On September 01 2013 04:01 _BAR_ wrote: Now who am I supposed to root for in pro league? This sucks. I really hope those other players find teams. I really like dear and hyvaa. I hope they find teams and hyvaa doesn't retire.
The only team left that I want to cheer for is Samsung Khan. This is gonna be a disappointing season Gogo Khan.....I guess......
I'm in the same boat (no pun intended) but with Jangi retiring it takes some wind out of the Khan sails as well (pun intended).
Hey wait , so let me get this straight, KeSPA is reduing the number of allowable players in a team's SC2 roster to accomodate more League of Legends players?
Dont teams liek KT Rolster ans SK Telecom T1 already have more than one LoL team?
Back to studying and give up the grandmaster dream I guess :'(
On September 01 2013 04:13 Slanina wrote: This is just another step in the decline of SC2. You see players retiring, teams disbanding, viewer numbers decline rapidly. I have been a SC2 fan since the release and i must simply say that SC2 has lost its atractivity in any way for me nowadays. And news like this prove that the majority of the players/pro players/viewers see it the same way.
I am bored of seeing Deathball vs. Deathball, and often you can see that a game is lost/won in the beginning phase, with a 10-20 min death animation. I dont care anymore.
And Blizzard has proven again and again that they are out of touch with the e-sports scene and that they simply dont care. See it this way: They sell a game 2-3 million times, earn 50-60 million dollars. The whole e-sport scene in three years hasnt generated any money for them, quite the opposite. So why should they care?
I stop watching streams, stopped watching gsl and any streamers. Its sad, but its true. SC2 has reached its peak a year ago, and now it trending downwards rapidly.
The UI observer changes + the spawning option + replays of wcs released, all of them have been good changes.
off course, they were too late to make a difference.
On September 01 2013 04:13 Slanina wrote: This is just another step in the decline of SC2. You see players retiring, teams disbanding, viewer numbers decline rapidly. I have been a SC2 fan since the release and i must simply say that SC2 has lost its atractivity in any way for me nowadays. And news like this prove that the majority of the players/pro players/viewers see it the same way.
I am bored of seeing Deathball vs. Deathball, and often you can see that a game is lost/won in the beginning phase, with a 10-20 min death animation. I dont care anymore.
And Blizzard has proven again and again that they are out of touch with the e-sports scene and that they simply dont care. See it this way: They sell a game 2-3 million times, earn 50-60 million dollars. The whole e-sport scene in three years hasnt generated any money for them, quite the opposite. So why should they care?
I stop watching streams, stopped watching gsl and any streamers. Its sad, but its true. SC2 has reached its peak a year ago, and now it trending downwards rapidly.
See ya and don't let the door hit you on the way out. We don't need the doom harbingers in the sc2 community. All they do is bring negative energy to the scene.
Seriously. We all knew that SC2 was going to do some shrinking as competition between rival e-sports, but it doesn't make it any less painful to watch very skilled players retire and drop out as their teams fall apart. It's a rough enough couple weeks with big news of retirements and teams falling apart, we don't need it to be any worse with an onslaught of people running around rubbing everyone's noses in it. SC2 is far from dying, but is still going through a really tough time of pruning.
Even though I quit SC2 and switched to LoL a month ago, things like this make me pretty sad. SC2 has been a huge part of my life for the past 3 years, and now players are retiring and teams are collapsing every week.
On September 01 2013 04:01 _BAR_ wrote: Now who am I supposed to root for in pro league? This sucks. I really hope those other players find teams. I really like dear and hyvaa. I hope they find teams and hyvaa doesn't retire.
The only team left that I want to cheer for is Samsung Khan. This is gonna be a disappointing season Gogo Khan.....I guess......
I'm in the same boat (no pun intended) but with Jangi retiring it takes some wind out of the Khan sails as well (pun intended).
Yeah, I am also wondering who I'll be cheering for. With JangBi gone, I don't think I can have as much passion for Stork (with how he is playing nowadays..) and Reality like before. I am thinking about CJ though.
On September 01 2013 04:13 Slanina wrote: This is just another step in the decline of SC2. You see players retiring, teams disbanding, viewer numbers decline rapidly. I have been a SC2 fan since the release and i must simply say that SC2 has lost its atractivity in any way for me nowadays. And news like this prove that the majority of the players/pro players/viewers see it the same way.
