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Well, I watched the #269 of Day9 daily last night(night for me at least!) and he talked about the importance of getting together with ppl you know and have fun while playing. This got me thinking, I really dont have ANYONE I know that plays SC2 on a regular basis, and noone who shares my passion for it. I mean I watch every GSL and other tournies I can get my hands on. I watched all of IEM and TSL's etc etc, I refresh TL.net all the time to look for good streams etc.
But I have noone I know who is the same, this made me kinda "sad". I would love to do what Day9 said and have 4-5 friends and have a mini KOTH going some night, having the ones not playing atm spectating and having fun on Skype etc.
Is there any way to sort this out? I mean I cant force my friends to play but is there some place or site where I can find people? And I dont mean practice partners etc only, I am only Bronze so I dunno if that is even neccissary but I mean people to play and watch streams with and discuss other than just this forum, or the live stream chats  .
Any ideas? And to get something else to talk about, how often do you play with your friends like KOTH or similiar? Discuss!
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Well first play SC2 with them. And start introducing progamers and anything about E-sport. I've hooked 2-4 people to play SC2... Its up to them if they will grow and love SC2 some people just hates losing and stop playing after losing too many times. Just encourage and if they don't get hooked then let them go you planted a seed in them that will grow in due time.
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Look for a team to practice with. It's harder if you're bronze, but if you aim to get better, you will find people in the same boat. There are plenty of threads around here.
It's hard to just force your friends to do this, so find people that already do.
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I don't think I've ever met a fellow SC2 fan in real life. I think we're all closeted.
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i only have 1 rl friend thats kinda semi into sc2 but now since uni started we don't even play once a week
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On March 16 2011 21:57 By.Fantasy wrote:
Well first play SC2 with them. And start introducing progamers and anything about proleague. I've hooked 2-4 people to play SC2... Its up to them if they will grow and love SC2 some people just hates losing
Thing is, most of my friends are gamers. We play alot of stuff together but they just dont aim to get better or have any interest in SC2. They all own it, but they are more like "We can play some 2v2 now and then". This is not what I want :<
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I got one off my friends in Starcraft 2. I'm trying really hard to have him improve. Few weeks ago I went to him, sat down and learned him Starcraft. His 10/20 bronze record is now 50/30  Hopefully I can bring him around my level soon so we can practice. But that will take quite some time i'm afraid :p
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Same problem here.
A lot of the peeps I know seem totally uninterested in sc2, even moreso in the proscene.
I've reached a point where i just realized that I don't really need other people to enjoy content with, I'm fine by my own, so I side stepped the problem quite easily.
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On March 16 2011 22:00 Rylaji wrote:Show nested quote +On March 16 2011 21:57 By.Fantasy wrote:
Well first play SC2 with them. And start introducing progamers and anything about proleague. I've hooked 2-4 people to play SC2... Its up to them if they will grow and love SC2 some people just hates losing Thing is, most of my friends are gamers. We play alot of stuff together but they just dont aim to get better or have any interest in SC2. They all own it, but they are more like "We can play some 2v2 now and then". This is not what I want :<
Then start introducing E-sports in anyway you can. They won't find it interesting at first but soon enough they will.(Sometimes they don't but that means they just really don't like RTS they probably prefer FPS or some other game you cant just expect people to like everything you like) Like me it took me 4 years before I got interested in BW Progaming.
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On March 16 2011 22:02 PlosionCornu wrote:
Same problem here.
A lot of the peeps I know seem totally uninterested in sc2, even moreso in the proscene.
I've reached a point where i just realized that I don't really need other people to enjoy content with, I'm fine by my own, so I side stepped the problem quite easily.
Yeah I actually have tried many times with my housemates and friends. They seem relatively interested and even more so when mOOnGLaDe was in GSL and IEM (We are Australian ), but they aren't exactly picking up the game or watching GSL, more like I try and force it down their throats when they come around. It is tough because many people either just don't play RTS and are therefore not interested, or consider the concept of competitive gaming to be pointless.
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On March 16 2011 22:02 By.Fantasy wrote:Show nested quote +On March 16 2011 22:00 Rylaji wrote:On March 16 2011 21:57 By.Fantasy wrote:
Well first play SC2 with them. And start introducing progamers and anything about proleague. I've hooked 2-4 people to play SC2... Its up to them if they will grow and love SC2 some people just hates losing Thing is, most of my friends are gamers. We play alot of stuff together but they just dont aim to get better or have any interest in SC2. They all own it, but they are more like "We can play some 2v2 now and then". This is not what I want :< Then start introducing E-sports in anyway you can. They won't find it interesting at first but soon enough they will.(Sometimes they don't but that means they just really don't like RTS they probably prefer FPS or some other game you cant just expect people to like everything you like) Like me it took me 4 years before I got interested in BW Progaming.
I think they just dont want to put that much time in it and they are not big RTS fans =/
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Yea i dont have any friends in real life that play sc2 either. I know of a few who even know what SC2 is, but they just play the campaign on easy and that's it.
Day9 makes it sound sort of easy, and i wish i had the same friends as him, or at least friends who played starcraft. But then again i'm fine with just having online friends.
I dont even think anyone in my city play sc2 at any level above silver
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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. >_<
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start talking with some guys you hade played.
Many are looking for a team or a practice partner
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I don't think eSports will appeal to the non-hardcore gamer. Id never introduce it to one of my "normal" friends. I don't even know many of these hardcore gamers. Maybe one, but his hardcore game is WoW! UGH
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On March 16 2011 22:07 Deadlyfish wrote:Yea i dont have any friends in real life that play sc2 either. I know of a few who even know what SC2 is, but they just play the campaign on easy and that's it. Day9 makes it sound sort of easy, and i wish i had the same friends as him, or at least friends who played starcraft. But then again i'm fine with just having online friends. I dont even think anyone in my city play sc2 at any level above silver
You are so lucky.
I don't even know if anyone in mine knows what sc2 is.
Soccer games and cod-like fps are soo mainstream it hurts here  .
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Dunno asking ppl on ladder seems wierd? Or? Sort of like going to a bar and as all the girls if they wanna dance, someone is bound to say yes at some point I guess lol
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Keep trying.
One of my proudest achievements is getting a single member of my circle of friends to try out SC, and before I knew it, ALL of my circle of friends were playing SC together in random LAN parties all through the summer. This even included *gasp* FEMALES. 
Since SC2 is a bit expensive, it might be worth it to introduce BW to SC virgins, especially since you can download a free multiplayer version of BW off the iCCup website. That's how I got all my friends into SC in the first place, and many of them ended up purchasing SC2 as a result, since most of them found the easier interface to be highly attractive.
You'll need to get some physical LAN parties up and running for the maximum effect. It's one thing to tell friends about pro games and another thing to show them in person.
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Well like I said, the problem isnt that they dont know what SC2 is or that it exist, they just dont wanna spend time playing nor following the scene. Like I said in the OP I want people to watch replays with, people to watch tournaments with etc. Not only play.
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On March 16 2011 22:10 PlosionCornu wrote:Show nested quote +On March 16 2011 22:07 Deadlyfish wrote:Yea i dont have any friends in real life that play sc2 either. I know of a few who even know what SC2 is, but they just play the campaign on easy and that's it. Day9 makes it sound sort of easy, and i wish i had the same friends as him, or at least friends who played starcraft. But then again i'm fine with just having online friends. I dont even think anyone in my city play sc2 at any level above silver You are so lucky. I don't even know if anyone in mine knows what sc2 is. Soccer games and cod-like fps are soo mainstream it hurts here .
For like 7months of the year i live in Panama, and you feel like a sort of king there. While everyone is discussing their 0,5 K/D ratio in CoD, i just watch over them knowing how much better Starcraft 2 is, and how i'm so much better than them, which is at least very nice
So i guess it isnt all bad :D
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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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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
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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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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.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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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I have 4 friends who play SC2 (my girlfriend included), but none of them ever want to play 1v1's because I beat them too often ;_;
I also have a cousin and a brother that I'm trying to get into SC2, but they also have a phobia of competition in games; my cousin will only play games he will handily beat me at, and I guess I beat my brother so many times at fighting games that he doesn't want to compete with me anymore ;_;
I might be going to college in montréal, though, and when I do, I should be able to find some people to play starcraft with that'll be better than me!
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Well finding practice partner that are at the similar level of yourself is very hard sometimes, I mean yes you can say "I am bronze" but there are like 100 diff types of Bronze players =(
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My best friend bought the game but he's known to never stick to one damn game <_< He does like RTS. If only I can get him to play with me. If I can find someone to play with IRL I would enjoy the game so much more. I wonder when's the next NYC TL meet would love to go.
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What may help you is this thread:
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=183961
I am in about the same situation and stumbled across this thread. I joined some channels and stayed there for a while, watching for games//players/general activity of the channel.
I also copied some names from the NA server and the channel that "helped" me most in EU was "obs". Just stay there and you can invite people to your games(just 1on1 without obs or these KotH maps for example) or you'll get invited to games of other players to obs/play.
You'll find people from masters to bronze in there, at least from my experience. So you can try this and maybe you'll find some "friends" at your level.
