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parake
Profile Joined April 2013
China2 Posts
July 09 2013 06:33 GMT
#101
ridiculous,at the end of Wol,where are you?Just constantly complaining the balance too.
nice
T0MORR0W
Profile Joined July 2011
United States101 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-07-09 06:51:22
July 09 2013 06:50 GMT
#102
I've always found it difficult to whine when I can make void rays and DTs any time I want. Except against marauders and ghosts early WoL: I did a lot of whining then.
Wildmoon
Profile Joined December 2011
Thailand4189 Posts
July 09 2013 06:53 GMT
#103
lol Zerg wins the polls without contest.
pmp10
Profile Joined April 2012
3339 Posts
July 09 2013 06:56 GMT
#104
Zerg always zerg.
We mostly have Idra to thank for that.
And Blizzard as it has been proven to be working.
TheRabidDeer
Profile Blog Joined May 2003
United States3806 Posts
July 09 2013 07:02 GMT
#105
What I find to be particularly interesting, is that in this thread the most vocal about saying zerg are non-zergs.

Quick, somebody figure out a way to count the posts on TL from certain races that were crying. Only numbers can tell the true tale!
Fuchsteufelswild
Profile Joined October 2009
Australia2028 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-07-09 07:25:49
July 09 2013 07:18 GMT
#106
Depends on the period, so it's hard to summarise.
Overall, on forums, I would say zerg.
Overall, from my ladder experiences (complaints in the game), protosses. I whine about ZvZ more than most of my opponents do, regardless of whether I win or lose. ;D
In chat channels in SC2, for me, again, I've seen the most protoss QQ.
From friends, terran, but I just seem to make a lot of terran friends, so I'm going to suppose that's playing a large part. ;P

Not what OP cares about hearing but
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in my opinion, Zerg had a good long period of having good reason to complain (especially vs Protoss before the infestor buff).
Terran had good cause to complain after the Queen buff, though I still think the game is better with queens having 5 range and if zerg are/were OP vs terran, it needed to be sorted out WITH 5 range queens. I'm not saying toss haven't had good reasons either, but I feel they were probably the two biggest times.
Either zerg or toss had good reason in the early days of Terran dominance though (before all the balance patches).


I personally voted protoss as the sum my experiences/observations listed above.

EDIT:
On July 09 2013 14:30 Vindicare605 wrote:
That's because even during the era of BL/Infestor Zergs were still the most vocal when it came to balance whining.

As hard as that is to believe.

Cannot disagree with this more!! >__<

On July 09 2013 16:02 TheRabidDeer wrote:
Quick, somebody figure out a way to count the posts on TL from certain races that were crying. Only numbers can tell the true tale!

That might actually be the OP's intention, to check what people think and then measure the amount of QQ that comes in this thread from people from each race. Probably not, but it's possible. Reach page 10+ and then start counting?
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Koshi
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
Belgium38799 Posts
July 09 2013 07:40 GMT
#107
I am finding these polls hilarious. :D
I voted like the majority on the polls. I am a zerg user myself and if there is a reason for why Zerg tend to be the most whiny bitches, then I have to blame it on the early maps we had to play on. If we had the same mappool that we now have 3 years ago, things would have been different. I think.

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That and Protoss Deathballs on Shakuras :D
I had a good night of sleep.
AxionSteel
Profile Joined January 2011
United States7754 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-07-09 07:59:49
July 09 2013 07:54 GMT
#108
On July 09 2013 15:31 WolfintheSheep wrote:
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On July 09 2013 14:30 Vindicare605 wrote:
On July 09 2013 14:07 TheRabidDeer wrote:
On July 09 2013 14:03 seansye wrote:
On July 09 2013 13:33 TheRabidDeer wrote:
On July 09 2013 13:27 seansye wrote:
On July 09 2013 13:11 Liquid`Jinro wrote:
On July 09 2013 13:05 KingAce wrote:
From my observation throughout SC2, protoss players complain the least. That's because protoss players are usually mentally different from the other two races. Most manly? Yes. And we know that Blizzard will never fix our race. (removing warpgates)

However, Terran and Zerg have dominated the game in longer stretches than protoss ever has. So this looks pretty bad for the attitude of Zerg and Terran players.

Toss players cried unreal hard about 1/1/1.


Because 1-1-1 almost made toss extinct in GSL. Remember when there were 20+ terrans like 3 GSL's in a row?

Looks like jinro opened the memory floodgates and the protoss crying is beginning again!


Stop trying to instigate unless you're sucking up to Jinro.

Lol, not trying to instigate anything. Just saying that suddenly protoss complaining about the past and GSL's and champions and terrans and BL/infestor etc.

Honestly, terran and protoss bitched a ton at the end of WoL but for some reason people dont attribute that mass of crying as anything serious because BL/infestor was actually pretty strong

EDIT: Seriously, look at this thread. Everybody complaining about bl/infestor.


