Strange question. This is a RTS (real time strategy) game, so it's nothing like free or subscription mmorpgs, and doesn't use a subscription model so you buy the game, then play online in battle.net ladders/leagues for no charge.

For a change of pace to mmorpgs I'd recommend it. I was a long time World Of Warcraft player but have quit that and now just play FPS and RTS games for short periods rather than get locked into hours of dungeon crawling.

Arris is right. The games aren't really relatable.

I was a MMORPG player for a long time, but I got bored of playing them... transitioned to playing SC2 and BF2. Sometimes I get into moods where I want to play an MMORPG, but those aren't frequent and are pretty short-lived.

Have you ever played an RTS? Also, you can always try out the Starter Edition of SC2, it's free.

Some great resources for gaining some further insight into the world of SC2:

http://www.youtube.com/user/day9tv
http://www.youtube.com/user/HuskyStarcraft?blend=1&ob=5

Been playing against hard computer some more and I finally found myself adapting to the information I gain from scouting. Saw the zerg computer putting down a roach warren. This prompted me to quickly grab a robotics bay and chrono boost out a few immortals. Needless to say the 10+ roaches the computer threw up my ramp to my base melted away to the immortals. After that placed a forward pylon at an expansion closer to his base, expanded and after a bit more reinforcement of my army walked through the computers base. Think I'm finally moving away from the "I like this unit, I'm just going to build loads of them!" mentality.

Also played about 5 or 6 3 vs 3 games with my friends in the bronze league. Think we lost just one game (good for us since only one of us plays a decent amount of SC2). Some good players around but some really bad too, probably fortunate for us. For some reason I thought I'd try zealot and voidray. Voidrays are too slow to keep up with charging zealots. So just used them for harassment instead. Lost my base with starports but had a warp prism left so just went into the back of the strongest opponents base and ripped it apart with warped in zealots while his whole army of carriers was on the other side of the map fighting at my team mates bases. In another match we had the zerg opponent throwing a huge army of ultralisks, zerglings and infestors at my base. Lost some voidrays to good fungal growth use, but chrono boosted out some phoenix and lifted the infestors and target fired them down, then the stalkers his team mate had sent with his army. I lost that base, but 5 void rays wiped out his whole force as he no longer had any anti air.

Needless to say I'm getting more and more into this game

For SNGX1275... I was playing zerg vs medium computers to finish some of the custom game achievements, and practice zerg play as I think it's my weakest race. Found that grouping queens and doing larva injects on the mini map(select group 3, press V, then click on hives on minimap) made it a lot more manageable than my previous manual queen selection and inject at each base. As spreading creep with creep tumors and rallying all forces to a central spot made it easier too. And trying to move spine and spore crawlers holding shift and R so they would root themselves when they got to the new location helped instead of having to wait for them to get there then tell them to root. Lots of these tips were learned from watching replays and Day 9 dailys on youtube. Great way to learn some advanced control and tactics.

Good stuff man! Pretty much can't win any games in 1v1 leagues if you don't scout and react to what your opponents are doing. You should try to play in the 1v1 league, much better practice than playing against computers. I used to play against computers for a while too, but it became too repetitive... I find they all play the same.

3v3 games seem fun, but I've yet to try. Only played a couple of 2v2 games with my friend.

I haven't been able to play at all this week, busy with The Witcher, playing tennis and dealing with TekSavvy. Hopefully tonight though, still been meaning to make the push to Platinum.

Only problem is that 3 opponents rushing one of your team mates can be difficult to defend. Other than that it's quite fun, giving resources to each other to help out, terran lending medivacs to my zealots etc. etc.

Yeah, I really need to just play some 1vs1 now that I don't think I'm totally pathetic at the game

Lol it's all good, I always feel pathetic at the game. I have a lot of friends in the high Platinum/Diamond league that I've never come close to beating.

Besides the league and normal game, have you tried many custom games?

I play occasionally (DesertCuke #531).
I play protoss, I'm silver, but worse than some bronze players, not sure why I am in silver, I lose about 70% of my games, mostly because I can't get the hang of PvP, very hard to counter your own unit mixture, player with early expo(s) wins.
But anyway, I've been looking for some people to play with.

I've been meaning to post my SC2 info but I keep forgetting too. :haha: I'll try to get on that when I get off of work.

My Protoss friend said the exact same thing to me. He started as a low Silver, worked his way up to Gold now. He's about a mid-level Gold player I believe? Slowly working his way up Gold, I think he's having some troubles though.

Anyway, I digress... I don't understand the problem with PvP. Could you explain more? Personally, I'm a Terran player and I love facing my own race. TvT is one of the most interesting match-ups IMO.

For me at least the problem with PvP is that protoss have limited to no drop abilities.
The warp prism is fairly laughable, from my experience it melts in seconds to any anti air unit, maybe I should try harder, better positioning.
In most of the PvP games I have played, me and the other player both get 2-3 observers to keep tabs on things, so dark templars are out of the question.
Air units are out of the picture for strait up battles imo, because they are so fragile cost wise versus stalkers, and both teams have stalkers in copious numbers.
So the options left are collosi and immortals, or expand.
Since the robo facility is not that hard to get, tech wise, the player with the best income wins, first expo/second expo faster ~ game over in the lower leagues.
PvP is a very reactionary match up: get your opponents composition faster, whereas in PvT or PvZ, protoss has more options imo.
Maybe I am not describing my feelings correctly, but from re-watching my PvP replays the only differences I can find between me and the other player is that my army is bigger around 10:00 - 13:00 (but I don't move out, probably my losing flaw...), he has constant probe production and gets his natural up about 1:00 - 2:00 before mine, with about 4-8 extra probes, so GG at about 22:00 when we has both almost maxed, but I am still at like 160-170 supply.
He has those extra collosi or archons to beet me.
Sorry for the long spout, I am not mad, just having trouble enjoying playing the game because I so rarely win and yet can see my short comings, but get nervous in game and mess up my timings, scouting, or army positioning.
You should see me IRL when I play, I get all tense and my hands miss a lot of hot keys.
All in good fun, at least my problem is in a game, not IRL

Patch 1.4.0

Warp prism shields gone from 400 to 1000.
Stalker blink research time has been increased.

Maybe that should help out in your PvP battles

Play people instead then?

I found that 1vs1 very hard I could beat by going for a forward pylon and 2 gateways just outside the computer's natural expansion and just keep chrono boosting out zealots.