Bnet and the end of TL

The whole "we <3 blizzard and SC2 is the greatest game ever" going on makes me sick. It's pretty obvious they're under indirect control of ActivisionBlizzard.

The whole "we <3 blizzard and SC2 is the greatest game ever" going on makes me sick. It's pretty obvious they're under indirect control of ActivisionBlizzard.

Not to mention that the level of the average has lowered a lot.

Of course it'll be a lot more popular now. Popular like gamefaqs, as you said.


I'll keep visiting them while they still upload SC1 vods though.

Agreed. TL's website layout is bad especially forum and response. Streams are good though.

On April 22 2010 13:05 RatherGood wrote:
What's funny about it? I think it's pretty accurate. People are not using reason, logic, or most importantly, facts to support discussions or arguments, at least over the last two months. Half the threads I open are just some dude's opinion on how something is wrong or broken followed by people arguing about his absurd, biased, unsupported and uninformed opinion. The site needs very tight moderation if it wants to keep any semblance of quality control, especially with release looming around the corner.

To the site's credit, they did crack down on this somewhat with requirements of claims being supported by replays, but it's still an issue.

Agreed. TL's website layout is bad especially forum and response. Streams are good though.

On April 22 2010 13:09 Two_DoWn wrote:

Yes, the influx of new blood has led to some post quality problems, but then again, that is just as much the fault of no one really knowing how the game works yet. Once the game hits shelves, patches are spaced out over months, moderators will have a much easier time just wiping "oh my god unit x should be changed for xxxxxx reasons." Not to mention many people who dont want to truly improve will stop coming.

I just like how they started to insult the layout and general excitement that tl has for the game.

yeah figures, the moment I decide to go to website, is moment it decides that every1 found it too. I only went there for skilled sc2 player replays. big mistake. just a bunch of noobs in the finals doing play it safe strategies.

Id beat them, but whenever I visualize a great strategy, i end up getting trashed at 4 minutes because his immortal shot my immortal better, or his mutalisks drove faster than my stalkers. Or sometimes, he sends marauders to my base earlier, and nothing i sent at them lasts longer than 3 seconds.

MIGHTY PROTOSS WARRIOR GANG, all blown away like little wimpy idiots. talk about a bunch of losers. I played sc1 today and was shocked when my zealots survived fighting hydralisks. 2 zealots vs 6 hydralisks and they actually killed one. Good luck getting in melee range in time in sc2 before your zealots just clal it quits and leave the battlefield.

On April 22 2010 12:57 Two_DoWn wrote:
Apparently not only the quality of our posting sucks, but the site itself does too.

On April 22 2010 13:46 minus_human wrote:
Just too fucking good.

yeah figures, the moment I decide to go to website, is moment it decides that every1 found it too. I only went there for skilled sc2 player replays. big mistake. just a bunch of noobs in the finals doing play it safe strategies.

Id beat them, but whenever I visualize a great strategy, i end up getting trashed at 4 minutes because his immortal shot my immortal better, or his mutalisks drove faster than my stalkers. Or sometimes, he sends marauders to my base earlier, and nothing i sent at them lasts longer than 3 seconds.

MIGHTY PROTOSS WARRIOR GANG, all blown away like little wimpy idiots. talk about a bunch of losers. I played sc1 today and was shocked when my zealots survived fighting hydralisks. 2 zealots vs 6 hydralisks and they actually killed one. Good luck getting in melee range in time in sc2 before your zealots just clal it quits and leave the battlefield.

On April 22 2010 13:13 Nitrogen wrote:
oakhill is my hero

On April 22 2010 14:07 Zapdos_Smithh wrote:
I actually agree with oakhill a bit. I feel that TL has sorta gone downhill with all the new people joining. It's not that they are necessarily annoying themselves, it's just that there are too many of them which compounds the effect. Hopefully many will leave a couple months after sc2 is released.

