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FaZe
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
Canada472 Posts
May 06 2012 05:25 GMT
#481
If there's no tension,
why try to win anything?
ESPORTS is the fun.

"Victory needs no explanation; defeat allows none."
below66
Profile Joined October 2009
United States1761 Posts
May 06 2012 06:30 GMT
#482
I'm not a casual gamer, infact I still havent even played sc2 once, all I do is watch the highest level tournaments(and the streams once in a while), and I can still say I agree with some of your sentiments, but I also disagree strongly with others. I agree a lot with what jinro said way back in the first couple of pages.

There's no need to want it dead and burned down just because it's not your ideal situation.

Still I admire you saying how you feel about it and I think you write and delivery your message nicely, I can see why that thread would evoke such a response from you, it has a lot of people disgusted with the community.
eSen1a
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Australia1058 Posts
May 06 2012 08:55 GMT
#483
believe it or not, starcraft isn't the only esport
cs 1.6 and quake always had the fun aspect in competition
Jealous
Profile Blog Joined December 2011
10226 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-05-06 12:40:20
May 06 2012 12:38 GMT
#484
Everyone keeps referring to Jinro's post... Do people not realize the inherent bias of the opinion he presents? As a person who plays SC2 professionally for the team that is the source of this website, do you think his motivation would be anything other than preserving "esports" ? The hype is what allows the teams to exist in the first place. I'm not saying you can't agree, but just saying so about a biased source is questionable and only shows the same mentality that Gheed's post was against.
"The right to vote is only the oar of the slaveship, I wanna be free." -- бум бум сучка!
NexUmbra
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
Scotland3776 Posts
May 06 2012 13:14 GMT
#485
On May 02 2012 12:18 Liquid`Jinro wrote:
What a retarded thread lol

It's like whining about professional soccer destroying your ability to kick a ball around with your friends.

Esports evangelicism can be annoying as fuck, I dont disagree, but your post is silly.


It isn't really as people who like football just go and watch the games and support the teams and stuff they aren't always going on about how they need to spread the sport and just in general being aggravating whenever some kind of drama appears.
Life has won two GSLs and a Blizzard Cup. NOT three GSLs.
rogzardo
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
610 Posts
May 06 2012 13:47 GMT
#486
Esports is stupid, sc2 is cool, so all you gots to do is not read all these stupid posts on TL and just play. Easier said than done, given that I am here posting on TL...
StarStruck
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
25339 Posts
May 06 2012 14:23 GMT
#487
Dun dun dun!

You can still post here just don't let frivolous things get you rallied up.

Bedrock
Profile Joined October 2010
United States395 Posts
May 06 2012 20:45 GMT
#488
Totally agreed on the over usage of the word, but I will say right now it will continue to grow and get bigger.

It's getting so big even my company is getting involved...
eSports or die tryin'
Elroi
Profile Joined August 2009
Sweden5599 Posts
May 06 2012 21:04 GMT
#489
5/5

Fuck esports.
"To all eSports fans, I want to be remembered as a progamer who can make something out of nothing, and someone who always does his best. I think that is the right way of living, and I'm always doing my best to follow that." - Jaedong. /watch?v=jfghAzJqAp0
Djzapz
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Canada10681 Posts
May 06 2012 21:27 GMT
#490
Agreed. Fuck Starcraft 2 and the "new Blizzard", but above all fuck eSports.

I don't know how honest you were in OP when you said you wished SC2 a swift death and for HotS to be delayed but I do literally wish it a quick death.

Maybe I'm breaking from this thread's spirit, I don't know, but I have this selfish little thing in me that just wants for SC2 to die. I was going to write a big post but nobody will read it and nobody will care. I love SCBW so much, now it's mostly deserted. I tried so hard to love SC2, but it's a terrible game.

Sometimes I just wallow in self pity. Not even kidding. I miss Starcraft Brood War, and I hate what it has been replaced with. A boring, dumbed down "real time cute tactics" ball clasher game which is used by some corps to generate revenue.
"My incompetence with power tools had been increasing exponentially over the course of 20 years spent inhaling experimental oven cleaners"
Schandro
Profile Joined May 2011
57 Posts
May 06 2012 22:50 GMT
#491
On May 07 2012 06:27 Djzapz wrote:...which is used by some corps to generate revenue.

Yeah, because with Starcraft 1 Blizzard didnt want to make money.... wake up kid.
Talin
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Montenegro10532 Posts
May 06 2012 23:07 GMT
#492
On May 07 2012 07:50 Schandro wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 07 2012 06:27 Djzapz wrote:...which is used by some corps to generate revenue.

Yeah, because with Starcraft 1 Blizzard didnt want to make money.... wake up kid.


You do realize that TL being flooded with posts like that one is one of the motivations for this blog, right?
Djzapz
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Canada10681 Posts
May 06 2012 23:41 GMT
#493
On May 07 2012 07:50 Schandro wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 07 2012 06:27 Djzapz wrote:...which is used by some corps to generate revenue.

