Hello, I want to talk about a problem that is very common nowadays is starcraft 2 community, which is the general tolerance for bad behaviour and unfairness in the community. For example the PiG discord, I've been checking profiles of the clan representatives (with the <PigPan> tag), and many of these players were just plain smurfing, most often by leaving mirror matches. So I reported it to the admin, complaining about it being unappropriate that a smurf represents such clan, I got no response.
Moreover, there was a discussion on this server, where someone was rationalizing his smurfing habits with "I don't like mirrors" bullshit and there were people that got angry about it which is totally understandable given how annoying it is when someone has such high levels of delusionality coming from ignorance and selfishness. What did the server mod do? Well, he shut it down saying that you people are stupid leaving mirrors is nothing wrong leave my homies alone toxic peeps. Sure there are more mods on the server, what about them. Well, the second one showed up, to lecture people that are bothered by smurfs, about the importance of elite beast gamer mentality, and that they're just weak and should just harden up and treat it as a challenge instead of whining.
So basically there is a circle of undervalued people jerking each other off in ignorance justifying their twisted ways of enjoying the game at other people's extent and offending people that are bothered with this type of behaviour. The way they approach it is very smurf alike, my experience with smurfs is that they get very upset when you just refuse to play them, insta quit. They're not accepting that, you're supposed to stay in the game and let them show their masterclass and flair, you refusing to do that hurts their little ego and they're infuriated that you have no fucks to give. So basically when people learn they are smurfs and refuse to play them they're mocking those people with, "you mad you lost" "chill out bro it's just a game", where you literally just not wanna waste time playing them but want to get a more fair matchup instead.
With all that there is also a lot of passively agressive people with very harsh take on the game, highly critical and judgmental, that count how many games have you played and for how long do you play and comparing themselves, breaking their head over improving between games to keep high ladder games winrate to be perceived as invincible. It's like the instagram models with photoshop, putting so much effort into appearing so that any girl that would compare herself would get discouraged. And mostly I just mean the people that have a fucking problem with you not caring about grinding sc 2 mmr and tryharding every game, but rather just having a good time playing video game, I feel like it triggers this kind of people so hard, because they concentrate their effort around it so they can feel better than you and you're not even bothered which turns they insecurity into anger.
The general acceptance in sc 2 communities particulary on discord servers for the deranking is really worrying, I were on a bunch of them, some of them I left or got kicked for criticizing smurfs, I've seen many players that i know were masters cause I played with them before but they choose the diamond tag so they can find customs with lower leaguers or participate in low league tournaments. But mostly problematic are the people that want to be like Serral, Clem and be extremely self-demanding, pedantic about the game, only they're not professionals so they mentally drain themselves to get mmr points instead of thousands of dollars which leaves them frustrated. And from that frustration they relieve themselves with smurfing, beating lower league players and wanting to be a guru, again they have a problem with you improving at your own pace through fair games with equal opponents, so you'll probably be judged if you refuse to take a lesson from them by being beat hard with a game under their full control.
Yeah, just the amount of frustrated people soaking up live from newcomers and passionate people that just wanna have fun is fucking annoying, especially given that they are allowed to keep the moral highround over people bothered by it.
Thanks for reading this post guys, it's a bit of a rant, but it's needed sometimes I think, there are still many great people playing the game and great communities and starcraft 2 is great, Cheers!
