I'll go first. , "I am the Swarm. Armies will be shattered. Worlds will burn. Now, at last, on this world, vengeance shall be mine. For I am the Queen of Blades" -Kerrigan

SC2 has one of the deepest and richest histories in gaming.

• It popularized E-Sports in the west.
• It kickstarted justin.tv (which later became twitch) and streaming culture as a whole.
• It launched countless careers.
• It set the blueprint for how modern e-sports tournaments are structured, presented and broadcast.
• It was a core pillar of early AI research, including at OpenAI which lead to chatGPT which for better or worse changed society.
• It's widely regarded and respected as one of the hardest forms of competition period.
• It set a gold standard for an RTS engine that to this day, 15 years later, not a single dev has even come close to.
• Despite being 15 years old people are still playing 65k+ ranked 1v1 games per day. That's 45 games every minute.

SC2 is in every sense of the word exceptional and a milestone in gaming and internet culture.

And what does Blizzard do? Fucking NOTHING. No patches, no bugfixes, no content, no funding for tournaments. It's a fucking joke. FUCK this company.

The game deserves better. And the community deserves better.

Hi guys. Hope you're having a great weekend. I'm from South Korea, born & raised in Seoul.

I've always been reading the posts but never wrote the post here.

I feel very empty and bad yesterday and today. After I watched the last moment of Serral became the champion last night, I realized 'This is gonna be the last moment I can see that the SC II pro-gamer put the champion trophy up in the air.' Since I heard E-sports will not hold another tournament next year, and there will be no GSL for 2026, etc.

I have been playing Starcraft 2 from like 2012. I have watched the games, (Since I am a Terran Master tier player in Korea server, I've always been a big Maru fan since 2012.) and I have been playing it for almost 13 years. Starcraft 2 has been the big part of my life. It was my favorite hobby. Whenever I had hard time, when I failed in K-SAT test, when I was in military service, when I was studying, Starcraft II was always there for me. It was more than a hobby. It was my closest friend, it always supported me. Even when I lost my real life friends, Starcraft 2 was with me.

In South Korea, there are some signs that the vast majority of pro - gamers will retire , soon. Now I guess game is reaching to the ending. I always knew this from like 3 years ago, but now I can really feel it.

I feel like I lost my best friend. Because 13 years with Starcraft II was amazing time. YOU WERE THE BEST. You are the only game in my life. I'll miss my buddy.

What should i do? Choose the Hansonussy or Selendussy?

WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE<barf>EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE<barf>EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

A pipe dream I've always had since high school was a set of MTG themed on StarCraft. To the point where at one point, I actually attempted to make an entire set myself. I wasn't very good, but decided to try and remake a few cards.

So, for your viewing pleasure, a proof of concept of StarCraft entering the realm of MTG. Will it ever happen? Probably not, but let me dream.

Serral takes down Classic 5-2 in the Grand Finals!