replace 1.6 or not, is unknown :)

2012-03-28 20:45

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you don't know that they won't, we've seen wcg and wem cut cs now, and e-stars is likely to do the same. we have no idea whether or not iem and eswc will continue with cs 1.6, and sec is a part of wcg which means it's also out already. what's left? dreamhack's main tourney is sc2 (not that they couldn't include cs on the side), gamegune is likely to have 1.6, and all the CIS events (techlabs, asus, icsc etc) will probably continue with 1.6 for now, but there isn't a lot left as it stands right now.

2012-03-28 21:10

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ok, point taken :)

2012-03-28 21:53

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atleast give CS:GO a chance have u seen the new updates ? youtube.com/watch?v=DZZ1jOsevyk

2012-06-06 13:26

i think u should wait the end of 2012 and you will see how many tournaments will cut 1.6 ;] its doesnt matter how big is the tournament , if they are more it will be better for cs community but you like to hate right :]

2012-03-29 16:34

morons :)

2012-03-28 17:19

Why...

2012-03-28 17:19

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It's okay if it's Koreans dropping this, I'm getting entertained by their dramas, so I'll let this go..

2012-03-28 18:48

QUICKKK somone follow through with the mobile CS version and we'll bounce back pPLS

2012-03-28 17:20

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/Sarcasm on Mobile gaming is the future youtube.com/watch?v=SPwsU2_2oTI it even runs on Samsung cell phones, WCG's main sponsor. /Sarcasm off

2012-03-28 17:27

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2012-03-28 18:27

wrong

2012-03-28 17:41

no more cs in competition means no more fps in competition. That would be really stupid

2012-03-28 17:20

:((

2012-03-28 17:21

SHIIIIT

2012-03-28 17:21

we all are going to die!!!

2012-03-28 17:21

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2012-03-28 17:27

YOU DONT SAY!

2012-03-28 17:55

i would do same thing but it looks they didn't even think for 3rd game. interesting event. FPS's dying therefore what's the point of saying CS's dying?

2012-03-28 17:23

sad :s

2012-03-28 17:22

will hltv.org die if cs dies? or does the ppl behind hltv.org have a backupplan or just hope for the best that cs:go will be a succes ?

2012-03-28 17:22

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or just hope for the best that cs:go will be a succes I wouldn't bet on it, just saying.

2012-03-28 17:28

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hahahaahahahahha only in your dream CS:GO is bullshit. TRY TO REMEMBER! let's play CS:GO with Nix0n because WE LOVE 1.6

2012-03-28 18:07

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? you should comment it to zavior not schypher -.-

2012-03-29 02:54

Hope they make something like DOTA2TV.org

2012-03-28 17:42

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it will be MarioTV.org

2012-03-28 17:55

without WCG, WEM(e-stars) n IEM (maybe will drop cs too), cs isnt dying ? ok bro !

2012-03-28 17:23

only way to get cs back is to promote cs:go as it is, or else nothing will be left of cs

2012-03-28 17:24

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I prefer a dead CS over a "CS", that isn't a real CS anymore. CSPromod or nothing. Haters gonna hate.

2012-03-28 17:26

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+1 Following csgo is like watching a source game for me.

2012-03-28 18:29

RIP cs 1.6

2012-03-28 17:24

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RIP your brain..

2012-03-28 17:56

Baanchooooood

2012-03-28 17:25

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^LOL

2012-03-28 17:55

2012-03-28 17:25

It really hurts me inside i mean a game like 1.6 with 80k viewers in IEM and now evryones dropping it. Shit,CS:GO?? COD fanboys would like it.Valve is not evn listening to pros to make it better and the kids are just going for the Graphics

2012-03-28 17:27

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Valve just abuse them for promotion. And they don't even get it. Calling CS:GO a terrible game but attend at a CS:GO-promotion-tournament with very low prize money...

2012-03-28 17:30

5k premium watchers > 80k watchers. just saying. iem prem numbers were patheticly low. there's a lot of talk pretending to support cs but there's just so little done. if there was example's you can make some money out of streams for example every single organizer out there would be eager to look it further but no. This scene wants hltv or free 720p streams and guess what? No need to worry bout those anymore.

2012-03-28 18:39

CS had a decent last year without WEM. no biggie.

2012-03-28 17:29

CS will be for ever alive, I will still keep playing mixes , gathers and praccs... we don't need professional counter-strike to have fun

2012-03-28 17:35

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2012-03-28 20:37

+1000k like it !!

