Why are so many people convinced SC1 is gonna die?

On February 19 2010 14:20 Megalisk wrote:
Everyone is just gonna play the SC1 custom UMS maps on SC2..problem solved..BROOD WAR SHALL LIVE ON FOREVER!

On February 19 2010 15:17 MaRiNe23 wrote:
The problem that you guys are not realizing is that right now, we have a close community(teamliquid), competitive tourneys(TSL), compeititive ladder(iccup), progaming scene(korea) and the perfect game that's balanced for all three races. Why the fuk do we need a new game to take ppl away from the awesomeness we already have? I say they jsut scrap this like they did with starcraft ghost. The only thing sc2 did was bring sponsors to help our community and find comedic characters like Toad.

It's true that they brought back old gamers, but they are players who never played the game long enough to truely experience the greatness of starcraft to really know anything. I get so tired of hearing ppl go "i cant wait till sc2 comes out blah blah" and most of the ppl that say this are casual gamers for bw and suck at it to begin with.

Hardcore bw fans that have been there since the beginnning of the boxer reign with his amazing marine micro vs lurkers but had no macro or the "innovation" era where the game wasn't "as figured out" and allowed players more room for creativity, to the oov era of macro becuz maps allowed them to fast expand quickly(unlike lost temple which had a cliff at the nat so you couldnt take ur expo immediately in fear that the cliff might have two tanks :p)into the modern day "everything has to be perfect" era(micro/macro/strategy/game sense etc). Even the foreigner scene - the mondragon+testie era dominating the foreigner scene for the longest time until testie quit. Now it's Ret/NonY and IdrA. How can those people who only came back to sc bw to "prepare for sc2" really understand the history and attachment the true fans have for this game? They dont knwo a dam thing about sc bw and how awsome of a game it already is to voice any kind of opinon. To them it's just an old game that they dont care about becuz it's too hard for them so they just got on their xbox and played halo. lol gimme a break..

I'm not saying im a great player either but I played enough to appreciate this game and have a ton of respect for it and just disappointed that a new game will take away so many ppl. I should say might as we don't know how successful sc2 will be. Anyways I'm just gonna end it here before it gets too long.