FFA Masters League

I don't know if it has been since forever or the last 10 years or so, but they have this ridiculously stupid, almost childish rule where players "natural expos" are "safe," and if you break the unwritten rule and attack it, you're considered bad mannered, ill mannered, or disrespectful and it is basically grounds for that player losing his "natural" expansion to suicide (they call it that) his army and make the both of them lose (I call this being a big fat baby but I guess they all support it).

It is disrespectful to the great game of Warcraft 3 to safeguard people's expansions; if a player sees an enemy's expansion 5 minutes into the game, then yeah, they should be able to kill it and cripple them in the FFA game if they choose to do so. This is HOW you play wc3, but not them. I've watched a few of their games over the years and they sometimes do "love taps" to the enemy expos to let them know they are letting it live and then just move their army away. Sometimes, they even do this in mid-late game. There is no doubt in my mind they look at this as some sort of sportsmanship, but it isn't, just childish and disrespectful to the game.

I know why the ffareplayers.com players do this. They won't admit this, but they think longer games=better games, which isn't true. Maybe a 10 year old believes this, but we're all semi adult here and them prolonging games just to give the perception that they are more exciting because they are 2 hour long games is kind of sad to WC3's legacy.

All of them are better than me, no doubt about it. But I feel like I'm being objective when I say they play like little snot nosed brats and hurt this great game's legacy like this. I really hope the true oldschool ffa players like Pencil/Rice (I think they're called this) didn't support this kind of play. There are 4v4rt players 200 games under 50% who have more respect for this game than that.

And please, if this thread doesn't get deleted because I'm voicing my honest opinion, don't bring up the whole manipulation thing. What they do isn't manipulating, it is just pouting enough to make another player hit someone else.