I think Moon wasn't really trying at SC2...
Every time he applied himself, he was awesome. He's had split focus recently, and that's why he hasn't been winning anything. He hasn't even been playing anything recently.....

Fnatic throws Moon away because they want to hire someone who's more in the now, but Moon will probably become better than their future pickup (if he decides to apply all his efforts)

SHODAN

United Kingdom1152 Posts

December 12 2012 03:00 GMT

#182

The way fnatic have worded this is sickening. Moon is an esports legend, the least you could do is fire him gracefully. If you never followed WCIII, it's difficult to explain just what Moon is capable of. His decision-making and micro was godlike. I think he'll take a very long time to fully transition to SCII, but when he does, things are gonna get real ugly.

Slardar

Canada7595 Posts

December 12 2012 03:04 GMT

#183

That's incredibly depressing....even more-so that they even included "results" in the announcement, instead of leaving it out altogether. Hope he finds a new team, and doesn't retire! Moon Fighting! (Played some amazing WC3 games @ WCG).

dragoon

United States695 Posts

December 12 2012 03:21 GMT

#184

wow i sort of saw this coming but its still super sad news..

dont give up on star2 yet jaeho T^T;;

figq

12519 Posts

December 12 2012 03:22 GMT

#185

A bit harsh, even if not untrue. TeamGrubby.Moon gogo.

redviper

Pakistan2333 Posts

December 12 2012 03:25 GMT

#186

Seriously fuck fnatic. What a dick statement. I am going to boycott all their sponsors and write to them telling them why also. Hope they drop fnatic, after all its not like fnatc has any results either.

trada

Germany347 Posts

December 12 2012 03:26 GMT

#187

hes zerg. EG will pick him up

Sylfyre

Australia222 Posts

December 12 2012 03:34 GMT

#188

Fnatic's sc2 team no longer has anyone on their team I find interesting to watch..guess that makes watching GSTL easier in the future! Hope Moon gets an epic new team if he is looking for one =) GL to Moon in the future =D

DeCoder

Finland236 Posts

December 12 2012 03:39 GMT

#189

Fnatics seems to have a history of being totally unprofessional with the way they are dismissing players. No other company on the planet publicly disses the people who are getting fired. That is just flat out poor business practice.

ineversmile

United States583 Posts

December 12 2012 03:39 GMT

#190

Moon should have left Fnatic a long time ago. It's just not a good team. I don't have anything against the players on that roster, but it's not like Moon was practicing with tier 1 GSL players within his team. Alive and Oz, the other 2 Koreans currently on that team, are decent players but they can't do anything to really push Moon. I feel like the same thing was the case for other former Fnatic players--Byul, LucifroN, and Sen are all better since leaving Fnatic.

I just don't think that team is good for fostering SC2 players. Maybe it's not Coaching staff's fault...but there definitely is something wrong with Fnatic's SC2 division, and that problem is that it's a lot of Code A-level players and lower, without some higher-tier players to drive the Code A-level guys to success. And that is definitely on the management. They're knee-deep in mediocrity, and it's not because the players on the roster are bad; it's because the team isn't doing enough to help them reach their potential. And that has a snowballing effect, because what kind of tier 1 pros want to join Fnatic? Would you or I want to join that team and watch our ability stagnate for a year or two? It's not fair to the players.

I completely agree with what Nightend said about Moon in his "Grilled" video interview a couple of months ago: Moon has the speed and the skill to be as utterly dominant as he was in Warcraft 3, but it's really going to be up to Moon if that's going to happen. Maybe he doesn't want to work as hard as he did in Warcraft 3. He's spent so much of his life practicing and practicing and practicing RTS games, and maybe he just doesn't want to do that again for SC2. It would be awesome for all of us viewers if he does get that kind of drive again, but I wouldn't blame him for not having it. The hours he put in for training in Warcraft 3--they were just outrageous.

crbox

Canada1180 Posts

December 12 2012 03:59 GMT

#191

I hope he's not done with sc2 already he's shown some potential (obv...) :D

EDIT :

On December 12 2012 12:39 DeCoder wrote:
Fnatics seems to have a history of being totally unprofessional with the way they are dismissing players. No other company on the planet publicly disses the people who are getting fired. That is just flat out poor business practice.

And where do you see they were unprofessional O_o

WetSocks

United States953 Posts

December 12 2012 04:19 GMT

#192

That's so sad, I love watching Moon. In my opinion he has the most known baneling mine misclick, and also greatest baneling mine play. Hope he'll at least stay in SC2 and get a new team soon! Good luck Moon!

IPA

United States3206 Posts

December 12 2012 04:28 GMT

#193

Come to Dota 2, Moon.

Y0gi

United States18 Posts

December 12 2012 04:54 GMT

#194

On December 12 2012 12:25 redviper wrote:
Seriously fuck fnatic. What a dick statement. I am going to boycott all their sponsors and write to them telling them why also. Hope they drop fnatic, after all its not like fnatc has any results either.

...So this is a little overbearing... Seriously? This is one of the reasons that there are so many problems, over reactions like this. We bitch all the time about how sick we are of silly, copy/paste statements from players and teams... then this happens.

calippo

Sweden2525 Posts

December 12 2012 05:03 GMT

#195

not like their sc2 team got them any sponsors, so go ahead lmao.

Stipulation

United States587 Posts

December 12 2012 05:03 GMT

#196

He will be missed.

pOriishan

45 Posts

December 12 2012 05:18 GMT

#197

Moon has family so he will be home with his family ^_^ nothing is bad. IMO Leaving fnatic is good for Moon

winthrop

Hong Kong956 Posts

December 12 2012 05:19 GMT

#198

EG signs Moon.

WeMadeFoxer

Finland51 Posts

December 12 2012 06:00 GMT

#199

if moon´s salary(10k/month) was anything near what he made in WeMadeFox, it would been silly to keep him in fnatic. Let´s hope he can find motivation for sc2 again.

Th0R

Canada359 Posts

December 12 2012 06:01 GMT

#200

Despite me being a fan of Fnatic Gaming I have to admit the article they wrote is pretty half ass'd. Wherever Moon goes though I wish him the best of luck.