Lunatic Hai's coach gave an insight why South Korea will always be skeptical towards Blizzard's games

[Jeffrey Jung]

Q: Isn’t Blizzard cooperating well in Korea however? At least, things seem to be going well in Korea at least.

A: Not at all. And something I want to talk about regarding this issue is Blizzard’s stubbornness. In Riot, in the past when we used to hold big and small tourneys in Korea prior to LCK, it supported all those small PC Bang tourneys and mini-leagues hosted by streamers. Their policy was much more free, and that allowed LOL to thrive in Korea and make it insanely huge and popular. There was a Riot official who always came to these tournaments whether they were big or small, and observed how things went. And they received every single feedback on the spot. Overwatch? In order to open any sort of tourney, they need to gain the permission of Blizzard, and they have refused all requests to allow tourneys except the BJ league from Runner/Bokyeom and the current APEX. And if they do allow it they always insist that we follow certain conditions given by Blizzard to be implemented on these small tourneys. They make the progress so complicated, in the end streamers and small orgs give up on their plans of opening tourneys. That's what’s been going on in Korea, and I think it’s been even worse in NA and Europe in the past months. Prior to Contenders, what sort of tourneys did they have? Almost nothing except OMM, and even that was online tourney, not LAN. Blizzard has always been stubborn regarding these matters of e-sports scene. It has always been like this on all of their other games, and I’m pretty much used to it.

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it's too long to be posted here i'm going to post the link instead

 

https://www.reddit.com/r/Competitiveoverwatch/comments/6lkdxc/lunatic_hai_coach_ama/

 

[JiMiJu]

Interesting.