Starcraft 2

[pevergreen]

You realise there have been some patches since you last played, and to play online you need to be up to date?

No offence, but if you're losing to plat you aren't too good. Anyone outside of high diamond/master league is bad at the game.

Obviously RTS is not your cup of tea. SC2 is one of the most balanced games.

[Risasi]

You realise there have been some patches since you last played, and to play online you need to be up to date?

Yes, I do. But an option to download or not would have been nice. Not some draconian rollercoaster that I was stuck on for a shade over 45 minutes...if I'd known and had the option I would have just played vs AI.

No offence, but if you're losing to plat you aren't too good. Anyone outside of high diamond/master league is bad at the game.

Yes, I know I'm not too good at the game. That's why I ended up getting ranked bronze I believe. Honestly I think I've only played two dozen games so far.
I was going to play a quick game or two to brush up a little bit. My criticism is that even when I do play I end up playing these much higher ranked players than I should be playing. Their little game matching that was touted so highly has been a piece of fail for me.

Obviously RTS is not your cup of tea. SC2 is one of the most balanced games.

I'm pretty good at Rise of Nations, but yes, I agree that SC2 is probably not my cup of tea. I am finding more and more that this style of play is just not holding my interest. I'm getting too old now. There is no way I can get my APM high enough to be competitive. Their system doesn't match me up well with others at my play level. So this isn't a fun game for me. I also find it disgusting that I can't even give away my license now. I have other friends who would snatch it up in a heartbeat.

Anyway, no I am not offended by what you have said. I was just giving you my point of view and you were doing the same.
I recently re-discovered the TW series after a 10 year hiatus. Firing up an ongoing campaign for 20 minutes when I have some free time at night has much more lasting appeal to me. I feel like I'm doing something. Not just playing one faceless build order battle after another.
Being able to play TW MP battles is just icing on the cake.

[pevergreen]

First off, about the matchmaking system.

It needs to play you against higher level players to see if you should be moved up. Its not matching you against anyone it shouldnt be, the system works fine.

SC2 has a much lower APM than SC1. I never played SC1 (warcraft 2 player) but apm of up to 500-600 was the top, over 300 was required to be even decent.

SC2 apm can be 150 and still be world class. But yeah, it gets harder as you get older, thats why the top koreans are under 20.

[Risasi]

Well, no big deal to me. I guess I don't just want to work so hard to have that much "fun".

I would find it interesting to see the demographics of who is playing SC2. It's been over a decade since the old one came out. A friend of mine is now 42 and I'm only a few years younger than him. He can't play multiplayer. In fact he never could play SC1 competitively and was resigned to playing mostly AI or co-op.
He now had five sons and they all like to play together. He definitely could use my license.

It will be a curious thing to see what my age group plays as they grow older.

Anyway, I wrote Blizzard support. To see about transfer of license to this friend of mine. I'll give them credit for that, it does seem like they will let me transfer my account/license to him. So thumbs up to them from me. At least they aren't as draconian as I thought they were.

[pevergreen]

Anyway, I wrote Blizzard support. To see about transfer of license to this friend of mine. I'll give them credit for that, it does seem like they will let me transfer my account/license to him. So thumbs up to them from me. At least they aren't as draconian as I thought they were.

Yeah, thats slightly surprising to me.

Seeing as you either have to beg them or buy a new copy if you move out of the regions. And region specific pricing...