Day9 on his current life, casting MLG, and his game

On June 20 2014 06:54 Abominous wrote:
Any tl;dr versions out there?

On June 20 2014 07:24 Survivor61316 wrote:

Yeah he said he is quitting starcraft after mlg and is going to work at an accounting firm

On June 20 2014 07:27 guitarizt wrote:


Thanks. It's good to see people getting away from sc2 into the real world. It reminds me of the end of goodwill hunting.

On June 20 2014 06:46 KaiserJohan wrote:
I wonder where the money for Artillery comes from? a whole year of development with no clear goal or end-design, while awesome for the developers to play with, don't understand why anyone would pump money down that hole. I really wished hotbid would've asked that.

Nevertheless, awesome interview by hotbid, hope to see more of that!

On June 20 2014 06:46 KaiserJohan wrote:
I wonder where the money for Artillery comes from? a whole year of development with no clear goal or end-design, while awesome for the developers to play with, don't understand why anyone would pump money down that hole. I really wished hotbid would've asked that.

Nevertheless, awesome interview by hotbid, hope to see more of that!

On June 20 2014 06:46 KaiserJohan wrote:
I wonder where the money for Artillery comes from? a whole year of development with no clear goal or end-design, while awesome for the developers to play with, don't understand why anyone would pump money down that hole. I really wished hotbid would've asked that.

Nevertheless, awesome interview by hotbid, hope to see more of that!

On June 20 2014 09:14 klipik12 wrote:
WAIT.

DAY9'S ROOMMATE MADE THREES?

On June 20 2014 10:13 DinosaurJones wrote:
TL;DR Day9 lost his passion just like Tasteless, MLG is his last event.

I will be sad to see Sean go

On June 20 2014 09:14 klipik12 wrote:
WAIT.

DAY9'S ROOMMATE MADE THREES?

On June 20 2014 10:13 DinosaurJones wrote:
TL;DR Day9 lost his passion just like Tasteless, MLG is his last event.

I will be sad to see Sean go

On June 20 2014 11:00 xsnac wrote:
Wasan't his other passion mathematics ? if so then probably he will have a good time working in accountings.
Good luck day9 !

On June 20 2014 11:46 DinosaurJones wrote:
>_> are people seriously buying the Day9 is retiring thing?

On June 20 2014 11:58 Ben... wrote:

I love how easy it makes it to tell who watched the videos or not.

On June 20 2014 12:47 Penguinator wrote:
I think I could actually just listen to Day9 talk about absolutely nothing for hours upon hours and I would never get tired of it

On June 20 2014 15:38 LastDance wrote:
I think Starcraft 2 could have been something astronomical if Blizzard had people like Day9 on the dev team.

On June 20 2014 15:43 Falling wrote:
Haha. I don't understand people. I can't imagine standing for a couple hours just to tell a person that I wasn't to keen on what they were doing. Even if I thought they were single-handedly destroying the esports scene, I couldn't be bothered. But just being lukewarm on the guy? So silly.

On June 20 2014 11:38 Cheren wrote:


Am I missing a joke or are you?

On June 20 2014 17:19 19Meavis93 wrote:


imagine boxer in david kim's position ;_;

On June 20 2014 17:19 19Meavis93 wrote:


imagine boxer in david kim's position ;_;

On June 20 2014 06:46 KaiserJohan wrote:
I wonder where the money for Artillery comes from? a whole year of development with no clear goal or end-design, while awesome for the developers to play with, don't understand why anyone would pump money down that hole. I really wished hotbid would've asked that.

On June 20 2014 23:06 Zealously wrote:


Please not this again =/

On June 20 2014 12:53 RogerChillingworth wrote:
It's nice to have a day9 interview but the interviewer's voice should never be 3x louder than the interviewee's voice. especially when you're constantly cutting him off >_< pro tip; put the mic closer to day9 and further away from you.

On June 20 2014 21:38 Plansix wrote:

I know, just look at the amazing job he did with his pro Starcraft team.

