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Do you get angry when you lose?
yes, if it's against cheese.
Have you ever cursed when losing a game?
i sigh, or go "awwww" and sad face.
Have you ever raged quit?
no, i gg even losing to cheese.
Do you fear playing ladder because it might screw up your record?
i fear it, but not cause of my record.
If yes to anyone of these, then ask yourself one more question.
Did SC1 ever make you feel this way?
yes. exact same answers to all questions (replace sc2 ladder with SC1 iccup).
i pretty much have the exact same mentality and feeling from sc2 compared to sc1 (except that i win alot more in sc2 ladder than on sc1 iccup).
and no, i don't feel like i "have" to win for portraits... o_o
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On October 05 2010 19:40 SuperBigFoot wrote:
My solution to this is simply to reward the player for playing the game. Both wins and losses should be counted toward rewards, along with custom games.
The first picture that popped into my mind was that of a mouse running around in a lab and getting cheese (oooh) for succeeding at performing the stupidest tasks.
Rewards? Are you serious? Would that lower your frustration? Is your mind that twisted when it comes to entertainment? I think people still misunderstand the game they are playing. Especially 1vs1. Yes Blizzard tried their best to pull as many curtains in front of your eyes to deceive you into believing you are a good player, but the opposite is usually the case.
If you people are here for the quick fix like Call Of Duty or Battlefield offer you where there is essentially only very little learning required (if you can operate a keyboard and mouse to aim and shoot you mastered 99% of the game), then well yes the Starcraft 2 1vs1 department will be difficult. I don't even wan't to talk about Brood War. Talking about frustration there hahaha! :'((
Look at me, i'm very close to 1400 now with nothing but my BW mechanics and some very low level logic. I freestyle most of my games, but now has come the time where i cant come up with stuff on the fly and hope i'm oh so smarter.
The same truth applies to SC2 as it did to BW. Take a match up, take a build order and learn it. Learn every possible variation, every timing, every counter-push. Step by step. Don't care about wining, care about improving. And once you started doing that i guarantee you that winning because of your "superior" knowledge will feel very rewarding.
For me that's the beauty of it. It is hard, it takes time. It's about me.
Others just don't want that in a game.
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I'm sure it's been stated before, but you could just ignore the portraits and achievements. Who cares? It's just a picture anyway. Or achievements, it's just a number of points. Not a big deal. Play when you want to and don't worry about winning or ladder rank, or whatever.
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Just screw around on ladder, try some crazy builds. You don't need to go all out to win every game. You'll eventually get the portraits just by having fun and taking the wins as they come.
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I agree with OP. I often have feelings of frustration as well regarding this game. Currently, I find it amusing that I am avoiding playing ladder 1v1 because I haven't played 1v1 in almost 2 months now... I feel as though I will be horrible at 1v1 and ruin my diamond rating. Kinda sad I know... But what do you do? What's worse is that as time goes on I become even more hesitant to play 1v1 because I know I'm getting worse and worse! I know I'm rusty and will lose a bunch of games and don't want to so I just play team games. But I even get frustrated if I don't win enough of those. It's funny because I'm playing less and less because of these facts. Right now, I've just been getting all of the single player achievements =/ sad eh?
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actually SC:BW made me feel this way more and it was harder to fix
you just sound like you're bad and have no drive to get better, which is more of a personal problem than Blizzard's fault.
Your complaining makes no sense. even if they made more achievements (for winning AND losing???) then there'd still be the one's there are now for winning.
if you don't wanna ladder then don't ladder. the reward is in the competition.
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If it's frustrating to play, no one is forcing you to play (or I would hope not anyways).
In the grand scheme of things, it's a game, there are many others like it, you can pick one that doesn't piss you off to no end. Would that necessarily give you satisfaction? No, but you need to balancing what you want out of the game, fun or satisfaction. If you can't get either, what's the point in playing, other than to piss yourself off any more than you already are?
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Yeah man, sometimes this game is no fun at all. During 2 of my placement matches my connection dropped unexpectedly and i was put in bronze. This is the worst sc2 thing that has ever happened to me. Everyone in bronze either does MMM (making the most boring game ever), or they do cheese of some sort. It is very fun when i play 2v2's and 1v1's with my friends, but ladder is the stupidest thing ever. There are a lot of trolls in sc2 as well and that pisses me off
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I would practice NOT looking at your points and ladder record. Just go with the flow.
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If you're that worried about all that shit then play custom.
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I don't really mind the quickmatch thing in itself. It makes finding games really quick and easy. But I still do really miss chatrooms and it's mpossible to just play casual games that aren't custom now which kinda sucks.
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On October 05 2010 19:40 SuperBigFoot wrote:
First off, let me say that there is a big distinction between the two words Fun and Frustrating.
holy SHIT really?
Play to get better O_o not for portraits.
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From what I gather...you have discovered competitive starcraft and now dislike the fact that you are losing and want to win without having to practice a lot (understandable).
Perhaps maybe you can just play vs computers or friends?
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