>Starcraft 2 is dead
>Starcraft 3 wont come out for another decade
Post late night GOMTV memories and why SC2 is absolutely dead
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Starcraft 2 is dead
Angel Hill
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Josiah Sanders
>tastosis will never be young and passionful again
why even live
Lincoln Fisher
>/scv/ will never be the most influential shitposting community of Cred Forums again
Elijah Watson
Can you blame them they have to cast a dead game and will be out of jobs eventually.
Jackson Davis
>tfw wont ever stay up till 4am to watch shitty vanilla SC2 gom matches
Aaron Wood
Starcraft isn't dead. It just isn't popular.
Too bad no major tournaments are happening now. Jinair vs KT Rolster, SoS vs Byun, and Dark vs Solar were weeks ago, it already feels like.
Cameron Murphy
>Starcraft isnt dead
>It just isnt popular
Whats the difference?
Parker Myers
The difference is that major events still get 15k or more viewers.
Dead implies like, actually dead. Well maybe it can be considered dead next to giants like csgo and dota, especially where prize-pool is concerned.
I still find it fun to watch, even if I don't regularly ladder anymore.
Logan Thomas
>Implying they arent literally dying trying to find any sponsor
You know how pathetic 15k viewers are for any sponsor
Cooper Wood
They were casting a brood war tournament that's been going on for the last month or so and they loved it.
The problem is SC2, not tastosis getting old or losing their spark.
Joshua Rivera
What do you think could change to make SC2 the dominant force/popular one instead of BW?
Grayson Myers
No more fundays why even live?
Cameron Jones
For starters it's boring as fuck to watch. BW takes a lot of effort to control an army and it only takes more and more effort the larger the army becomes, and because of that smaller armies are very capable of defeating larger armies. Basically micro is much more important. Even keeping your larger army large takes more effort in BW than in SC2 because you can't hotkey every building to a single button. Because you can only put 12 guys in a control group, players are basically forced to micro their giant army, even if they're still just A-moving towards an enemy base. There's also little things like the way they prioritize targets, which allows for things like SCVs to make an impact in fights.
What I'm talking about was very obvious early on in SC2 because the only cool, like, 'wow' moments that would happen when two deathballs collide would be something like Protoss using forcefields. Who gives a fuck, both armies are still just A-moving towards each other. All around the most interesting part of any SC2 match is typically the first 10 minutes. If it's going to be a long game, it's gonna be a boring game. Another major factor is that SC2 gets patched, which changes the meta arbitrarily.
BW afaik also hasn't received a single patch since like 1999 or some shit, but the meta was always shifting. New strategies developed due to experimentation, rather than stat changes.
Matthew Ward
Jonathan Long
>Steppes of War
Goddamn, that map was small
Nathaniel Sanchez
>Starcraft 2
>Starcraft 3
You're missing something. Brood War may not be as popular as before but there was a recent tournament and there will be another starting in december, with English commentary by tastosis.
Jonathan Richardson
As someone who watches both BW and SC2, the main things I notice is:
Brood Wars has a lot of little battles going on all over the map. And even in a TvT when the map gets split in half and there is one big tank push by one player, it doesn't immediately mean the other player is dead.
SC2 starts with one player harassing the other while the other hangs on, or both players counter harassing each other. once this phase ends, both players have 1 big climactic battle that decides who's gonna win the game.
That big SC2 clash looks cool but a BW game overall is a lot more fun to watch.
Josiah Rogers
Starcraft 2 isn't dead though. They still do GSL, SSL, Proleague, DH's, IEM's and various online tournaments. TB ran one just the other day that got like 22k viewers that was just Bo1s.
Tastosis even got their passion back, just watch the latest GSL finals.
Luke Nelson
forgot to mention that ActivisionBlizzard literally owns MLG now, so expect some SC2 at that for next year. There's rumors of some pretty big things planned.
James Hughes
>you will never smooch 2011 MKP
Christian Hall
What happened to him?