Giant maps with 18 bases, same builds on every map since defenders advantage is so big, if you don’t do the #1 strategy you fall behind. We saw it in EWC. Do glaives or cloaked banshee, didn’t kill 15 workers? That player lost the game 95% of the time for failing harass. So there’s no point to even harass.
As Terran just get a potent army and pull scvs before you have to play the nightmare that is TvZ and TvP late game. TvZ was almost playable lategame against Zerg, with a massive advantage going towards Zerg, but then they decided to make Ghosts cost 50% more supply and supernerf EMP. If you have 20 Ghosts now you are missing 20 army supply compared to before. That’s insane. Let’s say late game the Terran has 50 scvs probably minimum, so ‘at best’ this nerf causes a Terran to lose 20 out of 150 army supply. THAT’S A 13.33% NERF to a matchup that already had an 80% win rate for Protoss in pro games.
ZvP is absurdly boring to watch. Same thing literally every game. Either Zerg hits a 3-5 Roach Ravager A-click or we have to watch a 50 minute camp-fest. There is no innovation. There are no cool tricks.
The game is dead. I run into the same 10 players on ladder all day every day at every MMR between 4k and 5.5k. Literally 10 dudes. And they are online whenever I’ve decided to play. I’ve checked their accounts, I’m playing total losers who have been gaming every single day for 10-15 years now. And me, someone who plays 2 weeks every 2 years, has to play these absolute losers who have no life.
I miss the golden days of this game, when thousands of players played ladder. It’s not exciting to run into the same 10 one trick pony players and be forced to play gigantic macro games wasting 30+ minutes of my life to beat some player whom in HOTS or WOL I would’ve just ended the game against at 12 minutes by outmicroing and outmacroing.
But now we have these massive defenders advantages, players are on 4 bases at 7 minutes, maxing out at 8 minutes.
Literally not one quotable game at the entire EWC tourney except Maru vs Cure where he pulled some SCVs and outmicroed a push. ONE GAME, out of 100. Back during WOL and HOTS there would be like 10 quotable games every single tournament.
The 12 worker start was the biggest mistake ever. We already knew it was a bad idea from Starcraft 1. Newbies would play 1v1 Big Game Hunters (NO RUSH).
Thats basically what they dumbed this game down to. “Let’s take the most strategic part out of the game, the early game!”. The battles are boring now. The stakes are low. It’s the SAME THING every game. 1 or 2 fights while A-clicking a runby. Literally the only reason people watched EWC was because of the prizepool. It’s like a gambling addiction. Not one quotable game.
It’s dead as can be. And let’s not even talk about the current state of Terran vs Protoss. One race gets 3 AOE options with stronger units that are easier to micro, and instant warpins… while the other race… gets units that attack faster and get damaged. But that’s not all. Blizzard realized they were losing money from Protoss losers who buy commanders and voice packs so they decided to literally give High Templars an attack. I see them kill Marines and Widow mines all the time in pro games in the middle of battles.
The matchup was already severely in Protosses favor, and they decided to give High Templars 100 free energy, Sentries a free phoenix full map/base scout, and then buff Shield Batteries even more? What a surprise that the progamer win rate in TvP right now is 14% in the past 6 months.
This game sucks.