|
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/rAujT6b.jpg)
Hey, the past months my Starcraft passion have been raised to new heights and I want as many people as possible to play it. I have plenty of friends that I play other games with but just don't even want to try Starcraft, to them it seems uninteresting, too much to get into, too expensive and too much thinking and they prefer free to play options like Dota 2. Now, I am aware that all of this is wrong, but I just want them to try it (maybe even just the campaign), maybe they will open up to the great game that is Starcraft.
How does one "sell" that Starcraft is a game worth picking up?
How did you get your friends to play starcraft?
|
They pretty much all got bored learning the mechanics, they prefer to play a game where you can feel like you're doing something right without spending months learning stuff 
|
United Kingdom10443 Posts
Clearly these people you speak of aren't your friends. Playing Starcraft is like getting repeatedly punched in the testicles.
|
Dress up as Hellbat and invite everyone and his drones to a BBQ
|
You sort of need the right person to like SC2. It's really not for the feint hearted/casual gamer.
|
You show them mana vs firecake
|
On June 13 2014 02:54 TAMinator wrote:
You sort of need the right person to like SC2. It's really not for the feint hearted/casual gamer.
Well, at least, not competitively... I have friends who are in Masters 1s and don't care for them much. Get ladder anxiety, care too much about their status, or w/e.
But I had a really easy time getting my friends into the game casually.
I used to have mini LANs with a couple of good friends, and that was really easy because I had 4 available computers at the time.
At first all we'd do was comp stomp, none of us really liked going against one another until we got a larger group to do LANs with. Also, getting better at the game helped, made our egos grow 
We knew about the competitive scene in Korea, but weren't interested in doing 1v1s with ppl online (they were too good T_T), but very interested in competing with each other (and competing with me in particular).
Anyways, lots of 4v4's on River Runs Through It, custom maps people in our group made, Station Unrest, etc. Course, that was BW.
|
About that, i'm really happy 2 of my close friends just bought sc2 this week. I talked to them about the game for years now, they see me watching streams all the time, I explain them how it works etc and tell them that I will help them to become better because it looks like it's what they fear the most : being terrible.
|
i don't. i don't see why i should unless someone specifically shows interest. which happened a grand total of once, but after like 3 days he decided to go back to owning everybody in FPS games.
|
I just told my cousin that its free and that was enough to get him to try it out. To convince him to actually buy it, I just played team games with him for a month until he was addicted.
No fancy advertising by showing how awesome it is; just getting him to try it since it's free and letting the game itself do the rest of the work.
|
You introduce people to it by not even mentioning competitive multi-player. Play arcade games, or if they like stories show them the campaign.
|
|
|
steal one of their kidneys and blackmail them
|
Show them a exceptional tvz pro-game with sick micro and multitasking.
At least that's how i got into starcraft.
|
Most my casual friends ditched SC2 after a month, too difficult and boring for them as it required too much time. I don't think they ever got into the arcade because it terrible back then. Although Blizzard seems to have it kinda right with hearth stone though, they love that shit.
|
The arcade and custom games are free, just install the starter edition and play together!
|
On June 13 2014 04:11 goody153 wrote:
Show them a exceptional tvz pro-game with sick micro and multitasking.
At least that's how i got into starcraft.
I don't think most people would get into Starcraft like that.
You can't really appreciate the "sick micro and multitasking" that Starcraft has to offer without playing the game first...
I like the free/guest pass ideas, let them dip their toes and play some super duper casual team games.
|
dont bother if they tan cod all day long is my experience. I teach and over 500 students i see per week, none of them (i say none but i really only mean 1 or two had even heard of it) know what it is. i told them it was free if you get the client and you can play the arcade / starbow / 1v1 / and its kinda like owning the game anyways if they couldnt afford the £40. Of all the people i tried to convince they all came back saying the game was shit.
Ok kids . . gg (didnt even know what that meant when i said it)
|
Canada8157 Posts
When im drinking with some buddies I ask them if they have ever played starcraft, and if not I tell them a little bit about it and recommend downloading the trial version
|
Pretty sure most people would quit out of frustration within a week.
You just need to be the right kind of person for sc2.
|
|
|
|
|
|
EPT
