[Member="Valiens Nantaris"]
As much as I enjoyed the Story (WoL, HoTs and Brood War) the competitive play was horrendous. As soon as I got to Plat I wanted to be a Diamond player but got shot down against Zerg's Infestor. INFENSTOR!!! I wanted to punch my wall. . .
Rage Aside, the balances and the mechanical changes from BW to WoL to HOTS got not worse, but made easier. An Example would be the Muta Micro, in BW you could stack them and have them move and attack seamlessly without having it look like they stopped to attack. This took some quite a bit of training and practice but in WoL and HOTS the Muta AI and how the animation works simply does not allow it to work in that fashion.
Sort of like in Sports where they tell the All Star he has to be handicapped (Or rather make the game less demanding) to allow other players to catch up. As much as I appreciate sportsman ship and easier games to play and enjoy, I enjoy even more when I watch Boxer or Flash simply awe the crowds with their micro and strats, or seeing players like Jaedong simply out perform Kings of the game and slay them as the tyrant he was (or is).
Though all that taken into account I honestly enjoy the games, the graphics and the new units, new strats and new micro skills and with Legacy coming out it seems this game is only going up. The hate is simply based around of how much patches and balance changes that were needed to make the game "balanced" till this point. Balances is whole other can of worms I won't open.
Wings though also forced me to get a new graphics card and essentially a new Comp lol, so bitter memories
