The menus suck, but other than that it is just fine. I've played both versions and I prefer PC, but that's because a gamepad will never be as good as mouse and keyboard.
I never understood why people don't like EG. Is it because of Idra?
Also wooo I am excited!
That hate on EG is completely unjustified. It's popular to hate on them. They were an extremely successfull team is CS, which is what allowed them to make money and then they made good recruiting picks which allowed them to make even mroe money. This allowed them to spend money on getting even more good players, which is good for both EG and the players they support. The Puma deal was not shady. This deal is not shady. I don't know about the DeMuslim or the other deals though.
Was that not the CS team the bought out from under Complexity without telling telling the owner after CoL worked for a long time to get that team good?
The hate on EG is fully justified. They don't run a good team, they just throw money at everything and hope for the best because they have a few big sponsors. They don't contribute to creating new talent, they buy people in (or just past, like Idra) their prime and then don't help with their practice so they stagnate as players. I've never liked them. I like a couple of their players but their management is a bunch of greedy greaseballs who would rather buy teams than create teams. When they screw up they create scapegoats to alleviate the blame from them, specifically the whole Milkis issue where they called him a bad journalist when all he did was translate someone else's article. Then they invited him on one of their shows only to attack him Bill O'Reilly style and ask why he didn't get their permission to post a translation of a news article that was already available in Korean.
Having big sponsors and money means nothing if the team. Slayers has just as big of sponsors but instead of buying already established players out from under teams they find new talent or promising current talent who just need some work (see the recent acquisition of ZenexCoca, who has tremendous potential) and look how godly they are now. They have a strong practice regimen and organized practice schedule and it shows. It certainly doesn't for EG.
But isn't throwing their money at it a good thing? Stronger players like Idra and Huk deserve to make the big bucks which is what a team like EG is there to provide. Obviously the money Huk is being offered is a significant boost over what he was receiving from TL, he even alluded to as much. He wanted to stay with TL but EG made him an offer he couldn't refuse.
As far as practice goes, EG has done nothing recently but strive towards developing stronger players. Between the new AZ house with all the American players and the house that Idra, Huk and Puma will be inhabiting in Korea, their players are only going to improve. Maybe I don't pay enough attention to the management side, but I'm glad that these strong players that I'm a big fan of are able to make a significant living doing what they love to do and I love watching them do. If another bigger and badder team comes around to pay them even more money, I'd welcome it.
I get your point, and yes they do deserve what they get paid. It just feels like a waste of talent. HuK is not going to get better nearly as well or fast practicing with EG compared to what he did studying the game with MC.
My issue with EG is the management, not the players. I like the players. The managers are greedy assholes with double standards. They yell at a volunteer translator for not getting permission to publish translations of articles that were already available to the public. They approach players already on teams and make offers without even telling the teams (At least they contacted Liquid for Huk, they didn't say a thing to TSL for Puma). They yell at everyone else about professionalism but don't exhibit it themselves.
I never understood why people don't like EG. Is it because of Idra?
Also wooo I am excited!
That hate on EG is completely unjustified. It's popular to hate on them. They were an extremely successfull team is CS, which is what allowed them to make money and then they made good recruiting picks which allowed them to make even mroe money. This allowed them to spend money on getting even more good players, which is good for both EG and the players they support. The Puma deal was not shady. This deal is not shady. I don't know about the DeMuslim or the other deals though.
Was that not the CS team the bought out from under Complexity without telling telling the owner after CoL worked for a long time to get that team good?
The hate on EG is fully justified. They don't run a good team, they just throw money at everything and hope for the best because they have a few big sponsors. They don't contribute to creating new talent, they buy people in (or just past, like Idra) their prime and then don't help with their practice so they stagnate as players. I've never liked them. I like a couple of their players but their management is a bunch of greedy greaseballs who would rather buy teams than create teams. When they screw up they create scapegoats to alleviate the blame from them, specifically the whole Milkis issue where they called him a bad journalist when all he did was translate someone else's article. Then they invited him on one of their shows only to attack him Bill O'Reilly style and ask why he didn't get their permission to post a translation of a news article that was already available in Korean.
