[VaLkyR]Anubis;2466779 said:I wasn't talking about any personal preference/s or anything else. However, you said it yourself already. Most people prefer more Terran, because they probably got more knowledge and experience with them by playing the single player through. However, on the other side, it is also possible to believe that most people aren't really interested to do something new, to try new stuff, just to do the same old stuff, in order to have the biggest chance to win. But hey, as I said before, I never played online, so I can guess and assume only, nothing else. It is nothing serious, aye.
By the way, what's the point of calling the Ultralisk as jesus reincarnation? Who the hell thinks or believes, that this is the best unit of the Zerg or the strongest unit of the entire game? Sounds like bollocks, coz it is not too hard to take this monster down.
Wow, that one went right over your head... (re: saviour ultralisk)
Like I said in my disclaimer, these stats aren't complete enough to draw quantitave conclusions from. (As in, Terran is *this much* overpowered)
However, are you really suggesting that there are twelve+ times as many Terran top players as there are Zerg top players entering these tournaments?
Let me repeat that. TWELVE PLUS TIMES as many Terran players?
Furthermore, do you really believe that what the singleplayer features is even remotely interesting to these top-tier players? That they learned their chops from playing the campaign?
I find it highly unlikely, to put it gently. They can do what they can do because they've played thousands of MP matches - enough time to learn a new race, I'd say.
White-Ra plays Protoss because he played Protoss in BW. He's not about to switch because the SC2 campaign happens to feature Terrans.
Idra played Terran in BW and early SC2, he now plays Zerg. Go figure.
All of the top players play the race that they are most succesful with or matches their playstyle best.
edit: What the hell. The link disappeared from my original post. No wonder this discussion is so confusing. Here it is once again for good measure.
Once again, do you really think that the people for who SC2 is their first Starcraft game are the people who are entering top-tier tournaments? The only one that remotely resembles someone like that is TLO, and he played Random for most of the beta AND has been an RTS progamer in other games before this one.I think part of that is because the games campaign only covers the Terran tree so most people who begin playing online pick Terran because they already know how to play them.
I personally played Terran in the original Starcraft MP so I went ahead and played Terran in SC2. I'm also pretty good at Protoss and mediocre at Zerg. Also, Protoss zealot rushes can take down a Terran base pretty damn fast. In the time that people can build 1 or 2 marines I can get 4 zealots hacking away at their supply wall.
Honestly, 5 online matches teach you more about Terran than the entire campaign on Insane difficulty.
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