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Physician *
Profile Blog Joined January 2004
United States4146 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-03-18 15:42:08
March 18 2008 08:22 GMT
#1
/will give it a go blog style since I am too lazy to polish it up..

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Grasshopper, to master SC2, first you must learn Brood War

Noob, no BW lol?

Today I took the day off and went to the white sands of Destin, Florida with the whole family. I spent almost 5 hours in the water wallowing about like a happy whale while I made sure none of my sons drowned in their zeal to battle every single wave that dared challenge them. It was a red flag day so it was either say "no", "no swimming today" and have an all out crying fest, or face my duty as a father and start playing Orca.

My little one, who is five year old, and still swims by diving from point to point rather than having any specific style kept pushing his luck and limits by constantly by heading forward. His blind courage amazed me and it almost gave me a new perspective on the value of ignorance. I kept telling him that before he could venture out on his own he needed to learn how to swim properly, at least a decent freestyle, and acquire a significant more amount of muscle mass. And yes I translated it too, to you need to know learn how to swim well first, grow and get stronger before you go deeper on your own. It amuses him, and trains him, this double language I often share with him.

His attitude reminded me all too clearly of my first month at battle.net. That exact attitude is the same many of us had when we first ventured into Battle.net. Early on we tread in unknown grounds, pretty much unprepared and more importantly blissfully unaware of our own ignorance or the strength of our opponents, the crushing waves, the certain losses we would face and how much stronger some would become while the vast majority would simply quit, never to be seen again. Some of us have survived the waves of losses, near drownings and thus here we are today. Our odds weren't too good to start off and our great initial numbers is part of the reason why some of us simply are still playing today.

Statistics say that only 10% of those who ever bought StarCraft ever went online or stayed online more than a week, and of those that did make it over that initial week, five out every six would drop out on their first year. Our grim reality. Do a /users in vanilla and you will be lucky if you see 3000 in vanilla or a 30,000 in Brood War at any given time. We used to be hundreds of thousands.

Total games over Battle.net reached 11,379,766 -- the first time more than 10 million Blizzard games have been played in the same day. The record for concurrent users was also broken with a peak of 106,608 users online at the same time. Log on today, because millions of Battle.net gamers can't be wrong! - Blizzard Insider Issue 1, January 19 2000 (and we broke the record many times over the following years)

Anyway a little later on to finish up the day we went to a local Japanese restaurant (great place I highly recommend it if anyone is in the area) to recover our strength. While there, exactly almost in the middle of a very decent beef Udon soup some college kids sat in a near by table and could not help but notice immediately that one of them mentioned World of WarCraft. I am not a WOW fan nor do I play the game but after playing so many types of online games I knew he had just started, i.e. a noob, nevertheless a gamer, with all the enthusiasm of those first few weeks.

So off went my mind on a tangent and before the soup was finished I thought of a simple idea which I very much would like to share with everyone. Particularly those who are very good at our game.

When StarCraft 2 comes out I am certain that all the old guard will fare better initially. The likes of Maynard and TillerMan fared well as WarCraft 2 players and they did even better at StarCraft; both setting trends in the early years. A good number of all the future stars and the future legends will come from those that today have reached high skill levels in Brood War.
I also know that invariably there will be millions of new players, that never played vanilla or Brood War, asking those stars and future legends how they became so good at Starcraft2. When that day comes I have a favor to ask everyone who reads this humble blog entry.

Be it myth or mantra, for fun or loyalty, do the following when you can. Every time you encounter all those new impressionable SC2 young players that never played Brood War and ask you how you got so good at SC2 and so fast, or want to know what your secret is, tell them to play Brood War. Give them all a chance to experience too, the great joy we had with the original; and maybe, just maybe, Brood War can have yet another revival if StarCraft2 ends up being awesome.

Tell them before they can brave the sea, they need to learn how to swim, they need to know how to play Brood War. It would be a nice way to honor our great game and our past shared years. Foster the myth or do it for kicks, but feed our old game every now and then.


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Preemptive nostalgia...

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"I have beheld the births of negative-suns and borne witness to the entropy of entire realities...."
jimminy_kriket
Profile Blog Joined February 2007
Canada5501 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-03-18 08:33:28
March 18 2008 08:32 GMT
#2
I normally dont read things this long. But I read this. Your a good writer.

