EPTJaedong was already past his prime when professional BW came to an end. It would be naive to suggest that going back to BW is something that he would do primarily to be on top again. And while it is well known that players have dropped off in the past as a result of losing passion, no matter what game they were playing, that doesn't really explain why a player would quit a game he has played professionally for four years to return to a game he played professionally for seven years. Indeed, there's no reason to think he ever stopped playing BW to begin with.
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lolmlg
619 Posts
Jaedong was already past his prime when professional BW came to an end. It would be naive to suggest that going back to BW is something that he would do primarily to be on top again. And while it is well known that players have dropped off in the past as a result of losing passion, no matter what game they were playing, that doesn't really explain why a player would quit a game he has played professionally for four years to return to a game he played professionally for seven years. Indeed, there's no reason to think he ever stopped playing BW to begin with. | ||
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Essbee
Canada2371 Posts
On May 17 2016 00:46 lolmlg wrote: SC2 is a different game requiring a different skillset. There was no reason to expect every great BW player to be great at SC2 and there was no reason to expect everyone who enjoyed BW to enjoy SC2. These two errors were huge reasons why the actions of Blizzard in Korea could only be seen as belligerent and counter-productive. Jaedong was already past his prime when professional BW came to an end. It would be naive to suggest that going back to BW is something that he would do primarily to be on top again. And while it is well known that players have dropped off in the past as a result of losing passion, no matter what game they were playing, that doesn't really explain why a player would quit a game he has played professionally for four years to return to a game he played professionally for seven years. Indeed, there's no reason to think he ever stopped playing BW to begin with. Exactly this. They were "forced" to switch because Blizzard and Kespa probably thought the games were similar because both have "Starcraft" in their names, but the fanbase in korea (I live in korea and asked multiple people about this too) and here quickly realized that it was not the case, those games were different and it just didn't make much sense to force pros to play a different game. It was no different than suddenly making cs:go players switch to something like tf2 just because both games are shooters. Doesn't mean that one or the other is bad, just different, so it felt very natural for me to get bored of sc2 very quickly at the time even though I was extremely excited for it. I felt sad and disappointed but I just realized that I should keep playing sc1 because it was the game I enjoyed and there was no reason for me to feel sad since I could just keep playing it, and I feel it's the same for the pros now like flash and jaedong. | ||
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BaronVonOwn
299 Posts
On May 17 2016 00:42 Essbee wrote: 1.6 is way closer to cs:go than bw is to sc2. People think bw is similar to sc2 just because of the name, if you've played both games you would know that they are entirely different, like, not even close. Cs:go and 1.6 are similar enough so that successful players from one game can easily translate their skills to the other one. Hell, even the maps are basically the same. You know.... I was going somewhere with this, but it's sadly useless to argue it anymore so I'll just stop  Ultimately I may just need to follow Jaedong back to the best game ever made. | ||
BLinD-RawR
ALLEYCAT BLUES50637 Posts
On May 16 2016 20:01 atrox_ wrote: oh ): thanks for the update. I wont forget you Jung Myung-hoon He did say that he wants to return o esports after his service though, not sure in which capacity. | ||
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rotta
5599 Posts
On May 16 2016 21:25 serojja wrote: Does anyone know what is Jangbi currently doing? http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/brood-war/491215-jangbi-to-military | ||
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BreAKerTV
Taiwan1658 Posts
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PharaphobiaSC
Czech Republic457 Posts
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Souma
2nd Worst City in CA8938 Posts
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Wrath
3174 Posts
On May 17 2016 01:55 BLinD-RawR wrote: He did say that he wants to return o esports after his service though, not sure in which capacity. As a developer. | ||
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TRaFFiC
Canada1448 Posts
If he's lost interest for good, I hope he finds the right path in the next chapter of his life. | ||
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Phredxor
New Zealand15076 Posts
On May 17 2016 04:45 TRaFFiC wrote: All these Broodwar Nutters foaming at the mouth at the idea of Jaedong playing BW. I would be all for it if I saw any future in it. Unless BW is now bigger than sc2 somehow. Not to mention he hasn't been playing that game. You can't just go back to different RTS with different hotkeys like nothing happened. If he's lost interest for good, I hope he finds the right path in the next chapter of his life. Flash went back and pretty damn quickly got to the top beating some of the best players left. I imagine JD could do the same. Plus balloons. | ||
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Joker1
France11 Posts
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nighcol
298 Posts
I'm all for it since the other option looks more and more to be quiet retirement. It would be foolish to dream of BW becoming a big esport even in Korea again let alone anywhere else but as long as there is an interested audience that likes to reminisce, give them what they want. | ||
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ndesktop
Romania109 Posts
I'm still watching the PDP POP game 5 against Snow regularly (the one with cracklings letting Nexus with 5 hp and 2 defiler defense against protoss Snow-ball) and I bet he can regain the pleasure of the game one more time. | ||
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KeksX
Germany3634 Posts
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nighcol
298 Posts
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BisuDagger
Bisutopia19307 Posts
@BW posters, please ignore the ignorant posts by certain people in here. | ||
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aQuaSC
717 Posts
On May 17 2016 22:20 nighcol wrote: I wouldn't project your own attitudes into him like you seem to be doing here. Great statement. | ||
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The_Red_Viper
19533 Posts
On May 17 2016 23:22 BisuDagger wrote: I think this thread ran its course on the SC2 forums. Moving to the BW forums now where it should have been posted. @BW posters, please ignore the ignorant posts by certain people in here. I had to laugh a lot about this wording. Hilarious | ||
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intotheheart
Canada33091 Posts
1. nobody casts them 2. not sure what his ID is? | ||
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