Lu sur XSR:
World Cyber Game vient de changer les régles de Counter Strike suite aux récents attentats contre les USA. Ils passent du système MaxRound où seuls les rounds où les terroristes gagnaient avait de l’importance à un système ou chacun des rounds compte. Du grand n’importe quoi…[–SUITE–]
I approached the issue with our operations group and reconfirmed that they all as well as our entire company had considered the ramifications of both sets of rules. However, the policy has been set, and this means maxrounds. I truly hope that you can understand this and buffer this a bit to the game community that you are in touch with. Also, and most importantly, the WCG is an event that we hope in the ideal sense will promote harmony across the world through games. However, with the recent incredible and deeply saddening turn of events in the US that has spread to encompass the entire world, there are unavoidable implications that we must prepare to deal with. Any potential problems must be avoided at all costs as well. Now that everything related to violence, much less terrorism, will be placed under the global microscope for a prolonged period of time, I hope you will agree, and preface our position to all the gamers, that going with CO in which wins by terrorists are the basis for winning a match is not very prudent. We have faced debates about whether games are too violent and what not in the past, but this goes beyond that. We still maintain that we will proceed with the inclusion of Counter-Strike as an event in the WCG, but we must be sensitive to any issues that can come about related to the content. Therefore, we must go with the format of the game where terrorists are not the main feature and the decider of wins and losses. We can look into the rules again in the future, but truly at this time, it would be almost blasphemous for us to ignore such implications of winning terrorists at a time when the world has been plunged into deep despair due exactly to terrorism.
Again, I hope you can understand, and that our fellow gamers across Europe as well as across the world can be understanding in this position. We will do our best to continue and hold the World Cyber Games this year to as much festivity and gala as possible, but we do so from this point forward with a heavy heart, for we as everyone else who populates this world are all a part of humanity, which has so recently experienced such a great loss. Our audience, gamers, are always our greatest priority, however, we should never forget that we are, each and everyone of us, part of the global community first.
Best regards,
David Yang
Chief Marketing Strategist
ICM, Inc.