Interview with t'Guvnor of WCG

[BugAlugs]

Team... we have an interview slot with Mr Kim, CEO and president of all things WCG.

If any of you have some questions you'd like to put forwards, post to this and tomorrow at 11:00 local time... we'll see what sort of replies we get.

J

[Devvy]

Who came up with the WCG song?

[Dentist]

Would you consider yourself to be Beyond the Game?

[Cabe]

Do you see WCG ever becoming part of the Olympics?

[Chicane]

Are you finally gong to drop CounterStrike 1.6 in favour of the now hugely popular CounterStrike Source?

[Nivek]

would you hit that for a dollar?

[Boffykins]

Do you think organisations such as WCG and CGS could eventually work together in a Club/National style, similar to the relationship between The English Football Association and FIFA?

[Buffy]

We work so hard to bring gaming into main stream, why do you go a do "Beyond a game" and wreck all our hard work?

[BugAlugs]

Thanks for these,.... few more please :)

[ProfLiebstrom]

Would you like to see a more diverse selection of games played at the WCG than there already is, and if so what genre/format of games?

Would you like the grand finals to last longer? perhaps towards the length the olympics last?

What is the correct definition of mere? Expansion, SODDOM or Naturalist?

What direction would you like to see competitive gaming to take over the coming years?

What is your favourite game and do you play games online yourself?

[Joey[kins]]

Do you agree that the all-too-common game developer/publisher mentality of "support in the form of balance changes and patches is less important than an expansion pack or milking the franchise because no-one ever made money from long-term support" is one of the most important barriers preventing competetive gaming being taken seriously?

[Chicane]

when will the UK host the grand final, and who's in the running to run it? ;)

After watching the mpuk videos of the opening sequences, do you think the grand opening could have been better?

(how empty were those seats... :o )

[BugAlugs]

well yes :) the grand opening actually had something like 1500 people watching, just that RTO and I haxed into the good seats... its just after 10:00AM Friday here, i expect saturday and sunday to have many more punters here.. 'schools out' as they say

[Chicane]

i also meant in the bits that were available, it looked very poor, and the beat boxer wasnt very good at all.

[bvark]

How do the game publishers you talk to want the world of competitive gaming to develop? How does this differ from WCG's vision?

[Zenith]

Have you had discussions with games companies about producing a "WCG game" or a version of a current game specially made for WCG use?
I'm thinking of Trackmania Sunrise for the ESWC as a comparison.

[BugAlugs]

We had a good interview with MrKim asking more than just "omg geeks" style questions that the likes of FoxNews and MSNABC had asked in the slots before us. I'm sure it returned back to "omg Geeks" with MTV and SkypeTV right after.

Will be encoding and uploading soon

[ProfLiebstrom]

nvm found it :x

http://wcg.multiplay.co.uk/cat/2007/interviews