Forum Overview :: Gamerasutra :: Hey, that's my line.

[quote name="Fussbett"][quote name="FABIO"]If SB is whining about these problems then he just plain sucks at starcraft. [/quote] FABIO?! Is that you?! Nice! Apparantly we just needed to talk about the right game for you to see my point of view. More on this point about the Korean effect on Starcraft: remember when we discussed <a href="http://www.sirlin.net/Features/feature_platformsecrets.htm" target="DKC">this guy's site</a> on OMM? Well, he already addressed the expert versus scrubs issue in lots of great articles (very informative and insightful with just enough crazy to keep it lively). He's very Street Fighter centric, but it all applies. <a href="http://www.sirlin.net/Features/feature_PlaytoWinPart0.htm" target="sirlin0">Playing to Win: Why Bother?</a> "Just look at the examples: Street Fighter, Starcraft, and Quake. All three games have some problems at tournament level play, but on the whole, they hold together surprisingly well. They can withstand the harsh extremes of expert players trying to eke out every possible advantage…even after years of play. If these games couldn’t do that, they certainly wouldn’t have been the hits they are. There would have been no tournament scenes. Interest would have died away. They would not be perceived as THE standards of competition that they are." <a href="http://www.sirlin.net/Features/feature_PlayToWinPart1.htm" target="sirlin1">Playing to Win: Part 1</a> "Can you imagine what will happen when the two groups of players meet? The experts will absolutely destroy the scrubs with any number of tactics they’ve either never seen, or never been truly forced to counter. This is because the scrubs have not been playing the same game. The experts were playing the actual game while the scrubs were playing their own homemade variant with restricting, unwritten rules." "The scrub has still more crutches. He talks a great deal about “skill” and how he has skill whereas other players—very much including the ones who beat him flat out—do not have skill. The confusion here is what “skill” actually is."[/quote]