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SHOOG
Profile Blog Joined December 2011
United States1639 Posts
October 24 2013 16:32 GMT
#161
No Zero come backkkk!
operwolf
Profile Joined April 2008
United States324 Posts
October 24 2013 16:40 GMT
#162
Goodbye ZerO, you will be missed. Hope to see you streaming BW soon
He'll end up dead, because he'll die.
GatsbyTheGreat
Profile Joined October 2013
68 Posts
October 24 2013 16:52 GMT
#163
On October 25 2013 01:27 BisuDagger wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 25 2013 01:10 Prog455 wrote:
On October 25 2013 00:40 Kergy wrote:
One less reason to care about SC2.

Yea - because ZerO was like super relevent to the scene.

I wonder how many of the people who claim that SC2 is dying is coming from a BW background, because as someone who didn't follow BW people such as Bisu, Jangbi, ZerO and so on might aswell never have exsisted. I understand that these players have a huge legacy from BW but to be fair, almost none of them added anything to the SC2 scene. Most casual viewers who only watches Premier League and Premier tournaments might not even have seen more than a few games these people. During the eight months Proleague ran Bisu played like 20 games or so.

Obviously Kespa players didn't make quite the impact on the scene that people expected them to do, and i can understand why people who used to be at the top of the food-chain wouldn't want to start all over again.


      I never say BW is dieing, but I am someone who came from BW and waited 2 years and watched SC2 consistently anticipating the BW switch of Kespa pros to SC2 because I love them as people themselves and wanted to be able to support them in SC2. I feel like it's just a strong vocal minority of people that ring loud when they says SC2 is dieing and it hurts. The same a**holes did it to BW when times were tough. But years later I'm having tons of fun with BW still. SC2 will do the same thing.

      Sooner or later you just have to drown them out. But it's not BW fans that are preaching this. Pure BW fans just don't care to waste their time here and hurt people. It's an infection within the SC2 community itself. The responsibility falls on the abundance of fans the still remain the SC2 world to start being louder than the vocal minority. I left SC2 forums for a while because the SC2 community stopped having pride and being supportive. Instead posters have allowed the vocal minority to walk over them.

      Instead of replying to the SC2 dieing preachers take an effort to discuss games in forums. Make jokes with each other. Start rivalry battles in LR thread. Make cheerfuls. For fuck sakes scream as loud as you can at every game about how amazing it was. Then the bug will come back. The one that made everyone want to be a part of Starcraft 2. The one that took the world by storm. Stop blaming people and get your shit together SC2 community.


Completely agree with the vocal minority part. In recent LR thread, half of the posts are coming from like 5 people.

TotalBiscuit
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United Kingdom5437 Posts
October 24 2013 16:58 GMT
#164
On October 25 2013 00:30 GatsbyTheGreat wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 25 2013 00:05 TotalBiscuit wrote:
On October 24 2013 23:53 GatsbyTheGreat wrote:
Good, TB himself came, plz answer my question, or just elaborate more about that sentence of yours. Your posts are always so intriguing.


Why? You made the assumption that I was taking a shot at ZerO which is the dumbest thing I've heard all day, which is quite the achievement since I read Youtube comments.


That sounds like a shot at Zero to me, so I assumed. If you didn't , just say the reason why other teams didn't pick him up very clearly since that's not very clear to me as an outsider. Or why you didn't pick him up.

That sentence of yours sounds to me like you definitely know more about this than us fans, so I assume you found out the salary ZerO requested, and then you are like fuck it, you are not worth it.


This is why "the fans" shouldn't speculate on things they don't know, it leads them to these kind of crazy conclusions.

Nobody picked him up because we knew he was retiring. It's shocking that I have to spell that out considering my original post in the thread. This is also in reference to the previous thread on the subject where some people questioned why we picked up Mekia and not ZerO and also about how stupid teams were for not grabbing such a great player. The reality was, those teams are not stupid, they know far more than the fans do and they all knew ZerO was retiring. We did not want to discuss it because announcing a players retirement before he is ready to is super-BM and highly disrespectful.
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Subversive
Profile Joined October 2009
Australia2229 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-10-24 18:31:51
October 24 2013 16:59 GMT
#165
On October 24 2013 18:29 sharkie wrote:
not surprising at all - somehow I dont think Zero ever had the work ethic of soulkey

he had been considered promising upcoming zerg for so long

You have no idea. He was the ace for Woongjin forever. He was before Soulkey. Lack of work-ethic. Educate yourself fool.
#1 Great fan ~ // Khan // FlaSh // JangBi // EffOrt //
jonich0n
Profile Joined February 2009
United States1982 Posts
October 24 2013 17:01 GMT
#166
On October 25 2013 01:27 BisuDagger wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 25 2013 01:10 Prog455 wrote:
On October 25 2013 00:40 Kergy wrote:
One less reason to care about SC2.

