EPTMaybe it's time I take up knitting, at least we still have Hearthstone
Being an Sc2 fan is depressing...
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Esoterikk
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Maybe it's time I take up knitting, at least we still have Hearthstone | ||
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Eggi
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I just try to ladder. no point trying to get good at another game. might as well be a good at something right? Ive invested 2 years into sc2. Ive gotten mini-fame might as well take what I got | ||
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Paljas
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Teoita
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Esoterikk
Canada1256 Posts
On August 22 2013 05:25 Teoita wrote: Or we could just not give a damn and enjoy the game I try my hardest but sometimes the negativity gets through like a brick wave. I enjoy competition and as the NA scene collapses a lot of the competition goes with it. | ||
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Dingodile
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90% of all teamleague tournaments are using all-kill format, the most boring format  | ||
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Yorbon
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+ Show Spoiler + Or enjoy bw. | ||
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c0ldfusion
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Dingodile
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On August 22 2013 06:08 c0ldfusion wrote: It's alright man. As long as we have proleague it's all good. Do we have next season? | ||
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Race is Terran
United States382 Posts
On August 22 2013 04:56 Esoterikk wrote: Sc2 being replaced with MLG, viewership declining, Gloom and doom on every community site, Koreans winning everything and Blizzard is no where to be found. Maybe it's time I take up knitting, at least we still have Hearthstone on behalf of the sc2 community, we do not need this negativity. Please take it and go, gg and gl in hearthstone | ||
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Dfgj
Singapore5922 Posts
On August 22 2013 05:23 Paljas wrote: wtf, why would you care about all this stuff if you still enjoy the game. I imagine a lot of people enjoyed that they felt they were a part of esports rather than actually enjoying playing the game. Look at all the reluctance to play 1v1 that gets posted. | ||
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docvoc
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Djzapz
Canada10681 Posts
Feels bad, man | ||
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Master of DalK
Canada1797 Posts
On August 22 2013 06:56 Dfgj wrote: I imagine a lot of people enjoyed that they felt they were a part of esports rather than actually enjoying playing the game. Look at all the reluctance to play 1v1 that gets posted. Yeah it's sad they just say they like the game just because #ESPORTS TT | ||
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Esoterikk
Canada1256 Posts
On August 22 2013 07:11 Master of DalK wrote: Yeah it's sad they just say they like the game just because #ESPORTS TT Actually the lack of NA events and viewership declining caused most of my friends to pick up LoL and honestly while I enjoy Sc2 it's boring as hell if you don't know anyone who plays, that's the biggest problem for me anyway. | ||
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Burrfoot
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BigFan
TLADT24920 Posts
On August 22 2013 07:04 Djzapz wrote: I don't want to be even more of a bummer but if you think being SC2 fan is depressing, try being a SCBW fan and not liking SC2. Feels bad, man ouch. I haven't actually played SCII in several weeks. My laptop's temps go up hardcore when I play so I decided to switch to mostly BW with some SCII with friends. Most of my friends don't play SCII anymore though and most that never did in the first place play Dota2 or LoL. Part of playing starcraft is playing games against friends and teammates, doing wacky builds with them etc... but ya, guess that's not gonna happen anytime soon in my case XD BTW, OP, you should just ignore all those news and play SCII on the ladder normally. No reason to spread doom and gloom in the community more than it's already been spread with all the "SCII is dying" posts/thread | ||
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beesinyoface
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Switch to another game/community like Dota or something where it's currently really popular, maybe it'd change your mood. | ||
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9-BiT
United States1089 Posts
On August 22 2013 07:04 Djzapz wrote: I don't want to be even more of a bummer but if you think being SC2 fan is depressing, try being a SCBW fan and not liking SC2. Feels bad, man Yeah, I went through this for a while, but I just came to appreciate SC2 for what it is, an excellent game that gets shit on because it had to follow up an impossibly good game. If starcraft 2 was called something else and didn't have to do with broodwar, I'm sure it would get much higher regards from the community, although the community would probably be smaller. | ||
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Crissaegrim
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HeeroFX
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Dodgin
Canada39254 Posts
Yes there will be at least one more season source: whiplash | ||
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Djzapz
Canada10681 Posts
On August 22 2013 10:05 9-BiT wrote: Yeah, I went through this for a while, but I just came to appreciate SC2 for what it is, an excellent game that gets shit on because it had to follow up an impossibly good game. If starcraft 2 was called something else and didn't have to do with broodwar, I'm sure it would get much higher regards from the community, although the community would probably be smaller. Well, maybe someday for me. I still follow the scene from a distance, watch a few games and try to catch big games of players I care about. Once in a blue moon, I catch a game which entertains me. But I'll always miss enjoying a vast majority of the games like I did in BW. I'll miss being so excited about an OSL/MSL/Proleague final that I'd wake up in the middle of the night on a school day to watch it. | ||
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Mahanaim
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RBKeys
Canada196 Posts
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Subversive
Australia2229 Posts
On August 22 2013 06:54 Race is Terran wrote: on behalf of the sc2 community, we do not need this negativity. Please take it and go, gg and gl in hearthstone You don't speak on behalf of the community -_-. Especially when you registered 3 months ago. That or you're a PBU. Don't be dismissive of others peoples opinions. | ||
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GTPGlitch
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On August 22 2013 07:04 Djzapz wrote: I don't want to be even more of a bummer but if you think being SC2 fan is depressing, try being a SCBW fan and not liking SC2. Feels bad, man Hey, at least BW is growing!~ | ||
FlaShFTW
