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On November 28 2012 07:46 AbideWithMe wrote:
Overall a good interview although there are some major weak points in my opinion:
1) Stephano gets harder and harder to understand. After 20 minutes he switches into some french english mumbling.
2) The interviewer asks like a thousand really specific and in my opinion uninteresting questions about foreigners but he fails to ask some critical questions with non-obvious answers.:
E.G: Stephano says he just plays for money and at the same time that he doesn't practice. Why and I'm asking that myself for months is nobody asking him:" WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU NOT PRACTICING IF YOU WANT TO WIN MONEY????"
On WCS Finals there was a 100 fucking K on the line. Why doesn't he practice to cash in on that. What is he doing if he's not practicing? He's a fulltime progamer. Why is he not practicing for fuckin sake?
3) To many questions about far too few topics. No questions whatsoever about:
1) How he's feeling with EG as a new team. Advantages/Disadvantages, atmosphere/mood, whether his recent decline in skill is related to the switch or not, the 12 year old abuse etc.
2) What's he planning on doing afterwards
3) Anything about the "Starcraft is dying" Story and what he thinks about LoL and Dota, etc.
4) his thoughts on HOTS obviously, balance and unit design choices etc.
How come there is no time to ask any of these questions in a 45 minute interview?
I'm a pretty big fan of Stephano and I really want to know the answer to 2). His apparent lack of practice does not make any sense at all if he wants to win money. I've paid attention to the activity on his accounts and what he says about practice in his tweets and interviews and they're consistent with one another so it doesn't seem he's lying about not practicing, which means I guess he's incredibly lazy or somewhat irrational.
As to 4), IIRC, he said HoTS was shit at some point because the units were imbalanced, which is a pretty silly criticism (although not inaccurate) given he was playing it when the beta was released.
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On November 28 2012 08:22 ScandiNAVIan wrote:
I wish I were playing a race too which allowed me the luxury of not taking risks.
I was thinking the exact same thing when I read the topic..
"Stephano: I don't really like to take risks"
First thought that came to mind: "Well.. You certainly play the right race, in that case!"
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On November 28 2012 07:41 Zheryn wrote:
"There is absolutely no fun in playing Starcraft 2 anymore, the only thing that's fun is to win." Can't see Stephano being around that much longer. Probably won't see anything of Stephano in HotS.
I actually don't think he's going anywhere, whether or not he has fun. There was a long article on Stephano where he said it would be difficult to walk away from esports, which isn't surprising given his tremendous success.
Since he's ruled out a career in medicine, he's never going to make more money (inflation adjusted) than he's making right now and he's never going to do anything that requires so little effort from him assuming he works a normal job (given that he's not practicing). I would have been really excited at the prospect at seeing Stephano go at it for another couple years and was one of his biggest fanboys, but if he really doesn't have in him to even practice 3 hours a day regularly, he's likely as good as he'll ever be right now, which means, given his current shape, I can't see him seriously contending for a GSL or winning a premier foreign tournament like an IPL or MLG championship.
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Is there a written interview we can read instead of watch?
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Ask any of your friends if they like their jobs..... you'll get an answer like what Stephano gives.
Its just not common to hear that from people doing media interviews.
He'll be in esports as long as he has a prosperous career doing so. Its a job for him, people OFTEN times hate their jobs.
Good interview, always love to hear Stephanos' thoughts
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On November 28 2012 08:32 ClairvoyanceSC2 wrote:
Is there a written interview we can read instead of watch?
Alas, the OP didnt have such decency. You have to go to their website.
+ Show Spoiler +This usually bothers me, but I can forgive Acer since their website is actually good
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facepalm patchzerg being used >.<
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@emzeeshady: oh pleasw shut up. Cant you see they are pressured by kespa to say that? If you have seen former pros in afreeca. They all have said sc2 is complete garbage.
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On November 28 2012 08:22 The_Darkness wrote:Show nested quote +On November 28 2012 07:46 AbideWithMe wrote:
Overall a good interview although there are some major weak points in my opinion:
1) Stephano gets harder and harder to understand. After 20 minutes he switches into some french english mumbling.
2) The interviewer asks like a thousand really specific and in my opinion uninteresting questions about foreigners but he fails to ask some critical questions with non-obvious answers.:
E.G: Stephano says he just plays for money and at the same time that he doesn't practice. Why and I'm asking that myself for months is nobody asking him:" WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU NOT PRACTICING IF YOU WANT TO WIN MONEY????"
On WCS Finals there was a 100 fucking K on the line. Why doesn't he practice to cash in on that. What is he doing if he's not practicing? He's a fulltime progamer. Why is he not practicing for fuckin sake?
