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Why i quit 1v1 sc2 ladder

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Bareleon
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
371 Posts
January 20 2015 03:14 GMT
#1
1. Terran

Its stupid how they and Protoss are designed. Thanks to that, I cant go skytoss, i must go splash every time, I can go for early stargate with VR as first unit. Terran bio is too strong.

2. Mutas

Just very annoying and very OP.

3. Smurfs

Its almost like their current league on their main account is too hard so they make a new one, in the low levels for easy wins. Smurfs is the main reason why I quit the game. If only A LOT more people play 1v1s, maybe there will be less smurfs.


Will Lotv make smurfing worse? It could. Which is why if I do get the game, I am never gonna go 1v1 or the automated tournaments and thanks to smurfs, below diamond 1v1 tournaments are gonna be ruined. What will stop a diamond leaguer to make a new account, start in bronze, never rank up, just for easy wins for the tournaments?

Does Blizzard ban smurfs?

*
Faent
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
Canada94 Posts
January 20 2015 03:21 GMT
#2
The Starcraft 2 1v1 Ladder will miss you.
Bareleon
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
371 Posts
January 20 2015 03:22 GMT
#3
On January 20 2015 12:21 Faent wrote:
The Starcraft 2 1v1 Ladder will miss you.


and I will not miss it lol.
ninazerg
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States7291 Posts
January 20 2015 03:32 GMT
#4
"Mutas" "Smurfs"

No, you quit because you don't have the heart of a champion, you don't have the work ethic to grow stronger, you don't have the humility to understand that you aren't the best, the fastest, the smartest and always need to be growing.
"If two pregnant women get into a fist fight, it's like a mecha-battle between two unborn babies." - Fyodor Dostoevsky
iseefor
Profile Joined September 2010
United States162 Posts
January 20 2015 03:34 GMT
#5
i also thought Mutas were crazy good for a while when i was in gold. what i found is if i attack early and stay aggressive i could set the pace for the game annd not let them go to Mutas (plus keep sentries around for hallucinations helps the shitty scouting). i had to change my whole strategy and it took some time to get used to, but it helped me a ton in all match ups after everything.
.CJ.herO lifer.
Jer99
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
Canada8160 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-01-20 03:39:07
January 20 2015 03:39 GMT
#6
your arguments are very convincing
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SwizzY
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States1549 Posts
January 20 2015 03:45 GMT
#7
From one perspective, I played seasons 1-3 and then quit cold turkey. Came back after league was literally unplayable for about a week and still had about a gold level of play? (I fluctuate between beating low diamonds and losing to other silvers with very low (10 or less) games played). Sooo yeah, it could just be old players picking the game back up for a few and still being okay.

If mutas/bio or whatever else you can think of is truly OP, then you'd see the top players spam those strategies and win ezpz. But they don't, because it isn't. Or if they do it's not something your average players can execute flawlessly.

Long story short, you're quitting because of you can't handle it - don't blame the game.
Good luck friend!
All that glitters is not gold, all that wander are not lost, the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by frost.
Probemicro
Profile Joined February 2014
3708 Posts
January 20 2015 04:44 GMT
#8
come to BW
FlaShFTW
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
United States10563 Posts
January 20 2015 05:04 GMT
#9
On January 20 2015 12:32 ninazerg wrote:
"Mutas" "Smurfs"

No, you quit because you don't have the heart of a champion, you don't have the work ethic to grow stronger, you don't have the humility to understand that you aren't the best, the fastest, the smartest and always need to be growing.

this. you are in the "im stuck in elo hell" mentality where "smurfs" are holding you back and shit. nah, you're holding yourself back. man up and ladder up. either that or come to BW. then you'll understand how damn difficult it is to master mechanics
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JieXian
Profile Blog Joined August 2008
Malaysia4677 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-01-20 05:16:51
January 20 2015 05:15 GMT
#10
You could try playing zerg and use their OP mutas

Or you could try playing terran and use their OP bio

I await your Protoss OP/cannons op/templar op blog :D
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ninazerg
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States7291 Posts
January 20 2015 05:38 GMT
#11
On January 20 2015 13:44 Probemicro wrote:
come to BW


The same thing is in Brood War. The exact same kind of frustration where you have to grow and overcome it and then keep growing.