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lichter
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LlamaNamedOsama
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Stratos
Czech Republic6104 Posts
On August 22 2013 07:04 Djzapz wrote: I don't want to be even more of a bummer but if you think being SC2 fan is depressing, try being a SCBW fan and not liking SC2. Feels bad, man feels awesome here. now go watch jaehoon @afreeca live atm http://www.teamliquid.net/video/streams/snipealot2 | ||
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opisska
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Plansix
United States60190 Posts
On August 22 2013 04:56 Esoterikk wrote: Sc2 being replaced with MLG, viewership declining, Gloom and doom on every community site, Koreans winning everything and Blizzard is no where to be found. Maybe it's time I take up knitting, at least we still have Hearthstone I have good new for you. MLG did not drop SC2, they are just not running it with a conflicting event that weekend. They have said they want to run SC2 at other events. Just enjoy the game and try to ignore the haters. There will be great SC2 this weekend at Gamescom and we have all of season 3 to rock out too. Plus Blizzcon is coming up. Kids are going to say SC2 is dying, but they just look at stream numbers and say “its not the biggest, that’s dead”. That’s not how life works. As always, “don’t read the comments” is a rule for life. | ||
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Mothra
United States1448 Posts
On August 22 2013 07:46 Esoterikk wrote: Actually the lack of NA events and viewership declining caused most of my friends to pick up LoL and honestly while I enjoy Sc2 it's boring as hell if you don't know anyone who plays, that's the biggest problem for me anyway. You're a fan yet find the game "boring as hell"? There's plenty of other games to play with friends. | ||
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Tobberoth
Sweden6375 Posts
Viewership might be declining though, MLG dropping SC2 was indeed a blow. EDIT: Though yes, reading through the topic, I was reminded that there were rumors that MLG hasn't dropped it permanently. | ||
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DunDon
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On August 22 2013 11:26 Djzapz wrote: Well, maybe someday for me. I still follow the scene from a distance, watch a few games and try to catch big games of players I care about. Once in a blue moon, I catch a game which entertains me. But I'll always miss enjoying a vast majority of the games like I did in BW. I'll miss being so excited about an OSL/MSL/Proleague final that I'd wake up in the middle of the night on a school day to watch it. Those were the days bro.. those were the days. Waking up at 5 for a KT/SKT/Samsung game. | ||
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MaRiNe23
United States747 Posts
On August 22 2013 14:54 LuckyFool wrote: within a couple years we'll all be back on iccup playing bw. I'm still here! | ||
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Plansix
United States60190 Posts
On August 23 2013 03:18 Tobberoth wrote: Koreans have been winning everything for ages, before HOTS was released. I'd say Blizzard is more visible now than they were back then. Viewership might be declining though, MLG dropping SC2 was indeed a blow. EDIT: Though yes, reading through the topic, I was reminded that there were rumors that MLG hasn't dropped it permanently. They are not rumors. MLG has confirmed they will have SC2 at other events later if possible. | ||
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ninazerg
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Zergneedsfood
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On August 22 2013 04:56 Esoterikk wrote: Koreans winning everything and Blizzard is no where to be found.: So.....Broodwar? | ||
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NarutO
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SomethingWitty
Canada94 Posts
This thread is great encouragement for starting a thread on the Brood War nostalgia circle-jerk. | ||
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Mothra
United States1448 Posts
On August 23 2013 22:20 SomethingWitty wrote: Why would it make you sad? It's not like viewership is in the low-mid hundreds... WCS NA, the weakest region, had like a consistent 40-50k viewers all weekend. That's a healthy, sustainable number. Like the amount of people complaining about just the timing with TI3 is just so ridiculous; you never hear baseball fans whine after the super bowl saying, "hmmph. We'll never get as many views as the super bowl. I'm sad". What matters is sustainability and we are reaching a point where we can say this is a sustainable scene. It's not perfect, I agree with that, but not because of viewers. The biggest problem right now is the stumbling North American scene which has its head held under water by Blizzard. This thread is great encouragement for starting a thread on the Brood War nostalgia circle-jerk. Yeah you can contemptuously call it nostalgia and circle jerking, while trying to justify the merits of SC2 on it's "sustainability". Pretty sad that business jargon and and e-sports cheerleading precedes or even substitutes actual love and passion for the game. BW was free of that at least, unless I'm remembering wrong (blinded by nostalgia would be apt in that case). | ||
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SomethingWitty
Canada94 Posts
On August 24 2013 03:16 Mothra wrote: Yeah you can contemptuously call it nostalgia and circle jerking, while trying to justify the merits of SC2 on it's "sustainability". Pretty sad that business jargon and and e-sports cheerleading precedes or even substitutes actual love and passion for the game. BW was free of that at least, unless I'm remembering wrong (blinded by nostalgia would be apt in that case). I'm not trying to "justify the merits of SC2 on it's "sustainability"". I'm stating a fact which is that while Sc2 isn't the most watched scene the place we are at now is sustainable to have pro players, events offline and online, personalities, casters etc. How am I even e-sports cheerleading? LOL. I'm sure the people who go to live events and who play this game a lot have a passion for it but you're too immature to realize that you not having passion for the game doesn't mean that NO ONE can have passion for the game. You've got a lot of growing up to do. | ||
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9-BiT
United States1089 Posts
On August 23 2013 07:41 ninazerg wrote: SC:BW has been getting it's ass kicked last few years, but I never gave up and felt down. Keep your chin up, guy. I'm pretty sure in the past few years since it's "death" it's grown a bit, just from the exposure that got it, but I could be wrong. | ||
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Djzapz
Canada10681 Posts
On August 25 2013 06:00 9-BiT wrote: I'm pretty sure in the past few years since it's "death" it's grown a bit, just from the exposure that got it, but I could be wrong. Still a shadow of its former self. | ||
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[UoN]Sentinel
United States11320 Posts
On August 22 2013 06:59 docvoc wrote: the only thing killing sc2 is people saying stuff is killing it. I am stealing this. | ||
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