Lol hating something in the game has always been part of every game, video or otherwise. I don't think there's ever been an entire community that just broke apart just because some players hate x, some players hate y.

I actually think it's good that some players hate certain races, if you hate it so much practice against it until it becomes ez. It forces players to develop rather than just sit there on their asses playing in their comfort zone.

In the end the strength of the community and the strength of the game are mutually exclusive.

Diks

Belgium1880 Posts

April 17 2012 16:20 GMT

#222

Come on ! We shouldn't be racist in a video game !
We shall love equally all the races !
Neither of this race is superior, they are just different.
Zerg being a little more different thant the rest if you see what I mean.

Well, I didn't account terrans in my statement because they are just too OP

Irre

United States646 Posts

April 17 2012 16:23 GMT

#223

The only "racism" we should be concerned about is rooting against koreans simply because they aren't white dudes. That has gotten pretty old in my opinion. Cheering for/against a race is natural if you play one of the races or just don't like the design or the units of a race.

Hakanfrog

Sweden690 Posts

April 17 2012 16:24 GMT

#224

On April 17 2012 23:00 Naxx wrote:
Maybe when protoss get more than 70 apm in high master i will try to get some respect

This is why it will never go away.

Most people make excuses when they lose in anything, in Starcraft, the race is the easiest thing to blame. So then you just convince yourself of bullshit which isn´t true, while you only see the game out of your own biased eyes.

RaiZ

2813 Posts

April 17 2012 16:24 GMT

#225

On April 18 2012 00:34 Crownlol wrote:
People will always complain about anything they lose to.

Always.

But not everyone will be wrong about complaining. Sometimes they have the right to do so. Refers to one of the first replies about the reaper rush.

Trealador

United States207 Posts

April 17 2012 16:28 GMT

#226

Even when a game is balanced, it isn't balanced at all skill levels. As long as this remains a thing (which it will) there will never be a reason for people to stop complaining about a certain race. As long as they hate the race and not the player, I am kind of fine with it.

iATRiUS

United States5 Posts

April 17 2012 16:30 GMT

#227

Just a bunch of hive mind bullshit. Someone says "Toss IMBA" on a GSL preshow, and all the sub-diamond scrubs now think it's acceptable to qq about Protoss balance. It's stupid, but it's pretty easy to just ignore.

I queued up my first ladder game last night (as P), got a Zerg, and he immidiately types (before his split, mind you), "It must be nice to just auto-win 1/3 of your games". Took me a while to understand what he said. It's whatever really, Protoss players at higher levels know it's not as "ez" as people would like to believe.

Nourek

Germany188 Posts

April 17 2012 16:33 GMT

#228

I've mainly played Zerg and some Protoss in SC and also BW multiplayer. I always had trouble vs Terrans. I stopped playing around 2001, but my dislike stayed for SC2 and Terran doing so well overall (if not win early GSLs) in early SC2 kinda reinforced that.

I've mellowed out a bit on that since I started playing random in January this year, but I don't think it will ever go completely go away.

NATO

United States459 Posts

April 17 2012 16:39 GMT

#229

I don't hate players who pick Toss, I hate Blizz for breaking the game.

TheHansBecker

United States117 Posts

April 17 2012 16:49 GMT

#230

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dronefarm

United States260 Posts

April 17 2012 16:51 GMT

#231

Uhh, I'm pretty sure people don't actually hate other people for playing terran. People hate "terrans" because they've been gayed out of a million games by terran doing a really abusive all-in that's really hard to stop (or have lost to ghosts sniping their whole army or bunched up everything and got sniped+emp'd to shit despite being at an advantage), so it's frustrating to play against. People hate "protoss" because they have an imbalanced lategame, so they've lost a ton of games to protoss players who were playing worse than them (slower, worse decision making, etc), so they're frustrating to play against. People hate "zerg" because broodlord infestor is imbalanced without a specific unit/composition to stop it (and muta play is very hard to play against if you don't ahva a lot of experience with it), so they're frustrating to play against.

I think the only people who go a step further and hate the people who play the race are just angry people. Now, I do hate some players from some races because they talk shit or flame all the time, and perhaps a certain race has more of those players than others, but that's just a coincidence.

Inquisitor1323

370 Posts

April 17 2012 16:55 GMT

#232

To quote a stylish hat that avilo wears on his stream: "fuck protoss"

MLGDillon

United States20 Posts

April 17 2012 16:59 GMT

#233

I hate my own race.

GlintFox

United States275 Posts

April 17 2012 17:02 GMT

#234

Football fans do it with other teams and whatnot, its all just competitive nature and if its not in a shitty tone then it can make for good conversation and fun debate. Yes the point you're making is it is only a game, then it also applies to your opinion in this. "Its only a game, so who cares if I fucking hate playing vs protoss?" haha

Pulimuli

Sweden2766 Posts

April 17 2012 17:02 GMT

#235

when infestors stop being retardedly op ill stop hating on Zerg ^^

Kimaker

United States2131 Posts

April 17 2012 17:02 GMT

#236

I hate all the races.

Terran because it frustrates me to play against 4 marauder drops and snipe all my pylons out from under me.
Zerg because BL/infestor is a pain in my ass and I usually just die unless I've already put myself ahead somehow.

But I hate Protoss the most. Because I play it. FIGHT THE FUCKING BEAST AND WIN.

Sajiki

Germany522 Posts

April 17 2012 17:03 GMT

#237

ok unlike probably 75% of the ppl posting their opinion in this thread i have actually read more than the OP. Funny enough besides funny "no"-oneliners things like this strike me the most:

On April 18 2012 00:18 Sabu113 wrote:
Probably not. Based on posts I have read over the past few months, Terran players just have a special perspective on the game.

dunno whether to cry or to laugh actually. i know how i am when i am angry and i have flamed many many (protoss) players for nearly no reason but i keep it away from a public discussion forum like TL. Everytime i am not playing or have recently played the game i think about star2 rationally and i just like it the way it is. I like players chosing a race and i like playing against different races (because that obviously greatly seperates us from sth like chess). And though it is saddening i know myself well enough to be certain about the fact that the "discussed" phenomenon will not go away ever.

edit: and right while i wrote this my poor eyes read this:

On April 18 2012 02:02 Pulimuli wrote:
when infestors stop being retardedly op ill stop hating on Zerg ^^

speechless.

Psychobabas

2531 Posts

April 17 2012 17:08 GMT

#238

When Blizzard wakes up and balances this freaking game then this shit will slowly fade away.

As it stands, TvP and TvZ late game are laughable.

But, I also find that when a Terran wins a late game 200 v 200 situation the Protoss or Zerg usually go mental. Death threats and everything.

Balgrog

United States1221 Posts

April 17 2012 17:16 GMT

#239

No it won't. When I play as protoss, I fucking hate terran, when I play as zerg, I fucking hate terran, I refuse to play as terran because I think I might just kill myself.