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Why do they use MSN? Are they not aware of the IRC benefits? Do they browse QW.nu or do they only hang out on their own website?

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Edited by Ake Vader on 30 Jun 08 @ 18:42CET

How come there is a brazilian qw community? I know it existed for long. But why brazil? Compared to Argentina for example or south africa?

Good internet infrastructure in late 90ies?
Computers in early 2000 to slow run newer games?

Because qw rock Willgurht

-Most of them use qw.nu, Ake

Well, I can understand why qw got a much bigger following in finland and sweden, but not in norway and denmark.

Not being familiar with the economics of southern America, i fail to see why it would be big in only one of em...

and why is that, Willgurht? that would be the holy grail of qw studies, to explain why sweden is qw mainland. i really have no explanation, if you know why- i'd be interested.

Dsl and cable connections were available earlier in se and fi compared to dk and no. By the time connections got better in Norway and Denmark, other games were more popular.

When i sometimes play wc3 on battle.net, everyone is from france, russia or germany. Guess is that by the time wc3 was released, internet connections in these countries was good enough to handle the game and these people still play the game.

We had a large scene in denmark at one time. Just very few were top players, and those who were moved on to play pro cs

Willgurht does have a point. In Belgium we had a pretty decent sized player base except ... all of the activity was LAN-centered because we only had modems (the 32kbps type) at the time. Of course there were community and clan websites but all actual game activity was LAN only. In the end, not too many players actually became really active on-line too (just GOH really).
Q3 on the other hand was largly on-line based from the start. A number of the on-line Q3 players in fact were outright anti-LAN because they couldn't see the point. So even when QW players in the end went looking for online action, most of them went for Q3 anyway (DX and Dominion/Omega).

i agree, it makes sense.

afaik, they never used irc. brazil has a qw community and peru or argentina don't, for the same reason italy or greece don't. that is, no special reason at all I guess. the 90's connection isnt a issue, because we in pt also always had bad connections. Those nations dont have a qw community now for historical reasons - they dont have enough players since always. I remember italy had a clan and even a "ok" dueller (x-man) but they vanished many years ago. same happened with all the s-american country's except brazil, who always had a big community (and its a biig country). Still, there's a couple of argentinian players at least afaik. dunno where to reach them though

back to the entrance-fee tournament, i believe in september we will have more news about it