It will be the biggest esports rts game apart from SC1, depends if SC1 players will move over or not, but I think they will.

Well, although South Korea has E-Sports big, SC2 will lilkely spark it worldwide, so it doesn't matter much whether or not sc1 pros come over to play sc2 competitively.

Yeh, that is true. Can only hope it gets big everywhere.

It will soar off faster. I may have to Pre-Order it before the end of the year.

Apollo got the point. Players all around the world will gather in one huge community.

Yep, I agree.

I will be happily watching people sitting on their ass, and trying to explain my fascination with people who have "lives."

Players go where the money goes.

Well, maybe the money goes where the players go.

I think most of Korea will switch; but money tournies for sc will still keep going.

And that community will be right here at GR.

Hard to say... gosugamers and iccup forums was home for sc pro-players for many years...

To topic : not the pros(Korean) will decide switch to SC2, but their sponsors.

And Teamliquid.net

Large site, and only SC more or less.

A big factor of this will most likely be whether Blizz put effort in worldwide as well. When the game began Boxer put a lot of effort in off his own back to get the game started, but with the world as big as it is it'l ltake a hardcore effort - Blizz will have to promote everywhere and I think they will if the WoW ads have been any indication of how big they want their game to be. Mr. T ftw.

Korean people want e-sports to become international and they hope starcraft2 will spark that ignition

Nope.. players go where the money goes. counter-strike 1.6 to counter-strike:source is proof of that. No more pro cs 1.6 scene now that cs:s is the game that actually offers pro careers.

This post has been edited by dSp: Feb 23 2008, 07:23 AM

I think e-sports going as big internationally as it is in Korea is going to harder than just a great game everyone world-wide loves to play since in a lot of countries gaming is still not taken as seriously as a sport or competitive scene like it is in Korea. There just isn't the same mindset that the Koreans have with e-sports. I mean they have full blown like rock concerts of Starcraft matches with many people cheering on and feeling tenison like we do at a football or soccer game. I just think it will take a little more than a great e-sport game to get to that level.

True, but Starcraft 2 will atleast take us one step closer to that level.

Great post avilo

I think that Starcraft 1 will still mostly be played in Korea competitively right after launch of SC2...

but around the rest of the Globe SC2 will totally take off as the next big E-Sport. SC1 could have been big in the US, but it was all timing... Korean officials visiting around that time wanted to bring back something to their country that was about to be the booming broadband king. (Asia was also coming off the end of their financial crisis)

Back here at the stats SC gamers were having to deal with modem lag, and once Broadband really took off here, Counter-Strike was getting big. Thus this is one of the reasons imo, FPS games have dominated esports in the US.

Things are going to change with SC2

wow! thx for that insight! that's a logical explanation! and yes, I agree, I think this will change with SC 2, but see the other threads... where there's the same discussion...