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LastWish
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AnYvia
Bulgaria474 Posts
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blubbdavid
Switzerland2412 Posts
On September 12 2013 21:47 AnYvia wrote: I stopped reading at the first point. 1/5 I will counterbalance like Tobberoth. | ||
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Djzapz
Canada10681 Posts
On September 12 2013 15:25 vindKtiv wrote: 1.) Stop being such an elitist bastard Oh you are Gold V in LoL? That's pretty cool. Oh you are 1000PP on AE? Well, PP doesn't mean anything, but that's pretty cool too. Oh you are Rank 1 Gold in your league on HotS? Get the fuck out of here noob, your opinion isn't shit until you hit high Masters. Not sure if that's supposed to be internally ironic. 2.) Stop being so anti-social Twitch chat and forums are cool and all, but the real community building events almost always happen in local meet ups. You are definitely going to be more involved in a game if you are surrounded by people who are as well. One silver lining in fighting games is that online play will always be less than optimal due to lag, therefore local meet ups happen all the time. Another good thing about local meet ups? You won't be getting BM'd in real life anywhere near the amount you are BM'd on ladder. Start a BarCraft. Why the hell are they only in the select cities? With the amount of SC2 fans, they should be in every major city for every event. It's possible, but only if you aren't afraid to take initiative. Also, while we are on this topic, remembering to put on deoderant at events would be nice. There are plenty of sports fans who have only really ever watched it on their home television and discussed with a few friends. What's this shit about having to socialize around stuff we're passionate about? And plus, what's with telling people to 'stop being so anti-social'? Fuck off x_x Just do your thangs, people. | ||
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XXXSmOke
United States1333 Posts
Someone needs to remake that for Blizzard. | ||
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00Zarathustra
Bolivia419 Posts
On September 12 2013 19:33 Velr wrote: This. SC2 is just not that good of a game and that is were ultimately all the problems come from. While in other games the social aspect can make up for this, there is next to no social aspect in SC2 (also thanks to late implementation of chatchannels and generally "awesome" Bnet0.2). Allways when i hear FCG community i tend to think: "There is Evo and a whole lot of nothing?" Yeah I think the main problem with SC2 is that it is not fun enough. I can't just "play the game" if I don't enjoy it. But maybe I will take the "play the game" advise and play BW instead, when I forget about eSports and just want to play a really fun and competitive game I always think of BW. | ||
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ahswtini
Northern Ireland22208 Posts
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emythrel
United Kingdom2599 Posts
On September 12 2013 17:56 PineapplePizza wrote: Blizzard is responsible for most of the problems with SC2. The community is just fine, it's just that the forums tend to be used for rage venting quite a bit. Fighting Game Community. I don't see the acronym often, but the phrase is used constantly. FGC isn't an acronym, its an abbreviation. An acronym is when you pronounce the initials as a word, like NASA. FGC is said as three seperate letters. Knowledge bomb dropped, sorry but its really starting to get to me when people don't know that an acronym is not just an abbreviation but a specific type ;p on topic, I'm pretty sure everything in the OP has been said before, many times on many forums. Unfortunately, it just doesn't work... you are asking a core of players aged 14-25 to take responsibility for themselves.... not gonna happen. They have parents to do that for them! | ||
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ninazerg
United States7291 Posts
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SupplyBlockedTV
Belgium313 Posts
I used to play sc2 alot. I even got to a point that i even managed to take games from famous pro players that i looked up to alot. That was great, but once you are at that point, you realise how far the gap between you and them is. Yea, i could mess up some brackets (as some asshole once called it, FU btw if you read this), but not more then that. For me it wasnt fun anymore, practicing the same set of builds over and over again to perfection, it became very dull and boring. So what was left? Trying to build a name for yourself? dedicate your life to starcraft and just go for it? Fact simply is, you cannot make a decent living from starcraft. Even pro players that get paid to play starcraft live on a minimum wage, while playing with insane pressure to deliver to often unrealistic expectations. (i also think many people are giving up because its to hard to get into the sc2 pro circuit, you still see the same names from 3 years ago, nearly no newcomers to the pro circuit, with a few rare exceptions) Its honestly more fun to play counter strike with some friends, you can joke around on your mic, you never know exactly what will happen in the game, unlike starcraft, which really has no dynamic anymore once you know the game. Honestly, starcraft should be about cheese strategies (yea you will hate me for this) but its awesome to see a really good player pull something hard off that just looks fucking awesome to viewers. I dont want to watch 30min cluster fucks, i find watching a cannon rush, or cloaked banshee rush much more intresting. Starcraft should be more about really funky strategies, doing crazy things that require alot of skill, that is what will keep viewers intrested, not dull macro games. And i think blizzard lost sight on that trying to balance everything out to much and putting the focus more towards the lategame. | ||
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ninazerg
United States7291 Posts
On September 13 2013 08:57 SupplyBlockedTV wrote: Dunno, OP has some good points. I used to play sc2 alot. I even got to a point that i even managed to take games from famous pro players that i looked up to alot. That was great, but once you are at that point, you realise how far the gap between you and them is. Yea, i could mess up some brackets (as some asshole once called it, FU btw if you read this), but not more then that. For me it wasnt fun anymore, practicing the same set of builds over and over again to perfection, it became very dull and boring. So what was left? Trying to build a name for yourself? dedicate your life to starcraft and just go for it? Fact simply is, you cannot make a decent living from starcraft. Even pro players that get paid to play starcraft live on a minimum wage, while playing with insane pressure to deliver to often unrealistic expectations. (i also think many people are giving up because its to hard to get into the sc2 pro circuit, you still see the same names from 3 years ago, nearly no newcomers to the pro circuit, with a few rare exceptions) Its honestly more fun to play counter strike with some friends, you can joke around on your mic, you never know exactly what will happen in the game, unlike starcraft, which really has no dynamic anymore once you know the game. Honestly, starcraft should be about cheese strategies (yea you will hate me for this) but its awesome to see a really good player pull something hard off that just looks fucking awesome to viewers. I dont want to watch 30min cluster fucks, i find watching a cannon rush, or cloaked banshee rush much more intresting. Starcraft should be more about really funky strategies, doing crazy things that require alot of skill, that is what will keep viewers intrested, not dull macro games. And i think blizzard lost sight on that trying to balance everything out to much and putting the focus more towards the lategame. I actually could not agree more. | ||
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