On June 20 2014 22:49 Plansix wrote:
Really liked the interviews, especially the part where he mocked arm chair game designers. Loved the the truth bomb that "we are really bad at predicting what will be fun". The game seems to be on good footing and I am glad they are not taking anything for granted and working from the ground up. People get to hung up with what the believe are the "cores" of a good RTS and it's awesome to see them bore down to the the core of what is fun and what isn't.

On June 21 2014 00:17 radscorpion9 wrote:


I can't say I fully agree on this point. I was listening to an interview with Tony Zurovec (the lead designer for the Crusader: No Remorse and No Regret series that made him a bit of a legend), and he talks about how he had this really great, enticing vision for a game with such a solid concept that he could never let go. And I'm sure he playtested it and everything, but he never radically changed any of his core ideas, so to say that people are bad at predicting what will be fun may not necessarily be true for everyone. I'm a bit skeptical as to whether you can really generalize that statement to all game developers. Generalizing is usually something that you should be careful about!

On June 20 2014 12:47 Penguinator wrote:
I think I could actually just listen to Day9 talk about absolutely nothing for hours upon hours and I would never get tired of it

On June 20 2014 23:15 FFW_Rude wrote:


Patch note :
- Blue flame hellion get +20 against everything.
- Blue flame hellion can now shoot air units.
- Nuke get +300 damage
- Command center can crush interceptors
- You can ally your ally and unally him on top of widow mines
- Planetary Fortress can shoot while flying.

that would be cool

On June 21 2014 06:11 Cheeseling wrote:
Such a great man he is. I'm so happy that those rumors about Day9 death were fake. LIP Sean Plott!

On June 21 2014 00:17 radscorpion9 wrote:


I can't say I fully agree on this point. I was listening to an interview with Tony Zurovec (the lead designer for the Crusader: No Remorse and No Regret series that made him a bit of a legend), and he talks about how he had this really great, enticing vision for a game with such a solid concept that he could never let go. And I'm sure he playtested it and everything, but he never radically changed any of his core ideas, so to say that people are bad at predicting what will be fun may not necessarily be true for everyone. I'm a bit skeptical as to whether you can really generalize that statement to all game developers. Generalizing is usually something that you should be careful about!

On June 21 2014 14:19 ElMeanYo wrote:


Well he's leaving to become an accountant... so for SC2 purposes, he is dead.

But I wish him best in his new career, counting numbers. Good luck Day9... maybe you can host a daily show on how to adjust your balance sheets.

On June 22 2014 11:06 fishjie wrote:
So is day9 retiring or not? I don't like watching interview videos, the pace is too slow. its much faster to simply read the transcript. that's why i've always preferred reading the news to passively watching the news.

anyway to work at an accounting firm you need a degree in accounting. day9 did not study accounting so i'm guessing this is a terribad troll attempt.

as for games being fun or not, of course its impossible to predict how popular something will be. also, fun and challenging are often times at odds with one another. most of today's games have been dumbed down to cater to the lowest common denominator, aka the console kiddies. example. The vetrans of the fighting game community loved street fighter 2: super turbo. it requires precise execution, knowledge of spacing, frame data, and matchups. The OGs hate sf4 because it dumbed everything down. but sf4 has taken off because it has "fun" pretty graphics and flashy supers. Likewise, guys like me who grew up playing the vs series think marvel vs capcom 2 is a masterpiece that suited multiple play styles from precise zoning keepaway games to fast paced mixups into difficult to execute combos. ditto mvc1 and xvsf. mvc3 ruined all that by giving everyone brain dead ez mode 100% combos. but mvc3 is more popular and "fun"

fun != high skill ceiling

On June 22 2014 20:48 -ForeverAlone- wrote:

Yes, because every single person in an accounting firm is a CPA. This is proof you have absolutely zero idea what you are talking about, so you should probably keep quiet.

Accounting firms do more than just audit financials. Larger firms (Big 4 like Deloitte, KPMG) and smaller firms all have huge consulting arms that do tons of stats and analysis. There are tons of maths/stats/engineers/comp scientists/ non-stem people working at almost every accounting firm. Source: I'm a compsci non-accountant who used to work at a Big-4 accounting firm with maybe 50% accountants.

Your post is so dumb, I'll assume it's a terribad troll attempt. Or you're functionally mentally disabled. I'll go with both.

