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As I've said in a previous blog, I've only just started starcraft 2 back in December of 2011, and have come a long way from getting my butt handed to me over and over after somehow magically placing in Gold League. I worked my way out of bronze in about two and a half weeks, and am now in silver league.
Here comes the problem. For the past few days, I've run into nothing but portrait hunters, and I'm finding myself getting so frustrated because of Blizzard doing nothing about these people, who feel that they need to drop themselves down three to four leagues, just to get themselves portraits. It destroys the whole matchmaking system for the lower league players like myself, and has been ruining my ratings as I lose 5 matches in a row because of portrait hunters.
There needs to be a way to ban these people, and discourage them from smurfing so low.
 
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I agree, I'm in bronze and hit these ex platinums and masters in teams. I'm getting better, especially due to the amount of SC2 I watch, and I hit these people abusing ladder.
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Just take it as a learning experience playing against a better player, and move on. There's no point worrying about it b/c Blizzard can't and won't stop people from playing the way they want to play the game on ladder.
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dont think of it that way. actually you are going to get a lot better playing those people on a regular basis. Its not just about winning. what you need to remember is that you dont get much better from playing against people who are on the same level as you or lower. You get better by playing really intense games that push you to play better to win.
you have to take what you get and you can learn a lot more from playing people who are more skilled than you are. Win or lose watch the replays of the games you played against those guys and see what you could have done better to win, what he did better than you did to win.
You know what the worst thing of all is? Even if you beat players like that, you would never complain because you would never know. You would just take the win and not think anything more of it. to you it would be just another silver league noob trying to learn the same way you are. You wouldnt bother to even check his profile or the replay. Am i right?
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Well when you get matched up against someone of your skill you can start up a conversation about if this has also been happening to them. If it has, befriend this individual and you can happily mass up games vs each other. Repeat until you have enough friends to get in as many games as you want.
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I don't play sc2 much, but when I do, its to go into bronze with my friends and do ridiculous strats in team games. Its pretty fun. Blame blizzard for not letting you host "4:4 Bronze league gogo" etc. But I agree people who do it in 1's are lame.
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On January 26 2012 03:24 JDub wrote:
Just take it as a learning experience playing against a better player, and move on. There's no point worrying about it b/c Blizzard can't and won't stop people from playing the way they want to play the game on ladder.
It literally makes matchmaking a joke
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On January 26 2012 04:05 eu.exodus wrote:
dont think of it that way. actually you are going to get a lot better playing those people on a regular basis. Its not just about winning. what you need to remember is that you dont get much better from playing against people who are on the same level as you or lower. You get better by playing really intense games that push you to play better to win.
you have to take what you get and you can learn a lot more from playing people who are more skilled than you are. Win or lose watch the replays of the games you played against those guys and see what you could have done better to win, what he did better than you did to win.
You know what the worst thing of all is? Even if you beat players like that, you would never complain because you would never know. You would just take the win and not think anything more of it. to you it would be just another silver league noob trying to learn the same way you are. You wouldnt bother to even check his profile or the replay. Am i right?
Honestly, i try to check the level of the player after every match, whether it's a win or a loss. I like to see how many games they've played, how many wins, what leagues they've placed in up until this point, and so on so forth.
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If they want to use the ladder in this way, there's nothing in the EULA against that. It sucks when you get bent over in a match by someone who should be a higher rank, but it's part of playing starcraft. No matter who beats you, if he played better and you lose, that's the way it shoud be. Practice and get better and continue laddering; you can't stop people from doing it so you might as well use it as a way to get better. I personally love playing against someone way better than me so they smash me and I can look at that game and find out things I really need to improve.
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On January 26 2012 05:46 Arisen wrote:
If they want to use the ladder in this way, there's nothing in the EULA against that. It sucks when you get bent over in a match by someone who should be a higher rank, but it's part of playing starcraft. No matter who beats you, if he played better and you lose, that's the way it shoud be. Practice and get better and continue laddering; you can't stop people from doing it so you might as well use it as a way to get better. I personally love playing against someone way better than me so they smash me and I can look at that game and find out things I really need to improve.
I'm not sure how much you'd like it if it was 4 or 5 games in a row, and two of the losses were from the same person.
