EPTAfter blizzard announced the zerg race it was only natural for all of us to look in to the starcraft2 forum more often. I cannot help it but browse trough threads looking for informations and sometimes opinions.
And i feel i'm inbetween something. I'm going to be 30 in a few years. Nomatter what happens with starcraft2 i won't be affected by it like i was 10 years ago with starcraft. It wont turn my schedule upside down and i will never have any ambition again to reach a certain level of skill.
Why is it then, after all that distance there is, that i feel with all the people who are concerned, even sometimes loose their temper? Why do i read all the toughts from very low posts members with a pinch of salt? Why do i shake my head over something sometimes that should be trivial to me? MBS, Automining, Smartcasting, a Blizzard employe talking smack. Why should i care, a guy who walks on solid paths to maybe give birth to a child in a few years and start his own family?
It's true, i'm able to turn around and look the other way. But there are times where i look at opinions and i realise that there are people out there who don't feel like my clanmate who get's nervous when we play a 1on1 against each other, who don't look at progaming and follow it with a certain excitment, who don't think that you could look at it like work and never brough up the respect to these young men who give it their all to one day stand on this stage holding up a trophy.
Now at first there seems no connection between progaming and starcraft when it comes to starcraft2. But it's different for us. 10 years my friends. 10 years of playing. 10 years of watching a game change and grow. Years of cheering for progaming, watching it grow bigger and more profesional. Years of seeing players come and go. Starcraft wasn't just a game. It was a companion for us. Even if you, like i, stopped playing from time to time, you still come back after days, weeks, months, maybe years.
It is a game. But so is tennis, soccer, chess and whatnot. I long ago stepped back and accepted in my mind and heart that it can be more than just a video game. It can be truly amazing.
And that's the reason why i sometimes don't turn around and look the other way. It's because i had so much fun with starcraft that i wan't to give that feeling of excitement, that passion to the next generation. We've been the first to see progaming blossom, and you shall as well see this. And that's the reason why some of us are so defensive. Because we played this game for 10 years and we had so much fun with it that we wan't you to realise what the essence of starcraft is. We wan't you all to undestand that there is more behind this game than just fast clicks, flashy micro and bits and bytes runing across the screen.
We have respect for these great players of the past because we acctualy know from start to finish how difficult some things are. For us each and every part of this game is art. To see a progamer who mastered and overcome the difficultys of this game is art. When julyzerg killed tons of units with only mutas we smile because we aknowledge his skill. When boxer kills an army of lurkers with perfect micro we are excited. When oov has twice as many units as his opponent we laugh because we cant believe what unfolds in front of our eyes. When nal_ra cannon rushs we giggle because there is allways a message, a spirit, a form of art behind it.
You turn away with the reason "it's another game". We know that. But we want you to live trough these 10 years of so much fun we had. And that is the reason my friends why we sometimes completly overlook your reasoning for a supposedly better, updated system. So much has evolved in and around starcraft that we just don't see the need of changing certain aspects. And while you might think that our reasons are selfish and outdated, it's only to share with you the excitement we had and still have over these many many years.
glhf
Jayson X