2012-03-29 13:44

Not definetly dead, but come on we've got to do something

2012-03-28 17:36

FUCK LOL............... cs / starcraft all time fav.

2012-03-28 17:39

hahah if people still write this bullshit WEm wasnt good enough wasnt big enough cs isnt die they must be ridiculous stupid :)

2012-03-28 17:43

end of era

2012-03-28 17:47

at least cs is fucking dead in Spain, it sucks balls here.

2012-03-28 17:48

wem and wcg both dropped 1.6 in a few days :(

2012-03-28 17:48

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wcg dropped pc gaming therefore you don't have to count it

2012-03-28 17:53

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so i dont have to count that wcg dropped 1.6 because they dropped all the other games? makes no sense, 1.6 has been dropped from 2 big events in the matter of a few days.

2012-03-28 18:24

If cs will get dropped, esports will die. LoL is just a stupid joke.

2012-03-28 17:48

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2012-03-28 17:59

esports wont die, the amount of people who watch starcraft 2 and LoL add up to a number that even without 1.6 wouldnt really matter to event organizers, they could even benefit from it because they can put more money in the prize pool when they dont have another game to care about.

2012-03-28 18:25

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starcraft is dominated by the kr .. and a good team-FPS....?

2012-03-28 23:34

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iem doesnt need an fps, before sc2 and LoL they did need one, but now that sc2 and LoL are incredibly huge

2012-03-29 00:56

wrong scbw is only dominated by kr sc2 is pretty equal

2012-03-30 12:23

2012-03-28 20:36

2013 would be era of esl and online gaming : )

2012-03-28 17:50

lol troliNG

2012-03-28 17:52

fFFFffffFFffuuuUUuuuUUUuuuuuuUUUUuuu

2012-03-28 17:53

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2012-03-28 18:01

I'm pissed off!!

2012-03-28 17:56

1 by 1 they just remove CS from the list..what will happen if iEM and ESWC do the same? It is gonna die..

2012-03-28 17:57

if cs dies, esport dies... I can only treat cs like a sport, other games are just 4 fun. Why can't they make a good fps game ffs...

2012-03-28 17:59

Sucks...

2012-03-28 17:59

sad to see cs being dropped...always loved competetive fps (cs, quake...) but started switching so sc2 now, I can't help but see more future in it!

2012-03-28 18:00

i won't play CS:GO YOU?

2012-03-28 18:03

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Never.

2012-03-28 18:45

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2012-03-29 07:11

Doesn't matter at all, there will be enough people who will buy this game, because Counter Strike/Valve has a big name in the gaming industry. People will watch major tournaments if there will be major tournaments. IEM had more viewers in CS than in SC2, that's correct. But this had something to do with the players in the tournament and how IEM promoted the games. Of course IEM had some of the best players in SC2 on Cebit, but this wasn't enough to get many viewers. WEM is a invite tournament and if they have a big prizepool, they will invite the best players and they will get easily many viewers. And i don't think we need to talk about LoL. There was a new report few days ago that LoL is the first game who has more success than SC1 in Korea ever had. Viewer wise of course. So it isn't a surprise at all even if there were so many viewers at Cebit and on the Streams. Europe isn't Asia. Time difference ;)

2012-03-28 19:58

Mcs the best forever game.managers for WEM are idiots they have not brain because need money and they are need sell titles. fucking systems and fucking corporate and fucking people. american and asia cs dead because this players are low.

2012-03-28 18:04

I never play cod , wow , sc2 and others shit game.only oe number one and it is counters strike 1.6

2012-03-28 18:05

this sucks, mothafuck wem

2012-03-28 18:06

game is dea.

2012-03-28 18:14

I loved 1.6 back in the days when i played alot. Now i dont play anything anymore but im still watching it. But even when i loved the game i must day that 1.6 comunity deserve this. Stupid arogant comunity which thought that they are the centre of the universe. And now u got it.

2012-03-28 18:14

WTF Y U TRYING TO MAKE US PLAY OTHER GAMES ? CS 1.6 THE BEST 4EVER ADMIT IT.

2012-03-28 18:19

Imagine that ESWC, GameGune, DreamHack and IEM drop cs too ? ...

2012-03-28 18:24

Korean CS is dead,so it doesnt surprise me that the korean esports (WCG,WEN,E-STORTS) droped CS

2012-03-28 18:28

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koreans know what cs is ?

