Just the act of moving things around and building stuff, and the responsiveness is really crisp and snappy. So all comes down to the way the game feels. The idea of community sites was a new thing, most players didn't even know about them. "Back when I was a wee noobie and had just got this game, I didn't know about competitive balance the internet was fairly new so there weren't really any venues for that kind of discussion. The internet at the tail-end of the nineties, of course, was very different. A singular figure in the evolving ecosystem of esports, Plott is focused on Starcraft II but has fingers in all sorts of pies streamer, analyst, commentator (aka 'shoutcaster'), event organiser, community focal point and many more. It is hard to quantify exactly what Plott does to someone unfamiliar with gaming culture, and in particular the recent rise in popularity of video streaming sites. Sean Plott was 11 years old when the first game was released and, along with his elder brother Nick, has been obsessed with the game and its iterations ever since.
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I mean, hell, even if you're playing against a murderous drug dealer – you're doing it over the internet! And no murderous drug dealers play a lot of Starcraft."īlizzard's real-time strategy series has a long history beyond the scope of this piece, but suffice to say Starcraft: Brood War and Starcraft II are two of the leading lights in esports – competitive videogaming – with millions of active players and year-round global events with huge prize pools. You're playing against very kind, analytic, sweet-hearted nerds. It's not like setting up a business where you can really upset and offend people. You will suffer no bodily injury, break no arms. It is one of the safest things you can do. Sean Plott, better known by the alias Day, has been obsessed with this series and its culture since the first game was released in 1998. The most popular figure in Starcraft II isn't one of today's top pros, or a team owner, or even one of the game's creators.
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