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EchoZ
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Japan5041 Posts
September 10 2013 08:29 GMT
#881
Bisu ): The legend.
Dear Sixsmith...
MikeMM
Profile Joined November 2012
Russian Federation221 Posts
September 10 2013 08:33 GMT
#882
On September 10 2013 17:24 nighcol wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 10 2013 11:35 Ciryandor wrote:
Your post was at 3 AM KST. That's one of the most ungodly hours to be playing on Fish as a Korean. SC2 servers are going to be more active on non-KR servers; if the 15k number is during the same time for Korea then I don't know why it's that much, it may be that it counts all open lobbies as a game being played, or games in progess (Blizzard has never told us what the number really means).


Yeah, as I said the time was bad but then again your claim was that it always has more than 24k. Right now it's 17:19 KST and the number I looked at previously is a bit over 8k which is pretty damn good for a game as old as BW but still nowhere near 24k. The SC2 number I compared was definitely not for Korea only though and doesn't matter too much.

Will SC2 keep these numbers 15 years after its release and after SC3 have been released?
I very much doubt it.
nighcol
Profile Joined January 2012
298 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-09-10 08:44:37
September 10 2013 08:43 GMT
#883
On September 10 2013 17:33 MikeMM wrote:
Will SC2 keep these numbers 15 years after its release and after SC3 have been released?
I very much doubt it.


No, but I don't know whether or not BW will keep them for the next 15 either (doubt it) and past performance is not so relevant. The way esports (sadly) has so far worked has been that these games have a limited lifecycle and get replaced with new ones after some years. I feel the pain because I love Quake and that's another fairly longevous game that is not doing all too well anymore. I wish we could really have a single game stand the test of time but all evidence seems to indicate that BW was waning in popularity even before the SC2 switch. It is the same thing that each and every other game played as an esport has eventually had to face.
bluQ
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Germany1724 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-09-10 09:04:20
September 10 2013 08:53 GMT
#884
Ummm how come people claim Bisu still has fans?
Go ahead and watch the Clip from the KR TV-show where yellow, NalRa and Nada are there to talk about their lifes.
You guys (especially BW-fanboys) are so fuckin dellusional I bet you even believe the shit you say.

Bisu may have some fangirls left, but from the glory of the past days there is most likly less than 10% left.
So stop saying Bisu's retirement would have a big impact in KR-SC2 scene.

Hf&Gl Bisu, never loved you like others did but wish you bests at life.

Oh and for all you doomssayers: did you forget who else retired? Nada and Yellow. Why isn't the world over allready?
www.twitch.tv/bluquh (PoE, Starbow, HS)
illu23
Profile Joined September 2010
Germany71 Posts
September 10 2013 09:01 GMT
#885
Goodbye Bisu. I will always remember your play as one of the main reasons that pulled me into Protoss. Your finals against savior was breathtaking and still to this day I have nerd chills all over my body watching the VODs.
Odi et amo. Quare id faciam fortasse requiris. Nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.
DinoToss
Profile Joined August 2013
Poland507 Posts
September 10 2013 09:11 GMT
#886
On September 10 2013 17:53 bluQ wrote:
Ummm how come people claim Bisu still has fans?
Go ahead and watch the Clip from the KR TV-show where yellow, NalRa and Nada are there to talk about their lifes.
You guys (especially BW-fanboys) are so fuckin dellusional I bet you even believe the shit you say.

Bisu may have some fangirls left, but from the glory of the past days there is most likly less than 10% left.
So stop saying Bisu's retirement would have a big impact in KR-SC2 scene.

Hf&Gl Bisu, never loved you like others did but wish you bests at life.

Oh and for all you doomssayers: did you forget who else retired? Nada and Yellow. Why isn't the world over allready?

Most of his fans left with BW, it is true.
My wrist really started to flare up. My colossi number started to pile up and with the last of my concentration I prepared for a win.
lamprey1
Profile Joined June 2012
Canada919 Posts
September 10 2013 09:14 GMT
#887
On September 10 2013 16:48 Boonbag wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 10 2013 16:45 GolemMadness wrote:
On September 10 2013 16:39 Boonbag wrote:
After reading article about bisu retirement and the causes

I can now say Starcraft II is a fucking disaster

and i dont give a shit about saying outloud

this game ruined everything

and everysingle person that participated in bw downfall is a fucking mongrei



Elaborate?

Basically the article states that once OGN switched to sc2 the viewing numbers rapidly began to fall.
And it pretty much sounds like this is the last year of pro starcraft in Korea.
Koreans don't like Sc2. Koreans don't give a flying fuck about it.
Fish server has 24k users -_-;.......
BLizzard and all the fanboys singlehandely destroyed the purest incarnation of pro gaming because they couldn't understand BW.
It was too hardcore for them i guess.
silly foreigners =(


wrong.
a solid percentage of the korean viewing audience for Brood War had only a surface level understanding of the game.
the shows were as much MTV as they were ESPN.
Falling
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
Canada11592 Posts
September 10 2013 09:15 GMT
#888
Ummm how come people claim Bisu still has fans?