(Haven't read the whole thread, so sorry if this was posted before)
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it's the same for me, not one of my friends is interested in sc2, not even in esports. guess i'll remain the black sheep in that case, my attempts to get some of them involved failed
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On March 16 2011 23:40 ilikeLIONZ wrote:it's the same for me, not one of my friends is interested in sc2, not even in esports. guess i'll remain the black sheep in that case, my attempts to get some of them involved failed
Similar here, except for me it's collegues instead of friends. I got 3 to try out SC2 and in 3v1 they now manage to beat me after some time, but except for maybe once a week playing against me they don't play at all nor do they care about the pro scene (though after i introduced them to some custom maps, they play colony line wars and nexus wars from time to time).
Sadly i couldn't find a single player from my region (Flensburg, Schleswig-Holstein). I'll go on a LAN not far from here next month and there is a SC2 tournament there... i hope to meet a few more players there, hopefully someone on a similar skill level.
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I guess I am lucky... Friends introduced me to SC2, and so they all play. None of us is uberpro, but we get together on weekends and play 3v3s and 4v4s until 8 am sometimes. One of my friends who is more serious than the others (like myself) watches streams and showmatches with me online and things like that. He also gets all my sc2 jokes. If you are at a university of any decent size, I'd say you can probably find some other people who love sc2. Might not be people you've met before, but sc2 is a great bonder, haha.
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On March 16 2011 22:26 Antisocialmunky wrote:
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?
On March 16 2011 23:19 Morfildur wrote:
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.
These guys are right, in person is great and all, but BNET pretty much handles everything you need to have a long distance lan (observer mod/chat) So if we just get everyone feeling the same way into an active practice channel(tlpickup does not count), and maybe sub channels for skill ranges it will work out.
One suggestion though, I say we name the channel, "lonelyhearts" :D.
Edit: Why on earth isn't there a way to bookmark channels, having like 9 to reopen is annoying.
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On March 16 2011 21:55 Rylaji wrote:Well, I watched the #269 of Day9 daily last night(night for me at least!) and he talked about the importance of getting together with ppl you know and have fun while playing. This got me thinking, I really dont have ANYONE I know that plays SC2 on a regular basis, and noone who shares my passion for it. I mean I watch every GSL and other tournies I can get my hands on. I watched all of IEM and TSL's etc etc, I refresh TL.net all the time to look for good streams etc. But I have noone I know who is the same, this made me kinda "sad". I would love to do what Day9 said and have 4-5 friends and have a mini KOTH going some night, having the ones not playing atm spectating and having fun on Skype etc. Is there any way to sort this out? I mean I cant force my friends to play but is there some place or site where I can find people? And I dont mean practice partners etc only, I am only Bronze so I dunno if that is even neccissary but I mean people to play and watch streams with and discuss other than just this forum, or the live stream chats . Any ideas? And to get something else to talk about, how often do you play with your friends like KOTH or similiar? Discuss!
You should hang around on GameCreds sometimes, that's exactly what the site has been designed for :D
Granted, it's invaded by Frenchmen and the site can be hard to navigate sometimes, but I bet you'll find pple here who share your passion (I mean, it's sc2-oriented!)
As for me, I'm lucky enough to have a bunch of firends playing the game
Not all of them are very "gifted" at sc2, so I kinda let go of my ambitions to grind the 2v2/3v3 ladder though, but it's still fun playing with them
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If you are going to a university, do some research on the Colleagiate StarLeauge(CSL), you may find that your school has a team, so those would be great people to meet and practice with IRL, there are tons on universities competing in CSL
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I have 2 friends who play fairly regular.. however neither goes near ladder.. they play each other in games that last for hours. They'll occasionally play me, I'll win and they'll proclaim I'm too good and never play me again for months.. (I'm bronze...) and they'll go back to 1 hour 1v1s with each other, not playing ladder, nothing. but if you talk to them, they try and talk as if they know what they're saying about strategy and stuff and its frustrating.
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On March 16 2011 21:55 Rylaji wrote:Well, I watched the #269 of Day9 daily last night(night for me at least!) and he talked about the importance of getting together with ppl you know and have fun while playing. This got me thinking, I really dont have ANYONE I know that plays SC2 on a regular basis, and noone who shares my passion for it. I mean I watch every GSL and other tournies I can get my hands on. I watched all of IEM and TSL's etc etc, I refresh TL.net all the time to look for good streams etc. But I have noone I know who is the same, this made me kinda "sad". I would love to do what Day9 said and have 4-5 friends and have a mini KOTH going some night, having the ones not playing atm spectating and having fun on Skype etc. Is there any way to sort this out? I mean I cant force my friends to play but is there some place or site where I can find people? And I dont mean practice partners etc only, I am only Bronze so I dunno if that is even neccissary but I mean people to play and watch streams with and discuss other than just this forum, or the live stream chats . Any ideas? And to get something else to talk about, how often do you play with your friends like KOTH or similiar? Discuss!
hi man, if you want to play with me feel free to add me. [edited] is my REALID and I'm on europe too
Request: If you do add me, please send me a PM so we can hook up for the first game
Also then I will actually know to loot out for you
CYA LATER BRO
**EDIT with PM I mean PM on TL.net 
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On March 16 2011 21:59 Zorkmid wrote:
I don't think I've ever met a fellow SC2 fan in real life. I think we're all closeted.
I agree ^^
I think what I'm gonna do is just start wearing my TL shirt around my campus and hope that it acts as a sort of nerd-magnet, thus enabling me to find people interested in SC2. Sucks not having RL friends as into the scene as oneself.
At least TL is here for me ^^
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Also if you add me I can include you in teamgames with some of my IRL friends
We play fun crazy build games and the guy I play most with and myself are around Diamond level
my other friends range from bronze to gold :S
:D
cya
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Check out the CSL. You can see if your college or a college near you has a team and get in contact with them.
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Few my friends were playing and sometimes they still 2v2, but they dont care about the game anymore. Only one I think
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You should consider joining Valor Starleague, a league/environment aimed at players like yourself. You'll be put in a team consisting of players from bronze to diamond, be able to participate in weekly league games, random smaller scheduled events like tournaments and fun cups, and also just hang out with fellow Valor players, participate in koth's, obs games and get practice and advise.
Season 2 is starting soon so sign up if you're interested!
www.valorstarleague.com/forum
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back in bw times i only had 1 rl friend who shared the passion for the game, we played alot, created sone maps, etc.
i tried to share this stuff in 09, but nobody seemed interested b/c of the graphics etc. .
when sc2 came out, i tried it again, let them play vs ki, showed some por-games;
status now:
ive 4 friends, were totally new to sc2, one of them is diamond and rips me apart
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Im sadly one of the best, if not the best sc2 player on my campus >.<
Whats worse is ANY time I hear somebody talking about starcraft in any way shape or form...they're talking as if they know the game really well n shit, but everything they say is just wrong....and when I ask them how they play and such, they mostly just say "oh we were talking about 2v2 strats." or "oh ya I'm in silver league"
I have gotten a few of my friends to go from thinking starcraft is on par with WoW in terms of stupid, to actually being excited during a reallly epic game I'm watching while they're over or something. Its just that nobody will fucking play the game....meh, I did meet a korean dude though who saw me playing in the food court place, came up next to me and said "oh did you play starcraft 1 much? I'm KOREAN(much emphasis on this word xD)" ^.^
Oh well, maybe I'll be able to bribe somebody into watching MLG with me.....
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I only now 3 people irl that play starcraft. None of them plays any 1v1. Sometimes we play 2v2 and 3v3. Not that 2v2 are not fun, but playing 1v1s with people you know is much much more fun (I know that from BW).
I also tried getting them into watching SC2, I actually invited them to watch Jinro vs. MC in GSL3 (witch turned out to be a pretty bad idea, since 3 of 4 games where one sided and boring). Sometimes now they actually watch stuff and we can talk, but nobody around me is as interested as me.
I think a good way is introducing people you already know to SC2. Or maybe organize a local tournament or something. I think I will do that eventually at our university,that would actually bring a lot of people together, but I haven't had the time yet. I'm sure now is the best time to do it, though.
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You can't make your friends play sc2 if they don't like it. So you FIND sc2 friends.
How?
You obviously want them to be in the same town as you, so you can meet with them, have LAN parties, etc . This is what I did for my city - Chicago. Put them together.
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=178194
On March 16 2011 22:26 Antisocialmunky wrote:
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?
Why don't you guys use the TL COMMUNITY SECTION to make REGIONAL threads for your town/urban area? I met tons of people this way. Make it organized, have people PM you their email because having their SC2 ID does no good when they're not online.
YOU!! Yes, right now, you, the guy who thinks there are no SC2 friends in your town, go to the search function, search for your town/area. Don't just search for "Sweden" - Sweden is big. Don't just search for "Ohio" - Ohio is big.
If there is no thread in the TL community section about your city, MAKE ONE, but don't do what these guys did.
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=161450
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http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=168119
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http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=124304
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http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=199857
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http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=161205
(one where no one really took initiative)
What's the point of asking "I'm just curious to see how many StarCraft 2 players actually live in the <insert location> area.."
OF COURSE THERE ARE PLAYERS INTERESTED. Have a way to contact them, not TL PMs. "I'll check here from time to time" doesn't work. EMAIL is the best.
Good luck.
