brownbear

WESG is a good example of how much production quality and marketing drive engagement, over just high level gameplay: http://www.twinge.tv/starladder_sc2_en/streams/#/24223702432 …

I've seen a lot of people saying that its not 'for' the community outside of China but I doubt they'd dismiss that many views

Or rather, potential views.

Agree. My focus is, regardless of intent, skill level + prize pool can't rescue poor production, lack of storylines, etc. 1/

And, in reverse, excellent production + good storylines can drive engagement even if high-level gameplay not the focus. 2/

In terms of their intent, from experience it's hard to gauge intent of Chinese companies. So much of what they do 3/

doesn't make sense from a Western perspective, only makes sense given local culture, or just doesn't make sense period. 4/end

Last thing which probably requires longer form than Twitter, trying to figure out how much skill level drives engagement at all