Understand, I love Starcraft.  But I finally got to the point where I can’t play it anymore and have fun.  I’m a low-level “Gold” league player.  And the problem (for me) is that at a certain point, it’s really about the micro of the units.  I managed to get to the level I was at because I’m pretty good at macro – I play as a virus that is always trying to spread across the map and unless you counter me consistently, it’ll eventually all be mine.

But at a certain point – below diamond and platinum apparently – the difference in skill stops being about macro. That’s a given.  It’s about how good you are – how fast you are – at micro managing the units. And I’m old. My 6 year old constantly reminds me of this. “you smell like an old man.” And I just am not competitive at micro managing.

That’s why I so miss Total Annihilation and am hopeful that Planetary Annihilation will solve this for me. I’d like a game that really rewards the macro skill. That isn’t to say that people who are good at micro should be left out.  But at least with Starcraft, the higher level players are about the micro.  It doesn’t matter that I attacked on 3 different sides at once because the guy with good micro (and speed) and wipe out one of them totally while the other two edge my way because I outnumber them which leaves me with a net loss.