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TigerKarl
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Zato-1
Chile4253 Posts
Nowadays, LoL casters are fairly good, metagame is very aggressive and entertaining to watch, and LCS is to LoL what Proleague was to Brood Wars in its final years- I find the LoL eSports scene to be more cohesive and less chaotic than SC2's, as instead of a bunch of random tournaments all over the place being organized by different parties in different places, LoL's pro scene is organized by just one party, which is Riot. As much of a Blizzard fan as I am, their efforts to make SC2 more entertaining to watch have been too little, too late. Riot has been a lot more daring when it comes to balance changes and trying to make its game less passive and more entertaining- and this has been a huge success of theirs, even if they've largely failed at other goals (melee ADCs and bruisers generally blow as ranged champions are kings, and as a patchwork solution Riot at least managed to make melee assassins work as these are quite good). But when it comes to SC2, there's still far too much deathball vs. deathball posturing followed by a really short fight that decides the game... this is just not fun to watch at all, Blizzard had the example of Brood Wars and how to make engagements more entertaining but their game is still plagued by this. Lately they've had some success with attempts at promoting harassment gameplay, but as I said before- too little, too late. I wish all the best to SC2, but LoL is much more successful than SC2 right now, and this undoubtedly influenced MKP's decision to switch. As someone who has played both games (but plays neither anymore) and has watched both as eSports a fair bit, I believe LoL deserves this success as it's a much more entertaining game to watch nowadays, both as a game and thanks to the much more vibrant NA and EU scenes it has. | ||
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Zarahtra
Iceland4053 Posts
 Never really the biggest MKP fan, but he's arguably one of the most influential sc2 progamers and certainly close to the top for terran. | ||
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Drmooose
United States390 Posts
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bbkDRAGOON
United States20 Posts
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Plansix
United States60190 Posts
On October 11 2013 19:22 TigerKarl wrote: Says a lot when not only the rats are leaving the sinking ship Although it's mean, I like this quote. The only players that are retiring seem to be ones that haven't won anything in a while. | ||
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tshi
United States2495 Posts
On October 11 2013 19:22 TigerKarl wrote: Says a lot when not only the rats are leaving the sinking ship Fucking lol (not the game). Anyway, he was my favorite player, I"m sad to know that he wont be doing anymore crazy micro-based plays anymore : (. Oh well, at least we have MarinePrince (Maru; the next bonjwa) who has really good micro too! | ||
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RiZu
Singapore5715 Posts
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Swisslink
2958 Posts
It's sad that a player like MKP switches - but he won't be the only one, imo. | ||
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negativedge
4279 Posts
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opterown
Australia54784 Posts
On October 11 2013 19:27 negativedge wrote: And why in the world would we think MKP would have any success in LoL, anyway? his strengths in SC2 were all mechanical, which is nearly irrelevant in LoL, and all of his weaknesses involved decision making and game sense, which are basically everything in a moba. it doesn't seem like much of a fit. well he seems to be doing okay so far, 3 months proper practice and it sounds like he's masters equivalent. with a good team who can call the shots he can do well. | ||
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Douillos
France3195 Posts
LUcky we still have Flash! | ||
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Plansix
United States60190 Posts
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FrozenGrip
Great Britain3 Posts
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SmoKim
Denmark10305 Posts
On October 11 2013 19:24 Plansix wrote: Although it's mean, I like this quote. The only players that are retiring seem to be ones that haven't won anything in a while. Wouldn't make alot of sense to retire if you kept winning alot  jk, i know what you mean | ||
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Kasaraki
Denmark7115 Posts
On October 11 2013 19:24 Plansix wrote: Although it's mean, I like this quote. The only players that are retiring seem to be ones that haven't won anything in a while. That quote says the opposite though. He says it's no longer just the rats leaving, implying that SC2 is dying, etc. But in reality, yeah, it's just "rats" leaving, that is, people who haven't had any result in ages - or never had any. | ||
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tshi
United States2495 Posts
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blae000
Norway1640 Posts
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LastDance
New Zealand510 Posts
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opterown
Australia54784 Posts
On October 11 2013 19:37 Kasaraki wrote: That quote says the opposite though. He says it's no longer just the rats leaving, implying that SC2 is dying, etc. But in reality, yeah, it's just "rats" leaving, that is, people who haven't had any result in ages - or never had any. not jangbi, nor puzzle or coca when they left the first time | ||
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