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ZzKaelzZ
Profile Joined October 2012
51 Posts
March 16 2013 03:36 GMT
#641
guys, stop feeding the trolls :D There's a reason why EG has been around for so long Good luck to Puma, we'll miss you.
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Talos[GER]
Profile Joined March 2013
Germany56 Posts
March 16 2013 04:15 GMT
#642
Of course PuMa is still way better than all of the Foreigners on EG, but he has no personality at all what makes it impossible to generate money out of him.
LuckoftheIrish
Profile Joined November 2011
United States4791 Posts
March 16 2013 04:33 GMT
#643
On March 16 2013 13:15 Talos[GER] wrote:
Of course PuMa is still way better than all of the Foreigners on EG, but he has no personality at all what makes it impossible to generate money out of him.


Is he? He hasn't really played like it.
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Dakure
Profile Joined February 2011
United States513 Posts
March 16 2013 04:40 GMT
#644
Why do they need a BW practice bonjwa when Jaedong was almost a real BW bonjwa? That was probably their thought process.
ConGee
Profile Joined May 2012
318 Posts
March 16 2013 04:41 GMT
#645
On March 16 2013 13:15 Talos[GER] wrote:
Of course PuMa is still way better than all of the Foreigners on EG, but he has no personality at all what makes it impossible to generate money out of him.


I would say that Stephano, DeMuslim, IdrA, Thorzain, and maybe Huk are all better than Puma.
Patate
Profile Joined January 2011
Canada441 Posts
March 16 2013 04:43 GMT
#646
Pretty funny how Koreans need to perform in EG while foreigners can go almost 3 years without winning anything and they don't get bothered.

Machine .. Incontrol.. I'm looking at you.

Hell, even IdrA and Huk have been irrelevant for the past year or so.
Dead game.
NoobSkills
Profile Joined August 2009
United States1598 Posts
March 16 2013 04:48 GMT
#647
On March 16 2013 13:43 Patate wrote:
Pretty funny how Koreans need to perform in EG while foreigners can go almost 3 years without winning anything and they don't get bothered.

Machine .. Incontrol.. I'm looking at you.

Hell, even IdrA and Huk have been irrelevant for the past year or so.


This has been explained multiple times. The foreigners who are still on the team bring a lot of views on streams and are good advertisements for the sponsors of EG. Meanwhile a Korean who speaks little to no English would not be the first choice for an American company's web advertisement. Yes, Puma needed to perform and he didn't. Incontrol gets more stream views than JD and machine seems to do the commercials really well. That is why they're around and Puma isn't. Idra, Huk, Thorzain, and Stephano all have better victories in events and are watched by more people.
Count9
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
China10928 Posts
March 16 2013 04:52 GMT
#648
On March 16 2013 13:48 NoobSkills wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 16 2013 13:43 Patate wrote:
Pretty funny how Koreans need to perform in EG while foreigners can go almost 3 years without winning anything and they don't get bothered.

Machine .. Incontrol.. I'm looking at you.

Hell, even IdrA and Huk have been irrelevant for the past year or so.


This has been explained multiple times. The foreigners who are still on the team bring a lot of views on streams and are good advertisements for the sponsors of EG. Meanwhile a Korean who speaks little to no English would not be the first choice for an American company's web advertisement. Yes, Puma needed to perform and he didn't. Incontrol gets more stream views than JD and machine seems to do the commercials really well. That is why they're around and Puma isn't. Idra, Huk, Thorzain, and Stephano all have better victories in events and are watched by more people.

Plus this release comes down to salary. Puma wasn't performing so eg wanted to pay him less and they couldn't reach an agreement on what "less" was. I doubt Machine/Incontrol get paid what ever Puma wanted, it's all about how much of an investment a player is worth not a binary on the team/off the team.
TheSwagger
Profile Joined June 2012
United States92 Posts
March 16 2013 04:54 GMT
#649
Shiiiiiit, the 1-1-1 aint weak no more! free seige! I think theres a lot to be said about the return of 1 rax 1 fact 1 port gameplay. I honestly think with the free seige you can play slightly greedier with the gas because you get that first tank out so fast. Puma do your thing bro! hope to see you on another team in the future if thats your wish.
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jmbthirteen
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
United States10734 Posts
March 16 2013 05:54 GMT
#650
On March 16 2013 13:43 Patate wrote:
Pretty funny how Koreans need to perform in EG while foreigners can go almost 3 years without winning anything and they don't get bothered.

Machine .. Incontrol.. I'm looking at you.

Hell, even IdrA and Huk have been irrelevant for the past year or so.

pretty funny how you don't know how the real world works
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Qntc.YuMe
Profile Joined January 2011
United States792 Posts
March 16 2013 06:08 GMT
#651
On March 16 2013 13:48 NoobSkills wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 16 2013 13:43 Patate wrote:
Pretty funny how Koreans need to perform in EG while foreigners can go almost 3 years without winning anything and they don't get bothered.

Machine .. Incontrol.. I'm looking at you.

