Blizzard negocia en secreto un acuerdo con Kespa

It has been reported that Kespa is planning to abandon its 10-year old eSports game, Brood War, and adopt SC2 as part of their approved games.

On July 7th, according to related correspondence, Kespa representatives and its sponsors' representatives (SKTelecom, Samsung, etc.) were invited by Blizzard Entertainment in Irvine, California.

For now, both sides are denying this rumor. However, detailed visiting dates and names of the people involved were in the rumor, so this rumor may actually be credible.

the significance of this event shows that Blizzard is genuinely willing to cooperate with Kespa despite their past conflicts. Not exactly making Kespa to completely switch over to SC2, but more likely asking their input on the HOTS expansion with pro-gaming perspective.

Anyways, this shows that the relationship between the two has improved dramatically. On July 6th's press conference, Kim Joon Ho, the current Kespa president spoke, "Blizzard's goal is to expand their Asian market, and we believe that we can help Blizzard with our experiences with running BW leagues."

The problem is if Kespa switches to pro-SC2, GomTV may be in trouble when Blizzard endorses a Kespa-owned SC2 league. As it turns out, GomTV did not know about this secret meeting. A GomTV representative said, "We found out about this later, No comment."

rpv: Blizzard podria haber invitado a kespa y los patrocinadores a Irvine para negociar el futuro de SC2 en corea y el maercado asiatico.

GomTV tiene un acuerdo de exclusividad que todavia dura 11 meses.

Si esto es verdad puede pasar lo siguiente:

1. Kespa, OGN y MBC pueden empezar a crear contenido de SC2 a partir de HOTS o incluso después mientras siguen manteniendo BW
2. Nada mas se acabe el acuerdo o salga HOTS (según como lo hagan) crear PL, OSL y MSL paralelas hasta que BW muera del todo
3. Cambiar completamente a SC2 cerrando BW al final de, por ejemplo, la siguiente temporada

Respecto a los patrocinadores:

1. Como en BW, patrocinan a los equipos actuales y cambian de nombre. Slayers > SKT T1...
2. Los equipos de BW pasan directamente a SC2, con cambios o sin ellos.
3. Los patrocinadores desaparecen o crean equipos desde cero