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I only have 1 friend thats sorta in Sc2, getting him to play 2v2 with me is a chore most of the time, and 1v1 isn't even an option for him. At least we're both into watching GSL and other SC tourneys, just wish he liked playing it just as much lol. I need more IRL Sc2 friends :[.
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The other day I had a party in my house, one of the guests came up to me and said 'You have a pretty nice mouse, you play Starcraft?'.
That was fun. I showed him some replays and we chatted about the game. At any rate, I have an incredible lack of time but I'm always up for a chat about the game or a friendly game or two. I live in Groningen, Netherlands. EU bnet. Silver/Gold level.
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On March 16 2011 23:56 frontliner2 wrote:Show nested quote +On March 16 2011 21:55 Rylaji wrote:Well, I watched the #269 of Day9 daily last night(night for me at least!) and he talked about the importance of getting together with ppl you know and have fun while playing. This got me thinking, I really dont have ANYONE I know that plays SC2 on a regular basis, and noone who shares my passion for it. I mean I watch every GSL and other tournies I can get my hands on. I watched all of IEM and TSL's etc etc, I refresh TL.net all the time to look for good streams etc. But I have noone I know who is the same, this made me kinda "sad". I would love to do what Day9 said and have 4-5 friends and have a mini KOTH going some night, having the ones not playing atm spectating and having fun on Skype etc. Is there any way to sort this out? I mean I cant force my friends to play but is there some place or site where I can find people? And I dont mean practice partners etc only, I am only Bronze so I dunno if that is even neccissary but I mean people to play and watch streams with and discuss other than just this forum, or the live stream chats . Any ideas? And to get something else to talk about, how often do you play with your friends like KOTH or similiar? Discuss! hi man, if you want to play with me feel free to add me. EDIT* my REALID and I'm on europe too Request: If you do add me, please send me a PM so we can hook up for the first game Also then I will actually know to loot out for you CYA LATER BRO **EDIT with PM I mean PM on TL.net
Wouldnt it bother you that ure so many leagues above me? , I mean I would prolly learn loads from it but you wouldnt really get anything out of stomping me? ^^
I'll add you anyway =)
As for the rest of you, thanks for making this thread better than I expected. TL deliver yet again. Sadly I dont live the US so things like CSL and such isnt available =/.
I'll check that Valor thingy out tho. Also I'll bejoining "lonelyhearts" channel when Im online :D
EDIT; Im not fussy about region, its not about finding swedes for me, just ppl in general.
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I'm in a similar situation, feel free to add me HornyHerring.181 EU.
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On March 17 2011 00:52 HornyHerring wrote:
I'm in a similar situation, feel free to add me HornyHerring.181 EU.
will do when I log on in a couple of hours =)
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Welcome to Scandinavia Rylaji :/ where only one of 100k are hardcore SC gamers, you could probably count the amount of Masters in Norway on both hands lol x_x
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I'm also in the same situation, add me for some games.
shell #904
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You probably have a community around you and you may not know about it. Starcraft is very popular everywhere just ask around TL if there are any SC fans in the area and you guys could get together meet up and then swap Battlenet ideas and play together and make new friends. Than when your other friends see you hanging with these cool new dudes it might spark an interest in them playing as well :D
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I wish I had your problems :-p. I really love SC2 (and loved BW), but I literally have almost no time to play due to RL constraints (mainly job and family). *sigh*. And if one plays only occasionally and at the strangest of times, you have no chance to really make friends or find practice partners.
Even though I have two friends who are quite a bit into SC2 (not toooo much though), we almost never have time to play. This is frustrating at times and I wished I had more times to play and to get rid of my somewhat rusty mechanics.
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I actually have the same problem. I need someone to watch games with but none of my friends are interested in Starcraft. Feel free to add me ingame or on msn if you use it: Animzor@gmail.com
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living in a third world country where forgodsaken DotA is the staple video game, i dont have RL friends that play sc2. and I have two friends that i met in local forums but now they are inactive. now back to laddering alone. It would be better that you have friends to play with just like day9 said. Sometimes its so stale and boring to play alone. Hope i can find active players in my area soon.
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In terms of practice partners/friends to help improve your gameplay, I honestly get a lot of mine through random custom games. I will just join up and right before I win or lose I back off or send a plea for them to back off and ask for feedback on my play. More often then not, they are really nice and tell me what they liked and didn't like followed up by an invitation for a rematch so I can specifically work on the aforementioned problems/holes in my play.
It gives me a broad range of perspectives and generates a lot of friendly conversation.
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I'm always happy to help a noob further their love an understanding of the game.
NerVFourOTwo
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Just send me a whisper in game, and I'll respond when I see it. I also enjoy playing vs people in the lower leagues since I don't have to take it seriously at all, and yet I can still help the person I'm playing against a lot. Just gotta have some fun ya know?
But seriously, if you want a random goodish dude on your friend list, hit me up. Im generally nice xD
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tldr: (sorry) join a clan like mine, The Art of War (Taw.net) we're a hugely friendly bunch thats well organised (over 100 members) if your talking IRL people then i guess the best you can do is post on here and look up other country specific sites.
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hey lets not divide the channels up into national things, there won't be anywhere near enough people in TLKOTHUK lol. i say just go in TLKOTH channel for koth metal tonight?
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I've been in the same boat off and on. I've got 2 friends who actively play SC2, but both are... how to put it... not as good as me? without sounding like a dick of course >.> But I occasionally play 3v3s with them, they moved to san antonio so not much RL gathering for GSL going on. There are plenty of people at the university of Texas here who love SC2, but as much as i love SC/2 i have a big distaste for going on UT campus (it's essentially hell for anyone who doesn't go to school there) so I'm left with my roommate who has a copy but is a fighting game jockey and randoms. Couple that with work and travel for work and it's rough
Best way to go would be to join some sort of league for your skill level or "clan/Team" for your skill level and get to know them. You can still skype a call and watch GSL, skype/vent a king of the hill and before you know it, a community can be born (almost like a star being born, but without the million degrees)
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I feel you!
None of my friends were in any way interested in video games. It Kinda sux, because would be so much more fun if you could meet up and talk about games amongst the usual things. Then again I live in some shitty place.
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It would be great to find some good skilled players in my area (Milwaukee) to get with and improve our mechanics and game-sense with. I'll be moving back to the Tampa area in a few months and UCF is pretty decent so maybe I can get with those guys (I'll have a lot of free time until spring semester starts in January, so I'll be playing SC2 for like 12 hours a day for about 4-5 months).
If anyone would like to get together on BNET/Skype for some good practice games and analysis send me a PM/Invite -- Wegandi.442.
Just a little history on me -- was top 3 in RA 95 for 6 years. Then switched to AoK and was one of the top players for a few years in that and same with AoE III. Never really played SC since I was a Red Alert player and then found AoK instead of SC Lots of RTS experience and good mechanics looking to continue to keep getting better. (My TvT is absolutely atrocious so any help here would be magnificent!) (MMR currently ~3100 -- For comparison SeleCT is 3700)
NA Server. Also, anyone in the Milwaukee/Tampa/St. Pete areas send me a PM if you are serious about SC2!
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My friends all played like 50 games of the ladder in the beta, and for them the competition was too high, too competitive, and they all quit quite quickly. None of them wanted to learn and hammer down builds, they just wanted to win, and not put any effort into it. In the end they did a good amount of custom games but even those stopped.
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My real life friends have the game but don't play it anymore lol.
I only occasionally play starjeweled with one of my good friends, we tear up nubs.
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So where do you live? If you'd happen to live in Stockholm, I'm up for going to an internet café or so and play some games. There's nothing better than that to improve ones game I believe.
Throw me a PM if that's the case.
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my best friends on bnet are people i met in sc1. we started a clan together and most of us are still around for sc2. known them for just about 8 years now :D occasionally we have mini get togethers were we drive across the US and Canada to meet. vent is probably the most important thing, but facebook, skype all help. I also have a ton of friends from another site since we are smaller and more tight knit + Show Spoiler +. most recently we formed clan vile which is where hashe comes from and we've picked up a lot of amazing people :D wish i was more active so i could get to know them better, but we still talk on skype and run 1's occasionally.
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I watch a lot of SC2 with my girl. Play 2v2 with her in platinum (yes, she's not THAT bad) - she knows how IdrA/inControl looks and knows saying "terran is op" makes me happy .
Get a gamer girl!
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meh i would love to play with some of my old good friends.... however SC2 bnet is anti social and divides us since we all are essentially to poor and cheap to buy more copies of sc2 to get on the same freaking region.
so we just sit around discussing it, and when we sit in the same room together, we laugh at how much bnet 2.0 sucks that we can sit next to each other and play SC2 and not be able to play with each other.
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My whole department at work is playing it. Now that is fun! I sometimes catch myself comparing their SC2 skills with their job performance lol
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I got some of my friends too test it out but no one plays it that much :S.