2012-03-28 18:49

Some one is jealous from the WCG admins , and wants to play april fool as well :))) ,

2012-03-28 18:29

I hate to say it but, guys, this is it! HAHA

2012-03-28 18:30

they are obviously focused at the Asian market and as a company I would target the games that are in demand, has new and eager fan base and more opportunity to develop. Unfortunately for cs we are stuck on a plateau unable to develop any further and no real support from the developers either.

2012-03-28 18:30

CS IS DYING.

2012-03-28 18:36

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO PLEASE NOT WEM NOOOOOOOOOOOO NOT CS

2012-03-28 18:48

curaci

2012-03-28 18:59

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2012-03-28 23:22

bunch of bullshit

2012-03-28 18:59

I'm just waiting for the April fools joke of HLTV.org ... "ESWC to drop CS" / "SK to close CS division" / "CS:GO to replace CS on all events" etc..

2012-03-28 19:01

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It wont be joke at all

2012-03-28 23:23

Illuminati!

2012-03-28 19:06

CS in Asia is generally a trickier thing. I wouldn't think about it too much. It's not just "CS 1.6" vs CS:S/CS:Go here, in Asia there's also CS:Online. Some piece of crap version, where you need to spend real money to purchase the right to buy certain guns ingame. For example--> You could have 16K in CS, but still be unable to buy deagle/awp. Unless you've already spent money to purchase "the ability to buy a certain weapon". Where did this come from? Some south korean company, that dabbles in the micropayment model for online games. Some of the lan cafes in Taiwan don't even have steam lan accounts, you have to use your own steam account. I would not expect anything to change in 1.6's favor on the Asian end. The company behind this, Nexon Corporation, is doing extremely well.

2012-03-28 19:08

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even cso is crappy as shit , there are still so many kids playing this shit, that's really a big sigh for me

2012-03-29 08:38

LEAGUE OF LEGENDS!

2012-03-28 19:08

Shit happens

2012-03-28 19:09

sad story

2012-03-28 19:12

Sad !

2012-03-28 19:14

28th march's fools

2012-03-28 19:16

of cs dies..hltv.org will still be up for ppl who wanna watch demos and photos :D

2012-03-28 19:18

IEM , TechLabs , GameGune , Copenhagen Games , Dreamhack Summer & Winter , ESWC , ADEPTO LAN , ASUS CUP

2012-03-28 19:18

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IEM and TechLabs are over. GameGune, CopenhagenGames and Dreamhack are the only confirmed events for 2012. ASUS Cup and Adepto Lan for teams from east europe. It's not worth to send a team from Sweden or Germany for example to a tournament where you won't even get 5k for first place. ESWC? Nothing confirmed yet and like we know from the past year, they like it to change their gamelist short before the mainevent. But we will see it in the future.

2012-03-28 19:53

Well, after this news I can only smile at the comments that say "CS IS NOT DEAD" It's almost dead as a cybersport discipline. As the game CS won't die because games just cannot die. I mean people still play Heroes of Might and Magic 3 and other old games. But as a cybersport discipline it is dead: No support from organizers -> no sponsors -> no money for professional players -> no professional players -> no cybersport. Simple as that.

2012-03-28 19:20

SAD

2012-03-28 19:23

edited

2012-03-28 19:28

CS is slowly dying :<

2012-03-28 19:33

Sad.

2012-03-28 19:39

I don´t give a shit.

2012-03-28 19:47

when cs dies I will stop play computer games, :<

2012-03-28 19:47

No SEC, WCG and WEM for CS. That's sad. Atm there are only three confirmed events for this year. CopenhagenGames, Dreamhack Summer and GameGune :D If eStars also change their games, i wouldn't be surprised if the last top teams will lose their contracts for the second half of the year. Don't know if one Event (DreamHack Winter) would be enough for 6 month for organisations like the G7 teams. I doubt that. Maybe teams from east europe would send their teams to smaller events like NaVi and M5 are doing it. But i don't see a reason for SK and fnatic to stick to their teams in the second half of the year. Well, we will see.

2012-03-28 19:49

FUCK YOU ALL IM PLAYING CS I DONT CARE FOR OTHER TEAMS I WILL BE THE BEST PLAYER IN THE WORLD

2012-03-28 19:50

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2012-03-28 20:37

The player in the worlddddd lolipop

2012-03-30 12:26

2 down . 2 remain - IEM and ESWC to drop cs ? then it will be officially dead - all those other tournaments dont mean a thing

2012-03-28 19:50

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ESWC should drop CSS first :)

2012-03-28 21:43

lol and starcraft...LoL

2012-03-28 19:56

LoL and SC2 slowly killing CS 1.6 :s

2012-03-28 19:58

fucking intel, fucking samsung

2012-03-28 19:59

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What do Intel have to do with this?

