And not only should you play it, you should attempt to be good at it.
Because you won’t be. Not without a lot of physical and mental effort.
Unlike most computer games, Starcraft requires an understanding of dynamic interactions of units. Similar to chess, but with three totally separate sets of 20 units, rather than two equal sets of 6.
And the fights between units can be affected by terrain.
Each race you pay as has specialties and you need to know them all to know how to counter and exploit them.
And that’s just to start. Each person you play has their own style. They have their own focus and strategies.
When you use you resources and how much you acquire limit your growth.
And then you have to learn to prioritize where your focus is and what you watch.
The best players do 400 things per minute. Good players do 150-200. So you learn to be fast.
You lose. A lot. The competitive ladder is structured so you win 50% of your games and no more. You should always be playing against players who are at your skill level.
So there are a lot of valuable lessons that you can learn from Starcraft.
- Some people are jerks
- You’re not as good as you think you are
- Being good takes study
- Being good takes lots of work
- Skill is learned over time with work
- Losing isn’t bad, it simply may have been the result of 1 misclick out of 10,000 in the game
- Watching how others do things is a great way to learn
There’s a lot more, but Starcraft is a great way to learn resilience and many other life lessons.