I sacrificed around 1 year during university to Age of Empires. Wasn't my most productive year at uni.
Anyone remembers DBD_Jinx? For very long the only western dude to compete with the Koreans in 1vs1. However he also confessed, that he had partly sacrificed his private life for it.
I trained a lot. I trained hours a day on 2X speed hunting, build order. I played under many smurf accounts, to then foster my primary account(s). MrFixIt forums as well.
I played 1vs1, team games, I played DM as well.
After intense 2 years (time zone shifts as well, many sleepless nights) I decided to never ever play online in a community again in order to prevent my lazy/fun loving side to be sucked in again in clans, games etc.
No Warcraft nothing. To this day I keep the vow. Only game I play still from time to time is AoE II: DE.
In 2000, I came out of my first retirement to play a couple tournaments. The first time I heard of DBD_Jinx was when he beat me in the second round of the BattleTop NYC Challenge. He went on to win the tournament and became widely recognized as a top player.
Anyone remembers DBD_Jinx? For very long the only western dude to compete with the Koreans in 1vs1. However he also confessed, that he had partly sacrificed his private life for it.
I trained a lot. I trained hours a day on 2X speed hunting, build order. I played under many smurf accounts, to then foster my primary account(s). MrFixIt forums as well.
I played 1vs1, team games, I played DM as well.
After intense 2 years (time zone shifts as well, many sleepless nights) I decided to never ever play online in a community again in order to prevent my lazy/fun loving side to be sucked in again in clans, games etc.
No Warcraft nothing. To this day I keep the vow. Only game I play still from time to time is AoE II: DE.