I usually sit on skype with them playing SC2 while they play WoW, CoD, and HoN xd
Gosh sometimes i wish i had some friends screaming with me at things like the GSL finals or the Clash of the titans.. ^^
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On March 17 2011 00:29 ggofthejungle wrote:You can't make your friends play sc2 if they don't like it. So you FIND sc2 friends. How? You obviously want them to be in the same town as you, so you can meet with them, have LAN parties, etc . This is what I did for my city - Chicago. Put them together. http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=178194Show nested quote +On March 16 2011 22:26 Antisocialmunky wrote:
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? Why don't you guys use the TL COMMUNITY SECTION to make REGIONAL threads for your town/urban area? I met tons of people this way. Make it organized, have people PM you their email because having their SC2 ID does no good when they're not online. YOU!! Yes, right now, you, the guy who thinks there are no SC2 friends in your town, go to the search function, search for your town/area. Don't just search for "Sweden" - Sweden is big. Don't just search for "Ohio" - Ohio is big. If there is no thread in the TL community section about your city, MAKE ONE, but don't do what these guys did. http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=161450or http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=168119or http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=124304or http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=199857or http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=161205(one where no one really took initiative) What's the point of asking "I'm just curious to see how many StarCraft 2 players actually live in the <insert location> area.." OF COURSE THERE ARE PLAYERS INTERESTED. Have a way to contact them, not TL PMs. "I'll check here from time to time" doesn't work. EMAIL is the best. Good luck.
I did that a month ago. The thread had no relevant response (i searched for players from the whole state, not just the 80k people city). I used the search and entered the state - no result. I entered the city - i just found a post of someone liking the beer. I used google - no relevant pages on the first 3 pages. I went to german SC2 pages and did the same - no result.
There just aren't any SC2 players in this area, it seems.
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Agree with OP..none of my gaming friends have even heard of SC2..and i dont think they would ever play it..very sad ;(
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I know one guy who USED to play. Other than that, I really don't know anyone either.
Sucks.
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Hey I knew that feeling of "not having anyone to share your pation with" luckily for me i was introduced to a league called valor, which is a league meant for low level players (diamond to bronze) that want to experiment starcraft in company and sort of a"competitive way" as teams are formed that play every weekend in a sort of "team league style".
Free coaching for more experiencde players is offered as well as the games being broadcasted by volunteers that will make you feel as if you were in a real hard core competition.
To sign in just type "Valor" in the EU servers chat or go to "http://www.valorstarleague.com/forum/index.php" to get more information.
The second season is one week from starting and we are going to make an officla post anuncing it!
Gl HF
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Hi Guys sorry if this question is dumb butis there any forum on tl or anywhere else where Clans are recruiting, groups are forming, practice partners etc....
i have a huge mmo background and i am the last one playing sc2 out of 5 guys which left aion with me... but i am soo used too hanging around on teamspeak...playing winning and losing together..(somehow..you get the idea)
i have kind of a hard days work and during the day i am looking soo forward too play sc2 when i come home.. but when i arrive i am too scared,, or i feel not comfortable enough..
but my friendlist is pretty empty and i would love too have clan like grouop of maybe 10-20 players..with teamspek or any other voice app... and practice with each other or little tournaments.... just to get into the right mood to rape ladder ^^...
anyways i fell kind of lost and would love too know at what place i have the biggest chance to find a group, clan, gilde etc..
contact me ingame if you want or pm me...
Telefonmann 422 / Eu Server Plat/diamond lvl around 3100 points..
i am german but i wont bother to talk english ...
(for a small group of people i can still use the teamspeakserver from my old aion Guild.. Another Cold day..if you wanna google it)
so sry if i took the wrong Thread but i was kind of lost where to post...
greeetz tl
Telefonmann
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I'm somewhat in the same boat. If you have an internet cafe, grab a friend and go down there for a few hours, start hanging out there a bit, you'll meet Starcraft players. I started with just me and one of my friends playing the game, and I now have about 6 or 7 people I know that are usually down for a few games. I also dug myself into the community of TL a little bit and met a few people that live near me, and we play a lot. I play a lot of Starcraft, and my friend who I started playing with now just watches tournaments and likes the game a lot, but he just doesn't have interest in playing.
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I feel the SAME way! I live in fairly large city, called Seattle, and I have a decent amount of friends.
Yet NONE of them plays. Makes me feel lonely at times, and give up StarCraft, but something about this game just hits me, and motivates me to play, over and over again.
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Ugg I'm in the exact same boat as OP. I have one good friend who was really into it with me, but his interests seem to be dieing with lack of success on the ladder and other games he's more interested in coming out. I haven't really gone to the internet that much, but also after watching the daily last night it has interested me into looking. I am looking for the same thing. Some people to hang out with on Skype who will understand what I'm talking about, instead of my gf just looking at me cross eyes or playing angry birds and not paying attention. Maybe some random KOTH's or even just custom games playing together with the common goal to improve not to crush each other.
I also have the problem, where, I come from a heavy FPS background. So most of my high school friends/online friends were also from a similar background. So, to say the least, they are not interested in a "slower" paced game like SC.
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You know you can link SC2 to your facebook account if you hve one right? I did this and was very surprised to see how Many of my friends DO play! You might be too.
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I have friends who are into SC2, but they're at gold/plat level and for some reason deathly afraid of playing 1v1.
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sigh... I'm in the same boat. If anyone from the Nashville Tennessee area is reading this, feel free to pm me.
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I actually got quite a few people into watching starcraft, the problem is they just won't play. Then again I haven't played a lot either so maybe they picked it up from me :/
But this is going to change, so here goes:
Glimred 466 EU
I'm also going to start hanging out in that "lonelyhearts" channel you guys have been talking about.
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None of my friends, play ScBw or Sc2. Ill admit it sucks. Not just for the lack of ability to practice and learn the game better with my friends in a non pressure environment, but also because i have no one to talk about all the Sc2 tournament leagues.
Truth be told, i really don't hang out with my friends any more. Most the time their doing things i don't have any interest in, and vice versa.
While SC2 may have been the final tipping point, its not the only reason for loosing interest in my friends. I've always been very different from my friends, very different opinions on a lot of topics. An outsider looking in would wonder why we were friends for so long, with so many differences.
So on a friday when my friends wanna do something. I would much rather hang out, wait for GSL to come on.
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You watch all those and you're still bronze? How does that happen :p
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On March 17 2011 03:50 infinity2k9 wrote:
You watch all those and you're still bronze? How does that happen :p
Well I didnt play as much untill some time ago, and I am one of those who just consume redicilous amounts of SC2 media but when it comes to applying it ingame I still got shitloads to learn. BUt I made a thread about it in the Strategy Forum =)
And again, big thanks to EVERYONE, Ive gotten alot of PM's and what you have written in the thread and this thread has gone bigger and became more useful than I thought =). This shows again what an amazing community TL really is.
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Absolutely nobody I know plays this game. I'm so ronery. If i have some friends to discuss the game and practice with I know I can escape this cursed #1diamond and get into masters. Any high diamond/any masters people want a top diamond protoss training partner? :>
None of my friends, play ScBw or Sc2. Ill admit it sucks. Not just for the lack of ability to practice and learn the game better with my friends in a non pressure environment, but also because i have no one to talk about all the Sc2 tournament leagues.
Truth be told, i really don't hang out with my friends any more. Most the time their doing things i don't have any interest in, and vice versa. Are you a clone of me? It's uncanny how much this sounds like me.
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I am in a bad situation like this too. My friends dont even play PC games they just play RPGs on their Xbox's. Nothing much you can do though. I set up a stream trying to curb their interest a little bit and they enjoy it but not enough to invest in a PC to play it.
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I know what you mean; not having friends as practice partners is quite a big detriment to one's growth.
I too have been getting some of my friends into Starcraft (and pretty much everything else I introduce them, they have been accepting) but they don't have the passion and/or the intellect to play Starcraft at a high enough level. This is disappointing to me, of course... it would be so fun to have a couple friends that play different races and be able to grind games (you and your friends at equal levels too of course) and chat or discuss while spectating.
Anyway, if you have some friends that are even remotely interested, or perhaps not at all, get them to learn about the greatness of Starcraft. Tell them about the millionaire progamers, the huge prizes, the celebrity statuses of progamers, the TV channels, the scope of the tournaments (largest attendance higher than largest attendance of Superbowl!) etc. Try to do it slowly of course... but it depends on the person and your relationship with them I guess xD.
Just make it really clear that progaming is LEGIT and is luxurious. After all, who wouldn't want all those gaming hours to be productive? (Incentive to play Starcraft =D)
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I'm in the same boat really.
I have 1 friend who plays regularly (but is considerably better than me) and the rest simply only play once a blue moon or played sc2 purely for the single player side of it. Bugs me a lot because way back in the old Quakeworld days, just about all of my friends played and we'd have biweekly tournaments to see who is the best. Was great motivation to improve.
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Is there anyone with interest in SC2, Day[9] and all that good jazz, BUT plays Brood War only? Or SC2 + BW.. the thing is I can only play Brood War, but I'm interested in SC2 tournaments etc. Which makes it even harder to find friends to play/share with.
If there's anyone like me, let me know. I'm a D- protoss interested in loosing in as many fun matches as possible.
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Only have 1 rl friend that knows what SC2 is really. So happens to also be my BF since kindergarden lol. It's amazing after 15yrs we still have the same interests when it comes to games.
Other than that I haven't met a single person who knows what SC2 is or has the same interests in games.
