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konadora
Singapore66356 Posts
Just a random thought before going to sleep. I've seen sooooo many blogs on TL about 'progamer-wannabes' and stuff going "hi i'm diamond/masters/blah blah" and "slumping", "elo drop", "fallen in rank/out of division" and then setting goals like "play a gazillion games and hit top 20 GM".
So my question is, do you guys play SC2 because:
Poll: Reason for playing SC2Because it's fun (71) 49% Improving yourself (42) 29% Mixed (13) 9% Others (specify) (11) 8% For the sake of rankings (8) 6% 145 total votes Your vote: Reason for playing SC2 (Vote): Improving yourself
(Vote): For the sake of rankings
(Vote): Because it's fun
(Vote): Mixed
(Vote): Others (specify)
the polls are anonymous (unless you decide to post! :p) so be honest about them!
 
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Mostly because I wanted to be part of something competitive, fun, and famous. Didn't really work out though.
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I don't play it anymore. :D
Broodwar still tha best kchchchch
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On April 17 2012 05:21 WhuazGoodJaggah wrote:
I don't play it anymore. :D
Broodwar still tha best kchchchch
Not really a contributing comment...
But I am not playing anymore either!
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Played the game till masters, got bored of it and switched to BW. Now a days i just play random 4v4 with my brother. 4v4 is relaxing since you can just derp around all game long as oppose to 1v1
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It is more along these lines:
"To remind myself I suck"
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It's fun for what it is. Not as fun as BW, but still fun to play.
Also kona, check PM please.
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I only play customs or 4v4 once in awhile , I dropped 1v1s long time ago because I wasn't enjoying it much but I still follow big tournaments as MLG or GSL. I went back to bw 1v1 but don't play often either because I got no time T.T
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I'm glad to see there are no votes for Rankings...yet.
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Stopped playing. Nowhere near as fun as BW 
...trying out dota 2 as of now...
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Other:
I like to spend some time with my friends from broodwar that play sc2. So we play and chat. I do really enjoy sc2 UMS maps (I like very few, but those that i do like, i like even more than broodwar UMS, in im generally more a broodwar fan than a sc2 fan :D).
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Before I can start playing SCII, I need to figure out how I'm supposed to collect resources to build units. The system is so unintuitive...
On another note, I have no idea what those shiny blue rocks are for. You know, the ones that are all over every map. Is it some strange, universal form of aesthetics?
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Because it was the hot shit when it came out and my friends were into it. But laddering and playing got too stressful and time consuming.
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I mainly play it for fun. But remember fun has different definitions, we all have our own ways of having fun when playing SC2. The fun I get is from the process of improving myself. I'll have bad games, and I'll say to myself, "Oh darn I messed up." But if I mess up but do relatively well in other aspects of the game before that then I'm satisfied.
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i enjoy learning and improving in all areas, so both fun and to get better.
but mostly cause i don't think i'll ever be decent at BW!
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While SC2 is a lot of fun, the fun stems mostly from the thrill I get from playing 1v1 in a competitive situation. And the best way to play competitively is to focus on making yourself a better player, so I picked "Improving myself".
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For the sake of beating all those ambitious nerd-kiddos who think they are gonna be gosu next season with the most gimmicky shit play i can come up with.
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I generally derive what many consider to be "fun" from winning, I don't enjoy taking part, nor the losing, but the good feel i get from the win is more than the feeling of being annoyed i get from the loss so I just keep playing. Getting to be better than friends that also play the game really does help my cause too :p.
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To play some of mah DESERT STRIKE and Nexus wars! :D
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I play sc2 because i enjoy winning over people. I guess you can say i am conceited, when i beat people in games like SC2/Chess i feel superior to them. Not like oh you suck but just like theres a little thought "I am the better strategist HAHA"
This is also why i don't like cheese games, i love long macro games because when i win them, i feel that i had better macro/decision making and i was superior to them. Its honestly something i never told anyone because it just makes me sound like a complete asshole but yeah.
You wouldn't think it if you talked to me, i am a pretty laid back person about winning/losing but since i don't care when i lose games (ironic i know) i can only be happy when i play SC2 (Except losing games when i clearly had the win)
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I don't play anymore because of the poor battle.net
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United Kingdom38256 Posts
Because it's both fun and a challenge =)
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United States7639 Posts
I played SC2 for a couple of months because BW always crashed on my computer. Then BW started working so I stopped playing SC2. Then I realized I just suck dick at RTS and gave up on both games. Now I play DotA all day with cutiepies like Kona <3
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I DONT KNOW!!! SC seems to be that game that I always go back to...
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Trying to win a game and failing hard then raging and not playing SC2 until the next season so I can play my placement match and then failing that and not playing til next season. It goes on and on in an endless evil circle. T_T
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To have fun and improve myself. Also playing with guys from the sc2improve channel is really fun.
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Because I like torturing myself.
