ggcrossfire

black0uttttt

http://www.wcgcanada.net/world-cyber-games-suspends-its-activities-for-2014/#.UvKNOxBdXwo

imERICK

Rip wcg .

mvpbrisk

rip cf.

Ellustrial

This is most likely a hoax, just so you know.

A few years back, a similar e-mail circulated a variety of news sites and announced that WCG would no longer be hosting PC titles.

See any similarities between this e-mail, and the one from then?

In recent years, the gaming and IT trends have been moving so fast. In the current status of gaming and IT industry, one of the most remarkable information to us was the mobile shipments have exceeded the PC shipments.

As wide spread mobile devices, mobile gamer would rapidly increase as well. In this situation, the major PC game publishers have been expanding their investment and business in the mobile game development & publishing.

This information was very cruel to us since we had been committed to the PC-Based gaming event for long time. We have witnessed that there have been many companies and organisations who went out of business because they didn’t put effort to change. Therefore we concluded that we should create WCG’s new identity.

Under this circumstance, we made a hard decision that we should bring the mobile, new key sector in the game industry, in our event concept. Hence, WCG decided to start the Mobile Game-Based Festival.

To create the Mobile Game-Based Festival, WCG is under the discussion with the sponsors and game publishers regarding new event structure and the countries for new festival. Therefore, there will be no longer present event module, such as Pan Championship, and PC-Based National Finals. And, the official game titles of WCG will consist of mobile games.


http://sports.news.naver.com/sports/index.nhn?category=e_sports&ctg=news&mod=read&office_id=347&article_id=0000050848

Basically, the Korean article states that a Korean WCG official read that e-mail from ongamers, and pointed out an inconsistency in it -- namely, the obviously untrue portion about "all countries can now use the WCG brand".

"The WCG brand will not be freely used by anyone."

Apart from that inconsistency, the anonymous official refused to comment.



Furthermore, the official WCG website and Facebook each have no announcement of this incredibly large decision. In fact, the only mention of this at all stems from North America -- perhaps the least-involved region in WCG.

Speak_Truth

Great work Reid, gives me hope!

xpl0s1vO

Ellustrial wrote: »

This is most likely a hoax, just so you know.

A few years back, a similar e-mail circulated a variety of news sites and announced that WCG would no longer be hosting PC titles.

See any similarities between this e-mail, and the one from then?

In recent years, the gaming and IT trends have been moving so fast. In the current status of gaming and IT industry, one of the most remarkable information to us was the mobile shipments have exceeded the PC shipments.

As wide spread mobile devices, mobile gamer would rapidly increase as well. In this situation, the major PC game publishers have been expanding their investment and business in the mobile game development & publishing.

This information was very cruel to us since we had been committed to the PC-Based gaming event for long time. We have witnessed that there have been many companies and organisations who went out of business because they didn’t put effort to change. Therefore we concluded that we should create WCG’s new identity.

Under this circumstance, we made a hard decision that we should bring the mobile, new key sector in the game industry, in our event concept. Hence, WCG decided to start the Mobile Game-Based Festival.

To create the Mobile Game-Based Festival, WCG is under the discussion with the sponsors and game publishers regarding new event structure and the countries for new festival. Therefore, there will be no longer present event module, such as Pan Championship, and PC-Based National Finals. And, the official game titles of WCG will consist of mobile games.


http://sports.news.naver.com/sports/index.nhn?category=e_sports&ctg=news&mod=read&office_id=347&article_id=0000050848

Basically, the Korean article states that a Korean WCG official read that e-mail from ongamers, and pointed out an inconsistency in it -- namely, the obviously untrue portion about "all countries can now use the WCG brand".

"The WCG brand will not be freely used by anyone."

Apart from that inconsistency, the anonymous official refused to comment.



Furthermore, the official WCG website and Facebook each have no announcement of this incredibly large decision. In fact, the only mention of this at all stems from North America -- perhaps the least-involved region in WCG.

Detctive Reid on the job ladies and gents, don't worry, he got this.

bertman_1g

So am i going to be seeing caliber1 going international?

ThePurv

bertman_1g wrote: »

So am i going to be seeing caliber1 going international?

If they pay me $100

S-N-I-P-E-S

Isn't WCG always rigged for China anyway?

black0uttttt

theres nothing on their twitter either. hmmmmm...

imERICK

Hmm, brad lee didn't say anything about it on his facebook

Ellustrial

To put it in perspective,

"Hey guys,

I know we set all-time records in 2013...
And I know we made more money than ever before...
And I know that the e-sports market is growing rapidly worldwide...
And I know we already announced plans for 2014...

But our WCG board decided that global trends say it wouldn't be profitable. Better close up shop; anyone can use the WCG brand from now on, we don't care.

Godspeed."