SKT T1 ParalyzE retires - Page 3

On January 31 2015 11:43 L_Master wrote:


Not any korean. Just ex-BW progamers.

Why would you expect BW people not to celebrate? It's exciting when old fan favorites come back to play the game you enjoy. This would be like me complaining about SC2 community being happy that Stephano, or Nestea, or any other formerly decent SC2 player decided to return to starcraft2.

On January 31 2015 13:00 Circumstance wrote:

He's not playing BW. You're literally only cheering him leaving SC2.

On January 31 2015 19:24 Greg_J wrote:

You can think what you like really but you are been unnecessarily harsh in your criticism and judgement in generalising prejudiced emotions that largely don't exist onto a whole community. Most Broodwar fans couldn't care less if SC2 was thrieving and the most popular sport in the world or not as long as we get to watch the game we like and a lot of Broodwar fans love SC2 aswell. It's only natural to cheer and encourage a player who might but probablly isn't going to return to the sport I watch and love and hope that somehow the possiblity of change in his life could lead to his return. There is no malice of bad feeling intended towards the other community by cheering the possiblity that an old pro might return. It's just excitement and it's really not nice to imply otherwise.

I hope Kyungdu has a long and exciting career whatever he does with himself after retiring from SC2 whether that be inside of E-sports or not. I hope he can lead a long lfie with a happy family and a good job and friends that love him. However in all likely hood I will forget about him and not follow his life and career if he doesn't come back to Broodwar. I wish him the best with whatever he does but it would only really interest me and be exciting to follow if he returns to the game I love.

I think the problem here is one of perspective. There's plenty of people who watch both Broodwar and SC2. But for arguments sake if we take them out of the equation for now and asume there are two groups of Esports fans one who watches SC2 and doesn't watch or care about Broodwar and a seperate set the other way around. To the SC2 fans it's going to feel like a loss that a player who was bringing them fun and excitement is moving on and leaveing the game they watch. At the same time The Broodwar fans are excited because lots of players that have retired from SC2 have turned up playing Broodwar on Afreeca a few weeks/months later. So it's only natural for Broodwar fans to get excited when they hear the news that someone is retiring from SC2. Not because they have some irrational hatred for a game they don't even watch but because it might mean that player will turn up playing the game they love pretty soon. It's not excitement at someone leaveing SC2 its not some kind of deep down ill feeling emerging it's just plain posertive excitement and it's wrong to misinterpret it as anything else. It's unfortunate that the same news causes almost the exact opposite reaction in the two communities but please don't be rude and project and imagined ill feeling onto the Broodwar community. It doesn't exist.

edit: awful spelling and gramar