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Thread: This is why i watch top level RTS Players20 Mar 2013, 11:47 AM Jump back to quoted post20 Mar 2013, 09:01 AMcrazyguy Starcraft 2 is not dying quickly, but it is still dying. The coh community is dying, and will be a lot smaller when coh 2 comes out. But it will live on in that game, and possibly in a third installment later on. NHL '94 is dying its been dying for 18 years. NHL '94 is the opposite of a straw man... its a good Hockey game. its still here.... from 1995 to about 2006 EA kept trying to kill it. handing out cease and desist orders like cotton candy... finally they gave up. NHL '94 is still here despite EA's best efforts to kill it. so i think SC2 will be ok because i don't think Blizzard will pull the kind of crap EA did. also... the "technology" behind baseball, golf, and hockey is ever evolving. NHL Hockey today is nothing like it was when the Atari 2600 was making Nathan Bushnell rich. sports rise and fall in popularity all the time. and the "tehcnology" that is making skaters faster and more nimble than ever before may be killing hockey at its top level... u see its causing brutal head injuries.... so tech levels do impact sports popularity. In: Other Games
Thread: CoH2 Beta 19 Mar 2013, 15:27 PM you get around all these issues by not pre-ordering that's what i did. i wouldn't be surprised if 8 weeks after the game comes out its on sale for $30 or $40 in some kind of "back to school blow out" or something like that. In: Lobby
Thread: EA's CEO Takes The Bullet19 Mar 2013, 06:22 AM http://ca.ign.com/articles/2013/03/18/ea-ceo-john-riccitiello-steps-down i wonder if the SimCity debacle impacted this? what was his favourite game growing up as a kid? Space Invaders.. Pong? In: Other Games
Thread: This is why i watch top level RTS Players19 Mar 2013, 05:41 AM Jump back to quoted post19 Mar 2013, 00:53 AMcrazyguy Sure it has stagnated a bit in the states, but growth world wide has only increased. And that does not account for the TV ratings and deals that have recently been signed. you missed the point here... if we assume a giant game like baseball is "in decline" as baseball was from 1995 to 2000.. does this mean it is doomed for all eternity... no. baseball has also similar peaks and valleys in places like the Dominican Republic and come back strong. why ? because baseball at its core.. its a great game. and it can withstand setbacks due to player strikes, steroid scandals... the 1920 black sox betting scandal... etc relating this to video gamse... just examine the competitive history of NHL '94 hoceky. its been declared "dead" many times... it keeps coming back. at this point the only competitive community that comes close to the NHL '94 community would be EA's latest iteration of the franchise.. NHL'13.. and even then... its NHL '94 all the way. and i hate to break it to you but the Starcraft competitive community is larger than the EA NHL competitive community by at least 4 orders of magnitude... in short... the kids are alright. In: Other Games
Thread: This is why i watch top level RTS Players18 Mar 2013, 19:00 PM Jump back to quoted post18 Mar 2013, 18:07 PMDanielD Starcraft still has no cover system, they removed high ground advantage. Now that the pathfinding is so good, micro is just who can cast spells the fastest, which is just more APM and not more strategy since it's usually obvious where to cast your spells (there can be occasional exceptions to this). BW still superior. 10 years later.. everything is "obvious". there is another version of this where a stim packed Marauder comes flying into a zerg ball from off screen ... the Zerg guy has no clue where the HS MIssiles are going because nothing on screen is red. when gas conservation is important ... the Marauder version is better.. .and you can even totally flub it and its no big deal. where to redirect Widow Mine shots is not immediately obvious... these are just two small details... HotS is no where near close to being "obvious". In: Other Games
Thread: Mirror Match18 Mar 2013, 15:30 PM Jump back to quoted post18 Mar 2013, 15:26 PMcr4wler straw man argument. also: took you only 3 months to answer ;-) hey man.. i'm busy watching MLG, GSL and ProLeague... o...and spamming like 6 forum boards simultaneously. In: Lobby
Thread: Mirror Match18 Mar 2013, 15:18 PM Jump back to quoted post13 Dec 2012, 14:55 PMcr4wler 1. go look at other games with mirror matchups, namely SC2. straw man argument. if Relic is an excellent game design company they should be able to create a game on the level with the RTS game iwth the best mirror matchups made in the history of the genre. Namely, Brood War. Brood War Mirrors matches are great. Furthermore, Terran mirrors in SC2 are fantastic. Those Flash v. Innovation games were great.... GSL hosted a tonne a great Terran mirror matches. In: Lobby
Thread: This is why i watch top level RTS Players18 Mar 2013, 14:48 PM Jump back to quoted post18 Mar 2013, 11:24 AMcr4wler we're living in a competetive world, where pretty much everything is a competition... encouraging things like "ladder anxiety" is the wrong way to go. teach people to deal with the losses and learn from them. that is a self esteem issue and goes way beyond the scope of "post sales support" for the game. self esteem has to be improved upon by the person themselves and is rarely a simple procedure to follow. the way the match maker is set up is decent... over the long haul you're going to win 50% of your games... if some guy can't deal with losing 50% of his games he needs to see a shrink. In: Other Games
Thread: This is why i watch top level RTS Players18 Mar 2013, 03:07 AM Jump back to quoted post18 Mar 2013, 02:50 AMcrazyguy you guys are stupid. Starcraft sucks. It is dying for the simple fact that all video games eventually die unless sequels are made. Baseball is growing. A lot. its attendance peaked at only 348795589374598738 fans and is now slowly declining.. within 5,000 years.. baseball is done! you say you want proof.. here is ur proof.... http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomvanriper/2011/09/07/mlb-faces-fourth-straight-attendance-decline/ i chose the "baseball is dying" as a joke on the "starcraft is dying" thing. and if a game always needs sequels how is it AoE2 is getting a graphical improvement only.. and a re-release. unlike other forms of video games... strategy titles live a long long long time. u can still find Atari 800 MULE competitive communities. i mean we're talking 32 kilobytes of nonstop action here! the guy that made the game is dead. In: Other Games
Thread: This is why i watch top level RTS Players18 Mar 2013, 00:26 AM also, this weekend's viewer counts at MLG don't seem to indicate SC2 is "dying". In: Other Games