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As much as I hate this game..it's too much fun to just stop playing
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Both for fun and for the competitive aspect. I really like the game, and while I don't ladder that much, I enjoy playing CG's with people that are better than me and participating in low level tournaments 
Also SC2 teached me enough about mechanics that I can now play BW without feeling like a total idiot. Lulz.
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To increase the size of my e-peen. That and i guess it's pretty fun when I feel like I didn't play agonizingly bad. Improvement is always good too... it's a little of everything for me i guess.
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I wanna play for CSL, gotta be better to do that. x-x
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I play now because when I was younger I would play competitive sports. Now that I am older and no longer play competitively, SC2 allows me to do something competitive.
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It's my way of inflicting self-harm upon myself. Eventually, down the line, it might end up helping me with learning to deal with anger and stuff like that, I don't know...
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Korea (South)17174 Posts
Because they are all a bunch of bads.
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I play for lack of other RTS games.
I really DONT like Broodwar, i don't know why but it really fails to sit with me and I just find it less fun when Im at home.
However playing in a room with others is fun.
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Bisutopia19295 Posts
You missed an option. I only play when I need to test something I saw a pro do so I can understand it better, either cause it was difficult for me to pull of or I was just amazed by. Same goes in BW, I play BW so I can understand what I'm watching better. But I'm a full time spectator. In fact, this applies to all sports, basketball, soccer, football, I play most of them so I can appreciate what I'm watching. And ofc, they are all fun.
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I have fun and love the competition and the scene has completely entranced me.
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I have to admit; to me it's all about crushing nerds, the thrill of victory.
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I play because I must. I try quitting regularly but I get extremely bored, and I find that playing and hating it is far better than sheer boredom. If there's no struggle, there's nothing.
Also winning is fun, however rare it may be 
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Starcraft is a game that revealed the existence of flow to me.
It has only happened twice to me, the first time I had adrenaline rushing through my veins, the world became insubstantial, I couldn't hear my music any more, my hands were moving faster than ever, I was making positional tactics I didn't even think about, I was above normal reality. The first time it happened I could not tell you what I was feeling, reality was unreality.
The second time, same thing, adrenaline, complete and utter focus on the game. However this time I realized what was happening, and about 30 minutes into the game I had a big grin on my face as I had ultralisks demolishing my defenses and my drops were taking out all of his expansions while trying to relocate my own base.
Flow.
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some ppl say the had music to grow up with .. i had sc =/
i just cant quit D;
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because i like moving around the map and using my mouse. that is seriously the only reason
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I'm Korean American and sometimes knowing that I'm good at a RTS game relative to the masses of horrible players makes me experience some sort of reaction to my culture.
Thankfully it's not KPOP.
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Because it's fun. Honestly, if I wasn't having fun playing, I wouldn't play.
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Combination of fun and something to improve at, so much left to discover and dig up :D
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it's fun to improve myself, and it's even more fun when it's fun to improve myself
i probably would play less SC2 if i were placed in an hyperbolic gravity time chamber with gravity turned up to x10 and time dilation decreased to x.5 so that i couldn't move or think and had to struggle against all the forces of the universe at once
i might improve faster and then give up pretty quickly
i need the majority of my gaming to be positive reinforcement and then subtle queues (that i miss, for the most part), if i'm going to improve myself and not change my task
like imagine if 1A didn't work 10% of the time. probably about 20% of players would just overcome this by spamming 1A more, and 3 or 4 times when essential
80% of players would lose some frustrating games and then quit
also i think that hardcore SC players are a different breed than people who play other games, like the average MMO player, is highly intoxicated with alcohol when playing, while SC2 would be a pretty unsatisfactory experience for most alcoholics
so 'subtlety' or even not-so-subtlety, is lost on the average MMO player who is more likely to just rage quit when an obstacle presents itself
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I keep playing because I want to improve and get into GM. My goal after that is to mess with SlayerS Cella in 1v1s on ladder.
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cause it's fun of course. if you don't have fun playing you shouldn't play at all.
seriously, I try to go play other games now and I can't stomach it! they just aren't as fun / do not require the same amounts of brain power as SC (for example, MWF3, SWTOR, stuff like that)
and along that point, anything I think is legitimately fun i'll try to and be the best at it. just how i am :p
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On April 17 2012 07:00 Rekrul wrote:
Because they are all a bunch of bads.
Hey Rekrul; is there a thread or a blog where you explain why you don't like SC2 ? I can think of some, but I would love to read an indepth writing on why you detest it so much
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I voted Mixed: Because it's fun, and Improving yourself(Myself)
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Monobattles!
Stopped laddering almost completely, only log in to play some monobattles and making broodlord,roach,colossus,marauder work against immortal,immortal,voidray,mothership
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I started because my roommates played, so that was brilliant.
Then I kept playing because I watched GSL and it was still kinda fun, especially messing around in teams and stuff.
As of last couple of months the reason is mainly just because I have nothing better to do.
Then ME3 came around and I got a Dota 2 key. So see you in HotS, SC2.
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