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Antisocialmunky
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States5912 Posts
March 16 2011 13:26 GMT
#21
Well look, you just made a thread that's gotten a ton of replies of people in the same boat. BW Lan required people in the same room but BNet suffices for people all over. Why don't you guys make a chat and get together online?
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deathray797
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
196 Posts
March 16 2011 13:32 GMT
#22
i have 1 friend at my school who is even more interested into pro sc2 than me, and i constantly check tl and watch day9 XD.. hes diamond SEA, im master NA.
Termit
Profile Joined December 2010
Sweden3466 Posts
March 16 2011 13:42 GMT
#23
I guess it's hard to actually find someone with Starcraft as a hobby when you don't live in a big town. Also, as a fellow Swede I know how hard it is to actually get a hold on people who play RTS because people sort of look down on you if you're a gamer. And all the gamers here is WoW and CoD MW2/ Black Ops-gamers. >_<
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Ojahh
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
Ireland728 Posts
March 16 2011 13:45 GMT
#24
I can advise you to constantly use the "post on facebook" button in the TL head lines, or for starcraft related fan art, the "My little pony" SC2 Video, just flushed two more of my friends out. 1 of whom I never expectet to own that game. Social networking man. its the real deal

others comments on GSL round ups or fan art music videos, and then you suddenly realize there is people at your place who know Artosis is and then youre in, then there is a whole lot you can talk about.
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Atheros
Profile Joined January 2011
United States84 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-03-16 13:48:22
March 16 2011 13:45 GMT
#25
I live in a college dorm so its actually kind of easy for me to get people into Starcraft. They will see me watching tournaments or playing and see how much fun i am having then they will ask questions and eventually get into SC themselves. The easiest way to get someone it to starcraft is probably to just let them see how much you enjoy it then maybe they will want some of the fun too.

Edit: I completely agree with the guy above me. I found probably 4-5 people through the facebook friend finder button. There where some people that played regularly that i thought would never play a video game.
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Tenks
Profile Joined April 2010
United States3104 Posts
March 16 2011 13:50 GMT
#26
Dunno if you need "real" friends to play SC2 with and share your interest. I'm sure we're all part of online communities of gamers. Play games with them. I generally play a weekly KOTH with people I've never, and probably will never, met in real life.
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rewired
Profile Joined November 2010
Canada630 Posts
March 16 2011 13:51 GMT
#27
I know how you feel man sometimes its so hard to find people that share your same interest, best I've managed is to get a few of my friends and room mate into the pro scene.
The road isn't always straight.
nekuodah
Profile Joined August 2010
England2409 Posts
March 16 2011 13:52 GMT
#28
I got the same issue dude, the only one i know who has stuck with it is bronze and i kinda roll him over each time so i cant really get together with friends and improve
aka_star
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United Kingdom1546 Posts
March 16 2011 13:55 GMT
#29
what I find most surprising is that when I log onto bnet it cycles through the numbers and looking at it over a number of days on the EU its pretty stable around 15,000 players online playing sc2 and in chatrooms.... these numbers seem worryingly low
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Ksyper
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Bulgaria665 Posts
March 16 2011 13:58 GMT
#30
Yeah my friends play league of legends instead of sc2, I've managed to force them to play some team games, but never got them into the game really.
It's so sad, I would love to have a real life practice partner to talk about strategy constantly with.
And anyone else in my town who plays is terrible so there is no point in getting to know them.
NoodleFish
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
South Africa198 Posts
March 16 2011 14:02 GMT
#31
One of the things that got one of my friends really into SC2 was Income Wars. He liked it cos it wasn't as though he was jumping straight into the fray of laddering and getting completely pwned for being a noob. He prefers to play the fun custom maps, but because he now spends a lot of time on SC2, he's begun playing 2v2 games with other people we know, and he loves it. So one thing that might help u with getting friends into SC2 is showing them some fun maps, and progressing from there :D
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Rylaji
Profile Joined January 2011
Sweden580 Posts
March 16 2011 14:06 GMT
#32
On March 16 2011 22:50 Tenks wrote:
Dunno if you need "real" friends to play SC2 with and share your interest. I'm sure we're all part of online communities of gamers. Play games with them. I generally play a weekly KOTH with people I've never, and probably will never, met in real life.



Dont get me wrong, it doesnt need to be IRL people, but Im having a hard time finding anyone at all. It's not like Im gonna PM every use on TL with some pickup line about playing SC2

Just to clarify(again);

What I would like is a couple of persons whom I can get on Skype with or Vent or w/e and play some KOTH with eachother or you wake up go on Skype and see person A online, you see that GSL is starting in 30 min so you chat and go get some food, come back and watch GSL "together" and talk about whats happening etc. People I can see when I log on to SC2 and say "Hey, I saw this new thing u can do vs a 3 rax T, wanna try soem customs to see if we can do it?" etc etc.

