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Will "Hating a certain Race" ever go away? - Page 2

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13JackaL
Profile Joined March 2011
United States577 Posts
April 17 2012 04:12 GMT
#21
So long as people play this game, there will always be hate.
and my axe
thrawn2112
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
United States6918 Posts
April 17 2012 04:14 GMT
#22
the real question... should anyone care and should we make threads about it? if no then the problem just goes away
"People think they know all these things about other people, and if you ask them why they think they know that, it'd be hard for them to be convincing." ES
Detri
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
United Kingdom683 Posts
April 17 2012 04:16 GMT
#23
On April 17 2012 13:09 RUS RO DAH!!! wrote:
No, and I hate Protoss.


^^
The poor are thieves, beggars and whores, the rich are politicians, solicitors and courtesans...
Butterednuts
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States859 Posts
April 17 2012 04:17 GMT
#24
Pretty sure it's a human thing.

Every single game has a class/race/etc that someone will hate whether because they think they are overpowered, easy to play, or imbalanced.
Chameleons Cast No Shadows
Meteora.GB
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Canada2479 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-04-17 04:19:03
April 17 2012 04:18 GMT
#25
Probably not. Its easy to blame on something else than admit that presumably suck. Even in real life we tend to have scapegoats for everything, like how everyone blames games for society's problems. It may get better just like in BW where there's a little bit less race whining (because from what I can tell BW live reports are 10x better than SC2), otherwise it won't entirely disappear.

That is, until maybe we all decide to play random.
PeZuY
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
935 Posts
April 17 2012 04:19 GMT
#26
No it won't because people are stupid. I hate all races equally as much.
-Exalt-
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States972 Posts
April 17 2012 04:21 GMT
#27
On April 17 2012 12:56 Amaterasu1234 wrote:
I just say I hate protoss players 'cause they chose the easy race...

I don't actually mean any of it.

I understand that it takes skill to play the race...but with how they roll me like I'm a scrub, I have to lash out somehow...'cause I think it's dumb how 5 colossi make it look like I picked up the game two days ago...


did they? what if they had not played any brood war (like myself) and picked protoss (i picked zerg initially, but say I did pick protoss) while knowing absolutely nothing about starcraft other than 1 commentary I saw on youtube? i didn't even play the campaign. had never seen a brood war vod.

and most people stick with the race they initially chose. and that initial decision is most of the time, not based on balance as you don't know what balance is when you're just starting out. I have trouble thinking of a pro-gamer that consistently switches races when theirs becomes weak.. why? cause if you are constantly switching races you will end up sucking compared to the ones who stuck with their initial choice 100%.

thus, the mentality of "They chose the easy race on purpose" needs to go, IMO.
Netsky
Profile Joined October 2010
Australia1155 Posts
April 17 2012 04:21 GMT
#28
No, it won't. I hate Protoss so very much.
R3DT1D3
Profile Joined January 2012
285 Posts
April 17 2012 04:29 GMT
#29
I hate protoss as a race because it's terribly designed, boring to play as, and boring to watch. Couple that with the overabundance of Protoss players in the foreign scene compared to Terrans or Zerg and I just can't stand Protoss.

I loved all the races in BW and I don't have the same level of malice directed at any other RTS faction but Protoss just annoys me in as many ways as it can. I don't take it out on players though (unless they complain) and enough of the really casual players that chose their race based on easiness and cheese strategies are mostly gone playing other games.
Amaterasu1234
Profile Joined November 2010
United States317 Posts
April 17 2012 04:30 GMT
#30
On April 17 2012 13:21 AegiS_ wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 17 2012 12:56 Amaterasu1234 wrote:
I just say I hate protoss players 'cause they chose the easy race...

I don't actually mean any of it.

I understand that it takes skill to play the race...but with how they roll me like I'm a scrub, I have to lash out somehow...'cause I think it's dumb how 5 colossi make it look like I picked up the game two days ago...


did they? what if they had not played any brood war (like myself) and picked protoss (i picked zerg initially, but say I did pick protoss) while knowing absolutely nothing about starcraft other than 1 commentary I saw on youtube? i didn't even play the campaign. had never seen a brood war vod.

and most people stick with the race they initially chose. and that initial decision is most of the time, not based on balance as you don't know what balance is when you're just starting out. I have trouble thinking of a pro-gamer that consistently switches races when theirs becomes weak.. why? cause if you are constantly switching races you will end up sucking compared to the ones who stuck with their initial choice 100%.

thus, the mentality of "They chose the easy race on purpose" needs to go, IMO.


no no

It's not what other people did. What other people do or did has no bearing on how much I suck vs 5 colossi (obviously, except for making 5 colossi).

