EPTA Word of advice from someone who has been around since 1993: All things comes to an end, even Starcraft. I suggest you get over it and make the choice of moving on or to call it quits altogether. It's less stressful and less painful that way.
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Integra
Sweden5626 Posts
A Word of advice from someone who has been around since 1993: All things comes to an end, even Starcraft. I suggest you get over it and make the choice of moving on or to call it quits altogether. It's less stressful and less painful that way. | ||
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vOdToasT
Sweden2870 Posts
On October 03 2012 16:37 Integra wrote: A Word of advice from someone who has been around since 1993: All things comes to an end, even Starcraft. I suggest you get over it and make the choice of moving on or to call it quits altogether. It's less stressful and less painful that way. Fuck that shit. I'm gonna host tournaments as soon as I finish my education and get a job. StarCraft is too magnificent for me to let it wither away because of the stupid bullshit that killed it. In the meantime, I'm donating my share to the swedish brood war initiative. | ||
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Kal_rA
United States2925 Posts
On October 03 2012 15:53 KazmA wrote: Yeah but a grass roots kind of tournament put together by TL community members would be pretty sweet. Like a.... T.. S... L... Fivee ? 0_0 | ||
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Sinedd
Poland7052 Posts
On October 03 2012 16:37 Integra wrote: I swear I saw this exact discussion with the exact arguments from the Warcraft2 players on Kali back in the old days when Starcraft 1 started to become more popular compared to Warcraft2 . A Word of advice from someone who has been around since 1993: All things comes to an end, even Starcraft. I suggest you get over it and make the choice of moving on or to call it quits altogether. It's less stressful and less painful that way. GTFO now  If you dont want BW to live and be successful anymore, or you just dont care then just get the fuck out it will be less painful that way for us We will be happier without once like you | ||
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Sinedd
Poland7052 Posts
On October 03 2012 16:42 vOdToasT wrote: Fuck that shit. I'm gonna host tournaments as soon as I finish my education and get a job. StarCraft is too magnificent for me to let it wither away because of the stupid bullshit that killed it. In the meantime, I'm donating my share to the swedish brood war initiative. THATS THE FUCKING SPIRIT !!!!!! :D FUCK YEAH :D \m/ dude !!! <3 u ! | ||
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freakhill
Japan463 Posts
On October 03 2012 16:42 vOdToasT wrote: Fuck that shit. I'm gonna host tournaments as soon as I finish my education and get a job. StarCraft is too magnificent for me to let it wither away because of the stupid bullshit that killed it. In the meantime, I'm donating my share to the swedish brood war initiative. You currently don't have the time to do it as a student, and you think you'll have the time to do it as an employee?? glhf if you mean your words you should act them right now because, if you have not noticed yet, bw is not in its prime years anymore, who knows what will be left in a few years. | ||
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Potling
Norway298 Posts
The problem, as some have pointed out, is that the BW player base increasingly consists of veterans, with few newcomers. Unless something is done to increase BW's appeal to newcomers, it's bound to mostly fade away within a decade. | ||
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vOdToasT
Sweden2870 Posts
On October 03 2012 17:17 freakhill wrote: You currently don't have the time to do it as a student, and you think you'll have the time to do it as an employee?? glhf if you mean your words you should act them right now because, if you have not noticed yet, bw is not in its prime years anymore, who knows what will be left in a few years. I have time and energy, I don't have money. The reason I'm a student is to get a job... Without a job, I don't really have money, lol. Luckily, I'm learning programming, including C++, the language StarCraft was written in. I'll be able to make a new version of the game with the ability to have high resolution sprites. It will also have built in anti hack, ladder, automatch, and will connect to one global server (that I will pay for, of course). I will give a proposal for this idea to Blizzard and offer them free money. I know that they will reject it, because they want SC1 to die, so I'll release it illegally for all to download. I will of course advertise for it. I will advertise it like this: "The greatest RTS of all time has returned" I'm not kidding around, I'm going to do this in a few years when I'm a proffessional programmer. I wish I could do it now, but I have to finish learning C++ first... | ||
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freakhill
Japan463 Posts
