EPTWho didn't buy Oct GSL bc of "racial" uniformity? - Page 8
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Calt
Finland1140 Posts
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drgoats
United States310 Posts
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Soleron
United Kingdom1324 Posts
Any TvT is better than Genius or HongUn cheesing/slowly dying to macro players. | ||
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Steel
Japan2283 Posts
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Smurphy
United States374 Posts
The rest of the games seemed like too much TvT and TvX. I didn't want to watch them so I didn't buy the season. | ||
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Synwave
United States2803 Posts
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Spicy Pepper
United States632 Posts
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kiy0
Portugal593 Posts
On September 29 2011 01:43 Torte de Lini wrote: For a second, I thought you meant racial diversity meaning Koreans and other ethnic groups. To be honest, there are an abundant amount of Terrans, but how can GSL fix that? GOM can't fix this. But it serves as a warning for Blizzard about racial inbalance. Whenever the major tournament from the Mecca of Starcraft 2 has a racial ratio of 4:1:1, the game loses credibility as a competitive balanced game. Even though the game is still very young and there's tons of stuff to figure out, the last few seasons in GSL have shown a steady increase of Terrans. This might force Blizzard to make some changes even if they consider the game to be technically balanced... And I don't mean "increasing the Barracks build time by 5s" type of changes. One can argue that Terrans are only dominating in Korea and this "problem" doesn't happen in the foreign scene. But the true of the matter is, Korea represents the vanguard of Starcraft 2 metagame and skill "cap". Foreigns are trying to catch up with Korea, which might lead eventually to the same scenario. I've had the chance to visit Korea for 3 weeks and whenever I talked to some people about SC2, most of the people have the impression it's a pretty imbalanced game. Sure they are comparing it to BW which is 12 years older than SC2, but still the problem stands. Blizzard can't hold themselves on the fact that NesTea has won 3 GSLs already. Bonjwas happen. | ||
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omisa
United States494 Posts
At least its TvT, could you imagine if every night of GSL was PvP? | ||
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TheAmazombie
United States3714 Posts
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DoomsVille
Canada4885 Posts
But I am definitely watching fewer matches than usual because I can't stand so many TvTs... | ||
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slicknav
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cheesemaster
Canada1975 Posts
On September 29 2011 01:40 Radook wrote: Would buy any GSL when they start accepting credticard over just PayPal. They already do this, i know that it goes to paypal but you can pay with a credit card through paypal without having an account or signing in. When yoou go to pay for it you just select "id like to continue without signing in" or something like that. Its the same as paying with a credit card on any site, you dont need a paypal account or anything. | ||
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Gladiator6
Sweden7024 Posts
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Joseph123
Bulgaria1144 Posts
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Nagano
United States1157 Posts
For me, spectating SC2 is like a marriage: I love SC2 and will always support the growth of esports, during the good and bad times, for better or for worse. Til Flash do us part. | ||
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Sueco
Sweden283 Posts
On September 29 2011 04:04 kiy0 wrote: GOM can't fix this. It serves as a warning for Blizzard about racial inbalance. Whenever the major tournament from the Mecca of Starcraft 2 has a racial ratio of 4:1:1, the game loses credibility as a competitive balanced game. Even though the game is still very young and there's tons of stuff to figure out, the last few seasons in GSL have shown a steady increase of Terrans. This might force Blizzard to make some changes even if they consider the game to be technically balanced... And I don't mean "increasing the Barracks build time by 5s" type of changes. One can argue that Terrans are only dominating in Korea and this "problem" doesn't happen in the foreign scene. But the true of the matter is, Korea represents the vanguard of Starcraft 2 metagame and skill "cap". Foreigns are trying to catch up with Korea, which might lead eventually to the same scenario. I've had the chance to visit Korea for 3 weeks and whenever I talked to some people about SC2, most of the people have the impression it's a pretty imbalanced game. Sure they are comparing it to BW which is 12 years older than SC2, but still the problem stands. Blizzard can't hold themselves on the fact that NesTea has won 3 GSLs already. Bonjwas happen. This is the single most intelligent post I've heard about this subject ever. The balance evangelists will be hunting you down bro. | ||
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Klaus1986
United States113 Posts
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Gescom
Canada3309 Posts
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Hamdemon
United States348 Posts
TvT is pretty boring mostly because there's so little unit diversity in most matches and so much of it is based upon positioning. I think TvT would be a lot more interesting, and terran strategy in general would be if siege mode wasn't in the game, but I understand that's one of the main parts of terran play. "HAH I caught you unseiged you lose!" is just not compelling gameplay to me. | ||
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