Having big sponsors and money means nothing if the team. Slayers has just as big of sponsors but instead of buying already established players out from under teams they find new talent or promising current talent who just need some work (see the recent acquisition of ZenexCoca, who has tremendous potential) and look how godly they are now. They have a strong practice regimen and organized practice schedule and it shows. It certainly doesn't for EG.
EG is the greasiest organization there is. They don't foster promising players like most teams. They hand blank checks to the best players in the world and stack their rosters with players that other teams invested tons of money into and then lost to EG. TSL lost Puma, who they had been training since he switched from SC1 and was a beast, and now HuK, who had been moved to Korea by TL and trained with some of the best SC2 players in the world, and worked closely with one of the best protosses in the world. And then EG's players deteriorate because they aren't in their old environment. HuK will definitely lose some of his touch without MC.
I'm just glad this wasn't the rumoured EG-TL combination stuff people were talking about. Though TLO is known to dislike EG (read his blogs), and Jinro straight up said on his stream he would never join EG so it seemed unlikely that would happen.
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@StarvingGamer said:
I never understood why people don't like EG. Is it because of Idra?
Also wooo I am excited!
The reason I think that a lot of people don't like EG is partly IdrA, they have the most money and can buy pretty much anyone they want. Just like the Yankees, they have the money to spend and will do what ever it takes. It doesn't help that they have done shady deals in the past, DeMuslim, Justin Wong and Puma are the three that I can recall. Doesn't help their image when the CEO of the company goes on Lo3 and just blasts Milkis for 2 hours.
... Huh. You know, I knew There was a SC2 sponsor called Evil Gamers, and I knew Jwong was sponsored by someone with the tag EG, and I thought they might be the same, but I never actually looked into it to connect it for sure. So they're the same people, huh?
Yep same people, EG spent as much as necessary to get Jwong. Same with Grubby from WC3 (who left EG and now head team Grubby, which consists of basically him but is sponsored by Steelseries and other companies).
I wouldn't be surprised if EG's next target isn't one of the Slayers Terrans (or Alicia). Though I'm sure Boxer and his girlfriend would rip EG apart if they tried that. If they tried to snipe MMA then Boxer would probably send a hitman to EG's CEO's house.
You should be able to run it on low fine (Like bottomed out settings wise but at 60 FPS or at 30FPS on medium). If I can run it on my year old MacBook Pro, which is theoretically slower, then you should be fine. Though I did hear the HD3000 Intel stuff was a step down from the Nvidia 320M in Macbooks and Mac Minis of last year. Be sure to have vsync, textures (especially terrain) and effects on low. A big one to make sure is turned off is 3D unit portraits, which shockingly takes a lot to have running. Do keep in mind it looks completely different on low compared to what you normally see on streams, which is usually high or ultra.
D. Because most new games suck and I'd rather just replay my old back catalog (Which is sizeable) than spend 60 bucks and play Generic Shooter A, or Action Game 12: Return of the Action. I always go back and play Ocarina of Time every summer because it brings back tons of memories and is always fun to play.
Right now I'm playing Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4, Zelda Majora's Mask, Civilization 4, Battlefield 2 (even though I keep getting funny disconnects online for some stupid reason.) and the Starcraft 1 campaign (holy bejeebers the Protoss part is hard at the end. Yo dawg you get 3 units and no production to kill a few hundred zerglings.) I do play a few new games but very few, primarily sequels of old games I like like Starcraft 2 and SSFIV, and charming indie games like Revenge of the Titans (boss game), Osmos and Machinarium (Go get the Humble Indie Bundle, if only for Revenge of the Titans). I also play Minecraft because it puts me in a zen-like state of pure relaxation.
Edit: Also, Afroman, your Bob Ross portrait is exceptional. You sir have good taste.
Revenge of the Titans. Holy crap is that game addicting. It's part of the Humble Indie bundle if you pay more than the average (It's totally worth it, you get Braid and Machinarium too). I paid 20 bucks before they announced that you would get more games and I was pleasantly surprised that I would get more games so I installed everything.
Then I started playing Revenge of the Titans and lost a whole day's worth of time. That game is insanely addicting.
Just buy the tickets. It's so worth it, especially when compared to how much you get. My brother bought the last UFC thingy for 60 bucks and for that price you can get most of a year of GSL. I've bought every GSL from season 2 onward, and I still go back and watch the old ones.
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