Yea - because ZerO was like super relevent to the scene.

I wonder how many of the people who claim that SC2 is dying is coming from a BW background, because as someone who didn't follow BW people such as Bisu, Jangbi, ZerO and so on might aswell never have exsisted. I understand that these players have a huge legacy from BW but to be fair, almost none of them added anything to the SC2 scene. Most casual viewers who only watches Premier League and Premier tournaments might not even have seen more than a few games these people. During the eight months Proleague ran Bisu played like 20 games or so.

Obviously Kespa players didn't make quite the impact on the scene that people expected them to do, and i can understand why people who used to be at the top of the food-chain wouldn't want to start all over again.


      I never say BW is dieing, but I am someone who came from BW and waited 2 years and watched SC2 consistently anticipating the BW switch of Kespa pros to SC2 because I love them as people themselves and wanted to be able to support them in SC2. I feel like it's just a strong vocal minority of people that ring loud when they says SC2 is dieing and it hurts. The same a**holes did it to BW when times were tough. But years later I'm having tons of fun with BW still. SC2 will do the same thing.

      Sooner or later you just have to drown them out. But it's not BW fans that are preaching this. Pure BW fans just don't care to waste their time here and hurt people. It's an infection within the SC2 community itself. The responsibility falls on the abundance of fans the still remain the SC2 world to start being louder than the vocal minority. I left SC2 forums for a while because the SC2 community stopped having pride and being supportive. Instead posters have allowed the vocal minority to walk over them.

      Instead of replying to the SC2 dieing preachers take an effort to discuss games in forums. Make jokes with each other. Start rivalry battles in LR thread. Make cheerfuls. For fuck sakes scream as loud as you can at every game about how amazing it was. Then the bug will come back. The one that made everyone want to be a part of Starcraft 2. The one that took the world by storm. Stop blaming people and get your shit together SC2 community.

good post
(>'.')>
BigFan
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
TLADT24920 Posts
October 24 2013 17:08 GMT
#167
On October 24 2013 18:29 sharkie wrote:
not surprising at all - somehow I dont think Zero ever had the work ethic of soulkey

he had been considered promising upcoming zerg for so long

cmon, I think ZerO was par with SK if not better in BW. In SCII though, SK Was considered superior although that ZvP against Trap in PL finals was one crazy game and ZerO almost won it. Best of luck to ZerO! I'm sure he'll do well and hope to hear he joins SRT/SSL
Former BW EiC"Watch Bakemonogatari or I will kill you." -Toad, April 18th, 2017
GatsbyTheGreat
Profile Joined October 2013
68 Posts
October 24 2013 17:11 GMT
#168
On October 25 2013 01:58 TotalBiscuit wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 25 2013 00:30 GatsbyTheGreat wrote:
On October 25 2013 00:05 TotalBiscuit wrote:
On October 24 2013 23:53 GatsbyTheGreat wrote:
Good, TB himself came, plz answer my question, or just elaborate more about that sentence of yours. Your posts are always so intriguing.


Why? You made the assumption that I was taking a shot at ZerO which is the dumbest thing I've heard all day, which is quite the achievement since I read Youtube comments.


That sounds like a shot at Zero to me, so I assumed. If you didn't , just say the reason why other teams didn't pick him up very clearly since that's not very clear to me as an outsider. Or why you didn't pick him up.

That sentence of yours sounds to me like you definitely know more about this than us fans, so I assume you found out the salary ZerO requested, and then you are like fuck it, you are not worth it.


This is why "the fans" shouldn't speculate on things they don't know, it leads them to these kind of crazy conclusions.

