February 2, 2009

The End Of Warcraft 3??


When I first played this game 2 years back, I thought this game would survive pass Starcraft 2. Being the game that was paid the most for being champion in the WCG 2007, this game has reached its downfall.

Today, I'm sad to announce that Warcraft 3 and Starcraft's power house, Meet Your Makers (MYM) has closed their RTS division. With the closing down of MYM's RTS division, WCG finalist, Grubby and Moon are now in the free market.

However, Grubby and Moon are not the only one. Gravitas Gaming, whose future are just about to be bright announced that they have to close. It started with the departure of 4 players. Gravitas were then left with Sonkie, Tod and Hot. However, unable to support the
players, they closed it down, leaving Tod, Hot and Sonkie in the free market as well. SK gaming has also released a few of their players namely Soju and Remind, 2 Korean Night Elf players.

But way before all these events begin to happen. Several clans had cut thier players or close down. mTw, has released so many of their players and eventually shut down. And due to all these recent events, the ESL Europe have to change the WC3L tournament format due to lack of players from clans.

Suprisingly, all of this teams are based in Europe. The teams in China are not affected. Famouse Chinese power house World Elite (WE), which is the home of 2 times WCG champion Sky does not have any of this problems. Even clan Mouz, based in Germany whose line up is almost all Chinese, do not face problems.

However, the future of Warcraft 3 remains unknown. In this recent times, clans closing, format changing, less leagues have affected the Warcraft scene. Will it be the end of Warcraft 3??

1 comments:

Rinie said...

sad... hopefully other games wont follow