主题：A Legend Retires

Fredrik "MaDFroG" Johansson has decided to retire from Warcraft. The 20-year-old Swede has been one of the best players in the world, but lately he has lost motivation. Now he has decided to call it quits. "All the things got more and more pointless in the game. After you have achieved some big things, it is hard to get the motivation back. I really felt that it was over when I left the Korean team FrienZ, but I thought I might get the motivation back. It never came back for real," says Fredrik.

SK's European Undead player is currently in Korea where he participates in the World eSports Games. WEG was supposed to be one last shot for MaDFroG, a last attempt to see if he could find any kind of motivation to continue playing. Though even before the tournament, he realised it was a wrong choice. "I couldn't see any fun at all in playing, and the last week before leaving I wanted to withdraw. But I felt it was too late, and WEG had spent a lot of money on me," Fredrik explains. MaDFroG's match against the Chinese player Magicyang will be the last in his active career. Though he hasn't practiced for it, and he expects to lose. "I have no feelings whatsoever to win. It has been really bad for me here, I have been homesick since day one. I am missing my girlfriend like crazy, and it just feels totally wrong to be here when I don't feel like playing." Some people may wonder if MaDFroG having a girlfriend may be part of the reason why he is retiring - that he has found something other than gaming. Fredrik admits that is part of it. "It is pretty much like that. Also, I feel like I need to move on with my life. Warcraft 3 took too much time." Several players have announced their retirements lately. Swain quit, but he later made a comeback, Star.WeRRa announced that he would leave and now MaDFroG, all in their early twenties. "I think you lose the power of playing eight hours a day when you get older than 19, I never had a problem with playing a lot before. But I guess we get too old for putting so much energy into a game," MaDFroG thinks. MaDFroG believes that he will miss his friends in the gaming scene, but right now he wants to get away from all of that. "I don't think I will follow the scene, not right now at least. I need some time to get on with my life, I just want to be away from the computer. So I don't think I will play any games for a long time." Then how will Fredrik spend the first period of his retirement? "I will spend lots and lots of time with my girlfriend, just taking it easy. I don't feel like doing something else right now, and I don't feel like I need to work either, so I am going to take some time off from most of those things." MaDFroG has been in SK Gaming for several years, and he will be sorely missed by all his teammates and of course by his fans. "Overall it has been really cool being in SK. I would like to thank the whole SK for a great time, and also I want to thank my fans who never stopped believing in me." Fredrik brings a lot of good memories with him into his retirement, the best of them when he won the Blizzard Worldwide Invitational. He doesn't at all regret choosing pro gaming as his field. "Gaming has given me many good moments and I have so many good memories that will never go away. I would never change that for anything." SK Gaming is very sad to see Fredrik leave, but wishes him the best of luck for his future, whatever it may bring.

Fridrik Johansson - MaDFrog 已经决定从War3界引退。这个20岁的瑞典人已经成为世界上最好的魔兽选手，但是近来他失去了前进的动力。他决定退出。

Fredrik说：“在你达成了一些重要目标以后，这个游戏里所有的事情就变得越来越漫无目的。当我从韩国魔兽战队FrienZ离开时，我曾想过这就是结束，但是我以为或许我可以重新找回我的动力。不过它却没有真正的回来。”

这位SK战队亡灵族选手目前正在韩国参加WEG。WEG被认为是MadFrog的最后一次比赛，一次试图找回继续游戏动力的最后尝试。但是就在锦标赛前，他意识到这是一个错误的决定。

“在游戏中我找不到一点乐趣，并且上周在出发去韩国前我曾想要收回这个决定(指参赛），但是我觉得这太迟了，WEG组委会已经在我身上花去大笔经费。”Frog解释道。

MadFrog与中国选手MagicYang的对决将是他职业生涯的最后一场比赛。尽管如此，他并没有为此练习，并且他希望输掉这场比赛。“谁赢了这场比赛对我来说都不会有任何感觉。在这里我感觉真的很不好，从第一天起我就开始想家。我疯狂的想念我的女朋友，在我不想继续下去的时候，这里的一切看起来都是一个错误。”

一些人可能会好奇是否女友是MadFrog退役的原因之一，因为他找到了一些游戏以外的东西。Frog承认这的确是其中之一。“确实是这样，并且我觉得我的人生应该继续向前迈进。War3占用了我太多的时间。”

前不久几位选手相继宣布退役。Swain退役了，但是又复出了。Star.WeRRa也宣布他将离开，而现在轮到MadFrog了，都是在20出头的时候。“当你过了19岁，你就失去了一天游戏8个小时的劲头。而在过去，我从来没有把这当作一个问题。但是我猜我们已经老到不能把所有的精力花在一个游戏上了”MadFrog说。

MadFrog相信他会 想念他游戏中的朋友，但是现在他只是想离开这一切。“我想我不会继续下去，至少现在我需要时间继续我的人生，我只是想要离开计算机。恐怕我将很长时间不玩任何游戏。”

那么他将如何度过退役后的最初一段日子呢？“我会花很多很多时间和我的女朋友呆在一起，放松一下。现在我不想做任何事，也不想去工作，所以一段时间内我会远离大多数的事。”

MadFrog在SK战队已经呆了几年时间了，他的队友们和fans们将会非常想念他。“毕竟，在SK的日子真是太棒了。我想感谢整个SK战队和一直信任我的fans们。”

Frog带着很多美好的回忆离开了，其中最棒的当然是他赢得了暴雪全球邀请赛。他从没有后悔选择成为一个职业玩家。“游戏给了我很多美妙的时刻和美好的回忆，这些是永不会褪色的。"我不会因任何事而改变这些。

SK战队对Fredrik的离开很伤感，但是祝福他的未来好运常伴，不管这次离开会带来什么。