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Everlong
Czech Republic1973 Posts
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ChaseR
Norway1004 Posts
But also because the unit AI is much smarter, the nightmare in BW of pushing out with vultures/tanks and not to make any mis-micro mistakes or messing around with 5-6 control groups of marines in TvZ >_< Noob friendly SC2 may be but it also allows 100-150 apm players to play to their potential without being hindered by all the technical mechanics in BW. Also no longer goddamn stuck scvs!!! | ||
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kar1181
United Kingdom515 Posts
It's only at the top echelon that the 1-5% difference age makes, really hurts. At most of our levels, experience will outweigh any neuro physical disadvantages. The main disadvantage comes from the fact most of us have to work, have girlfriends/wives and or children  The inability to play 8 hours a day really hurts vs a 16 yr old | ||
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sCuMBaG
United Kingdom1144 Posts
On August 18 2010 17:09 Zandar wrote: Well, my mother of 65 is main healer in a raidguild so I still got my hopes up  youre kidding right? | ||
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althaz
Australia1001 Posts
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bodycount
Poland36 Posts
Respect for all the 30/40/50+ gamers out there | ||
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illumination
Korea (South)248 Posts
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Cuddle
Sweden1345 Posts
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FrogOfWar
Germany1406 Posts
On August 18 2010 17:38 Jakalo wrote: Sometimes I read all those late 20/30+ posts ''I am slow as hell'', ''I cant compete with younger players'' and feel like Im approaching the end of my days  Im 22I know what you mean, it's kinda creepy. And by that measure I have already surpassed the end of my days (mid-thirties) and am left wondering why I'm not walking on a stick yet :D About the skill thing, I like to think that my personal limits, especially concerning speed, are not so much due to age directly, but more to the fact that I was already over 20 when I first played Broodwar. (When I was a kid, there was ping pong. Then donkey kong and pac man and so on.) I mean, if you start playing the piano at age 6, you can become a maestro, if you start at 20, you can forget about that. BUT you can still develop decent, presentable skill and have lots of fun playing. Similar with RTS. Edit: I belive there are lots of gamers out there that their parents dont have a clue.. Just look what happened to Morrow vs Huk last tournament, kinda funny.. :-) What happened? o_O | ||
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ffswowsucks
Greece2294 Posts
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Zandar
Netherlands1541 Posts
Nope, my brother and I game since the 80s and she always looked over our shoulder and liked it. Soon she tried some simple games too and enjoyed it. She even played some RTS, Dune, AOE, WC1 and 2, and even WC3 a bit, solo, but online was too fast for her. Once we started to play EQ, WOW and EQ2 she really liked that a lot more than RTS because she could play it in her own pace and she sticked with it. She loves questing and still has the reflexes to keep the raid alive, even at her age. And she isn't even the oldest, they have a 70 year old sorc in that guild too who does fine | ||
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Onlinejaguar
Australia2823 Posts
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Lysenko
Iceland2128 Posts
To the poster up above who's concerned about job prospects for pro SC2 players, I think in the United States it won't be so much an issue, because there's already a lot of tolerance for career shifts, particularly in one's 20s and 30s but often later as well. In Korea, probably it's a much bigger problem, and I noticed that Blizzard committed something like $500,000 to a fund to help pro Korean gamers complete their educations. | ||
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Baarn
United States2702 Posts
On August 18 2010 17:31 Rabiator wrote: I am 43 and do not own the game. The beta clearly showed me that I could never really compete, but I dont really care about that either. The sad fact is that you can only play this "for fun" with a bunch of friends and most of mine do not have the time or desire to play. So watching replays is a nice "plan B" for enjoying good Starcraft, although I can still remember the joy of nuking 8 Overlords full of Hydralisks with one single nuke in BW. With the desire to turn Starcraft 2 into a worldwide eSport I really think there will be some "victims" of this scheme among the professional players when they turn 30 or so and the next generation with faster reflexes runs over them. When I think of people like IdrA - who devote all of their life to playing the game - and think about his "tech switch in this game called life" after the end of his career, I can only come up with two future jobs: 1. McDonalds opens up a restaurant in the middle of Seoul and you get served there by all the former pro players. 2. Morning talkshows or small amusement parks around the country, where you can "play against IdrA for 5$". None of those are very dignified, but for people who devote all their attention to one thing it will be hard to get rid of that addiction and be focused enough to do something else very well. The match fixing scandal clearly showed that the players are aware of the issue IMO, but many of the kids who aspire to become professional gamers do not realize the danger. Unlike basketball pro players there is no "Starcraft teacher" at school, so there is no clear "followup" to the "Starcraft pro gamer tech" in life and pro gamers do not earn enough to have sufficient funds for the rest of their life as top sports stars do. Why are people so black or white about pro gaming? People career switch at some point in their life if they are no longer interested in what they were doing before. The end result isn't always mcdonalds or some other rubbish thing cause suddenly you become some total loser after moving on from pro gaming. Grrrrr is a successful poker pro after being the only foreigner to win a star league. | ||
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epik640x
United States1134 Posts
I hope not. His 65-year-old mom is healing for WoW raids? That's bad-ass. Tell her to rock on! | ||
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Boonesbane
United States170 Posts
On August 18 2010 16:58 superbabosheki wrote: I don't think age really makes you worse per se, just the fact younglings like me have very few responsibilities, thus can play SC2 more. This is definitely it. I doubt you 30 year olds really move your hands noticeable slower than me, but being 17 with no job for the summer pretty much means minimum 6 hours a day of starcraft if i want to. | ||
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Coeus1
Finland160 Posts
Real life taking too much time, but I enjoy this game. Never going to be better than platinum I think. Playing style is taking some matches more serious and macro oriented, other times just doing something stupid. I think that older players usually don't have the passion/dedication/time to be "pro" in gaming, and that is the main reason why the best players are around 16-25 years. I also have one bad habit. When I have free time, I like to take couple of beers to relax. After few drinks my SC2 performance really plummets for some strange reason.. -) Also sometimes play Counter-Strike against kids for fun. | ||
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link0
United States1071 Posts
1004 points in Diamond. Ranked #32 on NA by Blizzard. Played significant amounts of BW, COH, and DOW2 during high school, college, and law school. I do feel that my age does make me slightly slower (lower APM), but SC2 isn't as APM intensive as BW, and I can still hold my own against the famous sc2 players like qxc, nony, slush, incontrol, silver, etc. Having a ton of RTS experience definitely allows me to improve extremely rapidly in SC2 with much less practice time. | ||
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papaz
Sweden4149 Posts
It's not like you are 30 years old placed in silver league today but the 10 year old younger version of yourself would have placed top diamond. The question in all of these kinds of "age" threads is: how much better would you play because of age if you were X years younger? Most of the "old" players would in their "young" ages not be top diamond or pro players anyways so I don't believe that age is the biggest factor of your skill level. | ||
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Grond
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