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On January 26 2012 05:30 Falconpauunch wrote:Show nested quote +On January 26 2012 03:24 JDub wrote:
Just take it as a learning experience playing against a better player, and move on. There's no point worrying about it b/c Blizzard can't and won't stop people from playing the way they want to play the game on ladder. It literally makes matchmaking a joke
No it doesn't. For one, you are over-exaggerating the number of portrait farmers you are facing. Play 40 more games and count the number of portrait farmers that you encounter. For two, you can and should take playing against a much more skilled player as a chance to see how your play is weak. Learn from it, improve, move on.
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On January 26 2012 03:24 JDub wrote:
Just take it as a learning experience playing against a better player, and move on. There's no point worrying about it b/c Blizzard can't and won't stop people from playing the way they want to play the game on ladder.
Wrong. It's a bit dated, but I doubt their policy has changed since this post: http://eu.battle.net/sc2/en/forum/topic/2000495655
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On January 26 2012 05:49 Falconpauunch wrote:Show nested quote +On January 26 2012 05:46 Arisen wrote:
If they want to use the ladder in this way, there's nothing in the EULA against that. It sucks when you get bent over in a match by someone who should be a higher rank, but it's part of playing starcraft. No matter who beats you, if he played better and you lose, that's the way it shoud be. Practice and get better and continue laddering; you can't stop people from doing it so you might as well use it as a way to get better. I personally love playing against someone way better than me so they smash me and I can look at that game and find out things I really need to improve. I'm not sure how much you'd like it if it was 4 or 5 games in a row, and two of the losses were from the same person.
Its happened to me though it was more because we were at a similar MMR. He was clearly better than me and I lost 4 games in a row. Oh well whatcha gonna do.
At really low level leagues it sucks but theres nothing you can really do. Either way you get a replay you can analyse and look for things to improve.
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Well, it sounds aggrivating to say the least, but what can blizzard do?
I for one never noticed (or gave a fuck) if someone did that to me, I just lost and played more, after a while I got to plat and then diamond. That's how I handled it at least.
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they eventually leave your league but it be better if only wins at 75 percent of your highest ELO were counted or something similar
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On January 26 2012 06:24 ozeake wrote:Show nested quote +On January 26 2012 03:24 JDub wrote:
Just take it as a learning experience playing against a better player, and move on. There's no point worrying about it b/c Blizzard can't and won't stop people from playing the way they want to play the game on ladder. Wrong. It's a bit dated, but I doubt their policy has changed since this post: http://eu.battle.net/sc2/en/forum/topic/2000495655
There's a difference between posting a vague warning and actually doing something about it. How are you going to prove that someone purposefully lost the games? Maybe they were just trying out a new strategy (see Gheed's blogs).
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On January 26 2012 06:49 achristes wrote:
Well, it sounds aggrivating to say the least, but what can blizzard do?
I for one never noticed (or gave a fuck) if someone did that to me, I just lost and played more, after a while I got to plat and then diamond. That's how I handled it at least.
That's exactly how I'm looking at it now. As it stands, i lost about 8 or 9 games to these portrait hunters, then won 7, by default. I don't know if it's the blizzard staff saying, we'll give you a break, or I got really lucky
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On January 26 2012 05:49 Falconpauunch wrote:Show nested quote +On January 26 2012 05:46 Arisen wrote:
If they want to use the ladder in this way, there's nothing in the EULA against that. It sucks when you get bent over in a match by someone who should be a higher rank, but it's part of playing starcraft. No matter who beats you, if he played better and you lose, that's the way it shoud be. Practice and get better and continue laddering; you can't stop people from doing it so you might as well use it as a way to get better. I personally love playing against someone way better than me so they smash me and I can look at that game and find out things I really need to improve. I'm not sure how much you'd like it if it was 4 or 5 games in a row, and two of the losses were from the same person.
It sucks, yeah. It's aggravating whenever you lose. I get proxy raxed, building walled, scv all-in'd sometimes 7 or 8 games in a row. However, If I lost, it was because I made a poor decision. I either micro'd wrong, didn't play completely safe, or made a bad choice. You win and lose based on how well you played, and while it sucks when you lose to something you think it stupid (all-in's, portrait farmers, etc), you lost regardless and would have won if you had played better, which is all the more reason to practice.
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this is so not complaint worthy
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