I am he. I am the fan you claim does not exist and I have not gone away. The thread as a whole could probably back off the SC2 doomsaying and bashing. On the otherhand, people could also back off on the outrage that people are saddened at an 'irrelevant player.'

No Bisu fan has made the claim that he revolutionized SC2 Protoss. No fear, it's not going to happen, so don't get into a dither. But that's not why people are sad either and claiming Bisu as irrelevant and being outraged that people would care is quite clearly missing what TaekBangLeeSsang was to SC.
Moderator5000 of our finest Taliban warriors have been released! Rise up my brothers. Mashalla! al-Donald ibn-Frederick al-Masih allows it.
hedstrom
Profile Joined July 2011
Sweden31 Posts
September 10 2013 09:18 GMT
#889
So sad about this
glhf Kim Taek-Yong
DinoToss
Profile Joined August 2013
Poland507 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-09-10 09:39:05
September 10 2013 09:34 GMT
#890
On September 10 2013 18:15 Falling wrote:
Show nested quote +
Ummm how come people claim Bisu still has fans?

I am he. I am the fan you claim does not exist and I have not gone away. The thread as a whole could probably back off the SC2 doomsaying and bashing. On the otherhand, people could also back off on the outrage that people are saddened at an 'irrelevant player.'

No Bisu fan has made the claim that he revolutionized SC2 Protoss. No fear, it's not going to happen, so don't get into a dither. But that's not why people are sad either and claiming Bisu as irrelevant and being outraged that people would care is quite clearly missing what TaekBangLeeSsang was to SC.

I think the good/bad experiment would be to show all the hype before the switch how almost everyone and their mother hoped for players like TBLS transfering their play into SC2.

If we remember that despite the bad outcome of Elephant article there was also a big hype created, even on the day of switch in MLG, Tastosis described the players with their trademark BW assets, we could see the glow in their eyes when they describe their used to be heroes.

BW fans, SC2 fans for a while were united, the invigorating stage performance (Fantasy: "I will dominate", Leta's back flip) helped to grow an image. BW/SC2 fans were united because both of them could see a positive, even though first mostly wanted to diminish the pain of losing BW by seeing their own heroes tear apart the scene, proving the Elephant article. Second saw the one-opportunity of seeing the biggest "new blood" influx into already stagnated Korean WoL scene.

What blew that moment? We should answer it for ourselfs.
My wrist really started to flare up. My colossi number started to pile up and with the last of my concentration I prepared for a win.
Salteador Neo
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Andorra5591 Posts
September 10 2013 09:53 GMT
#891
T.T GLHF Bisu
Revolutionist fan
Grend
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
1600 Posts
September 10 2013 09:57 GMT
#892
I started watching bw because of Bisu.
Kind of hating on SC2 right now :-(
♞ Against the Wind - Bob Seger ♞
disciple
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
9071 Posts
September 10 2013 09:59 GMT
#893
On September 10 2013 17:53 bluQ wrote:
Ummm how come people claim Bisu still has fans?
Go ahead and watch the Clip from the KR TV-show where yellow, NalRa and Nada are there to talk about their lifes.
You guys (especially BW-fanboys) are so fuckin dellusional I bet you even believe the shit you say.

Bisu may have some fangirls left, but from the glory of the past days there is most likly less than 10% left.
So stop saying Bisu's retirement would have a big impact in KR-SC2 scene.

Hf&Gl Bisu, never loved you like others did but wish you bests at life.

Oh and for all you doomssayers: did you forget who else retired? Nada and Yellow. Why isn't the world over allready?


In a fanboy poll today on TL Bisu would beat anyone but probably MC and Jaedong. I have no clue what you are talking about.
Administrator"I'm a big deal." - ixmike88
SkelA
Profile Blog Joined January 2007
Macedonia13081 Posts
September 10 2013 10:12 GMT
#894
Sad about Bisu, not sad about SC2.

Gl in real life ( or BW? ).
Stork and KHAN fan till 2012 ...
NexCa
Profile Joined March 2011
Germany954 Posts
September 10 2013 10:23 GMT
#895
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO ....

God damn ... Bisu ... my ... hero ... just ... retired ... i could cry ((((((((((((
Best Protoss Player 4 ever - Bisu[Shield] || http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=326242 || THIS IS WHERE WE STAND, THIS IS WHERE THEY FALL, GIVE THEM NOTHING, BUT TAKE FROM THEM EVERYTHING ! || SKT FIGHTIIING
_Animus_
Profile Joined February 2011
Bulgaria1064 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-09-10 10:34:44
September 10 2013 10:29 GMT
#896
We hate cuz they killed something and leaved nothing, its like American "peace" operation against some "evil dictator". Nobody wants you there, but you go by force and leave destruction.

