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Bill307
Canada9103 Posts
On September 14 2005 21:00 mnm wrote:
ok how do you generate that kind of community though? what about the game brings people together like that? i do agree that the sc community rocks. =) it is what brought me to wcg.
- BNet, a free place to find and play games
- it's a great game that can hold the interest of its gamers for a long period of time (so much so that some people just can't quit!  )
- it's a well-balanced RTS, so it tends to attract a relatively intelligent audience (relative to other genres)
- it has top-notch, fast-paced, and strategic gameplay, which again tends to attract a relatively intelligent and lively audience
- StarEdit (leads to the mapmaking community and also to new usermaps, which help keep the game alive and interesting for long-term gamers)
- new stuff is always happening "in the news", mainly because of the progaming in Korea
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I'm not sure if anyone has touched on it yet but... Battle.net. I mean it's not part of the game it's self but it's incorporated into it and bn is one of the best game servers.
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Belgium6775 Posts
I've been playing this game for about 6 years now and am still not bored of it. When I dont feel like competitive playing I just go play some micro ums, watch a replay/vod or get on Teamliquid 
Its great how there's always something around bw which keeps my love for the game strong as ever
Oh and I think it's safe to say how StarCraft is probably one of the games with the biggest skills and talent on pro-level. Every progamer has his own style and thus even though a matchup, say TvZ, is being played by Boxer and Oov, you will never see the same style and specific strategy.
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I think what makes starcraft great is partially the community is very supportive of it and we are what is keeping this game alive, another thing is the free online play with battle.net which is one of the easiest online set ups for a game i have ever used, and did i mention it was free? this i think is really what has kept brood wars going over the years, not as coherent as i could wish for but thats what i think, thanks
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Compared to Chess or Baduk(GO) Starcraft has a far less amount of strategies, so when u define the variety of possible strategies as the only quality of a strategy game Sc couldnt have succeeded.
Imo the reason for the great success is the perfect balance of Sc. And im NOT meaning the balance of the 3 races, but the well-regulated difficulty of technical skill. The most important thing for a multiplayer game is the question how far the development of skill can go. Ant this question depends on the difficulty of technical skills.
When the technical use of a game would be too difficult people might be interested in mastering it but the development would stop in a level due to lined human abilities. When its too easy it wouldt go further either cause ppl might get bored of it. So gamemakers try to find the point between it. And Sc has reached the nearest of all RTS to this point so it has the largest possibility of skill development, considering multitasking and game speed .
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On September 15 2005 10:32 Greyvy wrote:I think what makes starcraft great is partially the community is very supportive of it and we are what is keeping this game alive, another thing is the free online play with battle.net which is one of the easiest online set ups for a game i have ever used, and did i mention it was free? this i think is really what has kept brood wars going over the years, not as coherent as i could wish for but thats what i think, thanks
as i read this post, i just had to post a question to all of you. Will you play SC if bnet was to be paid for its services?
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Its like art
it can be beautiful
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Even a god damn pentium 2 200 can run the game perfectly.
Good thing that makes this game more entertaining is the fact that attacks can occur in any position of the map and players lose and train tons of units to win, unlike warcraft 3 where sometimes you can keep some units alive throughout the whole game.
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they coat the CD with crack
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On September 15 2005 13:59 EntertainMe wrote:Show nested quote +On September 15 2005 10:32 Greyvy wrote:I think what makes starcraft great is partially the community is very supportive of it and we are what is keeping this game alive, another thing is the free online play with battle.net which is one of the easiest online set ups for a game i have ever used, and did i mention it was free? this i think is really what has kept brood wars going over the years, not as coherent as i could wish for but thats what i think, thanks as i read this post, i just had to post a question to all of you. Will you play SC if bnet was to be paid for its services?
no way
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On September 15 2005 14:58 lil.sis wrote:Show nested quote +On September 15 2005 13:59 EntertainMe wrote:On September 15 2005 10:32 Greyvy wrote:I think what makes starcraft great is partially the community is very supportive of it and we are what is keeping this game alive, another thing is the free online play with battle.net which is one of the easiest online set ups for a game i have ever used, and did i mention it was free? this i think is really what has kept brood wars going over the years, not as coherent as i could wish for but thats what i think, thanks as i read this post, i just had to post a question to all of you. Will you play SC if bnet was to be paid for its services? no way
T_T i wouldn't either.. my heart would be broken..
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