That's because even during the era of BL/Infestor Zergs were still the most vocal when it came to balance whining.

As hard as that is to believe.

You're obviously blocking out the months where every single thread, regardless of topic, would always loop around to Queens or BL/Infestor. It was impossible to have any kind of SC2 conversation without it ending in whine about Zerg OP, or how some player was a Patchzerg...and the discussion got there it never, ever left.

ya, I'm Terran and these comments of zerg being the most vocal even in periods of such utter dominance as the BL/Infestor era is definitely misleading I mean yeah there were some of course, but that is the case with every race.
But yeh the forums were absolutely flooded with Patchzerg, borelord/winfestor ..Ryung's IMBAIMBAIMBA etc, I mean everyone hated it, and with good reason. Not only was it imba as fuck but it was also incredibly boring to watch as well I can't see how they could whine about terran in those days, but there probably were a number of zergs that raged over the "soul train" and other assorted Protoss gimmicks, they were just drowned out by everyone else who loved seeing zerg lose in any way possible


Daswollvieh
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
5553 Posts
July 09 2013 08:03 GMT
#109
Isn´t there a policy against poll-threads? It´s just that once I made one and it got shut down and now I´m bitter.
Brian333
Profile Joined August 2010
657 Posts
July 09 2013 08:32 GMT
#110
On July 09 2013 16:18 Fuchsteufelswild wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 09 2013 14:30 Vindicare605 wrote:
That's because even during the era of BL/Infestor Zergs were still the most vocal when it came to balance whining.

As hard as that is to believe.

Cannot disagree with this more!! >__<


That period of time also had overlap with the Soul Train push and if you don't think Zergs were endlessly complaining after every single time it was used, win or loss, you weren't paying attention. And, Zergs were on full offensive defending themselves which is in its own way balance whine. The only way to not whine about balance is to not talk at all, not to whine that they aren't OP and that the whiners are crybabies that need to learn and adapt with out the help of patches because apparently Zergs did just that (a blatant lie).
dr.fahrenheit
Profile Joined January 2013
Austria101 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-07-09 08:35:15
July 09 2013 08:35 GMT
#111
On July 09 2013 14:55 Ordained wrote:
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On July 09 2013 09:52 Master of DalK wrote:
So even Zergs think Zergs seem to express opinions the most lol


A player of any race can go through and vote in any of these. Hardly conclusive evidence.


Yeah the last four polls I edited in are flawed in that way, but I think the first one has the potential to paint a somewhat representative picture if the the second one comes close to depicting the actual overall race distribution.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing
Qikz
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
United Kingdom12022 Posts
July 09 2013 08:36 GMT
#112
As a terran player who doesn't see much point about balance whine I've noticed ever since the start of WoL overwhelmingly balance whine comes from zerg players, although on ladder I've come across protoss players whining about how my mech style is OP which is ridiculous.
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Steel
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Japan2283 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-07-09 08:48:11
July 09 2013 08:36 GMT
#113
At the midmasters level it's easy to feel overwhelmed as a Zerg player. It's pretty easy to slightly misread *for example* a protoss opponent, not be greedy enough, and get killed by an a-moving collosus army 7-minutes later. If you look at the replay you'll see the protoss cutting corners and perhaps a timing for you, but the point is that there's NOTHING you can do micro-wise to win past that point. The perfect flank ain't going to save you if a Terran went 3cc into double ebay. You didn't see that immortal all-in coming 100 miles away? Forget it, he'll forcefield you for 12 minutes. It's not imbalanced but often REALLY frustrating. There's a couple builds Zerg can do closing their eyes and hoping that it works, but for the most part, Protoss and Terran call the shots and Zerg has to know what to do to take advantage of that build, whether it'd be playing greedy, harassing with mutalisk or whatever. It's not imbalanced, but it often seems unfair.

I wish I had some openings like terran players. 2 reapers, 6 hellions, deny creeps, snipe drones and queens, follow it up with drops. Terran micro sure ain't easy, but it's not like I have many harass options besides mutalisk. When mutalisk come out though, I'm usually on the back foot and when I can spare a second the poke into the base, the turrets are up, and then terran are just safe until I get 20 mutas. You know how much static defense Zerg needs to get to defend drops and zealot runbys? It's absurd, and even if protoss wastes 10 zealots into spines it's never a huge deal. Again, not imbalanced, but Zerg doesn't have any reliable micro strategies. Just timings, all relatively all in (as in a very big commitment).

And then when you get to tier 3, it's kill-your-opponent-as-fast-you-can because if they stabalize on multiple bases you can kiss your chances goodbye. Against terran Ultras became terrible rather quickly, and broodlords...well let's just say by the time I get to 1 of my opponents bases I have none left, and then they have a few ravens. What am I supposed to do, spend 3 minutes splitting my broodlords every time I get to a base?.