I want some form of "friends" online or offline that has the same interest in getting better, benefit off eachother and just discuss SC2! Damnit! :D
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Treemonkeys
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States2082 Posts
March 16 2011 14:11 GMT
#33
Yeah back when SC2 was released I tried to get some of my friends into it, I have a few gamer friends but none of them are good at RTS. So I have 2-3 friends that will play occasional but they don't play or study the game enough to feel like they can take me 1v1, it's still tons of fun when we can get team games going especially if they can come over and LAN for team games.

I miss the good old days in high school when me and my best friend would spend every ounce of our fee time LANing brood war. Actually lol now that I think about it, before we knew how to lan we would use two phone lines in the same house for dial up. wow
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Excessive
Profile Joined April 2010
Denmark151 Posts
March 16 2011 14:12 GMT
#34
For some reason RTS games just doesn't seem to appeal to a lot of people. Out of the people I, only 2 have been into SC2 and both have more or less quit the game now, so I don't spend much time playing myself anymore. Quite a lot of my mates have started playing League of Legends though, so perhaps sometime in the future they'll be willing to check out SC2.
FroZeNN
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States165 Posts
March 16 2011 14:13 GMT
#35
Well, I have a large group of friends and most of them are gamers. They never played BW, well maybe 1-2 times when i made them do it. However, when sc2 came they kinda all bought the game with me.

I have some friends that are already married and have children and they got hooked on SC2 as well. I guess if people see the passion in you for the game its contagious. Just like Day9. Its hard to watch him and not get excited about SC2.

The month before the SC2 came out i talked to all my RL friends about it, and how its awesome and how i have been waiting for this forever. So some friends just bought the game cause they did not want to miss out, (kinda), on "the next big thing" because I was hyping it up so much with phrases like : "The most anticipated game of the decade" etc. etc.

Most of my friends however got into it when we would all hang at a LAN party. We would have LANs like every weekend. The people that couldn't bring or did not have comps would watch the people that did have them play, and we would take turns. Then we would fire up SC2 and play, and they enjoyed watching it, they did not understand it all, but the knew there was something awesome there by hearing me scream at my friends " BANELINGS! BANELINGS! BANELINGS!" and then my team mate, that sits right next to me, micros his marines and we win the fight in the 2v2 and go on to win the game, and we cheer and high five and they thought it was great fun.

If people see you play the game, and they see you enjoying it, then they will get interested. I guess it all matters of how passionate you are about SC2, and how do you express this passion. It was literally impossible for my group of friends to not know what game I played, how much I played it, and how gay 4 Gate was, because I talked about it ALL THE TIME. It seems that it would get annoying to them, but instead it fired them up to try the game. Some even bought new PC's to play it and those were the responsible adults with families that did that.

So TL;DR if you are PASSIONATE for the game then other people\friends will catch on to it sooner or later.
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Renent
Profile Joined February 2011
Canada302 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-03-16 14:16:49
March 16 2011 14:14 GMT
#36
Two room mates I lived with for the last 4 months both played, I had the benefit of free high diamond coaching whenever I wanted. Other then that, I have about 3-4 close friends that play consistently and quite a few more who play casually.

I also find you can find practice/2v2 partners easy on the ladder, however I am a chatty catty on ladder and have had many conversations whilst both losing and winning.
Woof
vizir
Profile Joined August 2010
Finland154 Posts
March 16 2011 14:14 GMT
#37
On March 16 2011 22:09 Corvi wrote:
i met some guy at my university, was so happy, finally a fellow starcraft nerd in real life ... until i found out he is a 4v4 player. >_<


wow, this sounds too familiar. I too met a guy in uni who was into sc2 and later found out he only likes 4v4, 3v3, 2v2 - in that order. I got him to play some 1v1 but he just wasn't into it. Even introduced Day9 for him but.. no.
JeLLe04
Profile Joined March 2011
United States47 Posts
March 16 2011 14:15 GMT
#38
I'm in the same boat. I actually felt the same exact way when I watched that daily and I asked this exact question in the chat, but Day never got to it.

I'll be going to college next year, and I'm hoping to find a new group of friends who enjoy SC2, or at least enjoy computer games. Barring that, I think the best way to make friends in the game is to find practice partners. Keep practicing with different people, and eventually you'll probably hit it off with one person, and you'll want to practice with them more. Eventually, you'll be internet buddies.
Synk
Profile Joined April 2010
United States297 Posts
March 16 2011 14:16 GMT
#39
I think what someone said on the last page really rings true, some ( most ) people just really hate losing. I now have like no friends that still play sc2 but in the beta and shortly after release I had over 10-15 people online at any given time, but it seems like most people just get really discouraged after losing and after awhile they just quit. I still see people come back and play for a few days then disappear again ( I'm sure after getting rolled due to being rusty a few times ). I still struggle with it myself, I think I'm just so used to games where you basically always win or at least if you do lose its not as large as an investment (fps).
Don't argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.
Deleted User 101379
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
4849 Posts
March 16 2011 14:19 GMT
#40
Lets just all create a TLKOTH channel on our servers, should solve the problems. If you want it more national, an additional TLKOTH SWE, TLKOTH DE, TLKOTH DK, ... should be possible, too.
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