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MasterOfPuppets
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Romania6942 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-08-28 10:42:15
August 28 2013 10:41 GMT
#121
On August 28 2013 19:33 MrMercuG wrote:
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On August 28 2013 04:20 MasterOfPuppets wrote:
On August 28 2013 04:14 lastshadow wrote:
On August 28 2013 03:34 MasterOfPuppets wrote:
On August 28 2013 03:06 Canucklehead wrote:
On August 27 2013 23:50 babylon wrote:
Someone on Reddit says it is a family issue.


Family issues probably went like this.

Parents - You should quit pro gaming, you're not really earning enough to make it worth it.

Sound - But, I'm in WCS AM challenger at the moment with a chance to go to premier!

Parents - Career earnings - $5,750

Sound - Ok mom and dad, you're right.


It hurts how narrow-minded posts like these are...



You're right, in Korea it's actually a lot worse. More along the lines of "I will disown you and/or beat you upon sight if you return home" happened to two people in the ProS house, so they never went home. One is currently in the army, the other sleeps around friends homes avoiding going home as he never became a pro-gamer. You have no idea how badly parents view pro-gamers who are not big before telling their parents. As usually kids keep it a secret until they do something big and/or get invited to a pro-team. Those who tell their parents they're doing it before hand usually are under strict time-limits or face serious neglect.


I see where you're coming from but I don't see how that relates to Sound who is (or was, I guess) on one of the bigger and more stable Korean pro teams, in Star Tale. Not to mention he's had better results than most Kespa and eSF B-teamers.

So yeah it's a bit presumptuous to claim that's what "family issues" means in this case.


I believe I heard some time ago that StarTale only payed two people salaries Bomber, and July at the time...
The korean scene most of the time does not pay their players salaries so it's understandable that they can't help and support their parents.


Surely that was before the Red Bull sponsorship and Life going ham on everybody. Speaking of Red Bull, they've done Star Tale quite a bit of good, having their heavy-hitters (Bomber, PartinG and at the time Squirtle) at their battle grounds event and Sound and Golden at the training grounds.
"my shaft scares me too" - strenx 2014
PVJ
Profile Blog Joined July 2012
Hungary5221 Posts
August 28 2013 21:32 GMT
#122
Always sad when someone leaves, always have to cheer for what it brings, or something like that.
The heart's eternal vow
gneGne
Profile Joined June 2007
Netherlands697 Posts
August 28 2013 21:50 GMT
#123
Goodbye Sound! He was even learning some english at Red Bull Traininggrounds...
CMP
Profile Joined August 2013
Germany7 Posts
August 28 2013 22:43 GMT
#124
I'm very sad that he retired... was one of my favourite Terrans.
He was just so nice and I really loved his style (cap & glasses :D )

However GL in your future! <3
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fuzzylogic44
Profile Joined December 2011
Canada2633 Posts
August 29 2013 06:40 GMT
#125
On August 27 2013 20:13 aka_star wrote:
We're gonna run out of blood at this rate, do we have enough fresh people coming in to keep the scene alive?


This comment is crazy. There are literally hundreds of pro SC2 players, about 5x as many as the scene can actually support. We don't need more players to support the scene, we need a bigger scene to support the players. And if the scene stays at this size, we need to lose players to keep it sustainable.
Vete
Profile Joined May 2012
Germany190 Posts
August 29 2013 18:26 GMT
#126
On August 29 2013 15:40 fuzzylogic44 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 27 2013 20:13 aka_star wrote:
We're gonna run out of blood at this rate, do we have enough fresh people coming in to keep the scene alive?


This comment is crazy. There are literally hundreds of pro SC2 players, about 5x as many as the scene can actually support. We don't need more players to support the scene, we need a bigger scene to support the players. And if the scene stays at this size, we need to lose players to keep it sustainable.


I think we need an amateur/mid tier scene to keep this kind of players especially in SK.
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