Nobody picked him up because we knew he was retiring. It's shocking that I have to spell that out considering my original post in the thread. This is also in reference to the previous thread on the subject where some people questioned why we picked up Mekia and not ZerO and also about how stupid teams were for not grabbing such a great player. The reality was, those teams are not stupid, they know far more than the fans do and they all knew ZerO was retiring. We did not want to discuss it because announcing a players retirement before he is ready to is super-BM and highly disrespectful.


Now that's a clear explanation, rather than salary, it's just he's retiring. I don't think this is 100% clear for every fan.

And I still don't think it's completely that black and white, if he was for certain to retire, he won't be in free agent draft in KeSPA. Given a huge offer and perfect environment, he can definitely consider to continue, it's just nobody will offer him one.

malady
Profile Joined November 2010
United States600 Posts
October 24 2013 17:13 GMT
#169
On October 25 2013 01:59 Subversive wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 24 2013 18:29 sharkie wrote:
not surprising at all - somehow I dont think Zero ever had the work ethic of soulkey

he had been considered promising upcoming zerg for so long

You have no idea. He was the ace for Woonjinn forever. He was before Soulkey. Lack of work-ethic. Educate yourself fool.



good ol sc2 fans

get ready for every comment being "makes sense" "not surprising with his results"
dumchu
TeflonArena
Profile Joined August 2013
Finland18 Posts
October 24 2013 17:15 GMT
#170
Really appreciate comments from TB and Nazgul - people that know their stuff. So tired of the negative vocal minority and clueless forum posters both making inane comments without knowing really the full context.
"Enemy team leads 21 - 5? We got this." - derafrhe
OmniEulogy
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Canada6593 Posts
October 24 2013 17:20 GMT
#171
best of luck in the future ZerO! I loved watching him play for many years ^^
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Leeoku
Profile Joined May 2010
1617 Posts
October 24 2013 17:22 GMT
#172
TO BW PLEASE
lolfail9001
Profile Joined August 2013
Russian Federation40190 Posts
October 24 2013 17:22 GMT
#173
On October 25 2013 02:13 malady wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 25 2013 01:59 Subversive wrote:
On October 24 2013 18:29 sharkie wrote:
not surprising at all - somehow I dont think Zero ever had the work ethic of soulkey

he had been considered promising upcoming zerg for so long

You have no idea. He was the ace for Woonjinn forever. He was before Soulkey. Lack of work-ethic. Educate yourself fool.



good ol sc2 fans

get ready for every comment being "makes sense" "not surprising with his results"

Makes sense and absolutely not surprising with lack of infested CCs and spawn broodling in SC2. Is it better now :D?
DeMoN pulls off a Miracle and Flies to the Moon
Fanatic-Templar
Profile Joined February 2010
Canada5819 Posts
October 24 2013 17:22 GMT
#174
Aw man. Actually one of my favourite player.
I bear this sig to commemorate the loss of the team icon that commemorated Oversky's 2008-2009 Proleague Round 1 performance.
DinoToss
Profile Joined August 2013
Poland507 Posts
October 24 2013 17:27 GMT
#175
On October 25 2013 01:27 BisuDagger wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 25 2013 01:10 Prog455 wrote:
On October 25 2013 00:40 Kergy wrote:
One less reason to care about SC2.

Yea - because ZerO was like super relevent to the scene.

I wonder how many of the people who claim that SC2 is dying is coming from a BW background, because as someone who didn't follow BW people such as Bisu, Jangbi, ZerO and so on might aswell never have exsisted. I understand that these players have a huge legacy from BW but to be fair, almost none of them added anything to the SC2 scene. Most casual viewers who only watches Premier League and Premier tournaments might not even have seen more than a few games these people. During the eight months Proleague ran Bisu played like 20 games or so.

Obviously Kespa players didn't make quite the impact on the scene that people expected them to do, and i can understand why people who used to be at the top of the food-chain wouldn't want to start all over again.


      I never say BW is dieing, but I am someone who came from BW and waited 2 years and watched SC2 consistently anticipating the BW switch of Kespa pros to SC2 because I love them as people themselves and wanted to be able to support them in SC2. I feel like it's just a strong vocal minority of people that ring loud when they says SC2 is dieing and it hurts. The same a**holes did it to BW when times were tough. But years later I'm having tons of fun with BW still. SC2 will do the same thing.

