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United Kingdom13775 Posts
On March 27 2017 06:45 Waxangel wrote:
Question for the people who are excited to comeback for StarCraft: Remastered: Why did you stop playing in the first place?
1. Life got in the way. I am a busier, less game-playing man than I was in my youth. I was never particularly good at BW, much as I did enjoy it, and I simply didn't have the commitment necessary to keep at a decent level of play. But I did still enjoy streams sometimes, but less so recently - see (2) below.
2. A game is more than just gameplay, and frankly without the pro scene much of the magic of BW is lost. Some people enjoy the Afreeca scene; I do not, because it is a shadow of what these players were in their progaming years. This, perhaps, is a catalyst for a revival. At the least it's a genuine chance since the opening exists and the infrastructure is also mostly there. Sure, LoL and other such absurdly popular games did sideline RTS in general, Starcraft included, but I do not believe that BW needs to be the most popular competitive game in the world to be a wildly successful progaming phenomenon.
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I grew up with BW and have good memories of the game. When I was a kid I had all the time to practice a game. Today the hype is nothing more than nostalgia. I think people forget how frustrating it is without mbs, unlimited unit selection etc. I can play 2-3 games per week and just the warm up for a game like BW takes more games.
I love watching BW pros play but just the thought of sending each worker to a mineral patch is exhasuting.
But props to Blizzard for doing this for the community. Not like anyone actually expected this!
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It would be really awesome if Blizzard invited a bunch of BW pros to play showmatches on the remastered game at Blizzcon this year, with the following year a full on tournament finals. Too much to hope for?
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On March 27 2017 06:45 Waxangel wrote:
Question for the people who are excited to comeback for StarCraft: Remastered: Why did you stop playing in the first place?
A combination of blizzard trying hard to kill the game to make space for sc2, death of the pro scene, lack of players and DotA 2.
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United Kingdom13775 Posts
On March 27 2017 15:42 papaz wrote:
I grew up with BW and have good memories of the game. When I was a kid I had all the time to practice a game. Today the hype is nothing more than nostalgia. I think people forget how frustrating it is without mbs, unlimited unit selection etc. I can play 2-3 games per week and just the warm up for a game like BW takes more games.
I love watching BW pros play but just the thought of sending each worker to a mineral patch is exhasuting.
But props to Blizzard for doing this for the community. Not like anyone actually expected this!
Playing Brood War is at least an hour-a-day commitment if you aren't in the mood for just losing and losing. But I'm not a youngun anymore; having a good, productive 1-4 hours of free time for gaming every single day doesn't happen. And while it is for the best, it does mean that playing Starcraft isn't worth it. Watching streams is great for getting much of the experience while not having to have that kind of commitment.
But much of what makes the game tough to play is what makes it a great game to watch, which is a difficult dilemma to reconcile.
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Dakota_Fanning
Hungary2347 Posts
Finally, it's about (damn) time to switch back to SC:BW.
(We need a BGH community back up again.)
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was this announced during the gsl finals?
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On March 27 2017 18:08 yoigen wrote:
was this announced during the gsl finals?
It was announced a few hours before GSL finals, before the TBLS showmatches, same venue as the GSL finals.
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Croatia9494 Posts
On March 27 2017 17:48 Dakota_Fanning wrote:
Finally, it's about (damn) time to switch back to SC:BW.
(We need a BGH community back up again.)
Hey Dakota, I agree.
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the BGH community,this if funny ^^
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On March 27 2017 16:06 LegalLord wrote:Show nested quote +On March 27 2017 15:42 papaz wrote:
I grew up with BW and have good memories of the game. When I was a kid I had all the time to practice a game. Today the hype is nothing more than nostalgia. I think people forget how frustrating it is without mbs, unlimited unit selection etc. I can play 2-3 games per week and just the warm up for a game like BW takes more games.
I love watching BW pros play but just the thought of sending each worker to a mineral patch is exhasuting.
But props to Blizzard for doing this for the community. Not like anyone actually expected this! Playing Brood War is at least an hour-a-day commitment if you aren't in the mood for just losing and losing. But I'm not a youngun anymore; having a good, productive 1-4 hours of free time for gaming every single day doesn't happen. And while it is for the best, it does mean that playing Starcraft isn't worth it. Watching streams is great for getting much of the experience while not having to have that kind of commitment. But much of what makes the game tough to play is what makes it a great game to watch, which is a difficult dilemma to reconcile.
1v1 BW can be really exhausting and stressing experience sometimes, that's why I prefer to play league atm.
It would be really cool if they could make a 3v3 hunters matchmaking.
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On March 27 2017 17:48 Dakota_Fanning wrote:
Finally, it's about (damn) time to switch back to SC:BW.
(We need a BGH community back up again.)
omg I hadn't even thought about BGH .. cannot wait !!
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Will UMS maps be in this? sunken deffence? team micro arena? and stuff like that? then im extided as fack.
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On March 27 2017 21:08 MiCroLiFe wrote:
Will UMS maps be in this? sunken deffence? team micro arena? and stuff like that? then im extided as fack.
Why shouldnt they? All maps will work as usual
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Awsome! Hoping this will revive the BW community! Lookin forward to play some casual games and Hunters with friends like the old days!
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oK , this made me post again 
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Just when I was getting bored of my other games :D Now to get back all my BW friends lost to D3, LoL, Dota and WoW.
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Anyone got any more details on this "Advanced matchmaking" ?
Something similar to sc2?
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On March 27 2017 15:43 razedbywolves wrote:
It would be really awesome if Blizzard invited a bunch of BW pros to play showmatches on the remastered game at Blizzcon this year, with the following year a full on tournament finals. Too much to hope for?
Definitely not, this was actually the conclusion I first came to when I saw they're planning for a Summer release date. Gives it enough time to be out there and have some tournaments starting up in time for November Blizzcon showmatch/tourny!
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