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Is it possible to truly quit Starcraft? - Page 2

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Chef
Profile Blog Joined August 2005
10810 Posts
February 06 2010 01:21 GMT
#21
On February 06 2010 09:49 Zoler wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 06 2010 09:46 Etherone wrote:
On February 06 2010 09:39 Zoler wrote:
No it is impossible.

Starcraft is the best game and if you ever get into the community. You cannot leave it. For life.

we come for the game but stay for the community, and it really is hard to leave.

I'd wager 1/4 of us don't even play anymore, at least not really.


Actually I'd say 2/4 or even 3/4 sadly

I don't play that often (maybe a few games once a month, sometimes going a few months with no games) but I don't feel like that means I don't play anymore. It just means that I either don't have anyone I feel like playing with, or that I'm busy. SC is still my game of choice.

I think the fact that people make a big deal about leaving StarCraft shows they've never really left it. Only way to leave StarCraft is to slowly drift away from it because you'd rather do something else.
LEGEND!! LEGEND!!
KawaiiRice
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
United States2914 Posts
February 06 2010 01:58 GMT
#22
My bro memorized our cd key

He hasn't touched the game in years.
@KawaiiRiceLighT
Crunchums
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
United States11144 Posts
February 06 2010 02:49 GMT
#23
yes, easy
brood war for life, brood war forever
Achromic
Profile Blog Joined September 2009
773 Posts
February 06 2010 02:51 GMT
#24
No
Blah
Archaic
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States4024 Posts
February 06 2010 03:16 GMT
#25
Personally, I distracted myself with other things, school work, friends, etc. I never stopped browsing TL though. It's just like... since SC is so time consuming, with such a skill curve, if you never have excessive free time, and you stop playing for a month or so, you'll be so much worse than you used to be. That's what diminished my motivation to play... I was playing at D-- level.
[DUF]MethodMan
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
Germany1716 Posts
February 06 2010 03:41 GMT
#26
I stopped playing a few months ago, just occasionally logging on ICC, realizing that I suck and logging off again after getting stomped one or two times. But TL I visit almost everyday, either to just check some results or when I'm bored watching a couple of VODs.
shindigs
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
United States4795 Posts
February 06 2010 03:43 GMT
#27
As long as 3v3 BGH exists, you will never quit.

Truth
Photographer@shindags || twitch.tv/shindigs
JiYan
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
United States3668 Posts
February 06 2010 19:17 GMT
#28
and yes i did just read draco's retirement thread xD
DivinO
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States4796 Posts
February 07 2010 00:26 GMT
#29
TL is impossible to quit. Therefore by extension StarCraft is impossible to quit.
LiquipediaBrain in my filth.
QuickStriker
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United States3694 Posts
February 07 2010 00:27 GMT
#30
On February 07 2010 09:26 DivinO wrote:
TL is impossible to quit. Therefore by extension StarCraft is impossible to quit.


This man speaks the truth. Once you enter the realm of TL, you automatically enter the realm of SC with NO EXIT out.
www.twitch.tv/KoreanUsher
silencefc
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
United States875 Posts
February 07 2010 01:15 GMT
#31
Were you the guy who came up to me and a friend at Latitude55 yesterday and asked us if we knew that UCR had a CSL team? :D
Slice like a goddamn hammer.
UbRi
Profile Blog Joined March 2007
Italy603 Posts
February 07 2010 01:17 GMT
#32
It's impossible to truly quit starcraft, at least for me, because starcraft is not only a game, starcraft is a group of friends i met in real life, a bunch of websites i used to browse every day (and some i do still browse like this one), an average of 10 replays per day, and 10.000 names of players still going through my mind.
And for me starcraft was even more than that, it was a period of my life (now i think is more than 9 years), a lot of dreams about the perfect match i would've eventually been able to play, or about a tournament i would've been able to win, about my parents trying to prevent me from getting addicted (how much they were right....)I have too many memories related to this game to be able to erase it completely from my life.

Now i'm living abroad, and it's a lot i've not been playing, but i'm sure that as I'll get back home I will run starcraft, maybe just to whatch a replay, or maybe to deceive myself one more time that I will eventually become a good player.

Shit I don't even know why i'm writing this to anybody's else blog, it's late here and I'm a little drunk
ironchef
Profile Blog Joined August 2004
Canada1350 Posts
February 07 2010 01:22 GMT
#33
I think SC has been such a positive and mind opening experience; even if I never touch it again, I wouldnt consider my self as having quit SC.
“Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.” - Marcus Aurelius
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