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Hi I'm Stodd a protoss player. Some of you may know me for my 1 base shenanigans on ladder or for my rant blog on how broken zerg is. Today however i have important question to ask to the community of today.

First off a statement that will lead to my question. You see, i've been playing this game since early WoL days where warping on the high ground was possible and zerg's broodlord infestor was practically unbeatable once it hit late game. Long ago i used to hang out with these GM's in a chat room. They were all members of a clan (their name escapes me) and I admired their ability to play this game. Considering this was back in early 2011 GM on the SEA server was still somewhat legit with the likes of Mafia and moonglade laddering on it as well as many others. I was inspired and wanted to become just as good as them, if not better. I still remember the day the clan suddenly just died away. Each day players were slowly becoming inactive due to schooling/work and/or lack of interest in the game/server. It was a sad moment for i considered these guys as cool bunch of high skilled players considering i was only a bronze player who only used the mouse when i played.

Since that day i decided to improve my game and learn to play it faster and smarter. The first day i hit silver after my first whole year of being stuck in the bronze league was like a sign from the starcraft gods (lol :P) that i shouldn't give up that i can break through the ranks and move up in this gaming world.

Along the way i have meet many of people of all sorts to which some i consider long time friends and still remain in contact with. I joined a clan QED (remember us? possibly not) to help me from my bronze struggles which are a large proportion of the people i remain in contact with. My improvement from there was a blur. In a matter of 3 months i went from silver to diamond league, which from silver to gold took me a month and gold to plat just 10 days. Things were looking up and masters was in sight!

Times moves by and it seems by the year ive started to lose my love and passion for starcraft. These days i don't ladder every day at least once. I'd go weeks even months without playing starcraft where two years ago this would of seemed like a joke to me. Ive been playing other games like cs:go and occasionally LoL and hearthstone and ive even recently started playing OSU. Starcraft in 1v1 is such a demanding game and i guess its taken a toll on me. Its not like im scared to ladder 1v1 its rather i lack the motivation. Also now with Uni in progress and other real world issues to deal with i just lack the time and mental stability to play at a decent-ish level.

So i guess my question is have any of you ever had a moment or even currently in the same state of flux where you just cannot be bothered with this game anymore? What did you do to regain passion for this game? I almost threw away my senior year of highschool back in the day for this game ive dedicated too much to throw it away from myself. Would appreciate some POV on the subject i present to you all.


RE: The old clan was wT i just remembered winter nights. They were the cool bunch.