EPTI don't see why you make such a big case of BW slowly fading out. As long as there are good games being played you can still watch them. Hell there are people still playing WC2 and making VODs of it. As long as there are players and tournaments the game is never dead.
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Marou
Germany1371 Posts
I don't see why you make such a big case of BW slowly fading out. As long as there are good games being played you can still watch them. Hell there are people still playing WC2 and making VODs of it. As long as there are players and tournaments the game is never dead. | ||
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insourcecertainty
United States142 Posts
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aztrorisk
United States896 Posts
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Kipsate
Netherlands45349 Posts
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shaftofpleasure
Korea (North)1375 Posts
On March 27 2012 10:01 Abort Retry Fail wrote: May I reply on this? I've always been intrigued by your ID. It seems like a name that you just thought of half hazardly when you had to register, and then you realize you're gonna be stuck with it.  Anyway, yes, what they are doing to BW is horrible. Dafuq with that PL format!!! This is apparently a very thought-out ID. On March 27 2012 08:49 maareek wrote: In the hearts of those of us who love(d?) it, BW will never die. Like those amazing days of childhood, the time you spent enjoying BW and the matches of those who played it will stay with you. If you choose to leave here, don't hang your head. If you've gained any joy from your time here, treasure that, and don't worry if the inevitable has proven inescapable. You say you were here for Bisu v Savior? Then may you never believe in the impossible. For those of us who were here longer, we may always keep other moments with us. From the OSL finals between iloveoov and Boxer we can always be reminded that the joy of defeat may at times be sweeter than the agony of victory. To those who watched Savior's trek through seasons of ridiculous map pools they may take the lesson that a champion doesn't spend his time bemoaning an abyssmal road to climb, he simply climbs. Those privy to Anytime's OSL victory can walk away knowing things don't always turn out as planned (no matter how honorable the subject of that plan is). And those who have watched Flash can comfort themselves with the knowledge that even perfection may not always be perfect. On the one hand, I understand you wanting to leave if there's no more BW for you to watch, but on the other hand this is one of the few places where you'll find people who understand the importance of BW to those who love it. Your choice. Yes, I do. That's why I have always been rooting for the underdog. Since then, every off-season, I always found myself watching old VoDs of games and pimpest plays and during on-season, I would watch the games when.ever I can. I still remember these: mms://liveongame.gscdn.com/L1 mms://216.121.92.137/mbc | ||
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JMave
Singapore1802 Posts
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FlaShFTW
United States9968 Posts
On March 27 2012 08:26 RageCommodore wrote: I gotta say this to you: BW is only dead when it's community gives up and leaves. Even if Proleague dies, the people that are passionate about it are the actual core of the game. As long as you love the game, it will continue to exist. Maybe it sounds cliché, but it's the truth. True BW fan right here. Never Surrender. Never GG. | ||
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Praetorial
United States4241 Posts
Also, BW is more than a game. It is an idea, and ideas, my fellow TLers, never die! | ||
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endy
Switzerland8970 Posts
BW is by far my #1 hobby, I cried when reading the MSL Forever cartoon, but I still have some hope. If they do a mixed PL with BW and SC2, it will only highlight how terrible is SC2 to watch compared to BW. I would not even be surprised that Koreans who watch Proleague on TV would just watch another channel during the SC2 game, and come back to OGN when the BW game start. We will need as many fans as possible to show our love for BW. I am flying to Korea to watch the Grand Finals just in the case this is the last BW Proleague. Then I'll make a huge blog in way of adieu. I may post again if Bisu + Show Spoiler + or Hyuk I feel you man  + Show Spoiler +(I'm not talking about your shaft obviously) | ||
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doubleupgradeobbies!
Australia1187 Posts
What we have built MAY be coming to an end, the economic potential MAY be waning, fan support MAY be faltering, and we MAY be beset on all sides by the forces, led by the very maker of our beloved game, insistent on cannibalizing the very infrastructure that we have built to try and prop up an unworthy sequel. But I am still here for the very same reason that has made the BW scene so great. Passion. Passion has built and shaped what we have, passion MUST be the prevailing feeling that characterises the BW scene today even as it dies, if indeed it is dying. If there is still hope, then passion will be what fans the flames of this hope into revitalization, it is the one thing that we require most in these difficult times. If indeed it is hopeless, then BW will die infused with passion, as it did in life, not alone, despairing, abandoned by it's community. WE ARE THE BW COMMUNITY, we do not turn tail and run at the first sign of hardship, we face it with passion like we have with every other hardship that has beset the community. We fight it with the same passion that has built everything that the scene, and the community is. And if even that is not enough, then at least we will not die quietly and mostly forgotten like all the laughable attempts at 'ESPORTS' that has come before, and will come after. If we must die, then we will embrace this passion to the fiery end. We will meet the end of the BW scene with the same fire that we have always met everything. We are here to make sure that BW does not go out with a pathetic whimper, forgotten and alone. We are here to show that even as the last embers are snuffed out, BW is relevant, loved, and still inspiring great passion. We are here to see her last fiery moments echo across the world, and once she is gone, people will realise something powerful, beautiful had been lost, the likes of which we may never see again. We are here because if we leave now, and BW is gone, then it will be remembered as it died, forgotten and abandoned. What we have created over the last decade will be forgotten, trivialized, meaningless. I am here because as a part of the BW community, now is when I am needed most. Whether to overcome just another difficult time or simply to witness and shape how it all ends. I am here to make sure, even at the end, the BW community was and is something different, special, unique. | ||
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XDawn
Canada4040 Posts
Brood War days were the best BW Forever <3 That was also an epic game good sir  | ||
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N.geNuity
United States5111 Posts
The OSL is announced to be sc:bw. Check it out still. We need all the bw fans we can get! | ||
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StarStruck
25339 Posts
On March 27 2012 08:10 shaftofpleasure wrote: If PL is going to be SC2/BW, I think the OSL will be also in this format. No it won't. The OSL will be BW and remember the format for next season's PL is just a rumor. I would still come to this site regardless of being sick of bw or sc2 because TL offers way more than just that for me at least. Plus we still have tournaments man other than PL/OSL/MSL. They might be small, but they're still fun as hell. | ||
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shaftofpleasure
Korea (North)1375 Posts
On March 27 2012 13:20 StarStruck wrote: No it won't. The OSL will be BW and remember the format for next season's PL is just a rumor. I would still come to this site regardless of being sick of bw or sc2 because TL offers way more than just that for me at least. Plus we still have tournaments man other than PL/OSL/MSL. They might be small, but they're still fun as hell. I watch them as much as I watch PL. The problem here is just that I think hope is really losing this time and what, I think, I need is a spark that would make he regain my hope in all of this. The BW scene has been my escape since I entered collage and it has been a great companion. | ||
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Thaniri
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Nizzy
United States839 Posts
SC2 isnt going to be as good as BW because its a different creator. Dustin Browder is bringing his Command and Conquer crap ideas into SC. He is making parts of the game for "noobs". When what make SC:BW so awesome was that large gap in skill from pro to noob. In SC2 its insanely shorter. Just have fun with SC2, don't take it serious. The top level games are still fun to watch IMO. | ||
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OmniEulogy
Canada6591 Posts
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Cooleh
United Kingdom63 Posts
On March 27 2012 10:02 Marou wrote: honestly almost every single person around me still have no clue about esports. Wether i am looking at a game also watched by thousands of people or just a few doesn't really matter in the end. What matters is this is what i enjoy. | ||
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shaftofpleasure
Korea (North)1375 Posts
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Xenocide_Knight
Korea (South)2625 Posts
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