User was warned for this post

On June 23 2014 11:45 fishjie wrote:


oh wow you must be one of those "alpha nerds" who tries to correct people all the time on technicalities in a pathetic attempt to look smart. you're probably hitting f5 on forums, just waiting for the first chance to correct somebody in some attempt to validate their sad existence.

whoop tee doo there are people who work at accounting firms who don't do accounting. WOW there are janitors who work at google and financial analysts who work at mcdonalds. so what? when people say they work at an accounting firm, the default assumption is they are an ACCOUNTANT UNLESS STATED OTHERWISE. either this is a terribad counter troll attempt or you are functionally socially inept because you alienate everyone with your over alpha nerd aggressiveness in real life. either that or you hide behind anonymity and are actually weak, passive and submissive nerd in real life. i'm not sure which one is more sad.

EDIT: actually i just realized your name is forever-alone so I'm going to assume the latter. there's a reason you don't have any friends.

On June 20 2014 21:57 carlfish wrote:


According to crunchbase, Artillery took $2.5 million in first round funding from a diverse group of venture capitalists. They were also founded by a group of reasonably high-level ex-Facebook and Google devs, which means they're likely to have (a) good access to investors, and (b) a not insignificant amount of personal capital to throw into the project.

It's worth keeping in mind that the end-goal of the company isn't to build an RTS. It's to build a proven technology for delivering RTS-like games over HTML5. The browser-based gaming market is beyond huge, and if they can position themselves as the "Source/Unreal Engine" of that area, that's where the big money is going to come from.

Whatever actual game they're developing is just the necessary proof that the technology works and can attract people to play it. From the engine developers point of view, the more time they spend during "Atlas" development trying out how the engine can do different crazy things, the more complete and flexible the underlying code will be proven to be, and the more attractive it'll eventually be to license to others.

On June 22 2014 11:21 Ben... wrote:
Okay since people are seemingly not reading the thread and what was a few people taking a joke post seriously has actually turned into lots of people taking a joke post seriously, and people are being misinformed as a result and I don't want this stupid "he's retiring" thing to go further because the "Day9's dead" thing is insanely annoying and we don't need more of that, he said NOTHING about retiring in the interview and the accounting firm thing said on the first page was a well-placed JOKE that was clearly just supposed to be a poke at all the people who would comment without watching the video.

Again, he DID NOT say he was retiring in the interview. He ended it thanking his mom, his fans and subscribers and a few others. As a summary, he talked about his role at Artillery, his roommates, his fans, casting, and a few odds and ends. No retiring. No accounting firms.

On June 22 2014 11:06 fishjie wrote:
So is day9 retiring or not? I don't like watching interview videos, the pace is too slow. its much faster to simply read the transcript. that's why i've always preferred reading the news to passively watching the news.

anyway to work at an accounting firm you need a degree in accounting. day9 did not study accounting so i'm guessing this is a terribad troll attempt.

as for games being fun or not, of course its impossible to predict how popular something will be. also, fun and challenging are often times at odds with one another. most of today's games have been dumbed down to cater to the lowest common denominator, aka the console kiddies. example. The vetrans of the fighting game community loved street fighter 2: super turbo. it requires precise execution, knowledge of spacing, frame data, and matchups. The OGs hate sf4 because it dumbed everything down. but sf4 has taken off because it has "fun" pretty graphics and flashy supers. Likewise, guys like me who grew up playing the vs series think marvel vs capcom 2 is a masterpiece that suited multiple play styles from precise zoning keepaway games to fast paced mixups into difficult to execute combos. ditto mvc1 and xvsf. mvc3 ruined all that by giving everyone brain dead ez mode 100% combos. but mvc3 is more popular and "fun"

fun != high skill ceiling

On June 23 2014 16:29 .ImpacT. wrote:


Despite the way he came across, he's right. You don't need to be a CPA to work in accounting; in fact a quick google search for job postings at a few larger accounting firms reveals there's a ton of majors/degrees that are sought after (including mathematics/statistics especially). He came across as an ass, but that doesn't invalidate his point, nor is it correct to assume everyone that works for an accounting firm is purely an accountant, oddly enough.