      Sooner or later you just have to drown them out. But it's not BW fans that are preaching this. Pure BW fans just don't care to waste their time here and hurt people. It's an infection within the SC2 community itself. The responsibility falls on the abundance of fans the still remain the SC2 world to start being louder than the vocal minority. I left SC2 forums for a while because the SC2 community stopped having pride and being supportive. Instead posters have allowed the vocal minority to walk over them.

      Instead of replying to the SC2 dieing preachers take an effort to discuss games in forums. Make jokes with each other. Start rivalry battles in LR thread. Make cheerfuls. For fuck sakes scream as loud as you can at every game about how amazing it was. Then the bug will come back. The one that made everyone want to be a part of Starcraft 2. The one that took the world by storm. Stop blaming people and get your shit together SC2 community.

You can clearly see that in LRs from "patchzerg" era in WoL (people need to look them up). in 2010 or 2011 (proud years of SC2) such posting was granted with quick death, but during second half of WoL it became (sometimes) a norm. Yet still when someone mentioned BW he became ostracized. It's some of sort of human self-defense mechanism that works sometimes in a very peculiar way. Like shitting in your own nest (your own mind, low self esteem) but opposing anyone who dares to do that from outside. Im not defending people who came up to stir drama with BW Chant im just saying it is hypocritical, just as we - humans can be.

Same way as SC2 vs LoL which always annoys me a little, because the word skill or game being so hard is being overused so much in favor of SC2 but it is as well used against BW in comparison. There is really nothing more hypocritical than SC2 fan calling out LoL for being noob friendly and than ranting on BW guy on LR for being elitist.

My small hypothesis on why SC2 was healthier in 2010 and 2011 here, besides the novelty gameplay factor was simply the fact BW had it's pro scene. The so called "bad guys" were happy back then, heck some of them even liked to watch both games. Pretty incredible right? When everyone can choose what they want to do, they are indeed happier.

I too was cought into Kespa switch hype for a while, but something cracked inside of me when i understood it's truly a lie(fortunately it happened pretty quickly). Now i don't really care that much about both Sospa and SC2. I kinda moved on as well but I can't help to throw some tips because i see more evil being done from inside rather from only a fraction of BW fans who are still alive here.

I really want to emphasize what BisuDagger said, the strong community would never fall under the rule of few. I remember being in a CS community and even if i don't remember much Quake people coming up and saying no-skill game (because it wasn't DUH!), and even if they did they would never ever accomplish anything. They would accomplish something only when the community itself would believe that.



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.
renaissanceMAN
Profile Joined March 2011
United States1840 Posts
October 24 2013 17:34 GMT
#176
I really hope there are a lot of newbies stepping up to fill these slots. Almost seems like the teams are being strangled for players.
On August 15 2013 03:43 Waxangel wrote: no amount of money can replace the enjoyment of being mean to people on the internet
Hollick
Profile Joined October 2012
Canada5 Posts
October 24 2013 17:36 GMT
#177
GL ZerO... to all the people complaining about players retiring, it really shouldn't surprise you... a lot of these players have been playing competitively since BW. Time to move on in life. You can't play competitive games forever. He's 23 years old and is making a decision to get on with life before it's too late. Respect that instead of QQing.
amazingxkcd
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
GRAND OLD AMERICA16375 Posts
October 24 2013 18:01 GMT
#178
Come stream on afreeca now!
The world is burning and you rather be on this terrible website discussing video games and your shallow feelings
Witten
Profile Joined January 2011
United States2094 Posts
October 24 2013 18:10 GMT
#179
Just... just play Brood War please. If ZerO starts playing BW again I'll only be one Neo G. Soulkey away from having all my favorite players in BW back.
Brood War Forever / NA's premiere Shadow Shaman player / Courier Collector / Bot Game Champion / Highly amateur Mystical Ninja Goemon Speedrunner
GWdeathscythe
Profile Joined November 2012
Brazil1091 Posts
October 24 2013 18:27 GMT
#180
Go to SSL plz, Zero!!! Omg imagine Bisu, Jangbi, Sea, Zero in a SSL. I can dream with that!
on a side note: BW is calling for you stork... hear the calling.
JD is BONJWA!
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