But yeah, come to the Brood Side.
"If two pregnant women get into a fist fight, it's like a mecha-battle between two unborn babies." - Fyodor Dostoevsky
N.geNuity
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States5112 Posts
January 20 2015 06:43 GMT
#12
you have to embrace the smurfing one day. Though it is very frustrating at times

iccup (BW) is about 10 eastern european protoss players that have >500 smurfs
iu, seungah, yura, taeyeon, hyosung, lizzy, suji, sojin, jia, ji eun, eunji, soya, younha, jiyeon, fiestar, sinb, jung myung hoon godtier. BW FOREVERR
Ej_
Profile Blog Joined January 2013
47656 Posts
January 20 2015 08:23 GMT
#13
i agree OP, I went 2-6 this season because of Code S Players smurfing in Diamond on EU
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DarkPlasmaBall
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States46433 Posts
January 20 2015 08:28 GMT
#14
On January 20 2015 12:22 Bareleon wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 20 2015 12:21 Faent wrote:
The Starcraft 2 1v1 Ladder will miss you.


and I will not miss it lol.


Any chance you're from Romania?
"There is nothing more satisfying than looking at a crowd of people and helping them get what I love." ~Day[9] Daily #100
jimminy_kriket
Profile Blog Joined February 2007
Canada5542 Posts
January 20 2015 09:01 GMT
#15
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/closed-threads/431256-uninstalled-sc2

What happened?
life of lively to live to life of full life thx to shield battery
Scarecrow
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
Korea (South)9175 Posts
January 20 2015 09:11 GMT
#16
Well you covered PvT and PvZ so I'm guessing you blame your PvP losses on smurfs.

Skill is OP
Yhamm is the god of predictions
maartendq
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Belgium3115 Posts
January 20 2015 09:13 GMT
#17
On January 20 2015 12:32 ninazerg wrote:
"Mutas" "Smurfs"

No, you quit because you don't have the heart of a champion, you don't have the work ethic to grow stronger, you don't have the humility to understand that you aren't the best, the fastest, the smartest and always need to be growing.

God forbid people want to play to have fun and not to become the best.

I quit SC2 1v1 not because I didn't "have the heart of a champion" or "the work ethic to grow stronger", but because it a) I wasn't having fun anymore and b) I had other, real life obligations that demanded my attention.

From a gameplay perspective, T and P have plenty of design flaws, and TvP is a matchup in which both races are basically shoehorned into certain compositions. It's not really fun if you can't use half of your units.
Trizztein
Profile Joined August 2014
Canada45 Posts
January 20 2015 09:20 GMT
#18
Hello.

I'm a fresh player in SC2 world, only started laddering in january 2014 (so it's been a year now and I've played only 1000 games since then because I'm full time student). Last season I played NA server 1v1 ladder alot during my 3 weeks vacations. After each game I would either talk to the players about their actual «real» level or get an idea of it through looking at their statistics. And yes, as Nathanias put it, NA has become somehow a niche for smurfs, since community has seemed to agree it's the «easiest» server. But that has perhaps recently made it the hardest too for beginners since you end up facing smurfs the whole time. But here's what I thought of it in the end:

To hell with the losses.

SC2 is about learning. Not just winning. Think of it this way: you'll only ever learn as much as when you lose a game. Winning a game means you faced less resistance than you could've, and that won't get you further in the long run. Having this attitude I actually ended up beating smurfs (like ex-masters), which made me feel proud and gave me the conviction I had truly gotten better from where I was in the past. Also, knowing you can face a smurf every game, you'll just play your best every time, finding no excuse in «oh well he's just gold, I can chill». No. Just play your best, always, and you'll only get better faster this way.

Whine less, practice more, and don't care for the level in front of you or in the win/loss result.

And if it may be of any help: these players looking to face lesser players are the losers in the long run, because once they go back to their own leagues they'll have lost a lot of their skills facing newbs. Their skill is decreasing. Your's is increasing. You win in the long run.
boxerfred
Profile Blog Joined December 2012
Germany8360 Posts
January 20 2015 09:54 GMT
#19
nah ninazerg is harsh but correct
SoSexy
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Italy3725 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-01-20 11:11:25
January 20 2015 11:09 GMT
#20
On January 20 2015 12:32 ninazerg wrote:
"Mutas" "Smurfs"

No, you quit because you don't have the heart of a champion, you don't have the work ethic to grow stronger, you don't have the humility to understand that you aren't the best, the fastest, the smartest and always need to be growing.


Do you realise some people just see it as a videogame to have casual fun while they have 100x more rewarding and fulfilling lives outside battle.net? Or do they have to sweat blood otherwise they are not worthy of playing?
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