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Well if you want to start a professional career as a starcraft player, if you want to be a "starcraft athlete" if you will, you pretty much have to be in the be
by hristov 17y ago
Well if you want to start a professional career as a starcraft player, if you want to be a "starcraft athlete" if you will, you pretty much have to be in the beta.
- mlinsey 17y agoI don't see why. Plenty of current pro StarCraft players achieved that status by intense training long after the game was even released.
- hristov 17y agoYeah but it was much tougher for them than those few guys that were lucky enough to be in the beta. The tournaments that came first couple of years after the game came out were almost exclusively won by beta players, such as Grrr and Maynard. It took some time for the Koreans to come in and start owning everyone. Now that the most talented Korean pros are guaranteed to be in the beta, good luck out training them.
- mlinsey 17y agoI still disagree. For example, Jaedong started playing a lot later than Boxer and Soso. I don't think missing out on the beta will be a singificant disadvantage for pro players for more than 8-12 months.
- lambdom 17y agoJust for your information, since starcraft and warcraft are really popular in Korea, we usually use the term "gosu" for professional player which basically mean "progammer" in Korean. So, we often see things such as: This guy is pretty gosu or This guy is chobo (beginner) ;)
- hristov 17y agoOh I know that, I have wasted enough time getting maphacked on battlenet.