Death of a Game: StarCraft 2

Reminder for the YT comment warriors not brave enough to argue on voice or text direct on discord.gg/nerdslayer or Twitter/nerdslayerg... If you want to respond to these points, I will gladly accept in voice chat, or on Discord (private or public chat). No where else, because communication is not meant for this platform, nor people brigading posts without actually making arguments and feeling they won some sort of moral victory. (Did you know I don't get notifications? Especially on post replies to replies? I literally can't see them unless I click the chain down and look.) No you can collect that moral victory when you don't join the Discord to debate me about things you are supposedly so emotionally charged about you can't make basic arguments about it. I will be waiting :). It doesn't have to be contentious either. Here's some rapid fire facts you can chew on and choose to be emotional about if you want (it doesn't dispute the point). AOE2 on JUST steam alone has more players than SC2. Not counting the Xbox APIs. SC1 in JUST Korea alone, has more players than all of the other regions in both Starcraft's. SC1 has ran more tournaments in the past 5 years I can count. SC2 has less players competitively, than multiple indie MP titles, and 20+ year old MP titles. SC2 has actually only lost players in the past 6 years with the past 4 being heavy churns (10k players lost in NA alone in customs), in both the custom games community, and the competitive ladder. SC2 has had 1 update, in 1.5 years and has had 5 in the past 5 years. SC2 hasn't had an expansion in 9 years, a co-op mission in 6, and new content period in that time. A dead game is defined as a game that died literally, had a mass exodus/failed expectations, or the company died. SC2 had a mass exodus of players from the OG 6+ million copies sold, and being on top of both YT and Twitch most watched charts. It's also dead in 4th definition of the word, where the game clearly has no new content and hasn't had some for over half a decade. It only receives maintenance mode updates. All of these qualifiers more than well enough qualify the game under my criteria, and the criteria of the word "death'...just not literal death, the only one most people seemed to cling on to when trying to attack my arguments (basically displaying they aren't genuine actors). You can say you feel the game isn't dead based on literality all you want... without being delusional at the current state of it. Otherwise we get brigaded comments with no arguments :( :( ---- Arguments used against me? "But the game's not dead' Watch the series, read the description, or just pay attention to this video in particular...I make this claim based on multiple things you can't just hand wave based on feelings, and your ignorance of how words, arguments, and analysis work. "But there is a tournament with big middle eastern washed money coming" Cool, it is decried by the majority of eSports experts, is ran by horrible organizers (both in history and integrity), and does FUCK all to actually help the professional scene (build and support infrastructure). "But SC2 is still the most popular RTS". As I said above, no it isn't you weird Blizzard fanboy. AOE has existed for ages dude, and has been out performing StarCraft for a long time. "But nerd you are a Stormgate shill" I never even claimed the game was good...I just tested it and decided to give away some copies...da fuc? "But nerd I made a funny about you being sponsored secretly" Accusing me of fraud based on my career and integrity, is not funny. Sorry not sorry. I don't think me accusing you of fraud in your work place would be that funny either for the record. "But nerd, you were a meany head" If you see me display that, and genuinely feel I am totally off base file a report on my Discord with my mods or myself directly. We will 100% take you seriously...the thing is, I wrote my rules to be where I have license, with this being my channel and all, to make fun of people who weren't worth my time. These are described as people who aren't genuine, ad hom me first, ignore the rules of the establishment (yes I have them), or demonstrate in an obvious way they didn't watch the video. If you fail to follow the rules and respect me and my content, I don't feel the need to coddle or be nice to you...when you clearly didn't see the need to respect me or my content. And for the nicety tone policing that's going on in comment replies or from people who watch my videos but feel that means they know me, fuck off. Kindly. I think tone policing idiots or disrespectful people is a net loss for everyone, me included.

Bro is having a meltdown in the comment section

Someone is going to use this video as a clue in a series titled "Death of a Youtube Channel"

watching this dude having a meltdown in the comments over people rightfully pointing out that he's just straight up lying in this video is hilarious. thanks for the entertainment!

death of a channel nerdSlayer Studio

I watched this channel alot a while back, thought it might be interesting to hear about SC2, coming into the comments and seeing nerdslayer berating anybody that tries to post a different thought on sc2 was a real surprise. Honestly just the strange unprofessional behavior in this comment section really put me off the channel as a whole.

One of my favourite channels has uploaded a new video. The owner of the channel is attacking people in the comments for giving counter points to his poorly sourced video. Video was clearly made as an AD for Stormgate. Starcraft 2 is very much not dead. No longer a favourite channel.

Handy guide on how not to respond to criticism can be found in the replys to a lot of the top comments

Dude, nerdslayer losing his mind in the comments just because somebody jokingly called this a stormgate ad. The lad doth protest too much methinks.

Many alive games wish they were as active as this dead game

This is the weirdest stormgate ad I ever seen xD

While the game has been pretty much abandoned by the devs, it is still pretty damn active, major tourneys (although not as big as they used to be) are still being played, and you can easily find a match in less than a minute, hell, the co-op mode is thriving, you can find a match in seconds. Very few games have such short queue times. In that regard, SC2 is the most alive dead game there is right now.

Dead sure has a interesting definition nowadays.

How is a game dead if it takes 10 seconds for matchmaking to find me a match against real players ?

Joined the Discord server today and got kicked after claiming - in summary: "People don't need to 'earn' basic respect and you shouldn't treat genuine questions and comments with hostility". I didn't think the concept of 'don't be a dick for no reason' was contriversial or a point of debate worth banning me but here we are. <3

You dont find it weird to do a giveaway for a games competitor as you do a "death of a game" about the other one?

You seem kinda bitter in most of the comments I see. What's wrong with you? Not every take is a win and in this case, you are quite wrong.

Hell, it's about time.

Can't wait for death of a game Stormgate

Honestly game got a huge second breath with arcade, modding and co-op. Being more casual player - it was really nice just to play different mods and coop with cool commanders with different untis, abilities and play styles. I was never into competitive games or esports in general, so having coop\pve-focused mod was pretty nice for me personally.