I just need to not suck vs 5 colossi...and then the problem seemingly disappears...

I've found that all the solutions I've ever needed always start and end with me.
phyren
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States1067 Posts
April 17 2012 04:35 GMT
#31
It will never go away completely (I still think BW siege tanks are insane, and even some casters will joke about how supposedly easy protoss is at lower levels), but it becomes kind of good natured and friendly when there is an overall sense that the game is determined by skill. As much as BW players will rage over dts or dark swarm or siege tanks or w/e, the average person knows that there is so much skill to improve on, and such a history of shifting dominance that blaming things on balance becomes less common.
ETisME
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
12764 Posts
April 17 2012 04:37 GMT
#32
idra's mentality is to blamed?
God damn stupid toss/terran player, they never understand anything WQE@#$!@$W

/jokes

Umm...Idra complained a lot when toss's deathball was super strong, Zerg win rate at all matchup was under 50%. He hasn't complained that much anymore anyway.
其疾如风,其徐如林,侵掠如火,不动如山,难知如阴,动如雷震。
Prime Directive
Profile Joined December 2011
United States186 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-04-17 04:40:38
April 17 2012 04:40 GMT
#33
On April 17 2012 12:57 MrFrenchy wrote:
In the words of the great Mr. West, "there will always be haters that's the way it is. Hater *****'s marry hater B****'s and have hater kids".


We killing the game, its not fair, You muthaf-ckers stay right there,cos we too high up in the air
oxxo
Profile Joined February 2010
988 Posts
April 17 2012 04:40 GMT
#34
No. People are immature and anonymous. I even get hate for playing RANDOM... when playing standard AND telling them my race.
Misoza
Profile Joined June 2010
Australia571 Posts
April 17 2012 04:41 GMT
#35
It's called tribalism.

A memory of our more primitive beginnings, it is ingrained in human nature.

The effects of it can be seen everywhere, from sports to politics.

It will never go away, however the more mature and self-aware a player is, the more they can control it.




Azzur
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Australia6267 Posts
April 17 2012 04:42 GMT
#36
No, and I will hate protoss forever
happyness
Profile Joined June 2010
United States2400 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-04-17 04:44:10
April 17 2012 04:44 GMT
#37
No, because Terran is just so hate-able.

Just have a sense of humor about it. I don't think most of the hating is 100% serious anyways
Xenocryst
Profile Joined December 2010
United States521 Posts
April 17 2012 04:45 GMT
#38
It will disappear the day 14 yearolds stop playing
Parodoxx
Profile Joined May 2010
United States549 Posts
April 17 2012 04:45 GMT
#39
I use to hate terran so much as a zerg player that it was stupid and just like you said I hated the type of person that picked terran as well. The idea that they thought they were good by simply hitting stim or siege was crazy to me. What I came to find out was that I was simply ignorant of timings, my race as well as terran and as I got better and climbed into masters the hate went away.

There is always a match up (my worst at the time) that I will tilt against or think is dumb but I improve and that "hate moves around.

I dont think the hate will go away but I do think its alot less the better you are and a lot more of an issue in lower leagues.
Sc1pio
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States823 Posts
April 17 2012 04:46 GMT
#40
I'd like to quote the great Ilya Bryzgalov (GO FLYERS):

+ Show Spoiler +
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzpndHtdl9A

+ Show Spoiler +
Yes I realize that he wasn't on the Flyers when he said this, sue me.


It's not strange to me that people will act immaturely on ladder, whining and BMing after losses, but what is really astounding in my view is how accepted this behavior is. Imagine a 12 year old little league baseball player who refuses to shake his opponents's hands after a game, and calls them names and such. He would be reprimanded and told to "act his age". We're a community of people who are (for the most part) older and more mature than 12 year old little leaguers, and yet for some reason people think that BM is some sort of accepted part of the community which we should either live with or promote. It's really weird to me how different this is from every other activity/sport I've participated in.
"In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's there are few. " -Shunro Suzuki | fortuna fortes adiuvat
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