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I suck at Starcraft, there is no doubt about this. I reside in Bronze league with my fellow newbies and I'm perfectly ok with this.
Once upon I time, I was not OK with this and yet again I feel similar thoughts, not because other Bronze players are being Bronze League Heroes or because I really really fail at the game but because of Blizzard's rank decay.
Rank decay, I'm OK with it, if you stop playing for a while, yes your skill will decrease, it's like foreign languages, you stop using it you eventually fail at it. What I don't like is constantly bumping into ex-gold and ex-plat players who completely stomp you. It kills morale, makes ladder anxiety come back in droves. If I lose and it's a close game then I feel satisfied I did my best but somewhere I did something bad. But if I get completely stomped, it's soul crushing and it pisses me off, especially in ranked matches.
Today I decided to forsake ladder in favour of unranked matches and out of 5 matches, 4 of them were against ex-gold and ex-plat players and I got my ass handed to me on a platter. I don't know if it's just my PvT or whether I just get severely outclassed every damn time but it frustrates me.
I miss the times last season where I could just go do ladder matches and have fairly equal matches with other bronze players and enjoy myself and pick out my mistakes when watching the replays, win or lose.
Going on a losing streak by getting absolutely destroyed isn't fun or remotely even. Blizzard seriously need to fix their MMR stuff seeing as every new player such as myself lands in Bronze and if some of those new players aren't as stubborn or determined as me they won't stick around long and that's a sad thought.
 
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Yeah I definitely noticed this as well. I'm diamond every season, but when I do my placement match the next season, I win it, and get placed into silver. I usually get back to diamond without a single loss. This is really unfair to the people I play on the way there.
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There have been nothing but complaints about this ever since it was implemented, I have confidence Blizzard will do something about it. This season after getting placed in gold, I lost a few games on my way back to diamond to cheeses and now I'm stuck in gold/plat a bit longer which is really annoying. I'm sure that I'll be back where I belong very soon, but the fact that I have to grind about 30 games to get there is pretty lame since most games are very one-sided and thus boring.
Edit: If you don't really care for ladder, you can always play custom games. There are several chat channel where you can find people of equal skill and the Obs map on the arcade is pretty neat, plenty of people from different leagues.
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I am going cold turkey from playing for the exact same reason. I put in about 60 games last season but this time around I gave up after 10 games. I got tired of feeling like a piece of shit. Even when I managed to win I just felt that my opponents were so bad that it was no fun beating them. I really, really tried to like this game and put time and effort into enjoying it but now I'm just gonna watch the pros and let go of the stress that comes from actualy playing.
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How can you get ladder anxiety if you're bronze? Help me to understand.
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On November 28 2013 10:10 ninazerg wrote:
How can you get ladder anxiety if you're bronze? Help me to understand.
Thinking that you're so bad that you can't even beat people in bronze league is a hell of a bad feeling.
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Agreed on decay screwing up ladder. It also takes a ton of beatdowns to get back up again. It takes far too long for the system to increase opponent difficulty, I went 37~0 on NA after a hiatus. It`s just ridiculous how long it keeps you bashing golds and plats these days (and i imagine it sucks for them too) It really should be more aggressive and err on the side of the decayed account getting beatdown rather than babysitting them.
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On November 28 2013 10:10 ninazerg wrote:
How can you get ladder anxiety if you're bronze? Help me to understand.
Regardless of skill level, you're still partaking in some of the most intense mental competition of your life. You're fighting with every ounce of everything you have mentally to grab the win and you invest a TON mentally into the fight. Being defeated after such a primal competition really starts to take a toll on you. After that, standard psychological conditioning kicks in.
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