I think the real problem is that the main population of starcraft players in sea are located in australia and because there was no australian servers blizzard basically drove all those players away.
Unless they have an aus server with the launch of Lotv I doubt we're going to be able to keep that initial spike of people becuase they will move onto games like dota, lol w/e.
I know many friends that have quit the game purely because playing with 200 ping after playing dota is just not fun and it's frustrating.
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