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Arkani
Profile Joined February 2012
Austria60 Posts
February 04 2014 16:19 GMT
#721
Good bye! Sad to see you go, but theres no point staying, if you dont enjoy it. Best of luck at what ever you will do next, i had a great time at your stream and watching your games in general
Grubby, Life, Jaedong, CoCa, MarineKing, TY, Maru
RyLai
Profile Joined May 2011
United States477 Posts
February 04 2014 16:48 GMT
#722
Good luck in school and whatever you decide to do. Starcraft 2 would not be the same without a personality like yours. You will be missed (by the non-haters).
DooMDash
Profile Joined May 2010
United States1015 Posts
February 04 2014 16:58 GMT
#723
Disappointing. GL in life though.
S1 3500+ Master T. S2 1600+ Master T.
unit
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States2621 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-02-04 17:05:29
February 04 2014 17:04 GMT
#724
It's been good IdrA. I've always loved to hate you provided an integral role in the community by being the villain and that won't be forgotten any time soon. I have felt the same way BW > SC2 but that's unimportant as it is a personal view. I only wish that I could continue to play BW from time to time, if only for the personal challenge that the game provides. Unfortunately it doesn't run properly on my pc :/

theqat
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States2856 Posts
February 04 2014 17:08 GMT
#725
Much love idra, good luck with everything!
traderjoe
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Germany69 Posts
February 04 2014 18:06 GMT
#726
gl u was a very importand guy in the szene and we will miss you xo
xxjcdentonxx
Profile Joined November 2012
Canada163 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-02-04 18:44:19
February 04 2014 18:40 GMT
#727
I'm now more interested in IdrA's competitive BW career. Does anyone have a guide with videos of the important, interesting and exciting matches? I'd be especially interested in IdrA's own opinion of what those would be. It would be nice if TL could write an article strictly about his BW career and not go into his involvement in SC2 or get all behind the music about it.
"Expand or die." —Ferengi Rule of Acquisition #45
QuanticHawk
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
United States32044 Posts
February 04 2014 18:48 GMT
#728
Good luck! I hope you find another avenue to make nerds cry~
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TRaFFiC
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Canada1448 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-02-04 19:10:45
February 04 2014 19:10 GMT
#729
It's funny. I'm doing the exact opposite. Taking a year off school to play sc2. I guess a little variety is good.

But man, the educational system in Unis is so fucked. Any specialty you want to take, you need to take years of pre-reqs which have 0 pertinence to your actual career and a total waste of time. All the while you're memorizing billions of useless pieces of information and not making any money. I'd suggest casting the occasional tournament as, even rusty, you're one of the best in the bus.

Best of luck. You were the first player I cheered for and I will never forget your legacy.
2v2, 1v1, Zerg, Terran http://www.twitch.tv/trafficsc2
MaestroSC
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States2073 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-02-04 19:13:49
February 04 2014 19:11 GMT
#730
To be expected.

He built his viewership around being a top contender, and showcasing a higher level of play/understanding of play than anyone else outside of Korea, but that simply isnt the case anymore so his viewership fell off. Also coinciding with the steady decline of Sc2 viewership, was kind of a perfect storm resulting in horrible stream numbers for him.

IDK. I have followed him since BW, when he was the Great White Hope, but he has been openly spoken throughout the entire length of SC2 that he didnt like the game and the direction its gone in/continues to go in. Also, who would be willing to take the risk of having him insulting the wrong people/player and getting hatemail etc, too much risk involved with making him a figurehead of your esports department, too toxic, which IMO has always been his "thing" that he has been known for since BW.

Wish nothing but the best for him in the future, wish he could have gotten a constant gig as an analyst somewhere, but being a popular caster has very very little to do with analysis, its about entertainment and silly antics to stay relevant which werent really his thing.

and to the post above me... you make horrible decisions. You are just lazy and want to hang out and play video games for a year. If you were good enough to warrant postponing school for a year, you would already have a career as a successful player like Suppy, who was a pre-med major, and still a top competitor. Not to mention, you are essentially jumping onboard a sinking ship...

I feel sorry for whoever is footing your bill of being a lazy PoS for a year.
MaestroSC
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States2073 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-02-04 19:17:36
February 04 2014 19:17 GMT
#731
On February 04 2014 23:41 KalWarkov wrote:
just a few thousands a month from casting.
if he really wanted to, he could cast in a lot more events, too, and add a few to that.
I wonder how active and passionate he was trying to get big jobs.

others would do a lot of things to get into a position he was in.
i guess im happy he leaves room for people that really want to cast starcraft.



how ignorant can you be? rofl.

Im sure he was seeking every single opportunity possible... where are these casting opportunities you speak of? Do you think the weekly cups with their $100 prize pool pay their casters?

lmao.... he was prob top 10 in sought after casters and he still was scraping by... Im sure if he could have casted more tournaments he would have...you are just so ignorant I could take days telling you how stupid you are to actually believe the stupidity you wrote...