Yeah, because with Starcraft 1 Blizzard didnt want to make money.... wake up kid.

You don't get to call me "kid" when you don't even understand what I'm talking about, kid. I have no problem with Blizzard selling a game, and I honestly can't understand why you think I was saying otherwise (honestly what's wrong with you?). Although this is only a small part of what bothers me about "eSports", I dislike the heavy commercialization of SC2 beyond the sale of the game. Don't get me wrong, I'm not a communist - but the business around SCBW seemed to be made out of people who liked the game. It was, at least in large part, this love-love relationship. Now it's handled by this big, dirty capitalist machine because there's enough of us under the label "eSports" that we're a viable crowd to sell shit to.

And to make it clear, I never thought Blizzard and I were buddies. It's not even Blizzard I was talking about.
"My incompetence with power tools had been increasing exponentially over the course of 20 years spent inhaling experimental oven cleaners"
Hyperbola
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
United States2544 Posts
May 07 2012 00:13 GMT
#494
Welcome to the modernized, casualized world of videogames. I like that you've started to notice the dilution and gradual degredation of starcraft community, now let me point your attention elsewhere. See that? That's the former RPG genre of videogames. Ever since bioware signed a pact with the devil under the guise of EA, all stats, decision making, player-npc interaction, and RPG combat mechanics have gone out the window. Instead we now have pretty graphics, overfunded voice acting, and romances, everything else was unneaded anyways. But there's more! No longer will RPGs be single player one-time payment purchases, oh no now we have forced multiplayer DLCs and MMOs. Who wants a solitary payment of $50 when you can split you game up into sections and sell them independantly, or just make it monthly charged!
And this was only the most recent genre to go. Don't even get me started on FPS's. So now that the casualization and mainstream catering has come to RTS's you finally feel its effects. All of videogames are going down this path. It's no longer about fun and entertainment so much as it is about profits. I don't know where this entire industry is heading but so far I don't like it. Hopefully something new will come out to replace gaming for us eventually. Untill then, we can only try our best to delay the process.
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[UoN]Sentinel
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
United States11320 Posts
May 07 2012 00:22 GMT
#495

The casters have to be clean cut, wearing nice clothes, and trying as hard as humanly possible not to offend anyone. We're like the fucking Mormons!


This. THIS. I love BM, and I love commentating. And this is why I make peanuts commentating on my friends' streams instead of making decent money (not a living, but certainly a nice sum) on a secondary career.
Нас зовет дух отцов, память старых бойцов, дух Москвы и твердыня Полтавы
Zerg.Zilla
Profile Joined February 2012
Hungary5029 Posts
May 07 2012 05:10 GMT
#496
Omg,so much hate for eSport's...Well I LOVE eSport's so i guess u shoud gate your torch'n pitchfork's and come at me bro!
(•_•) ( •_•)>⌐■-■ (⌐■_■) ~Keep calm and inject Larva~
Spirey
Profile Blog Joined April 2012
12 Posts
May 07 2012 20:53 GMT
#497
hehe I like this blog
Gully Foyle is my name and Terra is my nation. Deep space is my dwelling place, and death's my destination.
Schandro
Profile Joined May 2011
57 Posts
May 07 2012 23:29 GMT
#498
On May 07 2012 08:41 Djzapz wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 07 2012 07:50 Schandro wrote:
On May 07 2012 06:27 Djzapz wrote:...which is used by some corps to generate revenue.

Yeah, because with Starcraft 1 Blizzard didnt want to make money.... wake up kid.

You don't get to call me "kid" when you don't even understand what I'm talking about, kid. I have no problem with Blizzard selling a game, and I honestly can't understand why you think I was saying otherwise (honestly what's wrong with you?). Although this is only a small part of what bothers me about "eSports", I dislike the heavy commercialization of SC2 beyond the sale of the game. Don't get me wrong, I'm not a communist - but the business around SCBW seemed to be made out of people who liked the game. It was, at least in large part, this love-love relationship. Now it's handled by this big, dirty capitalist machine because there's enough of us under the label "eSports" that we're a viable crowd to sell shit to.

And to make it clear, I never thought Blizzard and I were buddies. It's not even Blizzard I was talking about.

nice, i was right. You are a kid.
hxd
Profile Joined May 2011
United Kingdom117 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-05-09 10:51:44
May 09 2012 10:50 GMT
#499
Everyone has a different mind set, some people see this as just a hobby, others want to make this something huge, make a living out of it, work full time in competitive gaming, like me.
http://www.twitter.com/harrywiggett
jsemmens
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United States439 Posts
May 09 2012 11:10 GMT
#500
I just want to watch high level RTS games. If having other people going around waving the "esports banner" like idiots is what it takes to get that, then I can live with it.
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