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On July 29 2010 04:27 Chill wrote:
My children, please fucking stop making threads about how you are pissed that Brood War is dying and so on and so forth. It's getting tiring, and my old bones ache.
I'm pretty sure that the people who make this threads want BW to die . Every time i see this kind of threads i get the feeling i'm beeing trolled by some SC2 player who probably hasn't even played or watched competitive BW or someone who wants BW to die so that SC2 will take over as fast as possible .
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Chill Canada. July 29 2010 04:27. Posts 15786 PM Profile Blog Quote #
My children, please fucking stop making threads about how you are pissed that Brood War is dying and so on and so forth. It's getting tiring, and my old bones ache.
Chill is right (of course he is, being totally awesome) - this is just another "I'm sad because broodwar is dying thread". But actually I'm kinda sad, because I fear just that.
Thx anyway for all the people showing flag for the greatest game ever. Maybe this thread should just be closed 
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On July 29 2010 04:37 raga4ka wrote:Show nested quote +On July 29 2010 04:27 Chill wrote:
My children, please fucking stop making threads about how you are pissed that Brood War is dying and so on and so forth. It's getting tiring, and my old bones ache. I'm pretty sure that the people who make this threads want BW to die . Every time i see this kind of threads i get the feeling i'm beeing trolled by some SC2 player who probably hasn't even played or watched competitive BW or someone who wanst BW to die so that SC2 will take over as fast as possible .
This and what Chill said. Seriously, what's the point of even making this thread? There's still BW games to be played, especially in professional level. As long as there's professional BW in the scene on TV and elsewhere with much popularity like Korea, BW will be still played, no matter what. I bet few months from now, all of you SC2 fanatics will come crying to BW again realizing what a mistake it was to ditch SC1 or for the SC2 only people who were blind, they would be in denial...
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broheim, sc2 came out two days ago, of course people are going to be playing it more, it's been 12 years...things will settle down in a while, and I feel like BW will always have a home in korea
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Theres still ~1200 people on iccup at all times, thats more than when the beta was out. Bw is not dying, its just "going away for a little while". But as long as the proscene survives, I am happy :3.
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Do you remember when warcraft 3 came out? Alot of scbw players switched to it for a while, and most came back. I believe the same thing will happen with sc2, alot of scbw people are playing it and then coming back to the beloved scbw.
I played during the closed beta and was a low diamond league 1v1/2v2 player and i allready got bored of sc2, perhaps the next expansion or time will shape it better, but currently it feels awfully straight forward. I am very interested in sc2 customs/singleplayer and i believe alot of others feel the same way, and stop massing sc2 within a month.
Personally i view d3 as a bigger threat because most bw players are getting old and casuality starts to seem like a fun choice.
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We can argue all we want that Brood War is the better game. However, SCII is new.
Face it, humanity likes new stuff.
I imagine that the hardcore fans of Brood War will come back and keep playing. However, the vast majority that are casual fans will play SCII.
It doesn't help that Brood War is not Window 7 compatible either. I am experiencing color corruption issues with it since patch 1.6.
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On July 29 2010 05:12 dukethegold wrote:
We can argue all we want that Brood War is the better game. However, SCII is new.
Face it, humanity likes new stuff.
I imagine that the hardcore fans of Brood War will come back and keep playing. However, the vast majority that are casual fans will play SCII.
It doesn't help that Brood War is not Window 7 compatible either. I am experiencing color corruption issues with it since patch 1.6.
I think the hardcores will stick with SC2 because there's money to be made there. Mid level players are more likely to return to BW.
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I got SC2 to see what it was like and played a few games online... 90% was some guy cheesing me... with APM of like 1 (jk but srsly 90% cheese!). Moreover... SC2 is slow paced as all hell... i just find it boring. The reason I think the majority of TL community has switched to SC2 is because the majority of TL community couldn't cut in BW. BW is just such a hard game by comparison. Each match-up has several different BO's, micro is a bitch, macro is a bitch, the AI is constantly working against you, and finally it's the most frustrating game to get rolled in (at least for me).
By comparison, SC2 is slower, u can have 1 multi-purpose build for every MU (at least for terran, and if u don't believe me go MnM every game and tell me if you seriously didn't have a fighting chance each time), and of course the you have a much larger noob community which makes online competition easier.
That being said, SC2 is fun in it's own regards, as far as custom games go and campaign, but online is still BW dominated  You'll see, unless the Boxer of SC2 appears, online play is going to dwindle in the next year
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I'm still very much into Brood War, though what's hard is finding people to play with--I don't mean getting on ICCup and finding randoms. Most of my friends (who played SCBW) moved on to SC2, and the few that still play BW are either not much of a challenge, too good, or rarely play. And the BW battle.net usually lags to hard for even a BGH game.
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My dream is that SC2 crashes and burns, and everyone comes back to BW. I doubt it's going to happen, though. =/
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The amount of snobbery in here is almost painful. I love BW, its was like my childhood, but honestly SC2 is off to an even better start than SC1 was. Who knows where it'll end up in a comparable amount of time.
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I still remember the golden age of BW streams with the awesome A, A+ level streams with Ret, Nongmin, StryKer (or w/e it was called) and many more.. ahh those were so good!
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If anyone wants to friend up and play some low level (the edge of the cliff by my fingernails at D+) games I'd like that!
Username is the same
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On July 29 2010 05:35 See.Blue wrote:
The amount of snobbery in here is almost painful. I love BW, its was like my childhood, but honestly SC2 is off to an even better start than SC1 was. Who knows where it'll end up in a comparable amount of time.
It's off to a better start because of the SC1 foundation it had to leap off of.
I dunno the issue I see is that BW simply had that exact mix of bugs and timing that allowed it to flourish in Korea. I really think BW is an outlier that will not be repeated in the near future.
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On July 29 2010 04:54 Megalisk wrote:
Theres still ~1200 people on iccup at all times, thats more than when the beta was out. Bw is not dying, its just "going away for a little while". But as long as the proscene survives, I am happy :3.
Yessss.
I don't have a comp that can run SC2 anywho, so for the meantime, I'm still playing BW.
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On July 29 2010 05:12 dukethegold wrote:
We can argue all we want that Brood War is the better game. However, SCII is new.
Face it, humanity likes new stuff.
I imagine that the hardcore fans of Brood War will come back and keep playing. However, the vast majority that are casual fans will play SCII.
It doesn't help that Brood War is not Window 7 compatible either. I am experiencing color corruption issues with it since patch 1.6.
huh? i play BW on windows 7 all the time with no problems!
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Game came out YESTERDAY.
That's not very hard to comprehend T_T.
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The question should be who ISN'T into BW?
This OSL is stacked, gonna be so many good games, and I can't wait for them! MSL and PL are awesome too, but I'm really excited about the OSL.
One thing I will give to SC2 is the fact that you are put up against random people, and you won't get kicked/ your opponent won't leave the game lobby (That's why I never play BW except with friends, ICCUP is a hostile environment).
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