Protoss is OP; Blizzard poll shows

[dejai]

Balance isn't just numbers. If it takes 1.5x more skill to balance another race, then that doesn't mean the races are balanced at all.

Sort of hard to judge that though.

[Pick]

Wow, the win/loss ratio looks dead even. Impressive.

Yeah, if those numbers are accurate then the game is incredibly balanced right now. I am amazed that extreme of dead even numbers are even possible on a brand new game.

Kudos to the mighty Blizzard.

And as for race choice. Protoss/Terran are equally easy to learn in my opinion. Zerg are much more difficult for me. Balancing drone production makes my brain hurt. I always need a dedicated worker-making building that should ALWAYS be making one worker.

[Wankey]

Yeah, if those numbers are accurate then the game is incredibly balanced right now. I am amazed that extreme of dead even numbers are even possible on a brand new game.

Kudos to the mighty Blizzard.

And as for race choice. Protoss/Terran are equally easy to learn in my opinion. Zerg are much more difficult for me. Balancing drone production makes my brain hurt. I always need a dedicated worker-making building that should ALWAYS be making one worker.

Match making will put you against a weaker player if you lose a few matches, then put you against a stronger player if you win a few matches. There is absolutely no use looking at that stat to determine balance. It just means the match making system is incredibly good.

[TheRabidDeer]

Yeah, if those numbers are accurate then the game is incredibly balanced right now. I am amazed that extreme of dead even numbers are even possible on a brand new game.

Kudos to the mighty Blizzard.

And as for race choice. Protoss/Terran are equally easy to learn in my opinion. Zerg are much more difficult for me. Balancing drone production makes my brain hurt. I always need a dedicated worker-making building that should ALWAYS be making one worker.

You should look at the top 200 numbers more than that

[Pick]

Match making will put you against a weaker player if you lose a few matches, then put you against a stronger player if you win a few matches. There is absolutely no use looking at that stat to determine balance. It just means the match making system is incredibly good.

Ahh... very good point. I thought those numbers seemed too good to be true.

I guess we would have to see specific race match-up numbers to judge balance.

[Noctis]

toss can get new players to understand the basics pretty fast, but they aren't exactly the easiest race if you get deep into the game with them.

teching with toss requires knowledge and skill, especially changing tech

[Legion]

i would think zerg would be the easier race all you do it spawn larva build units expand not really any micro invovled since youll have so many units but i could see why protoss would be considered that

sorry for the miss spelling involved its 1 am here :P

[SYL]

i would think zerg would be the easier race all you do it spawn larva build units expand not really any micro invovled since youll have so many units but i could see why protoss would be considered that

What are you saying??? Larva balance, unit composition and play styles all matter. There is plenty of micro as well with unit positioning and surrounds, as well as the Infestor's spells

[GRUNT]

According to that site, there are at least 5 Gradiuses....

I must hunt them down.

That's pretty creepy though, don't you think? Reminds me of The Prestige! Always thought that that was more than a little disturbing!

While there is no plain 'zoot' on the NA servers, we do have zootsuitriot, zooter, zootashoota, zootan, and zootface. o_0

[TunaFish]

Now, Blizzard's top 200 list, on the other hand, that was far more shocking in terms of results! There were 85 Terrans, 69 Protoss, and only 37 Zerg.

This, I think is much more suggestive of the current state of game balance.

When one race is very clearly under-represented in the ranks of the top players, it generally means that race brings less to the table in truly competitive play.