Might as well just make a main thread about it.

I think there is no debate that SC2 is slowing down in terms of people playing the game, and it's understandable why.

Increasing balance in the game causes major time investment into practice and understanding of the game in order to play a higher level, I notice personally ever since summer ended I went from low-mid masters to top 8 diamond strictly because I can't practice as much and if I play tired I lose.

HOWEVER, I still like to watch GSL and pro matches because I understand the game, but I'm pretty much the only person in my city I know that does so other then one friend who has been a no lifer gamer for his whole life and it seems pretty gay to watch a video game for anyone who hasn't tried to play a game "competitively".

What do you guys think? Has SC2 leveled out to being as big as it's ever going to be and continue to be beat by games like LoL and DotA 2 or is it going to grow again.

Pretty much episode 57 of inside the game cont....

if hots fails which it looks like it will cause its fn terrible
dota 2 will wipe out lol and sc

but there are plenty of years ahead of us with game developers trying to get their grubby little hands on our money

you never know what will happen

look at dota and counterstrike
both started as mods and became so huge it dwarfed everything else.
yes i even include LoLnoobfest in this cause dota created that pos

This post was edited by soullogik on Oct 24 2012 11:25am

Sad how DotA 2 is most likely going to become the flagship competitive video game...

I wish Activision didn't buy out Blizzard... Should rename the company to Casualvision

well from what it sounds like, blizz screwed it all up themselves.
tho its understandable when nothing but WoW matters to them lol

all about the benjamins

i personally don't mind dota 2
gaben and valve are actually revolutionizing the industry(and not by throwing money at everything like riot)
that's not a bad thing

This post was edited by soullogik on Oct 24 2012 11:23am

Personally I think that in order to actually attract casual gamers, SC2 needs MANY more playable custom games. What about the sc2 ladder is casual? Nothing. You have 3v3 and 4v4. That's as casual as it gets. We need the types of custom games that made wc3 popular (never played broodwar, so i'll just go by what i know). Where are the line tower wars? Legion TD? All you have is marine arena, nexus wars, desert strike, and a few others. Unless people create more custom games, I feel this game will stay roughly where it is right now; or where it will be a month or two after hots is released.

HOTS is going to shit because instead of trying to fix balance issues with the current game, they're adding in more equally unbalanced units to negate the effect of current unbalanced units
Also they are making it way to easy for casual gamers to get good at the game
From a real time strategy game its becoming real time holy shit cool units game

Blizzard/Activision royally fucked up SC2

The UI sucks
The gameplay sucks
The community sucks

Jesus Christ you people are the very embodiment of chicken little with an extra large side of ignorance.

starcraft isn't going anywhere

all this end of the starcraft shit is so exaggerated its not even funny

although maybe blizzard will actually implement some cool stuff into the game as a result

its obviously not gonna end any time soon

but you would have to be blind to not see how badly managed it is.

without gom and kespa, it would be dead lol