On October 03 2012 17:26 vOdToasT wrote: I have time and energy, I don't have money. The reason I'm a student is to get a job... Without a job, I don't really have money, lol. Luckily, I'm learning programming, including C++, the language StarCraft was written in. I'll be able to make a new version of the game with the ability to have high resolution sprites. It will also have built in anti hack, ladder, automatch, and will connect to one global server (that I will pay for, of course). I will give a proposal for this idea to Blizzard and offer them free money. I know that they will reject it, because they want SC1 to die, so I'll release it illegally for all to download. I will of course advertise for it. I will advertise it like this: "The greatest RTS of all time has returned" I'm not kidding around, I'm going to do this in a few years when I'm a proffessional programmer. I wish I could do it now, but I have to learn C++ first... From a professional programmer standpoint. I don't want to curbstomp your enthusiasm, so I'll just wish you goodluck! Here is an article about SC1 development. http://www.codeofhonor.com/blog/tough-times-on-the-road-to-starcraft | ||
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vOdToasT
Sweden2870 Posts
On October 03 2012 17:32 freakhill wrote: From a professional programmer standpoint. I don't want to curbstomp your enthusiasm, so I'll just wish you goodluck! Here is an article about SC1 development. http://www.codeofhonor.com/blog/tough-times-on-the-road-to-starcraft The only thing I'm afraid of is Blizzard suing me and shutting the project down. Other than that, it's all possible. All I have to do is get out there and do it. | ||
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Potling
Norway298 Posts
You may be better off using a higher-level language than C++, eg. read chapters 10 to 14 of Hackers and Painters. | ||
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asiantraceur
United States94 Posts
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iPlaY.NettleS
Australia4341 Posts
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Iplaythings
Denmark9110 Posts
Except for the graphic part, automatch, antihack etc is awesome but fuck it leave the graphics alone, they are as they are and the bitter old (18) dude that is me, doesn't want want the the graphics different than from when I first played the game at an age of 3-4 years | ||
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vOdToasT
Sweden2870 Posts
On October 03 2012 17:40 Potling wrote: Your dedication is admirable, vOdToasT. I wish you luck. You may be better off using a higher-level language than C++, eg. read chapters 10 to 14 of Hackers and Painters. The multiplayer platform will be using code from battle.net, which is C++. Also, the game itself, which I will make slight modifications to (just to allow high resolution sprites, if desired) is C++. So for this, I think I'll just use C++, since I'm just making some modifications to the game. I might as well use the same language. I'm comfortable with it anyway. I'm considering all options, of course. And I won't start coding on this project until a year or two, so maybe I will. but fuck it leave the graphics alone, they are as they are and the bitter old (18) dude that is me, doesn't want want the the graphics different than from when I first played the game at an age of 3-4 years This is my attitude as well, but my fiance convinced me that people who aren't used to StarCraft thinks it looks like shit (She plays fighting games, so she thinks so). Giving people the option of making it look better isn't going to hurt. They can still play with people who have the option off. It's only changing sprites, everything will be just as big (except for the pixels, those huge pixels on the units really hurt some people's eyes) and they won't see more than anyone else. I wasn't going to talk about this idea. I was going to make an epic announcement when it was about halfway done, but everyone keeps talking about how BW has no future and shit, so I just had to chime in. As for tournaments, my plan is to start sponsoring tournaments while the "game" is new, has advertisements around the internet, and has hype. This way, I hope to attract viewers. It may stay like this forever, a bunch of amateur gosus playing for a few thousand dollars a month. I hope that it will eventually grow beyond that, that the amount of viewers will become enough to sustain more, and that I won't be paying for it all on my own (because I'm not gonna be a billionaire or anything, I'll just have good amounts of money). But we will see. Look at my idea as another "swedish brood war initiative". I am simply trying to accomplish the same thing, but my approach is different. Those guys managed to get a good amount of money just after a few months, and are working on a project now (probably a big tournament or something). I am just as dedicated and serious as they are. Use them as evidence, if you will, that people can actually get off their asses and get stuff done. | ||
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iPlaY.NettleS
Australia4341 Posts
On October 03 2012 17:51 Iplaythings wrote: vOdToasT, that would truely be the best thing ever happend Except for the graphic part, automatch, antihack etc is awesome but fuck it leave the graphics alone, they are as they are and the bitter old (18) dude that is me, doesn't want want the the graphics different than from when I first played the game at an age of 3-4 years The graphics don't bother me but the resolution does. | ||
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Cedstick
Canada3336 Posts
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Savi[wOk]
United States81 Posts
People will move on to a new game. By saying broodwar is dying. You are saying you won't play broodwar anymore You are saying you will move on to a new game. You will allow broodwar to not exist. | ||
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Pucca
Taiwan1280 Posts
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Mathewep2010
United States63 Posts
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