2012-03-28 21:52

1/4/2012 ?

2012-03-28 20:02

when shit's going down, it goes down big time.

2012-03-28 20:04

sad week

2012-03-28 20:13

sad..

2012-03-28 20:15

It's amazing how a crappy game like LoL got so many viewers, I guess it's graphics > gameplay in this era of gamers.

2012-03-28 20:15

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LoL has terrible graphics tbh. Just compare it to HoN or DotA 2.

2012-03-28 20:18

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2012-03-28 22:21

I thought that too before i got randomly dota 2 key, and i cant just stop dota2 now..

2012-03-29 14:52

bad news again..

2012-03-28 20:32

This is so retarded. Why an FPS game is substituted by 2 RTS games? LOL is shit.

2012-03-28 20:35

sad

2012-03-28 20:37

fck -.-

2012-03-28 20:41

LoL sucks. stupid casual games become "esport" titles now? idontwanttoliveonthisplanetanymore.jpg would understand if they picked dota or quake

2012-03-28 20:43

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doesnt matter if they're 'casual' games if they get that much support

2012-03-28 20:44

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its just about the viewers. LoL would never be an esport title if the game wouldnt be free to play and has a big community of little kids who watch the streams :(((

2012-03-28 21:06

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its a good game with a decent community

2012-03-29 00:23

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i played it too and found it a decent casual version of dota with a horrible community.

2012-03-29 05:01

well, I think 2012 is when CS dies

2012-03-28 20:43

The game has no longer the title "e-sport"; CS has gone dead, back2school4u

2012-03-28 21:01

i wil nevr ply these n00b games cs 1.64/lyf if cs die esport dye wtf n00b graphics cod is sh1t

2012-03-28 21:02

Im stop playing in LoL!

2012-03-28 21:10

all these organizations wouldn't even exist right now without CS. ESL is the main one..

2012-03-28 21:12

news.esea.net/index.php?s=news&d=comment..

2012-03-28 21:13

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i don't believe things like that. How can they trust CS:GO when all community hates it? They shouldn't expect to reach same viewers numbers with CS:GO. It's simple. drop CS1.6 or continue with it.

2012-03-28 21:45

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Most of the CS scene hates it in its current form. But as an organizer you want something to grow with, and CS:GO is a game to grow with. You can attract new audience, and I bet sponsors would be more pleased with a game that actually needs all the hardware they are advertising with. The sponsors would prob be more satisfied with 20k viewers for CS:GO, than 80k for 1.6. CS is a great game, I try to watch it even though I'm more of a SC2 junkie. Unfortunately gameplay isn't everything. BW is a better game than SC2 in its current state, but SC2 was the future and everyone knew it. It did help quite a bit that the entire western BW scene was dead. In the end what would make the most difference is to give feedback to valve, and you might end up with a CS:GO that you might enjoy, even if you'll always miss 1.6.

2012-03-28 22:37

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its not like that with CS 1.6 :D

2012-03-29 05:29

So stupidly. Sponsors paying viewers' numbers. IEM dropped Quake but continued with CS1.6(Check the game's graphics) Actually no one can say LoL has nice graphics too. It's impossible to accept 20k to 80k. Sponsors aren't stupid. Yesterday i bought an i7 but that wasn't because I'm just playing CS1.6. Do you think hardware are just there for 1.6? LOL

2012-03-29 06:45

Chinese are really that stupid?

2012-03-28 21:14

see ess one point six for life

2012-03-28 21:22

I REALLY CAN'T UNDERSTAND THIS. SOMEONE CAME AND SAID "CS WILL DIE" AND NOW ALL PEOPLE BELIEVE IT. THEY CAN'T SEE THAT CS HAD TOO MUCH PLAYERS AND FANS ? WHY THEY DO THIS ? THEY DROP CS FROM THEIR TOURNAMENTS CAUSE SOMEONE SAID CS IS DYING. HOLY, REALLY CANT UNDERSTAND.

2012-03-28 21:39

:'(

2012-03-28 21:57

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2012-03-28 23:13

Don't know the situation too well, it seems 1.6 having lesser and lesser events. CSP feels good actually, wonder if someone like ESL could back up the idea of making much more better game than cs;go for now. Would be nice to hear an opinion from someone like Carmac, whats happening in his mind if CS:GO replacing or not. I think they could have a chance for community switching or at least some of it trying Promod competitive way.