I am bored of seeing Deathball vs. Deathball, and often you can see that a game is lost/won in the beginning phase, with a 10-20 min death animation. I dont care anymore.
And Blizzard has proven again and again that they are out of touch with the e-sports scene and that they simply dont care. See it this way: They sell a game 2-3 million times, earn 50-60 million dollars. The whole e-sport scene in three years hasnt generated any money for them, quite the opposite. So why should they care?
I stop watching streams, stopped watching gsl and any streamers. Its sad, but its true. SC2 has reached its peak a year ago, and now it trending downwards rapidly.
See ya and don't let the door hit you on the way out. We don't need the doom harbingers in the sc2 community. All they do is bring negative energy to the scene.
Seriously. We all knew that SC2 was going to do some shrinking as competition between rival e-sports, but it doesn't make it any less painful to watch very skilled players retire and drop out as their teams fall apart. It's a rough enough couple weeks with big news of retirements and teams falling apart, we don't need it to be any worse with an onslaught of people running around rubbing everyone's noses in it. SC2 is far from dying, but is still going through a really tough time of pruning.
True true. But it's not only the competition from titles such as Dota 2 and LoL. It is also the fact that the pre-Kespa SC2 scene already was saturated. Then Kespa players switched over from BW and people expect that the scene can suddenly accommodate almost 100 new players. It was a bubble that was doomed to burst, and now we have to clean up the mess. It is not so much that the scene is dying, but more the fact that there is too many teams and too many players.
On September 01 2013 05:30 Dragoonstorm7 wrote: Why would only Classic be signed in the auction? Dear, hyvaa, and Trap are the Code S players. o.O
The other teams don't want more players, they're all downsizing the sc2 teams.
Yes, but more specifically I was wondering why, of all the players, Classic was the one to get signed. If SKT T1 had the money to pick up just 1 player, wouldnt they have picked up one of the Code S ones?
On September 01 2013 05:30 Dragoonstorm7 wrote: Why would only Classic be signed in the auction? Dear, hyvaa, and Trap are the Code S players. o.O
The other teams don't want more players, they're all downsizing the sc2 teams.
Yes, but more specifically I was wondering why, of all the players, Classic was the one to get signed. If SKT T1 had the money to pick up just 1 player, wouldnt they have picked up one of the Code S ones?
Classic performed very very well in Proleague in the second half after he switched to Protoss, Boxer might value him higher than the other players and if he was asking for less money I guess It's an easy choice.
On September 01 2013 05:30 Dragoonstorm7 wrote: Why would only Classic be signed in the auction? Dear, hyvaa, and Trap are the Code S players. o.O
Every kespa team is doing to downsize to 5-6 players and not take anymore. The korean scene is going to get a lot smaller. Koreans that are left in limbo will either retire or go back to BW.
On September 01 2013 05:30 Dragoonstorm7 wrote: Why would only Classic be signed in the auction? Dear, hyvaa, and Trap are the Code S players. o.O
The other teams don't want more players, they're all downsizing the sc2 teams.
Yes, but more specifically I was wondering why, of all the players, Classic was the one to get signed. If SKT T1 had the money to pick up just 1 player, wouldnt they have picked up one of the Code S ones?
Classic performed very very well in Proleague in the second half after he switched to Protoss, Boxer might value him higher than the other players and if he was asking for less money I guess It's an easy choice.
(just speculation by me)
Ah ok thank you. I did look up his PL stats and wow you're right on. I really didnt realize he was doing that good. Thank you for response
On September 01 2013 04:13 Slanina wrote: This is just another step in the decline of SC2. You see players retiring, teams disbanding, viewer numbers decline rapidly. I have been a SC2 fan since the release and i must simply say that SC2 has lost its atractivity in any way for me nowadays. And news like this prove that the majority of the players/pro players/viewers see it the same way.
I am bored of seeing Deathball vs. Deathball, and often you can see that a game is lost/won in the beginning phase, with a 10-20 min death animation. I dont care anymore.
And Blizzard has proven again and again that they are out of touch with the e-sports scene and that they simply dont care. See it this way: They sell a game 2-3 million times, earn 50-60 million dollars. The whole e-sport scene in three years hasnt generated any money for them, quite the opposite. So why should they care?
I stop watching streams, stopped watching gsl and any streamers. Its sad, but its true. SC2 has reached its peak a year ago, and now it trending downwards rapidly.
Go back to elementary school, learn to read again and see why they disbanded.
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