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I have a bunch of friends who play! just, theyre all Silver/Bronze
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I think whats tough is that Team games in SC2 really pale in comparison to 1v1s. 1v1 format is so engrossing and intense and challenging and then you play a team game and its usually... tier one rushes into messy transitions. The only fun I have in team games is when I queue up for 4s with a group of 2 or 3 of us so we can make fun of the 4th guy that built 6 marines in 20 minutes after the game. Everyone once in a while random 4s can get really engaging and fun, but SC2 is not a team game IMO even though there are options for it. 1v1 is so much better and since its pretty rare for you and your buddies to all be around the same level its hard to have good games. Im lucky to have 2 friends that both can compete and make for some really engaging 1v1 matches, theyre both high diamond and im masters.
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I guess Im not alone in this situation at least =), anyway there the TLKOTH channel on EU bnet now for people interested, Im online pretty much everyday.
Lets just be glad that we are many that have this problem and we can help eachother out =)
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Gotta say was a very pleasent experience today joining some of the suggested chat channels and talking to ppl, prolly most fun Ive had yet on bnet, chatting and laddering =). Even managed to play customs with a gold zerg :D
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its always going to be that way if you don't put forth effort to find like minded people that share your interests. You can see if anyone made a thread for local sc2 players in your area and setup a meetup to watch a GSL finals or something.
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You don't just go into starcraft with friends you just meet people a long the way like Day9 did. Put yourselves out there on the blogs and you guys can find some starcraft buddies. I mean what more do we need we all love starcraft and we all have that in common go! gl guys
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I wish I had more people that played SC2 the same way I do. LOL
I have 2-3 good friends that play often, but all they're really interested in is 3v3/4v4 and sometimes 2v2 if no one else is on.
My wife and my son are somewhat interested, but having trouble getting into the game, really, it's not extremely new-player-friendly, imo.
Would be awesome to have a practice partner that I actually know IRL. Oh well...*shrug*
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I used to have 1-2 friends like this.. playing SC2 regularly with me, almost everyday. We talked so much about build orders, programers and whenever we have koreans pass by us in the city or something, we'll even joke about "they must have very high APM"...
Too bad.. after sometimes, they stopped playing that often and started to move on to something else.
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Me and my friends all planed to buy sc2 on the release date, I was the only who bought it. They still have yet to buy it. They used to play allot of fastest in bw, though i played melee.
My constant talk about sc2 has made them decide not to buy the game.
Now I have no daily friends or close friends online to play additivity every day and night with. Makes me not play as much. I really enjoy a good 1vs1. With working coming back into the picture soon I really want to enjoy these last few weeks.
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I have 2 friends who bought sc2 because of me and we played a lot of 2v2 and 3v3 but they weren't as in to it as me and never 1v1'd with me. Another friend of mine is starting to get into it, He is in to Cod4 esports so the idea isn't strange to him. He prefers to watch Australian players because he has no interest in others.
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I had only one friend who I actually used to play BW with. I have another who still watches so much PL all the time, but he refuses to play. I'm the only one who ever reached anything over D on iccup for sure.
I also have quite a number of friends who have bought SC2, played it, and are still playing it. Most of them are absolutely terrible at 1v1 and never take my advice seriously despite asking for it. I don't know what it is about being a competitive RTS gamer, but we seem to all be few and far between.
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I'm in the same boat, i only have 1 friend playing sc2 somewhat seriously, and he is also protoss so the only 1v1 we can do with races that we are comfortable with are PvP.
Discussing build orders and different things around sc2 i usually doing on IRC, its a lot of chatting in #swe.sc2 so if you are a swedish player and feel lonely feel free to join the channel
You can also join #teamliquid.
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this is why nasl and mlg will never get big as they hope. its such aniche. i have experience in trying to promote stuff like mma. most people spend most of their time trying to get laid to have actual hobbies/life.
even the guys i used to play with dont anymore. so a lot of the times i'm stuck on friggin ladder playing with these guys who 1 rax into bcs.
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Like 5 of my friends brought sc2 because I told him sc2 is.first they liked it,but they kept losing and quit.now im introducting my girlfriend right now,and I think she really likes it,shes asking everyday if we can play
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the truth is if people aren't good at something right away they will quit. people are quite mentally weak.
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Everyone is so lonely, lets just all hold hands together and play some 1v1s
dorrussaga.417
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I keep seeing/hearing thw word "KOTH". What is that?
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On March 17 2011 20:46 DoctorPhil wrote:
I keep seeing/hearing thw word "KOTH". What is that?
King of the Hill
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On March 17 2011 20:46 DoctorPhil wrote:
I keep seeing/hearing thw word "KOTH". What is that?
KIng of the Hill, really funny stuff =)
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When i first started playing a few of my rl friends played quite a bit but they gradually moved back to first person games and WoW, leaving little old me playing by myself. Shame really as i actually prefer team games.
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On March 17 2011 23:03 DoctorPhil wrote:
And what is king of the hill?
Winner stays, loser gives up his spot. Go for as long as you want, or impose rules (can only be king for 3 games or something).
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On March 17 2011 14:37 Rylaji wrote:
Gotta say was a very pleasent experience today joining some of the suggested chat channels and talking to ppl, prolly most fun Ive had yet on bnet, chatting and laddering =). Even managed to play customs with a gold zerg :D
I think I know who you are
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A few of my friends got the copy of the game but then they all started to quit cause they thought Terran was OP. Now it seems as if I'm the only one still playing.
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The only real way to find friends with the same interest in SC2 in through the online community, then meet up in real life. SC2 is still a niche hobby no matter how you look at it, just like how you can find people with different interest in different sports depending on where you live.
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There are so many people that play SC2 at my school. Try finding people who play BW.
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I have the same problem as well. People dont want to play 1v1 it seems.
I think many people have too big an ego to accept the fact that you will loose 50% of your games when playing ladder.
But i also miss people the cheer with when playing, it is hard to loose a lot of games and have no one to complain to.
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Make some new friends on TL.net and play SC2 with them :D
Also get your gf into SC2 by showing her a VOD of Tastosis casting a pro SC2 match, and she will lol her way into loving the game. Worked for me, we now have a 2v2 team
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Starcraft 2 with me and my friends is hit and miss, either you like or you don't. I've found that people that don't play it like to watch it though (GSL, Streams, ect.). I would say join a team and see if there are any nearby LANs and meet people there. I met a ton of people at the last LAN I went to and found out that a few even went to my college. GL! ^_^
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On March 17 2011 23:45 bubblegumbo wrote:
The only real way to find friends with the same interest in SC2 in through the online community, then meet up in real life. SC2 is still a niche hobby no matter how you look at it, just like how you can find people with different interest in different sports depending on where you live.
Somewhat yes, but when went on he facebook sc2 friend finder i found like 30 people i know that have sc2. Most of them dont play anymore, but i do have lots of rl friends that play sc2, mabye im just lucky. I do hang with online friends when i play though, we just talk in a team speak channell and play games, watch streams, gsl and what not. Watching sc2 is way is way better when you can talk about the games
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On March 16 2011 21:59 Zorkmid wrote:
I don't think I've ever met a fellow SC2 fan in real life. I think we're all closeted.
Going out to a place where students go, the special shot of the night was "baneling bust".
After watching a set of very exciting gsl matches, i packed my bags and went to the gym. On my way I heard TWO groups of people talking about the very matches I just saw. Granted I live in a university-city with probably a lot of geeks, but starcraft people go outside :p
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On March 17 2011 23:54 nkr wrote:Show nested quote +On March 16 2011 21:59 Zorkmid wrote:
I don't think I've ever met a fellow SC2 fan in real life. I think we're all closeted. Going out to a place where students go, the special shot of the night was "baneling bust". After watching a set of very exciting gsl matches, i packed my bags and went to the gym. On my way I heard TWO groups of people talking about the very matches I just saw. Granted I live in a university-city with probably a lot of geeks, but starcraft people go outside :p
This. I went to local bar that plays metal and has a bit of an alternative group of patrons.
Went to the beer garden and a group of people overheard my friend and I talking about SC2, got 4 new Real IDs in the friends list that night! Keep the faith, the SC2 fans are out there and they are unashamed.
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On March 17 2011 23:56 Maynarde wrote:Show nested quote +On March 17 2011 23:54 nkr wrote:On March 16 2011 21:59 Zorkmid wrote:
I don't think I've ever met a fellow SC2 fan in real life. I think we're all closeted. Going out to a place where students go, the special shot of the night was "baneling bust". After watching a set of very exciting gsl matches, i packed my bags and went to the gym. On my way I heard TWO groups of people talking about the very matches I just saw. Granted I live in a university-city with probably a lot of geeks, but starcraft people go outside :p This. I went to local bar that plays metal and has a bit of an alternative group of patrons. Went to the beer garden and a group of people overheard my friend and I talking about SC2, got 4 new Real IDs in the friends list that night! Keep the faith, the SC2 fans are out there and they are unashamed.
I've had allot of different situations like that, its so true !
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This is just a heads up to anyone similar to the OP in that they don't have anyone to enjoy SC2 with; if you play on the SEA server, head over to channel 'LOLX'
LOLX is primarily a 1v1 customs channel where anyone from any league can come to play or watch practice games together. Aside from that, we're also a laid back and relaxed channel where you are free to talk about anything and everything that's related to SC2, whether it's theorycrafting or discussion of news or competitions.
So come check us out! you got nothing to lose.