Hell, even IdrA and Huk have been irrelevant for the past year or so.


This has been explained multiple times. The foreigners who are still on the team bring a lot of views on streams and are good advertisements for the sponsors of EG. Meanwhile a Korean who speaks little to no English would not be the first choice for an American company's web advertisement. Yes, Puma needed to perform and he didn't. Incontrol gets more stream views than JD and machine seems to do the commercials really well. That is why they're around and Puma isn't. Idra, Huk, Thorzain, and Stephano all have better victories in events and are watched by more people.

but machine has so little viewers compared to the rest of the EG folks?
ChuCky.Ca
Profile Joined July 2011
Canada2497 Posts
March 16 2013 06:27 GMT
#652
On March 16 2013 13:43 Patate wrote:
Pretty funny how Koreans need to perform in EG while foreigners can go almost 3 years without winning anything and they don't get bothered.

Machine .. Incontrol.. I'm looking at you.

Hell, even IdrA and Huk have been irrelevant for the past year or so.

holy shit your dumb been said a million times why those players are the team it's not all about result....
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edgeOut
Profile Joined February 2013
United States945 Posts
March 16 2013 06:30 GMT
#653
Poor puma, may very well going to army now.
Fuck you Zealously! For the fuck you give to those players.
Zenbrez
Profile Joined June 2012
Canada5973 Posts
March 16 2013 07:02 GMT
#654
On March 16 2013 15:08 OpTiKDream wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 16 2013 13:48 NoobSkills wrote:
On March 16 2013 13:43 Patate wrote:
Pretty funny how Koreans need to perform in EG while foreigners can go almost 3 years without winning anything and they don't get bothered.

Machine .. Incontrol.. I'm looking at you.

Hell, even IdrA and Huk have been irrelevant for the past year or so.


This has been explained multiple times. The foreigners who are still on the team bring a lot of views on streams and are good advertisements for the sponsors of EG. Meanwhile a Korean who speaks little to no English would not be the first choice for an American company's web advertisement. Yes, Puma needed to perform and he didn't. Incontrol gets more stream views than JD and machine seems to do the commercials really well. That is why they're around and Puma isn't. Idra, Huk, Thorzain, and Stephano all have better victories in events and are watched by more people.

but machine has so little viewers compared to the rest of the EG folks?

Machine is an odd one, I must agree to have on their team. Not only has he never performed adequately, but he rarely has more than 200 viewers when he streams, and to my memory has only done 1 promotion for their sponsors - not a very active fellow. I'm not judging EG for keeping him, they're one of the few teams that know how to properly run a business so if they think its worth keeping him, that's cool.

They cut out Strifecro and Axslav, so they must care to some degree. But people that bitch how EG keeping Huk, Incontrol and Idra are just stupid and/or are just personal haters. Because those 3 (or at least 2 of them) are one of EGs biggest attractors, it literally makes no sense to have them leave the team. This is all in the sc2 division anyway.. I'm sure Alex is going to be talking about League's massive audience and their LoL team now when he's presenting to potential sponsors
Refer to my post.
skatblast
Profile Joined September 2011
United States784 Posts
March 16 2013 07:06 GMT
#655
GJ Puma, you did very respectable under the EG banner, good luck in the future. Everything eventually comes to an end, and for koreans that dont perform, well that speaks for itself.
Cygoris
Profile Joined May 2012
Luxembourg40 Posts
March 16 2013 08:21 GMT
#656
EG has a big roster with huge salaries, cutting those who don't perform is just common sense.
I think EG and TL are very lenient with their players, probably because performance is only a small part of the equation.
Personalities such as Huk are useful for a team, even if he's not the dominant player he once was, same thing for Incontrol Demuslim etc.
Those players have a big fan base and that's what matters the most I suppose.
Machine probably doesn't have Puma money.
Wait... What?
SoniC_eu
Profile Joined April 2011
Denmark1008 Posts
March 16 2013 09:05 GMT
#657
All the best to Puma He was a BEAST!
In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. http://da.twitch.tv/sonic_eu
SoniC_eu
Profile Joined April 2011
Denmark1008 Posts
March 16 2013 09:05 GMT
#658
On March 16 2013 17:21 Cygoris wrote:
EG has a big roster with huge salaries, cutting those who don't perform is just common sense.
I think EG and TL are very lenient with their players, probably because performance is only a small part of the equation.
Personalities such as Huk are useful for a team, even if he's not the dominant player he once was, same thing for Incontrol Demuslim etc.
Those players have a big fan base and that's what matters the most I suppose.
Machine probably doesn't have Puma money.

Im thinking machine is kinda the glue that holds the team tgthr behind the scenes
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nikiboy
Profile Joined January 2012
Bulgaria1 Post
March 16 2013 10:44 GMT
#659

I was thinking Machine, and Huk would be the first to go honestly.
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blacksheepwall
Profile Joined June 2011
China1530 Posts
March 16 2013 12:35 GMT
#660
Yeah, sort of expected something like this.

Puma hasn't been producing at all as well as I'm sure both parties hoped.
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