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On September 17 2013 23:04 ChoiSulli wrote:Show nested quote +On September 17 2013 22:54 danl9rm wrote:
Didn't Light say, once upon a time, in an interview that he wasn't interested in playing sc2 the slightest bit and would retire after BW ended?
Guys, people retire all the time in "sports." You can't play forever. It's no big deal. Except that so far the majority of the old BW guys that retired from SC2 went back to BW and are competing in amateur leagues and streaming online. They are not retiring from gaming, they are fed up with SC2 and going back to BW. Some have flat out said they dont enjoy sc2 like Jangbi, Sea.. some you can speculate its cause they arent as successful as they were in BW but at the end of the day they are leaving one game that has the money, all the funding, big sponsors, blizzard backing and giving all that up for BW.
It's different from doing it professionally though. I'd be pretty shocked if any pro retiring from any game would ever completely give up gaming. Not enjoying it anymore because of SC2 or because of waning popularity, smaller compensation, hard competition in a game with which you had to start from the beginning again, reaching a certain age... all valid reasons to stop competing professionally.
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On September 17 2013 23:31 Elroi wrote:Show nested quote +On September 17 2013 23:24 Plansix wrote:On September 17 2013 23:20 Ettick wrote:
What is up with all these retirements? Large number of BW players making the switch to a new game and some of them deciding they want to go into military service, rather than continue with SC2. Think of it as a major sports team moving to a new city and a group of players transferring to other teams or retiring. Except that they need to go to the military by law, so they just retire. Also, that League of Legends thing taking the spotlight. and the following of the new SC is like 1/10 of what it used to be.
In Korea for sure, but it didn't have a huge amount of competition before. League was always going to hit hard in that region, BW, SC2 or otherwise. The SC2 scene the other regions seems to be holding steady and keeping up. As long as the NA and EU teams don't also start closing their doors, I'll start worrying.
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I guess I'm more surprised to see Flying retire than Light. Light had pretty much disappeared at the end of ProLeague. Sad to see them both go but not too unexpected with the downsizing of a lot of teams in Korea.
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On September 17 2013 16:02 RoyaleBrainSlug wrote:
The best terran who never won a tournament retired :C so long Light and GL in the military!
Did Sea ever win a tournament? Not including SOSPA era, I mean.
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Not really worried about all these retirements lately, most of them were basically just BW players that tried sc2 shortly and pretty much just retired as BW ended. Only Jangbi was sort of an upset considering I thought he could do really well in sc2. Not strange though some of these slightly older gamers don't like sc2, sequels are always hated by diehard fans of the original because they simply differ from the original and the diehard fans obviously like practically everything from the original. Yet near carbon copies of an original never sell..
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On September 18 2013 00:06 Markwerf wrote:
Not really worried about all these retirements lately, most of them were basically just BW players that tried sc2 shortly and pretty much just retired as BW ended. Only Jangbi was sort of an upset considering I thought he could do really well in sc2. Not strange though some of these slightly older gamers don't like sc2, sequels are always hated by diehard fans of the original because they simply differ from the original and the diehard fans obviously like practically everything from the original. Yet near carbon copies of an original never sell..
Flying was doing better than Jangbi in Code S...
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This is just becoming a running joke now. Who's next?
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On September 17 2013 16:02 RoyaleBrainSlug wrote:
The best terran who never won a tournament retired :C so long Light and GL in the military!
Midas has been retired for a while now.
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not surprised really as sc2 is boring shit and now proplayers seem to get bored too
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On September 18 2013 00:18 city42 wrote:Show nested quote +On September 17 2013 16:02 RoyaleBrainSlug wrote:
The best terran who never won a tournament retired :C so long Light and GL in the military! Midas has been retired for a while now.
Pretty sure Sea holds that title anyway.
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On September 17 2013 23:40 Shellshock wrote:
I guess I'm more surprised to see Flying retire than Light. Light had pretty much disappeared at the end of ProLeague. Sad to see them both go but not too unexpected with the downsizing of a lot of teams in Korea.
Yeah, can't be too sad about the reality of money. Oh well, best of luck to these guys in the future! :D
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On September 18 2013 00:08 sharkie wrote:Show nested quote +On September 18 2013 00:06 Markwerf wrote:
Not really worried about all these retirements lately, most of them were basically just BW players that tried sc2 shortly and pretty much just retired as BW ended. Only Jangbi was sort of an upset considering I thought he could do really well in sc2. Not strange though some of these slightly older gamers don't like sc2, sequels are always hated by diehard fans of the original because they simply differ from the original and the diehard fans obviously like practically everything from the original. Yet near carbon copies of an original never sell.. Flying was doing better than Jangbi in Code S...
Not really doing better currently. He did get ro16 during S1 but had fallen down to challenger league. JangBi's retirement was more shocking since he was on the rise and forfeited his spot in Premier for this season when retiring.
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ARgh Flying was a really good protoss imo.
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All the best. Still sad to see BW vets leave.
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I want Fanta and Stork to retire~~! You can keep Flash ..
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MBC Game HERO fans unite! I hope the best Light.
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