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On March 17 2011 23:27 Jago wrote:Show nested quote +On March 17 2011 14:37 Rylaji wrote:
Gotta say was a very pleasent experience today joining some of the suggested chat channels and talking to ppl, prolly most fun Ive had yet on bnet, chatting and laddering =). Even managed to play customs with a gold zerg :D I think I know who you are
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Ah there you are, sort of forgot your nick *shame*, I shall avenge my losses at some point! :D
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I know only two players IRL that are in the game - both don't hold my passion (plat/gold players with not even 15 games played)
It's just a different kind of relationship, to have someone in real life you're close to be also just as passionate with something as you are. Sure, meeting random people online could suffice - but that's what they are! just random people. Think of the guys that talk about sports. A lot of talk about sports, their teams, players, all of that, and bond through it; I as many of you, lack that.
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On March 18 2011 05:06 DuckS wrote:
I know only two players IRL that are in the game - both don't hold my passion (plat/gold players with not even 15 games played)
It's just a different kind of relationship, to have someone in real life you're close to be also just as passionate with something as you are. Sure, meeting random people online could suffice - but that's what they are! just random people. Think of the guys that talk about sports. A lot of talk about sports, their teams, players, all of that, and bond through it; I as many of you, lack that.
Ye i agree with you, that would be awesome =/.
The only people i talk SC2 with IRL don't even play it at all so they are not that interested.. xd
So hyped for the TSL. But I will probably end up watching it alone =/.
Wish there was someplace in Stockholm all the swedish SC2 fans could meet up and watch it together.. ^^.
Oh well, I guess my couch aint to bad
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I have the same problem. I know there are a bunch of kids at my school that may like SC2, but either they don't want to become public about it (because they are afraid of being classified as a nerd), or they aren't serious enough to watch tourneys like the GSL or TSL.
I used to have a friend like that at school (only one), but he stopped playing SC2 and switched over to LOL.
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I usually feel like the only one that follows SC2 extensively out of everyone I know. So, I know how everyone feels. SC2 is an intimidating game to other people, so thats why they don't play it. Right now, I am playing with a few friends here and there that are bronze/silver. Anyone bronze/silver in the NA server looking for people to add can shoot me a PM, I will hook you up.
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Have friends over for food and drinks at a time that just happens to coincide with a tournament finals. Play said finals in background. Don't force them to watch, but they will naturally be interested in it.
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I've always followed casters and tournaments, but after I started working this has slowed down a lot.
I have 3 friends who have the game.
One of them I barely see even online, so we don't play together.
One of them made the newb mistake of buying the LA version when he knew we all bought the NA.
And the other one is my 2v2 partner, though we started working and now we don't have a lot of spare time.
I've got a couple of friends who are gamers, or like games in general. They like how enthusiastic I sound, but never had a lot of interest on the game.
But since a couple weeks ago, I showed one of them the #100, and he sounds really interested into buying a notebook that can play SC2, he even heard the GSL finals are going to be Saturday 3AM our time, and he asked if I wanted to come over to his house to watch. I found that amazing!
Edit.: I even let him play a custom game on my PC against Very Easy AI, it took him like 18minutes to go down his ramp hahaha, was a lot of fun, even though there was nothing really happening =P
Edit2.: I showed the poster of TSL to another friend and he was like "Whoa, that looks like MMA posters." He is friends with the friend I mentioned above, so I think I might be able to drag them both into watching the finals of GSL!
Maybe I'm slowly bringing them in :}
//tx
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[B]On March 16 2011 22:20 Deadlyfish wrote: For like 7months of the year i live in Panama, and you feel like a sort of king there. While everyone is discussing their 0,5 K/D ratio in CoD, i just watch over them knowing how much better Starcraft 2 is, and how i'm so much better than them, which is at least very nice So i guess it isnt all bad :D
What a sad, miserable life you must have, you give nerds a bad name tbh.
SC2 is not better than CoD and for a reason (mass appeal can be regarded as a quality), but actually those are two different games so your dumb comparison is uncalled for.
Regarding the topic - I too would love if more people I know would play SC2, but seems that it just doesn't hold up the interest. Starting players dread online games so much, and lesser players easily give up even if they've only lost few games, but I guess that's the curse of any RTS.
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Sc2 is too non-rewarding of a game, I have like 20 friends that started playing, right now 0 plays at a regular base (I for one only watch gsl, iem and now tsl/nasl )
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On March 18 2011 05:50 noD wrote:
Sc2 is too non-rewarding of a game, I have like 20 friends that started playing, right now 0 plays at a regular base (I for one only watch gsl, iem and now tsl/nasl )
I don't know how a new player sees it (someone that never played SC or RTS games), but I find SC2 very rewarding. Each game I play is either a stressful loss, that I want to learn how to avoid, or an victory, where I feel my job is complete, and that I earned something.
Also, there are tons of achievements =P
//tx
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If anyone wants to play vs a gold toss add linda-_-@live.se i play on EU, nationality doesnt matter at all!
Oh and also don't be afraid to add just for chatting and such even if you are above/under my level of skill, I'm quite social!
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I have a similar problems, with my friends I had before I played SC2, we all got it around the same time. Actually 2 of them for my bday got it for me, and everyone else started getting it.
We all played about the same amount, but the skill level was just wayyyy to different, they in bronze, I got put in platinum. Then few months later into Masters.
It sucks that it discourages alot of them to play knowing that I got wayyyy better than they did, but I want to teach them how to play. I have a goal to make at least one of my 6 friends that have the game get promoted to at least gold league from where they are.
Other than that, I found a lot of players in my area that share the same philosophies (if you want to call them that) of SC2 as I do, and made new friends that way.
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On March 18 2011 06:01 Tschis wrote:Show nested quote +On March 18 2011 05:50 noD wrote:
Sc2 is too non-rewarding of a game, I have like 20 friends that started playing, right now 0 plays at a regular base (I for one only watch gsl, iem and now tsl/nasl ) I don't know how a new player sees it (someone that never played SC or RTS games), but I find SC2 very rewarding. Each game I play is either a stressful loss, that I want to learn how to avoid, or an victory, where I feel my job is complete, and that I earned something. Also, there are tons of achievements =P //tx
You are not awarded by playing, but for winning, so it's too stressful sometimes, and achivements are sooooooo meh ....
plus if u start mixing games u will end up getting really bad in sc2, it requires full time...
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I guess I'm lucky, I have atleast 5 friends who either play SC2 pretty consistently and/or watch the GSL. :D
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Zero irl friends who are into it. One friend I've developed through playing. ISO more.
I skype/mumble etc. I love to have fun while playing, try new things and sometimes troll and bm opponents. Add me up!
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Hey you guys from Australia!
Do you guys go to Aus-1 channel ? Because from time to time there will be mates there lol.
Are you blokes from Sydney?
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Almost every school has a gaming/sc club/team/whatever where you can probably meet other ppl who share your interest. If not, you could always start one here on TL and meet ppl that way.
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i have a lot of friends who are interested, play sometimes and watch casts.
however, i do not know anyone that i can practice with. IRL i've only met 3 people that was better or on par with me on bw or sc2, 2 koreans and 1 white guy.
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On March 18 2011 09:00 jinorazi wrote:
i have a lot of friends who are interested, play sometimes and watch casts.
however, i do not know anyone that i can practice with. IRL i've only met 3 people that was better or on par with me on bw or sc2, 2 koreans and 1 white guy.
Well, I can assume the situation is completely different in South Korea compared to Canada/America
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I managed to get my roommates to play BW (Their computers are old :p) with me, and one of them frequently watches GSL with me now :D
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I must be pretty lucky then... I have 3 friends who are at about my level (masters), and a few others who are much lower. Then again, we are all Asian, so that might play a part in it.
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Lol I guess I'm really lucky...I know about 3 dozen people IRL who play on a regular basis (I play the least among them). And out of those 36-40...around 12 of them watch BW proleague/osl/msl too :D
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I've only got one friend in SC2. Got him interested around launch. Unfortunately he hasn't improved since purchase and won't take any advice (it's like he doesn't want to improve) so I haven't had anyone talk strat or practice 1v1 with.
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I have a friend who used to watch me play BW, however, when he tried a game on ICCUP, as you would imagine, it was "pretty" one sided.
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On March 18 2011 13:52 thejamster wrote:
I've only got one friend in SC2. Got him interested around launch. Unfortunately he hasn't improved since purchase and won't take any advice (it's like he doesn't want to improve) so I haven't had anyone talk strat or practice 1v1 with.
I have one of those :<
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Look at day9, most of the people he talks about he met initially online (i think). Just try to message people after games and and stuff. Like if you play with a good random 2v2 team-mate, party up for a while, see if the guy's cool. Eventually you will come across people interested in the same things and maybe make some new friends sc2 friends. They don't necessarily have to be irl/local friends, especially with things like skype and vent.
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All my rl friends that used to play sc2 never got into the whole e-sports scene and now they all pretty much stopped playing D:
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i tried with a few rl friends but they all blew it off as too hard/daunting and "didnt want to have to play all day to be decent"
edit: ive gotten several people to love tastosis though even though they dont give a shit about the game itself ^^
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It does help quite a bit if you have 3-5 friends that play. Not even have a passion for it, but just enjoy it. It gives you different dynamic and relaxation to your own improvements, training, or leisure.