2012-03-28 22:20

CS will die soon :)

2012-03-28 22:29

sad but WEM sucks...

2012-03-28 22:29

I've been playing CS since 2000, I've been to WCG seven times for New Zealand, I've lived and breathed CS for a long time (to the extreme some times), I owe a lot of my current working opportunities due to my involvement with CS and gaming and I'd never thought I'd be saying this, but I think it's right that CS 1.6 "dies" and gets dropped from competitive event calendars. I really doubted CS:GO the first time I played it because I had a closed mind, but especially within the latest patch, you can see that Hidden Path are making strong improvements and progress, and more importantly than anything, seem to "get it". If CS:GO is released and doesn't have to contend with splinter tournaments and groups of 1.6 hanger ons, it has a greater chance of being embraced and supported. The Counter-Strike team FPS format provides a unique spectator and players experience and viewing excitement, while SC2 and LoL are riding their waves, now is good a time is any for us to stand behind the new CS developers and make sure that the title has everything it needs to work for another 10+ years, now and into the future. There are experiences and events that I'll never forget, emotionally I'm so connected to CS 1.6 and what is provided me and my team-mates over the years, the good places, the events, the people - while I may miss out on doing some of these things as a player now, I feel that it's crucially important for CS to evolve and ensure it's ongoing future. Take your energy spent feeding back what you don't like about the game, and start to get the @csgo_dev attention on twitter, or on reddit, or on the official steam forum boards. Have your say and help make an impact upon the games direction, and hopefully before too long, we'll all be seeing an excellent format of Counter-Strike back on the competitive touring calendar. If you remember me (or parallax/New Zealand) from any WCG's or trips, say hi, it would be good to reminisce. Cheers @simcore

2012-03-28 23:01

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I agree with most of what you say, but i disagree that hidden path are starting to show strong improvements, the game is still heavily lacking a good skill ceiling and they seem adamant to increase it. If they fix movement and recoil then i will agree that they are heading in the right direction. And by "fix" i dont mean make it like 1.6, i mean just give it some differentiation to show a skill difference in someone who has played the game for thousands of hours and someone who has played the game for five hours because at the moment the skill cap is reached ever so easily.

2012-03-29 05:56

As long as there's only one tournament with cs1.6, it's not dead. Period.

2012-03-28 23:19

We need to contact some oligarhs from Russia to put some money in CS 1.6 :D And CS will survive :D yeah !

2012-03-28 23:25

this bastars only care about money...

2012-03-28 23:28

LoL >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> all

2012-03-29 00:07

1.6 so close to an end...sad

2012-03-29 00:20

Yep, Chinese people are crazy for LoL facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=101506722891..

2012-03-29 00:50

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wtf

2012-03-29 02:22

o.O

2012-03-29 01:00

ok.. hltv to drop CS

2012-03-29 02:06

What the hell happen with the "Update"? :(

2012-03-29 02:29

IEM drop cs too i think..sad

2012-03-29 02:26

pfft LoL... Needs Dota 2 or CS

2012-03-29 02:51

sad..

2012-03-29 02:54

FUCKING WEM.Our nation's CrossFire is the very hot. I guess they organized a game of residual brain games.

2012-03-29 05:10

We live CS. We breathe CS. We are CS. Now and allways.. I never stop playing CS.

2012-03-29 08:24

WEM dropped CS? so fuck you WEM, CS still dont need you.

2012-03-29 09:39

cs 1.6 is a life style you cant close it

2012-03-29 10:20

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Is it?

2012-03-29 12:21

noobs keep doing that only for the money not for the real game and real fans GTFO LOL CS:GO, SPONSORS AND EVERYTHING NEW

2012-03-29 14:02

Sad Shiit

2012-03-29 17:43

What the hell eSport without CS 1.6

2012-03-29 19:18

This news totally sucks :D

2012-03-30 09:12

Fucking idiots I hope they got shooted in the head for making such a stupid decisions. Agression mode on <.<

2012-03-30 11:27

Oke this news fucked up my day..

2012-06-06 12:42

Insane stupidity !

2012-06-06 12:44

lol , who dafuq is still coment this news ? guys , this was on march , wem will keep 1.6 xD

2012-06-06 12:49

I think CS:GO screwed 1.6 big time.Only if CS:GO wasnt present 1.6 would have been the same game.

2012-06-06 12:58

1.6 death

2012-06-06 13:28

sadddddd

2012-06-06 13:38

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