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[quote who="psychoak" comment="38"] The crux of the problem, they're playing to win instead of enjoying the game itself. A losing battle should be a blast, if it's not you've picked the wrong hobby and need to find something you actually enjoy, like knitting! Back when I was bad news, the most fun I ever had playing RTS games was when I was getting my ass kicked. My favorite people to play were the few who could challenge me seriously enough to stop messing around whil

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[quote who="FadedC" comment="28"] Well when you boil it all down, most one on one strategy games are decided after the first major battle whether it's a RTS or a TBS. These games usually involve cascading victories or failures so once you fall behind you usually don't have a chance to catch back up. It's just a question of whether this big battle occurs after 5 minutes like in SC2 or in an hour like when I used to play Heroes 3 online. Either way you usually

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@DesConnor: Definitely, in most games or sports, tournaments will be best of three or five, it's the only way to be fair. I didn't mean to say that there's a problem with how the game works, just mentioning that, inside any given match, it's possible to cripple a player in a way that he cannot fight back, which is exactly what the all-in strategy aims for. You give yourself a chance to destroy your opponent and win, however, by doing that, you also guarantee that if your attack fails,

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One of the aspects of games like Starcraft is that, as you begin to lose, you are also less able to fight back. This is why you have all-in strategies. You can plan your build order in a way to give you one chance at victory, but if it fails, you are absolutely crippled, without even being attacked once, and completely unable to fight back. You often see a player resign even when he still has bases, an army, and is gathering resources. It's just that he's so far behind his rival that