Mental Strategy

Mental Strategy #28: Getting Used to the Truth of Battle.Net

    There is a truth on Battle.Net; it's a terrible truth for young adults of my age and younger. Most of us, haven't quite reached over the foothold of maturity quite yet. Those who think they are mature, inreality take this possible conjecture and abuse it by bragging, or reducing the happiness of others. This is wrong. However, on Battle.Net the communities hear the outrages of immature kids who think they are outstanding and play childish and unskillful. This is however a biased remark, but the scary thing is that is true.  Now, I sometimes play childish and try some strange and awkward tactics but my job as a strategy writer is to introduce to the communities these new truths. Now, this strategy is going to talk about how people like yourself should get used to handling the truth of kids my age and younger. The key thing that you however need to remember is that this strategy is meant to help keep you sane. If it makes you go insane after this sentence then please leave and go Starcraft.Org, Warcraft.Org or Blizzard Entertainment and regain your stupidity.(No offense to Blizzard!). =)

    When you come onto Battle.Net you usually see a lot of different things occuring in the main Starcraft channels. Seriously. If I was to log into Battle.Net right now, I'd probably have a couple of advertisements for a clan, a challenge request to the channel and maybe some one typing in All CAPS. This is the problem in the opinions of most of our community and most of the Warcraft community as well. If we are going to freely share ideas and play games that we enjoy through an internet service, we must be able to get along with each other speaking in proper English, German or whatever language floats your boat. Most of the time however, this truth never becomes a reality. We have people conversing to each other using "Slang" and to me sound like they are on crack. However, the reality is that approximatly 80-90% of these people speaking in all CAPS are kids. When someone talks in that manner most people are not willing to listen. Even though, I'm 14 and a kid in my own right. I'd agree. I want to talk to someone formal who wants to play the game and play a game of mature. This is something that most of our community goes right on along with.

    There is a problem though. We are diminishing the opportunity to allow kids of a younger age to experience something that we as human beings are allowed to do because of our spoken words? In other words, what I am trying to say is that if some kid talks in all CAPS we usually ignore them and we don't play with them. However, there are always other people who give them this opportunity. The thing I'm trying to get at is simply put in a few words. We ignore them, We keep them the same way. In other words, because we don't help them increase their maturity through the internet they are going to remain the same way for days and weeks to come. They are going to still talk in all capital letters and people will probably still complain. This is where the line needs to be drawn.

    Active participants of Starcraft should allow these players in to their games. If you can play along with these players and get them into the streamline of things a few simple things will happen. First of all, the players will be allowed to get in their experience with Battle.Net and play with other people who are mature and are actually seriously playing the game of Starcraft. Seriousness however is something that I don't think should be implemented into a game. Second of all, we might be introducing a new strategy or two to a player who has never had the opportunity to gain strategies from you. This is a huge plus and also improves him or her as a player. If you are just willing to accept one or two of these players into a game, you might be able to teach them somethings; and who knows they might be able to return the favor back.

    I'm going to defend my age group in one category. There are people out there who are 14 and younger who act very mature and are just a pleasure to play with. I don't want to hear the discrimination from all of you out there in this Starcraft Community to complain that all kids are not deservant the rights to play SC or any games because we're too young. Some of us might even be better then you think! Seriousness is what makes this community so wrong in it's own individual ways. However, the seriousness is also good because it allows for ideas to be shared in a mature matter. However, lighten up some people! We represent the community of Starcraft players who are joined together because we wanted to play a game that we thought would be fun and would have some of the most diversified strategies in the book. In reality, it does.

    Now that you understand the truth of Battle.Net; get out there and think positively about Battle.Net as a service. I hate it when people think of Battle.Net as a lousy service because of all of it's techincal problems. Think about all of the other advantages this service gives you. You get the opportunity to play against other people around the world and get to play in a competive ladder. I think some of you might be a bit too picky to make Battle.Net a place that you'd be happy. If your not happy with using Battle.Net, then why use it at all? That's just my opinion.

    The point I was trying to get in this mental strategy is that you need to get used to meeting all of the different characters on Battle.Net and how you should be kind and accept them all as friends. The following quote I used for my English Paper about Illegal Immigration it is based on that idea. However, Battle.Net is filled with people who are trying to immigrate into it and enjoy the services. Anyways, here's the quote:

"Let us by no means join in the popular outcry against foreigners coming to our country, and partaking of it’s privileges. They will come, whether we will or no; and is it wise to meet them with inhospitality, and thus turn their hearts against us? Let us rather receive them as friends, and give them welcome to our country. Let us rather say, "The harvest before us is indeed great and the laborers are few: come, go with us, and we will do thee good."

Any questions?
-SpaceDominator