On April 22 2010 13:55 PokePill wrote:


No where did I say the site sucks, I probably visit this site every day. All I said is most of the new posters suck, which they do. It's unrealistic to expect the posting quality to increase as the site becomes more mainstream, because TL is only going to get more low quality posters since the average quality of posting by your average internet user is very low. TL has some of the strictest moderation I've ever seen, but there's nothing to moderate in the strategy section. You cannot tell a non-top plat player his opinion is wrong or invalid, when they make up the bulk of the userbase and are following rules.

I also think that I brought up valid points about the strategy section. Two of the biggest and most active threads "Terran vs Protoss" and "Reapers are imbalanced" are something you would expect to see on the bnet forums, not from good players like Demuslim or Orb (he may not have created the thread).

Also, I like to really exaggerate my posting on the bnet forums. You should google my conspiracy thread on how the TSL2 was rigged for Idra to win (he lost in semifinals).

On April 22 2010 13:55 PokePill wrote:


No where did I say the site sucks, I probably visit this site every day. All I said is most of the new posters suck, which they do. It's unrealistic to expect the posting quality to increase as the site becomes more mainstream, because TL is only going to get more low quality posters since the average quality of posting by your average internet user is very low. TL has some of the strictest moderation I've ever seen, but there's nothing to moderate in the strategy section. You cannot tell a non-top plat player his opinion is wrong or invalid, when they make up the bulk of the userbase and are following rules.

I also think that I brought up valid points about the strategy section. Two of the biggest and most active threads "Terran vs Protoss" and "Reapers are imbalanced" are something you would expect to see on the bnet forums, not from good players like Demuslim or Orb (he may not have created the thread).

Also, I like to really exaggerate my posting on the bnet forums. You should google my conspiracy thread on how the TSL2 was rigged for Idra to win (he lost in semifinals).

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yeah figures, the moment I decide to go to website, is moment it decides that every1 found it too. I only went there for skilled sc2 player replays. big mistake. just a bunch of noobs in the finals doing play it safe strategies.

Id beat them, but whenever I visualize a great strategy, i end up getting trashed at 4 minutes because his immortal shot my immortal better, or his mutalisks drove faster than my stalkers. Or sometimes, he sends marauders to my base earlier, and nothing i sent at them lasts longer than 3 seconds.

MIGHTY PROTOSS WARRIOR GANG, all blown away like little wimpy idiots. talk about a bunch of losers. I played sc1 today and was shocked when my zealots survived fighting hydralisks. 2 zealots vs 6 hydralisks and they actually killed one. Good luck getting in melee range in time in sc2 before your zealots just clal it quits and leave the battlefield.

On April 22 2010 15:16 BrownBear wrote:
Who is this Oakhill character? He seems to have a history with TL to hate them so much...

On April 22 2010 13:56 Spazer wrote:

I laughed so hard when I read this part. Play it safe strategies? His own great strategies? I don't know why, but "his immortal shot my immortal better" just brings up hilarious imagery. If I didn't know better, I'd say he was trolling.

I didn't know mutalisks drove either.

On April 22 2010 15:46 Monoxide wrote:


I didn't know stalkers drove.

On April 22 2010 17:01 Spazer wrote:

Of course stalkers drive. Cities are too big to stalk people on foot these days.

On April 22 2010 13:03 kNyTTyM wrote:
lol Oakhill

On April 22 2010 13:23 ramen247 wrote:
w00t Oakhill.

You know, Oakhill is kind of right. All I see now is single digit posters posting random irrelevant stuff in Strategy forums and the vitality of TL.net has just been sapped. The wave of new members is just too sudden and large.

On April 22 2010 14:52 paper wrote:


lol i love it when people have a "great strategy" but it's the game's fault when they can't win with it

On April 23 2010 00:18 Chill wrote:
LOL you guys are succumbing to nostalgia. Seriously. Read the old threads before "all the newbs came in" and they were 100x shittier than the content now. And read the threads a generation before that when people were claiming "the good old days" and they are basically unreadable. TL is better than ever.

On April 23 2010 00:18 Chill wrote:
LOL you guys are succumbing to nostalgia. Seriously. Read the old threads before "all the newbs came in" and they were 100x shittier than the content now. And read the threads a generation before that when people were claiming "the good old days" and they are basically unreadable. TL is better than ever.