3) To many questions about far too few topics. No questions whatsoever about:
1) How he's feeling with EG as a new team. Advantages/Disadvantages, atmosphere/mood, whether his recent decline in skill is related to the switch or not, the 12 year old abuse etc.
2) What's he planning on doing afterwards
3) Anything about the "Starcraft is dying" Story and what he thinks about LoL and Dota, etc.
4) his thoughts on HOTS obviously, balance and unit design choices etc.
How come there is no time to ask any of these questions in a 45 minute interview? I'm a pretty big fan of Stephano and I really want to know the answer to 2). His apparent lack of practice does not make any sense at all if he wants to win money. I've paid attention to the activity on his accounts and what he says about practice in his tweets and interviews and they're consistent with one another so it doesn't seem he's lying about not practicing, which means I guess he's incredibly lazy or somewhat irrational. As to 4), IIRC, he said HoTS was shit at some point because the units were imbalanced, which is a pretty silly criticism (although not inaccurate) given he was playing it when the beta was released.
He did answer question #2. The game isn't fun. Would you do something for hours on end if you didn't like it?
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On November 28 2012 08:45 magnaflow wrote:Show nested quote +On November 28 2012 08:22 The_Darkness wrote:On November 28 2012 07:46 AbideWithMe wrote:
Overall a good interview although there are some major weak points in my opinion:
1) Stephano gets harder and harder to understand. After 20 minutes he switches into some french english mumbling.
2) The interviewer asks like a thousand really specific and in my opinion uninteresting questions about foreigners but he fails to ask some critical questions with non-obvious answers.:
E.G: Stephano says he just plays for money and at the same time that he doesn't practice. Why and I'm asking that myself for months is nobody asking him:" WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU NOT PRACTICING IF YOU WANT TO WIN MONEY????"
On WCS Finals there was a 100 fucking K on the line. Why doesn't he practice to cash in on that. What is he doing if he's not practicing? He's a fulltime progamer. Why is he not practicing for fuckin sake?
3) To many questions about far too few topics. No questions whatsoever about:
1) How he's feeling with EG as a new team. Advantages/Disadvantages, atmosphere/mood, whether his recent decline in skill is related to the switch or not, the 12 year old abuse etc.
2) What's he planning on doing afterwards
3) Anything about the "Starcraft is dying" Story and what he thinks about LoL and Dota, etc.
4) his thoughts on HOTS obviously, balance and unit design choices etc.
How come there is no time to ask any of these questions in a 45 minute interview? I'm a pretty big fan of Stephano and I really want to know the answer to 2). His apparent lack of practice does not make any sense at all if he wants to win money. I've paid attention to the activity on his accounts and what he says about practice in his tweets and interviews and they're consistent with one another so it doesn't seem he's lying about not practicing, which means I guess he's incredibly lazy or somewhat irrational. As to 4), IIRC, he said HoTS was shit at some point because the units were imbalanced, which is a pretty silly criticism (although not inaccurate) given he was playing it when the beta was released. He did answer question #2. The game isn't fun. Would you do something for hours on end if you didn't like it?
Oh well, i got a job. 
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On November 28 2012 08:22 The_Darkness wrote:Show nested quote +On November 28 2012 07:46 AbideWithMe wrote:
Overall a good interview although there are some major weak points in my opinion:
1) Stephano gets harder and harder to understand. After 20 minutes he switches into some french english mumbling.
2) The interviewer asks like a thousand really specific and in my opinion uninteresting questions about foreigners but he fails to ask some critical questions with non-obvious answers.:
E.G: Stephano says he just plays for money and at the same time that he doesn't practice. Why and I'm asking that myself for months is nobody asking him:" WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU NOT PRACTICING IF YOU WANT TO WIN MONEY????"
On WCS Finals there was a 100 fucking K on the line. Why doesn't he practice to cash in on that. What is he doing if he's not practicing? He's a fulltime progamer. Why is he not practicing for fuckin sake?
3) To many questions about far too few topics. No questions whatsoever about:
1) How he's feeling with EG as a new team. Advantages/Disadvantages, atmosphere/mood, whether his recent decline in skill is related to the switch or not, the 12 year old abuse etc.
2) What's he planning on doing afterwards
3) Anything about the "Starcraft is dying" Story and what he thinks about LoL and Dota, etc.
4) his thoughts on HOTS obviously, balance and unit design choices etc.
