On March 27 2019 21:35 Orlok wrote:
hmmm...while I can totally see what you're getting at, I feel then the game wouldn't be fun at all apart from short lucky bursts. Like, you circumvent, lose ladder, get to a rank much lower than your real skill level, crush some noobs the way you want to play, get back up and then rinse and repeat forever.
Obviously, everyone enjoys the game in different ways so I can't say that the way you play starcraft is right or wrong. But I do feel that the best way to enjoy games in starcraft is to play close back and forth games with all races. I love the 4M marches against ling bling hydra/muta, I love dropping and kiting against protoss and using ghosts or libs to outzone protoss compositions. Do I often get hit with build order BS? Sure. Is it frustrating? Yep. But I still love playing the game even if I'm not getting "better". I just like playing close and fun matches.
Again, you said it yourself, you play the way you want to play. I do think you're definitely missing out on the fun though.
I'm missing mirrors, randoms and barcodes. I don't think I'm missing any fun, maybe you didn't realize what you funnily wrote I bolded the interesting part - you didn't mention loving to play TvT I do play TvZ or TvP (if I play Terran once in a blue moon ) So am I missing any fun? Doesn't look so.
+ Show Spoiler +I played several thousand games, from WoL beta to the end of HotS and my PvT and PvP were keeping me high while my PvZ was bad. From WoL beta to the end of HotS I hated playing PvP and took it as the biggest letdown of the game. LotV beta was the tipping point, I didn't want to play retarded adept games on top of the rest BS PvP was. So I moved to play unranked to leave the maps I can't veto for MU or to leave the MU I can't veto. Also Blizzards broken MM helped me(I had w/r 48 % the WHOLE HotS and was falling, I literally lost more games than I won for the whole existence of HotS while the system wasn't giving me easier opponents, sometimes I lost 3 games to diamond to get 4th player from master! I was playing ranked, not leaving any games, fun times)
Yeah, I like playing close and fun matches too. The issue is I don't include TvT, ZvZ or PvP as a fun match up. I don't even watch these in GSL unless some of my favorite players are involved.
Give me the option to not crush noobs because I've met 15 players with my race in a row and I will take it. It's not fun to get matched against someone who can be named as a free win for all I care.