[Blarg]

This is true of RTS games, too, and really games in general, even non-video games. I play mostly RTS games, and it's amazing how tight and detailed the build orders and such can become in short order. Somebody figures something out, but then others play him enough to figure it out themselves, or see replays, and then they can do it too. So a Darwinian process goes on that takes ordinary players to high skill levels very quickly. But if you're coming in fresh, yikes. People often don't even want to talk about the discoveries you still have to make, anymore, since they're long past them and are all talked out about them.