Anytime I ever had a discussion about multiplayer balance I always brought BW up, it was a game balanced by imbalances which is crazy if you think about it. The players themselves funneled this through their plays, I loved the Boxer era the most because he showed gaming can be an art.

Long live BW!

Liquid`Nazgul

22427 Posts

September 23 2012 16:58 GMT

#43

On September 24 2012 01:22 lilsusie wrote:

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I dont remember... Haha
As for the abomination league, I think it was a good stepping stone for Korean fans to get more invested into sc2. As strange as it was. Like for me, seeing my old fav bw players play sc2 was a bit weird but good transition into easing my interest towards this new game.

It makes sense from a marketing perspective but that doesn't necessarily determine a good sports concept.

CaucasianAsian

Korea (South)11584 Posts

September 23 2012 17:03 GMT

#44

Was awesome meeting up with you to watch the last 2 games ever to be broadcasted on TV. Great blog as usual!

d_so

Korea (South)3262 Posts

September 23 2012 17:04 GMT

#45

sigh it's 137 am right now i have ogn on and wtf bw kids are playing sc2... it's sad to see bw go i had been falling asleep to it for so long.

funny story: the last year i have been working for a gaming company who's office was like.. 5 minutes away from fomos office, walking. i was at the gym one morning changing and right as i get butt naked the ceo of fomos goes hi and i say o shit haha. and as i hurriedly get dressed we talk about the old days of bw and how LoL and SC2 are now lined up to take bw's place.. this was back in february btw.

and it was sad, at least for me to see everyone was resigned to see bw go. =(

i dont get wtf is going on at sc2.. these announcers are talking really fast per usual but i ono.. it's not the same.

well, i think with this post i'll bid adieu to TL. but before i go, some things --

i know last year i caused a ruckus for about a week or so -- that was interesting, to say the least. no hard feelings on my part though, mostly because i think i learned a lot from that experience. especially this: WHAT you say is as important as HOW you say it, but maybe nothing is more important than WHEN you say it. seems like a trite old lesson but it's something that, when i look back on it now, is something i feel was vividly manifested with the maelstrom that ensued after the fomos article. since then, especially at work, i've found myself in similar situations where i felt passionately about my idea, but had to face the challenge of convincing my superiors to listen. And especially with the whole korean business culture, and with all communications occurring in korean, i found myself having to take a much more humble and conciliatory tone -- which is something that, if i could go back, i wish i could apply to the whole brouhaha that went down last year.

for those that were curious, i wasn't really working at fomos full time, it was a part time thing so i coud get some translating experience. i wasn't even working at the office, i just got sent articles to translate and i did it from home or at a pc bang after dotaing.

and it was fun for a bit, but fomos soon realized that the global site wasnt gonna work and (i think) superdanielman said peace and left for a diff company. at the same time, my teaching contract was ending (i was an esl teacher, had two months left) so i was out interviewing like mad, either for translating firms or gaming firms since i felt those were my two best strengths (sup untz!).

and then i got lucky and got accepted at a gaming company, so i went to work there.

and now... i'm 29 in korean years, feeling like way older with my gimp ankle, people pressuring me to get married -- gf's friend got married and VERY conspicuously threw the bouquet to her 3 times (cuz of the photographer) -- and fuk. i was hoping to have at least bw around always so when i had sleepless nights like i have right now, i could just vegetate peacefully to the action and knock out. now it's gone.. what else is gonna go? was watching clinton speak on the daily show yesterday, and that once-ageless philanderer looks so old now -- he's got what ten more years? and dota's gonna go on to dota2... sigh. waxing nostalgic at 2am -- excuse me.

aite take care peoples it was fun while it lasted but pro bw is dead -- but hey, even now when you go to pc bangs after 10 pm, you'll see a lot of drunken younger people playing bw together, reliving the fun of old days. so it's not completely dead =)

a176

Canada6688 Posts

September 23 2012 17:44 GMT

#46

i know this is a lilsusie thread
but i have to give thanks to both you and nevergg for all the things youve brought us from korea
truly the end of an era

docvoc

United States5491 Posts

September 23 2012 18:07 GMT

#47

All is not lost, but hybrid proleague has lost what is left for BW lovers i guess.

MrMedic

Canada452 Posts

September 23 2012 18:33 GMT

#48

Good bye Broodwar, you will always be in my heart

Ideas

United States8131 Posts

September 23 2012 18:34 GMT

#49

I always considered the last SPL finals to be the end of PL. This hybrid league just didnt feel like a real proleague at all. It just felt like "hey here are 2 random crappy BW matches and then some crappy SC2 matches too." I stopped following it after like 3 weeks in. I didn't even know the finals happened until after they happened lol.

This whole thing was just a reminder that the only cool esports scene ever turned super dumb this year. esports is dumb

I always wished I could have gone to a live BW match before it all ended too

itsjustatank

Hong Kong9157 Posts

September 23 2012 18:35 GMT

#50

Can we use these images on Liquipedia?

NeverGG

United Kingdom5399 Posts

September 23 2012 19:06 GMT

#51

On September 24 2012 01:07 Cambium wrote:
susie, you were doing some live cast during the power outage MSL right?

I remember watching it live in a super delirious state (being tired and drunk), and it was freaking awesome

No, that was me. I was locked in the press room during the outage and did a live Ventrilo feed.

surfinbird1

Germany999 Posts

September 23 2012 19:07 GMT

#52

Didn't give two shots about Hybrid PL. Just awful. Didn't even know about the finals.

Epoxide

Magic Woods9326 Posts

September 23 2012 19:07 GMT

#53

Ah T_T, it should feel really good when my favorite team finally won a teamleague in ages. But it doesn't ;;

Great blog.

FuDDx

United States5008 Posts

September 23 2012 19:14 GMT

#54

BW<3 <3 My Life For BW!~!

yawnoC

United States3704 Posts

September 23 2012 19:39 GMT

#55

Sad to see two of the biggest online games I played when I was young are dying but, I can be happy with the fact that they both had very long successful runs. RIP BW.

EnderSword

Canada669 Posts

September 23 2012 19:45 GMT

#56

Watched the finals, too bad it couldn't have ended weith like a BW tie breaker

Sinensis

United States2513 Posts

September 23 2012 19:51 GMT

#57

Thanks for all the swag lilsusie. Didn't watch the finals but if I lived in Korea I would have gone live too. Proleague used to be what got me through the week. Waiting to see Hwaseung and SKT to play. Then watching those players in the individual leagues. I sincerely hope Blizzard ruins HOTS and Korea switches back to Brood War.

EDIT: I got the SKT uniform you sent me autographed by boxer and bisu.

rainei

Canada1316 Posts

September 23 2012 20:16 GMT

#58

Gotta add my thanks for swag too. I got a Hwaseung shirt from you what seems like ages ago, and I finally got it autographed by the Dong. It is my most prized piece of clothing, and probably one of my most prized possessions!