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i have about 5 friends that play sc2 and played sc1 with me, but we only played ums games in sc1 and i was the only one who got into the actual game in sc2, therefor im play and they are all bronze and only wanna play team games, so im kinda out friends too since i dont care for team games and they dont care for 1v1
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i have a few IRL friends playing, maybe 7? though only 3 of them are any good
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Last night was a prime example really. Played a few 4v4's with a rl friend. We lost 2 games in a row and he got fed up and quit instead of checking the replay and finding out what he\we did wrong or sucking it up and having another game. I just dont think most gamers deal with losing very well so they stick to easy games like COD or an EA sports title.
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I have to say that the among of people where I live that's acturly into games other then shooters and WoW is countable on one hand, and to be completely honest, it cuts heavily into how much you play the game, if you just sit alone in your room you tend to just do other stuff as just playing for the sake of playing without having anyone to share it with or talk about it with, really don't gives you the desire to put effort into it.
So most of my time end up just watching streams and watch tournaments, and then just chill out to other stuff (fan of tyler clearly )
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I have 3-4 friends into SCII to some degree. One of which who would be insanely good at the game but he can't be bothered to play (First time playing SCII he pulled out 150 apm and pulled off exactly what I told him to do and placed plat but then stopped playing) the others are at plat, silver / gold.
The "problem" with starcraft 2 is that its really competitive type of game and most people are casual gamers.
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I only have 1 rl friend who has sc2, all my other friends own playstations or xboxes, the friend who does have it only played the single player, he never even done the placement matches for the 1v1. We did do a few 2v2 but he quit playing and went back to wow. Feel free to add me and maybe play some time. I live in uk
Ultra 322
EU Server
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None of my RL friends play SC2. Ok well thats not technically the case. They are bronze level and play maybe 1-2 games a week.
So essentially everyone I play the game with I do not know in RL. But this has been the case for nearly every game I have played.
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On March 18 2011 08:11 noD wrote:Show nested quote +On March 18 2011 06:01 Tschis wrote:On March 18 2011 05:50 noD wrote:
Sc2 is too non-rewarding of a game, I have like 20 friends that started playing, right now 0 plays at a regular base (I for one only watch gsl, iem and now tsl/nasl ) I don't know how a new player sees it (someone that never played SC or RTS games), but I find SC2 very rewarding. Each game I play is either a stressful loss, that I want to learn how to avoid, or an victory, where I feel my job is complete, and that I earned something. Also, there are tons of achievements =P //tx You are not awarded by playing, but for winning, so it's too stressful sometimes, and achivements are sooooooo meh .... plus if u start mixing games u will end up getting really bad in sc2, it requires full time...
That depends on how you see it. A lost is also a win if you earn some crucial piece of information that will make you a better player.
//tx
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I have a friend who plays sc2. He is in gold whilst I am in Bronze lol. I still beat him in 1v1s 70% of the time though lol.
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my RL friends dont play and my online friends are gold at best with 1 diamond although he played about 100 games when the game came out and didn't want to get kicked out of diamond league...
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Its hard to find people to like this game. I have a group of RL Friends follow me to whatever game I go to. But this one. They dont like RTS games. Im guessing its too hard for them..
Sad
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i know 1 person whos somewhat interested in sc2. all others dont play games or are plain bad at anything PC related anyways.
dont see a big problem with that tho. i already waste so much time with sc2/games when im at home that i really dont need that when doing stuff with with my people.
if i want to talk about sc2 i go to TL or talk to friendlist/guild.
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On March 18 2011 05:22 57 Corvette wrote:
I have the same problem. I know there are a bunch of kids at my school that may like SC2, but either they don't want to become public about it (because they are afraid of being classified as a nerd), or they aren't serious enough to watch tourneys like the GSL or TSL.
I used to have a friend like that at school (only one), but he stopped playing SC2 and switched over to LOL.
This I think this is something that is sooo common, it is somewhat taboo, not really taboo but it's slightly looked down upon even though there is nothing strange with doing what you love. (As Day9 put it)
I have like 2 friends that watch tournaments and play a lot, though they don't watch the same amount as I do, buut I can still talk with them a lot about tournaments builds etc.
Oh and a funny story, I actually met one of by best friends through SC, we had been playing together for quite a while and then asked each other were we lived etc. It turned out we went to the same school, same year but different classes, I was in F he was in E. So the day after we met up and became best friends!! So awesome!
I would love to have a "party" for watching stuff like the GSL finals, I would even love to host it but I can't T.T
Still living home + not enough space.
Oh and I am up for playing, chilling, discussing the game and what not. I'll send you a PM
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So I'm planning on this 'party' tonight for the finals, the free Stream is ok? I mean, I always see on live reports threads that some people have problems with the stream...
Do I need to download a player? I've never watched a live match, but for the free VODs I always just go to Gomtv.net and press play after logging in, I don't have an application player running besides the browser, but I also always see people talking about problems with GomTV player ;/
//tx
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I actually don't know anyone that really cares for Sc2, even though i know a lot of gamers. Too bad!!
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On March 16 2011 21:55 Rylaji wrote:Well, I watched the #269 of Day9 daily last night(night for me at least!) and he talked about the importance of getting together with ppl you know and have fun while playing. This got me thinking, I really dont have ANYONE I know that plays SC2 on a regular basis, and noone who shares my passion for it. I mean I watch every GSL and other tournies I can get my hands on. I watched all of IEM and TSL's etc etc, I refresh TL.net all the time to look for good streams etc. But I have noone I know who is the same, this made me kinda "sad". I would love to do what Day9 said and have 4-5 friends and have a mini KOTH going some night, having the ones not playing atm spectating and having fun on Skype etc. Is there any way to sort this out? I mean I cant force my friends to play but is there some place or site where I can find people? And I dont mean practice partners etc only, I am only Bronze so I dunno if that is even neccissary but I mean people to play and watch streams with and discuss other than just this forum, or the live stream chats . Any ideas? And to get something else to talk about, how often do you play with your friends like KOTH or similiar? Discuss!
Yeah, I know how you feel, I have 0 real life friends that play Starcraft, their excuse is that it's 'too hard'. When I expain to them there are leagues where you play against people your own level and don't get roflstomped constantly, but they still don't wanna play. I think it's mainly because of the Starcraft stigma, where they hear about Korean progamers who play 10-12 hours a day, etc.
So all I do is ladder, it can get quite boring, but whatever.
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Hey Senator,
I would like friends in the SC2 scene. As all my all gamming buddies focus on fps's.
What time of day do u have spare time?
Due to work and looking after my son, my times limited. But like I said before I would love someone to share replays with, train and talk SC2.
If anyone else out there in southeast asia whats a friend please let me know
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Inspired by this topic, I decided to do something to help myself as I have somewhat similar problem. I created a blog entry to maybe resolve this problem. Maybe someone will respond, one have to be proactive, right?
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On March 19 2011 07:32 Jochan wrote:Inspired by this topic, I decided to do something to help myself as I have somewhat similar problem. I created a blog entry to maybe resolve this problem. Maybe someone will respond, one have to be proactive, right?
Great initiative!
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Most of my "rl" friends just lack the capacity to play a game such as SC2 as far as i saw, so i didn't even bother to show it to them :p
I have some ppl i got friend with while helping them, i helped some ppl when they were like bronz/silver and now they are diamond and i keep in touch with them, tho we aren't really at the same "skill level" and we aren't living in the same country so doing KOTH, lans or watching tournaments together is kinda hard
I plan on maybe moving to a team this summer if i have the luck/time of getting in or close to top 200 EU, since i hardly believe that even bad teams are interested in top 1k players .
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hey well i would love to be ur friend
i play everyday trying to get better
im a bronze myself.
sc name is
daddybojo
807
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I think the fastest way to make real life friends that play SC2 is to start attending some local LANs. Works wonders!
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The ones I know who are kinda interested in SC2 don't hv time, the ones who do hv time aren't interested. I even post a message in the newsgroup of our university in Germany. But no one has answered it yet. It's really a pitty when u can't get some frds in real world to share the marvels of SC2 with.
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I had the same problem, I had a couple of friends that played maybe twice a month. When the chat channels came out I joined the "Bronze Practice" channel on EU and made some realy good SC2 firends.
There are constant action like KOTH, custom games and just good old sit in the channel and chat.
Made my SC2 experience a lot different and more interactive with folks with the same passion for the game.
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just a lack of friends here....
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On April 04 2011 16:29 Googly wrote:
I had the same problem, I had a couple of friends that played maybe twice a month. When the chat channels came out I joined the "Bronze Practice" channel on EU and made some realy good SC2 firends.
There are constant action like KOTH, custom games and just good old sit in the channel and chat.
Made my SC2 experience a lot different and more interactive with folks with the same passion for the game.
"Bronze practice" +1, I'm also in that channel, just didn't show up quite often recently.
After viewing the first few pages of this post, I think maybe someone (better some Liquid staff) could open up a post for ppl to find some real-life SC2 fellows in their own cities/at their own universities?
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On March 18 2011 13:52 thejamster wrote:
I've only got one friend in SC2. Got him interested around launch. Unfortunately he hasn't improved since purchase and won't take any advice (it's like he doesn't want to improve) so I haven't had anyone talk strat or practice 1v1 with.