We hate on blizzard for their policy agains Korean RTS Esport scene. For intentionally killing Broodwar and forcing switch to a game nobody wants and as we see statistics nobody cares about now, its just not as entertaining - Fact confurmed by statements of people who work/worked on the scene and by the low vewer count in Korea.

Do you know what was Broodwar in Korea when official? It was epic, more epic than everything you have seen in SC2. For us fans it was an sacred thing and seeing each one of the legens like Bisu play was super exciting every single time. There were many bw related tv shows that were super fun too.
It was a different world in which strong emotions, excitement and fun were constant experience.

Now all that has gone. We have no BW scene, zero interest by the vewers, players so important to us constantly retiring and rumors about this is the last Starcraft proleague.

How can us fans be happy with this?
Luv ya BroodWar!
SoleSteeler
Profile Joined April 2003
Canada5469 Posts
September 10 2013 10:34 GMT
#897
I remember watching savior vs. Bisu, first person VOD from savior's point of view... You could just feel savior's... helplessness. I wonder if that video still exists.

Bisu is the only reason I might consider playing protoss

I said his name the other month randomly and my wife (Korean) said "Ohhhh! 김택용 잘 생겼지?..." "Bisu is handsome, isn't he?"

Haha. One of those few times in your life you don't feel jealous when your wife says someone is handsome.

Really sad to see Bisu retire.
Plansix
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United States60190 Posts
September 10 2013 10:42 GMT
#898
On September 10 2013 19:29 _Animus_ wrote:
We hate cuz they killed something and leaved nothing, its like American "peace" operation against some "evil dictator". Nobody wants you there, but you go by force and leave destruction.

We hate on blizzard for their policy agains Korean RTS Esport scene. For intentionally killing Broodwar and forcing switch to a game nobody wants and as we see statistics nobody cares about now, its just not as entertaining - Fact confurmed by statements of people who work/worked on the scene and by the low vewer count in Korea.

Do you know what was Broodwar in Korea when official? It was epic, more epic than everything you have seen in SC2. For us fans it was an sacred thing and seeing each one of the legens like Bisu play was super exciting every single time. There were many bw related tv shows that were super fun too.
It was a different world in which strong emotions, excitement and fun were constant experience.

Now all that has gone. We have no BW scene, zero interest by the vewers, players so important to us constantly retiring and rumors about this is the last Starcraft proleague.

How can us fans be happy with this?

Here is a better question:

You have your own forums on this website, with a thread about this topic. If you hate SC2 so much, why not go there? Why post here, where there are SC2 fans who like the game? Are you just posting here out of spite because you want to make SC2 fans angry?
I have the Honor to be your Obedient Servant, P.6
TL+ Member
Daswollvieh
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
5553 Posts
September 10 2013 10:48 GMT
#899
On September 10 2013 19:29 _Animus_ wrote:
We hate cuz they killed something and leaved nothing, its like American "peace" operation against some "evil dictator". Nobody wants you there, but you go by force and leave destruction.

We hate on blizzard for their policy agains Korean RTS Esport scene. For intentionally killing Broodwar and forcing switch to a game nobody wants and as we see statistics nobody cares about now, its just not as entertaining - Fact confurmed by statements of people who work/worked on the scene and by the low vewer count in Korea.

Do you know what was Broodwar in Korea when official? It was epic, more epic than everything you have seen in SC2. For us fans it was an sacred thing and seeing each one of the legens like Bisu play was super exciting every single time. There were many bw related tv shows that were super fun too.
It was a different world in which strong emotions, excitement and fun were constant experience.

Now all that has gone. We have no BW scene, zero interest by the vewers, players so important to us constantly retiring and rumors about this is the last Starcraft proleague.

How can us fans be happy with this?


Who´s "we"? You can only speak for yourself, so please don´t pretend otherwise.
SChlafmann
Profile Joined September 2011
France725 Posts
September 10 2013 10:50 GMT
#900
On September 10 2013 18:59 disciple wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 10 2013 17:53 bluQ wrote:
Ummm how come people claim Bisu still has fans?
Go ahead and watch the Clip from the KR TV-show where yellow, NalRa and Nada are there to talk about their lifes.
You guys (especially BW-fanboys) are so fuckin dellusional I bet you even believe the shit you say.

Bisu may have some fangirls left, but from the glory of the past days there is most likly less than 10% left.
So stop saying Bisu's retirement would have a big impact in KR-SC2 scene.

Hf&Gl Bisu, never loved you like others did but wish you bests at life.

Oh and for all you doomssayers: did you forget who else retired? Nada and Yellow. Why isn't the world over allready?


In a fanboy poll today on TL Bisu would beat anyone but probably MC and Jaedong. I have no clue what you are talking about.


Who want to do this poll? Btw, i'm still waiting for some epic tribute. I hope it'll come
"More GG, more skill" - Nope! Chuck Testa - #BISU2013
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