How come there is no time to ask any of these questions in a 45 minute interview? I'm a pretty big fan of Stephano and I really want to know the answer to 2). His apparent lack of practice does not make any sense at all if he wants to win money. I've paid attention to the activity on his accounts and what he says about practice in his tweets and interviews and they're consistent with one another so it doesn't seem he's lying about not practicing, which means I guess he's incredibly lazy or somewhat irrational. As to 4), IIRC, he said HoTS was shit at some point because the units were imbalanced, which is a pretty silly criticism (although not inaccurate) given he was playing it when the beta was released.
I guess he thinks he's making enough money with his current practice hours
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Good interview. Solid work by Thorin as always.
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Glad to see a Z recognizing the patch-zerg existance ^^
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On November 28 2012 08:31 Emzeeshady wrote:Show nested quote +On November 28 2012 07:51 zerious wrote:On November 28 2012 07:46 zhurai wrote:On November 28 2012 07:41 Zheryn wrote:
"There is absolutely no fun in playing Starcraft 2 anymore, the only thing that's fun is to win." Can't see Stephano being around that much longer. Probably won't see anything of Stephano in HotS. I don't think most pros have "fun" playing starcraft. they just want to and have to win. It's just a job for most pros, which makes it sad. Blizzard, oh how you have fucked up... A lot of Kespa players said SC2 was "more fun" then Starcraft
Could you give a link or something to read about this?
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Stephano calling out patchzergs... I am now his fan. 
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On November 28 2012 08:49 nkr wrote:Show nested quote +On November 28 2012 08:22 The_Darkness wrote:On November 28 2012 07:46 AbideWithMe wrote:
Overall a good interview although there are some major weak points in my opinion:
1) Stephano gets harder and harder to understand. After 20 minutes he switches into some french english mumbling.
2) The interviewer asks like a thousand really specific and in my opinion uninteresting questions about foreigners but he fails to ask some critical questions with non-obvious answers.:
E.G: Stephano says he just plays for money and at the same time that he doesn't practice. Why and I'm asking that myself for months is nobody asking him:" WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU NOT PRACTICING IF YOU WANT TO WIN MONEY????"
On WCS Finals there was a 100 fucking K on the line. Why doesn't he practice to cash in on that. What is he doing if he's not practicing? He's a fulltime progamer. Why is he not practicing for fuckin sake?
3) To many questions about far too few topics. No questions whatsoever about:
1) How he's feeling with EG as a new team. Advantages/Disadvantages, atmosphere/mood, whether his recent decline in skill is related to the switch or not, the 12 year old abuse etc.
2) What's he planning on doing afterwards
3) Anything about the "Starcraft is dying" Story and what he thinks about LoL and Dota, etc.
4) his thoughts on HOTS obviously, balance and unit design choices etc.
How come there is no time to ask any of these questions in a 45 minute interview? I'm a pretty big fan of Stephano and I really want to know the answer to 2). His apparent lack of practice does not make any sense at all if he wants to win money. I've paid attention to the activity on his accounts and what he says about practice in his tweets and interviews and they're consistent with one another so it doesn't seem he's lying about not practicing, which means I guess he's incredibly lazy or somewhat irrational. As to 4), IIRC, he said HoTS was shit at some point because the units were imbalanced, which is a pretty silly criticism (although not inaccurate) given he was playing it when the beta was released. I guess he thinks he's making enough money with his current practice hours
Or simply that spending more time on the same damn maps and running the same strategies over and over is a waste because he will hardly get better.
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On November 28 2012 07:51 JonIrenicus wrote:
My god, he thinks only about money.
Seems like his life on sc2 is all about money and nothing else.
I wonder if he is greedy.
Money.
money
money
key aspect of Stephano's life
You don't know what his private life is like. What if he grew up poor? Not all aspiring pros and and pros are middle to upperclass white guys who can get away with playing and being mediocre and bother playing years on end.
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On November 28 2012 08:37 ScandiNAVIan wrote:Show nested quote +On November 28 2012 08:32 ClairvoyanceSC2 wrote:
Is there a written interview we can read instead of watch? Alas, the OP didnt have such decency. You have to go to their website. + Show Spoiler +This usually bothers me, but I can forgive Acer since their website is actually good
Well actually the reason why he is able to go to these events and produce this content is because acer is paying for it, so the least we can do is show that's it worth it by bringing traffic to their website.
It helps that it's very high quality content of course.
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I'm not quiet sure how to begin this post I believe the zerg army is quite inferior in the overall scheme of things. There scouts armory has a lot.of.chinks in it,a little inside rumour dragons in the new expansion (read it a don ragu interview) who caught the latest episode of.gsl I thought the strategies of all.major players was pitiful. What do u guys think
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