What are you playing?

[psychospacecow]

1 or 2? They had them set up to where the campaign was the difficulty setting in 1.

1.
The game forces you to beat the Terran campaign before it allows you to start Zerg or Protoss (and if you try to select Protoss it warns you that you should play Zerg first and gives you the option to go back and do that) but since you already know how to play the game, it just gives you about half of a tutorial mission to get acquainted with the Zerg playstyle then drops you right back into the campaign at the current difficulty.

Basically I went from Easy to Medium and now the difficulty ramped up, eheh

Good luck with that. The key to playing Starcraft is economics. If you can keep a good 14+ drones on your mineral line, it will help quite a bit. You should always be building, and never let your reserves pile up.

To add to the topic, I spent more than 10 hours on Civilization 5 today. I didn't realize it until 8 hours had past, but then I felt dedicated.