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RaZorwire
Profile Joined April 2012
Sweden718 Posts
February 04 2014 19:21 GMT
#732
On February 05 2014 04:11 MaestroSC wrote:

and to the post above me... you make horrible decisions. You are just lazy and want to hang out and play video games for a year. If you were good enough to warrant postponing school for a year, you would already have a career as a successful player like Suppy, who was a pre-med major, and still a top competitor. Not to mention, you are essentially jumping onboard a sinking ship...

I feel sorry for whoever is footing your bill of being a lazy PoS for a year.


Whaaaaa...?

You're judging and insulting some random guy for wanting to try playing Starcraft for a year, calling him names and being a jerk without knowing anything about the circumstances surrounding what he's attempting, and you're doing it in a thread dedicated to saying farewell to Idra?

What the fuck did you smoke to convince yourself this was a good idea?
GCNova
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
United States22 Posts
February 04 2014 19:25 GMT
#733
Wow. A this is new I'm extremely suprised to see. I was a big fan of watching your stream, but I guess that's over now. Sad to see you go. Good luck though with the future man. School is important. I hope you get ahead in the future and are able to achieve everything you want in your life. Good luck, and have fun!
I'll make it some day. Some day, somehow, some way.
Eclipso
Profile Joined February 2014
11 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-02-04 19:49:49
February 04 2014 19:35 GMT
#734
Another thing that was hilarious about his stream was that he kept the same music. Somewhere along the line he changed dubstep to "old classics"...but I think he went for his entire career as a streamer with just those two playlists.

I'd tune in and sure enough, there was Idra using the same builds, making the same mistakes, raising the same balance whines, to the same soundtrack. Diligently for five to seven hours a day back when he was training hard.

He was hard-working, but lacked passion. This was apparent from his stream; everything was done slovenly and there wasn't even any replay analysis. Maybe he could have been the best foreigner even without the passion (Stephano managed it for a while), but his bad attitude prevented him from seeing where he was going wrong. And that was the main difference between Idra and Stephano: Stephano would see an obstacle and work around it with some ingenious new tactic; Idra would give up before he'd even racked his brain, and whine about how the game is unfair.

It's kind of tragic, as I really believe that without the bad attitude dragging him down Idra would have been even better than Stephano. Idra has the stronger work ethic and IMO a more cogent sense of strategy. Unfortunately his Achilles' heel destroyed him in the end and prevented him from being competitive even on the NA GM ladder.

But never mind, the game will be dead within a few months. This is all nostalgia now. Let's hope that Idra improves his attitude and lives up to his great potential in some other field than Starcraft.
psychopat
Profile Joined October 2009
Canada417 Posts
February 04 2014 19:37 GMT
#735
I think that's the first time I read something about Idra and think "Wow, I can actually respect that".

Good on you.
Mistakes
Profile Joined February 2011
United States1102 Posts
February 04 2014 19:48 GMT
#736
You'll be missed IdrA. Was always fun watching your streams and whatnot. Hope to see you in anything in the future. =)

PS: Lol @ all the people thinking SC will die. Funny guys.
StarCraft | www.psistorm.com | www.twitter.com/MistakesSC | www.twitch.tv/MistakesSC | Seattle
Qwyn
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States2779 Posts
February 04 2014 19:50 GMT
#737
WTF is with all the hate in a thread where IdrA is saying goodbye...it absolutely infuriates me to read comments of people saying "Great, I'm glad he's gone," essentially...what the fuck? I went and said goodbye in his fanclub - none of this nonsense there.

For heaven's sake - what makes anyone here think that IdrA gives one fuck about whatever advice people are writing out in this thread? It's ridiculous. All this idle talk...all this speculation...all that's really needed are goodbyes. And if you hated IdrA...didn't like him...can't you just be satisfied with him leaving for school, instead of soiling the thread with crap?

As I said, without all this professionalism bullshit holding you back, here's to hoping you play some BW! L_master was right on the money, rofl !
"Think of the hysteria following the realization that they consciously consume babies and raise the dead people from their graves" - N0
Chronopolis
Profile Joined April 2009
Canada1484 Posts
February 04 2014 19:51 GMT
#738
Alright, take it easy Idra. In my mind, you'll always be "that foreigner that played in korea".
mTwRINE
Profile Joined February 2006
Germany318 Posts
February 04 2014 20:17 GMT
#739
You deserve every $ and fame you made with the risk and commitment you took way before anyone could tell that/how big SC2 would become.
Good luck in the future.
doggy
Profile Joined May 2010
Germany306 Posts
February 04 2014 20:38 GMT
#740
On February 05 2014 05:17 mTwRINE wrote:
You deserve every $ and fame you made with the risk and commitment you took way before anyone could tell that/how big SC2 would become.
Good luck in the future.


This.

It may seem nice to get a couple thousand dollars monthly for casting, but its getting time to think long-term so school is a great decision, best of luck!
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