Then there is protoss...Well they have a bunch of late game options, Storm collosus, tempest, voidray, whatever it rapes anything I have if they max out on it. Why couldn't I have a viable options?

The game isn't imbalanced but some aspects just really don't work for Zerg and were stuck doing the things that work over and over again. Broodlord infestor was really strong in WoL but it was also the only reliable strategy, which is unfortunate.

I don't mean to whine, just trying to make people understand why it's easy as a Zerg player to say 'jesus fuck this is retarded.'
Try another route paperboy.
Penev
Profile Joined October 2012
28481 Posts
July 09 2013 08:44 GMT
#114
There isn't much difference in the amount of balance whining between the different races imo. I think Zerg has a bad reputation regarding this because of 2 things: They were the first to whine about balance and Idra.
I Protoss winner, could it be?
phipsL
Profile Joined November 2012
Germany189 Posts
July 09 2013 09:03 GMT
#115
I'm pretty sure all these votes against zerg are from ppl who played me, because i complain. A lot. :D
I'm a f*cking walking paradox.
Vanimar
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
220 Posts
July 09 2013 09:13 GMT
#116
Some Zergs seemingly traded the "spawn larvae" ability for "spawn tears"
I figured out the EG Curse. It was set in motion by Voodoo Shamans working for Millenium. Whenever EG aquires a player, Voodoo energies start slowly draining skill from the EG guy into an Millenium newcomer. Think about it!
Corsica
Profile Joined February 2011
Ukraine1854 Posts
July 09 2013 09:27 GMT
#117
On July 09 2013 10:09 iMrising wrote:
I play protoss and even before the gl hf people tend to rant about how OP protoss is. So then I purposely 2 base all-in them and then they rage even more. smh
I haven't heard much from terran players either, or protoss



oh believe me i only rage about protoss, only in TvP because your micro is a joke compared to splits, emps, and viking focusfiring but thats more design of a race rather than balance.
bo1b
Profile Blog Joined August 2012
Australia12814 Posts
July 09 2013 09:42 GMT
#118
On July 09 2013 18:27 Corsica wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 09 2013 10:09 iMrising wrote:
I play protoss and even before the gl hf people tend to rant about how OP protoss is. So then I purposely 2 base all-in them and then they rage even more. smh
I haven't heard much from terran players either, or protoss



oh believe me i only rage about protoss, only in TvP because your micro is a joke compared to splits, emps, and viking focusfiring but thats more design of a race rather than balance.

Protoss still have to micro. Realistically the only thing that terran has to do that protoss don't is splitting, on the flip side blink stalker micro, storms, making sure colossus dont just die to vikings and still do damage. But thats just you only playing terran and not having an unbiased opinion. Heres a smiley face to convey some sort of smug superiority
PanzerElite
Profile Joined May 2012
540 Posts
July 09 2013 09:55 GMT
#119
On July 09 2013 18:42 bo1b wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 09 2013 18:27 Corsica wrote:
On July 09 2013 10:09 iMrising wrote:
I play protoss and even before the gl hf people tend to rant about how OP protoss is. So then I purposely 2 base all-in them and then they rage even more. smh
I haven't heard much from terran players either, or protoss



oh believe me i only rage about protoss, only in TvP because your micro is a joke compared to splits, emps, and viking focusfiring but thats more design of a race rather than balance.

Protoss still have to micro. Realistically the only thing that terran has to do that protoss don't is splitting, on the flip side blink stalker micro, storms, making sure colossus dont just die to vikings and still do damage. But thats just you only playing terran and not having an unbiased opinion. Heres a smiley face to convey some sort of smug superiority


I played both and the toss ball is far easier to control.
bo1b
Profile Blog Joined August 2012
Australia12814 Posts
July 09 2013 09:58 GMT
#120
On July 09 2013 18:55 PanzerElite wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 09 2013 18:42 bo1b wrote:
On July 09 2013 18:27 Corsica wrote:
On July 09 2013 10:09 iMrising wrote:
I play protoss and even before the gl hf people tend to rant about how OP protoss is. So then I purposely 2 base all-in them and then they rage even more. smh
I haven't heard much from terran players either, or protoss



oh believe me i only rage about protoss, only in TvP because your micro is a joke compared to splits, emps, and viking focusfiring but thats more design of a race rather than balance.

Protoss still have to micro. Realistically the only thing that terran has to do that protoss don't is splitting, on the flip side blink stalker micro, storms, making sure colossus dont just die to vikings and still do damage. But thats just you only playing terran and not having an unbiased opinion. Heres a smiley face to convey some sort of smug superiority


I played both and the toss ball is far easier to control.

I agree but listing a whole heap of things that both races do and ignoring the other side is somewhat of a poor argument.
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