And yes, when I am ranked #1 in the world, i will tell all the little nooblets to play broodwar. Just for you.
life of lively to live to life of full life thx to shield battery
Physician *
Profile Blog Joined January 2004
United States4146 Posts
March 18 2008 08:47 GMT
#3
fixing it a bit, its scruffy - I can never proof something unless its posted : (
"I have beheld the births of negative-suns and borne witness to the entropy of entire realities...."
Agavond
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
448 Posts
March 18 2008 09:19 GMT
#4
I really enjoyed your story, and would like to mention I am an expert swimmer (starcraft).
O.oSins Since Op Cal
besiger
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
Croatia2452 Posts
March 18 2008 10:26 GMT
#5
nice nice.
A weak will coupled with delusions of grandeur
fanatacist
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
10319 Posts
March 18 2008 10:47 GMT
#6
Touching <3
Peace~
Spenguin
Profile Blog Joined November 2007
Australia3316 Posts
March 18 2008 10:56 GMT
#7
Inspirationally nostalgic.
< TeamLiquid CJ Entusman #46 > I came for the Brood War, I stayed for the people.
Kage
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
India788 Posts
March 18 2008 11:53 GMT
#8
Excellent work as always Sir. You should ask people to read your top 10 things to keep in mind for BW players too!!!!
prOxi.swAMi
Profile Blog Joined November 2004
Australia3091 Posts
March 18 2008 12:28 GMT
#9
Quite a nice writeup entropy!
Oh no
Xiberia
Profile Joined September 2007
Sweden634 Posts
March 18 2008 12:33 GMT
#10
Nice
OnCoke
Profile Joined March 2007
Romania49 Posts
March 18 2008 12:47 GMT
#11
On March 18 2008 19:47 fanatacist wrote:
Touching <3


Also, Destin beach looks .... just wow !!!! amazing ....
Fen
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
Australia1848 Posts
March 18 2008 12:59 GMT
#12
Inspiring stuff
Response
Profile Blog Joined April 2004
United States1936 Posts
March 18 2008 13:27 GMT
#13
My eyes are tearing up:-D nice write up
the REAL ReSpOnSe
Jayson X
Profile Blog Joined November 2006
Switzerland2431 Posts
March 18 2008 13:59 GMT
#14
Hei you stole my blog!
No wait you didn't. Ah Physician be my swimming teacher haha. How awesome would it be if my father said such words to mem.

I will with all my suckiness that will undoubtly live on in sc2 put your idea in to reality. And if they ask "but why?" for the second time, i will tell them because you said so.
Bub
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
United States3518 Posts
March 18 2008 14:49 GMT
#15
Lovely write up. I sure enjoyed it
XK ßubonic
ShmotZ
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United States581 Posts
March 18 2008 15:27 GMT
#16
Q_Q....broodwar forever !!
Ah, computer dating. It's like pimping, but you rarely have to use the phrase "upside your head." - Bender
Kua
Profile Joined March 2008
United Kingdom9 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-03-18 15:53:49
March 18 2008 15:52 GMT
#17
'Pre-emptive' nostalgia is a nice concept.

I'm not sure many people will have a look at the original StarCraft because of their experience in SC2. It would feel somehow pointless... although I know, in fact, it would not, rather it would be beneficial.

What they need to do is what I'm doing and pick up SC in anticipation of SC2. This way (this is the theory anyway) they will reach a plateau just as SC2 is released and the boost from the new game will mean this plateau is continued and they will kick ass! YAY! Perhaps. ^^

Edit: In fact I'd be surprised if the interest in SC original did not increase as the release date for SC2 is released and gets closer.
nubbinupurTL.net
MeriaDoKk
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
Chile1726 Posts
March 18 2008 16:12 GMT
#18
really nice write up, i'm impressed
Boblion
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
France8043 Posts
March 18 2008 17:08 GMT
#19
cool read, but a bit sad ( nostalgia ... )
fuck all those elitists brb watching streams of elite players.
Tropics
Profile Joined August 2007
United Kingdom1132 Posts
March 18 2008 20:41 GMT
#20
There's something depressing about this.

cool read
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