WCG to stop hosting PC game tournaments, shifting focus to mobile phone gaming. - Polidicks

Excuse the obvious DOTA bias to the article, but it's where the source is coming from: [quote]In our previous news post about the World Cyber Games, we asked our loyal fans to head over to the WCG website to vote for Dota 2 in the upcoming annual event. As we near zero-hour, news have surfaced on the interwebs that the annual PC gaming event will be now switching to focus on mobile phone games. Cadred intercepted an e-mail sent by WCG to their partners stating the World Cyber Games will no longer be running traditional games tournaments and will support only mobile phone games. According to the screenshot of the e-mail, Brad Lee, the CEO of WCG stated that mobile shipments have exceeded PC shipment in the past year and this fact is cruel news to the PC-based gaming event. "We have witnessed that there have been many companies and organizations who went out of business because they didn't put effort to change", Lee stated. Lee continued to state due to this circumstance, they have made the hard decision to bring in mobile gaming as the new key sector in their event. As of now, the organizers of the WCG event have not come forward to explain the content of this letter but is expected to do it soon. joinDOTA will update you as soon as more information becomes available. [img]http://www.gs-media.de/img/storage/2515.jpg[/img] WCG is an international competitive video gaming event sponsored by South Korean Company, World Cyber Games inc. Boasting a big prize purse anually, WCG soon turned into the center of attention of E-sports featuring highly competitive games (mostly PC games) such as Counter-Strike and Starcraft. WCG 2012 is set to be in Kunshan city, Jiangshu, China. The total prize pool has yet to be announced. [/quote] [url=http://www.joindota.com/en/news/2761-dota-2-not-mobile-enough-for-wcg]Source[/url] How the fuck can you have competitive mobile phone gaming?

Whoo, some real snake on snake action, who can get the most blips first?!

MLG Angry Birds.

I just don't even understand how they thought this was a good idea. Consoles would be understandable, but who is actually going to watch someone game on a damn cell phone?

[QUOTE=milkandcooki;35304899]MLG Angry Birds.[/QUOTE] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxC88mBSSow[/media]

[QUOTE=milkandcooki;35304899]MLG Angry Birds.[/QUOTE] wait? are you saying this wouldnt be kick ass? because... im not gonna lie... id enjoy that

Either this is an early April Fools Joke or this is one of the dumbest movies possible for any e-sports related company.

[QUOTE=King of Limbs;35304959]wait? are you saying this wouldnt be kick ass? because... im not gonna lie... id enjoy that[/QUOTE] Um, oh shit, he can aim a bird with a cannon a bit better. Its a time waster. nothing more.

[QUOTE=SilentOpp;35304944]I just don't even understand how they thought this was a good idea. Consoles would be understandable, but who is actually going to watch someone game on a damn cell phone?[/QUOTE] I don't understand why people would watch people play video games in the first place, that just seems kind of silly. I can understand Starcraft fans watching those Koreans play, but watching people play call of duty seems dumb.

[QUOTE=Intoxicated Spy;35305053]Um, oh shit, he can aim a bird with a cannon a bit better. Its a time waster. nothing more.[/QUOTE] Not that I don't agree with you, but I think there's a lot of people who would say the same thing about PC gaming..

*cracks open skull and repeatedly smashes brains into the wall* And I thought today couldn't get more messed up.

[QUOTE=Intoxicated Spy;35305053]Um, oh shit, he can aim a bird with a cannon a bit better. Its a time waster. nothing more.[/QUOTE] ummmm... it's a slingshot fucking scrubs [editline]26th March 2012[/editline] 1v1 my clan geylorde ill pwn u wif a 420 noskope red bird ladderstall

Well this is about the dumbest thing I've heard today. How on earth do they expect to make a gaming competition with phones? I can kind of see them doing something with ports of arcade games that exist on smart phones or something similar, but even that's really pushing it...

[QUOTE=Shibbey;35304946][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxC88mBSSow[/media][/QUOTE] Obnoxious piece of shit I want to stomp comes to mind. Where is that Railworks MLG video? Ontopic: Really?.... Cellphones? Wow, its like hardcore gamers are trying to be casuals or something, this is plain retarded.

MLG CUT THE ROPE YALL SCRUBS BETTA RECOGNIZE THIS SHIT

That's just stupid.

[QUOTE=Socram;35305092]Not that I don't agree with you, but I think there's a lot of people who would say the same thing about PC gaming..[/QUOTE] And anyone who says that a mobile phone game takes more skill than a real e-sport like Counter Strike or Starcraft is an idiot

Oh man I can't wait for the NOVA tournaments it'll be amazing watching people flail about due to the crap controls! I wonder if Brad Lee realises how much he's shot himself in the foot with this.

lol WCG is equivalent to MLG it's a bunch of retarded shit no one cares about the only world class professional tournament left is IEM and maybe Dreamhack

[QUOTE=Trunk Monkay;35305078]I don't understand why people would watch people play video games in the first place, that just seems kind of silly. I can understand Starcraft fans watching those Koreans play, but watching people play call of duty seems dumb.[/QUOTE] Same reason sports "fans" watch sports. Hell like half the fans don't even play the sports they're fan of.

CPL, CAL, ESWC, WCG all dead

[QUOTE=DrBreen;35306586]CPL, CAL, ESWC, WCG all dead[/QUOTE] lol? cal/cpl have been dead for like 5 years and wcg was never alive

[QUOTE=dass;35305489]Obnoxious piece of shit I want to stomp comes to mind. Where is that Railworks MLG video? Ontopic: Really?.... Cellphones? Wow, its like hardcore gamers are trying to be casuals or something, this is plain retarded.[/QUOTE] You mean this [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rulElJITIVY[/media] ?

"JOEY HAS RAGED QUIT OUT OF THE APP TO TEXT HIS MUM ON HIS EMBARRASSING DEFEAT, LET'S US WATCH."

[QUOTE=Odellus;35306683]lol? cal/cpl have been dead for like 5 years and wcg was never alive[/QUOTE] i was stating the obvious

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The only reason I still follow WCG is their Counter-Strike events. But if this happens I guess fuck it.

[QUOTE=AceOfDivine;35305915]Same reason sports "fans" watch sports. Hell like half the fans don't even play the sports they're fan of.[/QUOTE] Hence why I'm not a "guy". All my friends watch soccer games and so on. I don't even feel like a normal guy because I find soccer or any other sport on TV one of the most boring things you can watch. [editline]27th March 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=pyschomc;35307166]You mean this [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rulElJITIVY[/media] ?[/QUOTE] YES! THANK YOU! Oh man I require more, where or how can I find more of these? I have no idea what nonsense to write on search on youtube. There was also this BF3 video with huge ass lens flare and obnoxious Skrillex songs... (be them parodies or actual real videos, I feel like dying inside)

WCG is going to crash and burn, calling it now

[QUOTE=dass;35316530]Hence why I'm not a "guy". All my friends watch soccer games and so on. I don't even feel like a normal guy because I find soccer or any other sport on TV one of the most boring things you can watch. [editline]27th March 2012[/editline] YES! THANK YOU! Oh man I require more, where or how can I find more of these? I have no idea what nonsense to write on search on youtube. There was also this BF3 video with huge ass lens flare and obnoxious Skrillex songs... (be them parodies or actual real videos, I feel like dying inside)[/QUOTE] Just go to the youtube page for that video and look at the related videos. There is tons of them.