Older SC2 players - Page 10

On August 18 2010 17:31 Rabiator wrote:
I am 43 and do not own the game. The beta clearly showed me that I could never really compete, but I dont really care about that either. The sad fact is that you can only play this "for fun" with a bunch of friends and most of mine do not have the time or desire to play. So watching replays is a nice "plan B" for enjoying good Starcraft, although I can still remember the joy of nuking 8 Overlords full of Hydralisks with one single nuke in BW.

With the desire to turn Starcraft 2 into a worldwide eSport I really think there will be some "victims" of this scheme among the professional players when they turn 30 or so and the next generation with faster reflexes runs over them. When I think of people like IdrA - who devote all of their life to playing the game - and think about his "tech switch in this game called life" after the end of his career, I can only come up with two future jobs:
1. McDonalds opens up a restaurant in the middle of Seoul and you get served there by all the former pro players.
2. Morning talkshows or small amusement parks around the country, where you can "play against IdrA for 5$".
None of those are very dignified, but for people who devote all their attention to one thing it will be hard to get rid of that addiction and be focused enough to do something else very well. The match fixing scandal clearly showed that the players are aware of the issue IMO, but many of the kids who aspire to become professional gamers do not realize the danger. Unlike basketball pro players there is no "Starcraft teacher" at school, so there is no clear "followup" to the "Starcraft pro gamer tech" in life and pro gamers do not earn enough to have sufficient funds for the rest of their life as top sports stars do.

On February 20 2013 15:01 ke_ivan wrote:


Completely disagree. There is an entire industry revolving around games. If it weren't so, then Blizzard and a whole host of developers wouldn't be making money. As it stands, Starcraft alone teaches many things aside from just playing. If you have a decent mind at "positioning" in a game, you will soon come to realise that SC2 isn't the be all and end all of games, and since the ethos of the community seems to be "always improving", it seems to me that people who play SC2 always seem to hold decent jobs, are good at something else other than SC2, and have a voracious appetite for information. Because of that, and if they are passionate, they are usually in fairly good positions. Half the people I know who play are investment bankers! (No, it's not because I'm one myself, I met them at barcraft). A good portion of ex proam gamers i know are now active in organising tournaments and promoting games for blizzard and other developers. I, for one, sell ad space to such publishers, and other companies that hope to tap into TV's "lost generation". And guess what - a huge population of young males reside in gaming - watching, playing, streaming. And if there are advertisers, there are jobs!

Oh I'm 32, don't play much, bronze (lol). I watch more, because my micro and macro sux, just practicing that these days. And since everyone is watching the damn gsl, everyone's gotten so good at executing timings and not missing supply depots... there always seems to be a 100 food army knocking at my door at 10 mins when I lose...

On February 16 2013 19:59 lonelyPotato wrote:


As a person who is getting his masters degree and is still living with his dad at age 25... I basically get to spoil myself 5 days a week xD

On March 12 2013 11:13 elctrc_wzrd wrote:
Guys stop making excuses about age and responsibilities. If you want to be a progamer and yo uare 35 and you really want like really really want it. You will make time, just like anything in life.

On March 12 2013 12:23 gnomeinbrain wrote:
I remember playing Infocom's Zork I, II, III, Starcross; Original Castle Wolfenstein, Ultma, Exodus Ultima II when they were all new... and yes, Reagan was president.

I played the original SC1 when it was new and remember being excited for Brood War.

Yeah, I'm old.

On March 08 2013 07:53 KaiserKieran wrote:
NESTEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
NesTea is the Kobe of Starcraft.
NESTEA FIGHTING!!!