Kind of the same thing here. Got a friend a beta key last year, he litterally started from zero (he was plain awful) and is now a diamond-level zerg/protoss player. He did spend a lot of time playing though: his life basically consists of his girlfriend, his PC and his guitar.
He's my only friend who plays starcraft though. The rest of them isn't even interested in gaming in general.
There's still a huge social stigma on gaming where I live (Belgium). It's said to be anti-social ("dude, you're sitting in your room all the time") while getting drunk and partying for no real reason is considered perfectly acceptable.
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Im pretty lucky that I have quite a few friends who play I guess. Most of us grew up playing consoles together, and a few others I met at college. Its nice that friends who have moved away im able to keep in touch with playing sc2 with and its like they're right here! Most of the time we play team games together, and when we lose we yell at each other, noone taking blame lol, and telling eachother to F off.... but then we go out and get drunk and its all good
I would definetly reccomend trying to introduce it to friends of yours, you never know who may like it.
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Pretty much I feel like I can choose to be great at SC2 and ALONE (E-friends yay....) or just quit SC2 and go out like every other adult. None of my friends play the game anymore and the two that did never made it out of bronze.
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My friends do play SC2, but they're not really hugely into it. They'll play 3 or 4 games on a weekend, but that's it. I grind out hundreds of ladder games, and they always give me crap for it. Whenever they log on and see me, they message me "Get the fuck off and sleep." Sigh. I wish SC2 had an invisible option.
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Have them play with you and teach them and when they get into it say "Hey wana watch this amazing dude?" It's good if you hype it up with prize money and stuff like that lol. Or sometimes the opposite works. My friend though SC2 was the worst game ever he even played in the beta and hated it, he was a fps guy, but we went to MLG and all we watched was SC2, 2 days after he bought the game and is still playing and watches the GSL and other tourneys with me a lot.
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Lol, I got my roommates hooked.
It's simple. Get together with your friends and don't be afraid to demonstrate your genuine passion and excitement. It's contagious.
I would always watch dailies and the GSL, and eventually they would watch with me. Shortly after they would get just as excited.
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I stopped playing BW years ago before it even got big in korea, the only thing i did on it anyways was play awesome custom games (in middle school getting stomped by koreans all day sucked where i could play random maps *Art of defence or sunken D rwar*) but i had a RL friend who reintroduced me to BW for spectating which was kinda cool (a year or two ago) and ever since sc2 came out me and him have been big on watching games and playing together here and there. My only awesome accomplishment is ive gotten my GF to start playing thru the game as well as even *gasp* spectate some GSL with me. other than that my little bro only likes FPS competitive gaming and all my other gamer friends either play WoW (I used to play it too alot i will admit) or whatever other FotM game is around. so it can get ronrey but hey not everyone has to or will like what you like.. keep looking i dont mind having 1 rl friend + GF that like the game, thats enough for me.
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I have only like 2 or 3 friends who play sc2 with me, and only 1 of them is irl friend. It's very sad but i can't really blame my other irl friends to rather play LoL which is free to play then investing 70$ to a game which they may not even enjoy.
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On March 17 2011 00:29 ggofthejungle wrote:You can't make your friends play sc2 if they don't like it. So you FIND sc2 friends. How? You obviously want them to be in the same town as you, so you can meet with them, have LAN parties, etc . This is what I did for my city - Chicago. Put them together. http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=178194Show nested quote +On March 16 2011 22:26 Antisocialmunky wrote:
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? Why don't you guys use the TL COMMUNITY SECTION to make REGIONAL threads for your town/urban area? I met tons of people this way. Make it organized, have people PM you their email because having their SC2 ID does no good when they're not online. YOU!! Yes, right now, you, the guy who thinks there are no SC2 friends in your town, go to the search function, search for your town/area. Don't just search for "Sweden" - Sweden is big. Don't just search for "Ohio" - Ohio is big. If there is no thread in the TL community section about your city, MAKE ONE, but don't do what these guys did. http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=161450or http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=168119or http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=124304or http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=199857or http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=161205(one where no one really took initiative) What's the point of asking "I'm just curious to see how many StarCraft 2 players actually live in the <insert location> area.." OF COURSE THERE ARE PLAYERS INTERESTED. Have a way to contact them, not TL PMs. "I'll check here from time to time" doesn't work. EMAIL is the best. Good luck.
Just created a post for all nerds in Germany. Anyone who looks forward to meeting some local people pls check this out:
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I think what would help is a better chat channel system...
I miss the wc3 style where they arent these little boxes ... allows for a greater sense of community.
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I've only got one friend who's very into SC2 but it's still great because I go over to his house drink beer and watch the GSL :D. He was the one that first got me into SC:BW back when Tasteless and SDM casted it but unfortunately I had a 256k connection with 400mb download limit so I could barely even watch 1 game due to lag and download limit issues.
It wasn't until SC2 came out did I start to play SC and become involved in the community. I kept talking it up to one of my mates at work and gave him the guest passes that you get with the game and he eventually succemmed . He rarely does 1v1's though and he's in bronze, but sometimes after work me and him we do some 2v2s for some good fun.
If you can find 1 friend that will even listen to your talks about SC2 keep pestering them to watch VODS or the GSL and after a couple of week they too might get the game so you can play it together
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Think this is my first post lol (probably wil be a wall of text), anyways, I know exactly how you feel man. I consume ridiculous amounts of sc everyday and never play because the 2 friends that I got to get the game, whom seemed to be into it just never want to play or they have no interest in improving or watching anything. Its getting old trying to get them into it, I even went as far as spending an entire day teaching them about builds and everything, but they never get on- for example last time one of my friends logged on was 5 weeks ago lol. The rest of my best RL friends are into xbox fps's and it gets really old having to hop on there and be terribly bored for an hour, and i feel so bad cause I just never want to get on there. I wish I had friends to share my extreme sc passion.
I watch so much starcraft and I never really play because I don't have the motivation to hop on, used to ladder on a friends account and a few trial accounts because I have like an innate fear of losing or looking bad because anything I get into I give it my all and usually come out on top. Even though Ive come to peace that your going to lose alot in starcraft I have no motivation to get on because none of my buddy's are interested. Also still in a race crisis, im constantly changing my mind about what race I want to play and I have the knowledge of a high masters zerg and toss but of course that means nothing without the practice. Ive gotten to diamond when diamond was the highest league.
tldr; id love to have friends bnet or rl that share my passion, and make me want to get on. every day i tell myself im going to get on my account and just ladder, but every time i get to that point im thinking about switching races so i watch streams all day and practice in custom games vs bots till im comfortable then the day i go to ladder im like hmm i should switch back...or how about terran...its just a vicious cycle and its killing me lol
Holy run on sentences and wall of text lol. I'm just looking for people to play with that love the game, pm me if your interested in playing. I'm willing to play with anyone so hit me up.
dAft.484
joeruland43@msn.com
add me on msn/realid/whatever
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Guys, I really can't help my self but to show off: I play SC2 with my wife. Who's not envious, come on? )
We were actually drawn to BW by our friends - back then they played every evening and they had so much fun together and they enjoyed it so much that we actually stopped playing HoMM and got BW, did the campaings and practiced hard so we could be at least remotely even with them and play together. And it indeed was a lot of fun, we would connect on skype and play in different combinations, do cheesy things and all that stuff.
But we never really played BW any good - it is a heck of a difficult game, isn't it?. But we got SC2 shortly after launch and I got really into it, now I am ranked higher in 1v1 than these friends and thanks to the MM system we no longer play against each other all the time, but mostly team quick matches and its hillarious some times.
For me this "social" aspect of SC is really important. I do ladder 1v1 once in a while, but still my wife likes to watch me, I play quite rarely just alone and we discuss the games with friends and stuff.
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On April 06 2011 21:44 Demonzii wrote:
Join TG.
And wats exactly "TG"?
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You can't force it upon people. All you can do is show your passion for it, and let them have access to your GOM accounts. Don't be afraid to link cool games/sc2 related stuff. Always be open to questions and help them improve if you can.
I've got two friends IRL who are really into it. Everybody else either stopped playing or can't broach the gold league, and has no interest in teamliquid/vods.
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All my friends are gamers BUT they all play xbox and FPS's. :/
It's driven me to messaging most people i play in the ladder asking if they want a practice partner just so i can develop some friends or at least people to chat to about SC2.
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I have a small group of people I know that I sometimes play some games of starcraft with. A few of them also watch the GSL, but none of them are as competitive as I am. Only one of them wanted to get better, but gave up a while ago and just plays for fun. I actually wish some of them would try to become top players so I have practise partners.
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You can join the Bronze Practice chat channel, it's a grea mini community, we often do KOTHs while talking on teamspeak:D
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Hi everyone,
I kinda have the same problem. I had lot of friends who bought the game and were active at the early days of the release and we were quite good at it (diamond). I stopped 2 months later because it was too stressfull to play ladder.
The season 2 makes me want to play again, and I don't know how but I manage to stay in diamond. The problem is that I don't want to play ladder and loose a lot of games, and my friends don't play anymore, or 1 game a week. It isn't fun at all.
I want to progress and be in the top 25 master, so if there are people who wants to train with me, i'm up. I'm on eu server, from france, but I speak quite well english.
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