EPTAlso, english isn't my main language, so sorry for the mistakes.
First of all, I love to play StarCraft2.
At the start, after almost a year of drooling at the release of every single battle reports, I finally got my hands on the beta, about a month after the infamous Feb. 17.
I could finally play against someone other than a stupid AI!
I played a lot of games, I couldn't stop! I needed to improve myself, to stop losing to "Those guys still in Copper league even though they all started a month before me!". So even before the first reset, I had over 150games played. It kept going like that during all beta, and I ended up being in low Diamond league as Protoss for the last 2 reset phases. And I wont hide it, was quite proud of the improvement, as SC2 was the first RTS I decided to play seriously(played some SC:BW and WC3, but really casually, usually more TD and Arenas than ladder games).
Then, the even more infamous July 27 came up. The real thing was finally there! I started playing, got placed in platinum, it was going really well, even though it felt harder to win. But hey, it's normal, I didn't care, I needed to improve again! After a few days, I finally got promoted to Diamond! First goal of the release attained!
But after maybe a week, all the friends I played with(RL and In-game) stopped playing one after the other...
I couldn't blame them, it was summer and all that... But I too lost some of the excitement to play, and I started doing something else, and didn't play SC2 in a few months. But as I love the game, I kept watching a lot of streams, and following news, but I wouldn't play. Maybe 2-3games once in a while, lose them all, then leave the game. It got me demoted in platinum overtime.
Lately though, after quite a few months of this bullcrap, I decided to play a few games a day on the ladder, I didn't care to lose or win, tried some new strategies, lost most games, but I was having fun.
But then, it happened. I got demoted... into Gold league!
No. Just, no! I didn't want to be in Gold league.
I closed the game, opened TL, started reading some threads of the latest build orders, tricks, and rant threads(BTW, it's impressing the amount of useful information you can learn in these threads. When you put aside the QQ, a lot of people give good advices.)
When I logged back to play, I had tons of new things to try. So I had a lot of fun again, but this time, it worked! Just trying some other BO's, or other things that I knew people hated(because of rant threads! haha), and I was actually winning! The fact that I played more often also helped IMO.
2 days, 24-7 win/loss, I finally get promoted back in platinum! But the thing is, I'm having a lot more fun playing, and I don't feel like stopping! Now I'm back to platinum, I'm having a bit over 50% win ratio, I've played over 150games already since I started playing again, and I don't feel like stopping anytime soon.
I kinda stopped playing this summer because I thought I was getting bored of the game, as all my friends left. Of all my friends that were playing with me at the release, only 1 is still playing SC2, the others are all on WoW:Cataclysm now.
But you know what? I don't care, I'm using the TL.net practice partner thread now.
So that's it. I thought I was bored of the game, but my 2 days stay in the Gold league gave me back my love to play StarCraft2 and my desire to improve. So even thought I hated to get demoted to Gold league, I can say that in fact, I really ejoyed it, and it's probably the most important moment in my small SC2 career until now.
