The natural order of life is to seek balance and normalization. You can say "balance is boring" and give some non-existant example of how a developer tried to and made things bland, but the fact is players will seek and create this balance whether the dev takes the time to do it or not. Their job is to create the illusion of uniqueness while keeping the game normalized on THEIR terms.
"The natural order of life" is probably something a Lion would whisper to a Zebra while it's being eaten alive.
Yes, players should create their own balance and this balance is how effectively they solo or group. When you dip into balancing the "Classes" then that's when you kill the excitement.
What people fail to address is who the hell is having fun when something is unbalanced? Obviously the person luckily on the OP side of the equation. The people on the receiving end not so much
People don't like losing? You don't say.
PvP is about situations, how well you placed yourself in favorable situation will depend on how much fun you have. Using another animal analogy... I'm sure Lions find Alligators "OP" should they find themselves in water.
"I keep getting 2 shot by an assassin who has perma stealth with no counter, this is awesome. I love it" -Said NO ONE EVER
"i keep getting 2 shot by warriors at close range and heavy armor with "no counter", this is awesome. I love it" - Said NO ONE EVER
"I keep getting 2 shot by Mage Spells from long range and he had crowd control with "no counter", this is awesome. I love it" -Said NO ONE EVER
This list could go on forever...
If a developer doesn't take the steps to balance things, they are in fact wasting their own man hours and money. Why make 25 classes when only 3 are clearly dominating and thus being utilized by the majority of the player base?
Why make 25 classes when only 3 of those classes will be in demand for the raids needed for gear... which coincidentally, would be the only way to set your character part from the rest.
Sounds familiar?
If you don't get the fact that these guys are trying something different please find another game. Let these guys try something new.
I get what they are saying but at the same time I almost got the feeling that they are saying it because they've given up on balance entirely because it's too hard. And aren't these the same bunch who earlier said they don't care if people gimp their characters through poor choices when choosing skills, or training paths or whatever they are using in this game?
As developers they better understand that new people coming into the game don't just automatically know which class is going to be strong and which skills are going to be useless or underpowered. It's the job of the devs to design the game intelligently. It's not the job of the players to somehow read the minds of the devs so that they will know all the right choices to make from day one. If they set it up so that people can end up with largely useless characters any ensuing bitching is entirely their own fault.
Perfect balance isn't needed but every class and every possible build of every class should be good in some way. If there is a class which is crap it's the devs fault not the players fault. If there is a build of a class, which the DEVS chose to make possible, and that build is crap...then it is the DEVS fault not the players fault. If they don't want people bitching about it later on the answer is simple, don't include it in the first place.
And when it's balanced and comes down purely to skill.
People will cry nerf.
I'm so done with MMO's lately lol
But it never comes down to skill in MMO's...
90% of the time it comes down to gear and if there was a situation were it did come down to "skill" I guess whoever managed to spam 1 out of the 4 abilities faster... true skill lol.
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Balance is boring
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And when it's balanced and comes down purely to skill.
People will cry nerf.
I'm so done with MMO's lately lol
Sway all day, butterfly flaps all the way!
I get what they are saying but at the same time I almost got the feeling that they are saying it because they've given up on balance entirely because it's too hard. And aren't these the same bunch who earlier said they don't care if people gimp their characters through poor choices when choosing skills, or training paths or whatever they are using in this game?
As developers they better understand that new people coming into the game don't just automatically know which class is going to be strong and which skills are going to be useless or underpowered. It's the job of the devs to design the game intelligently. It's not the job of the players to somehow read the minds of the devs so that they will know all the right choices to make from day one. If they set it up so that people can end up with largely useless characters any ensuing bitching is entirely their own fault.
Perfect balance isn't needed but every class and every possible build of every class should be good in some way. If there is a class which is crap it's the devs fault not the players fault. If there is a build of a class, which the DEVS chose to make possible, and that build is crap...then it is the DEVS fault not the players fault. If they don't want people bitching about it later on the answer is simple, don't include it in the first place.
But it never comes down to skill in MMO's...
90% of the time it comes down to gear and if there was a situation were it did come down to "skill" I guess whoever managed to spam 1 out of the 4 abilities faster... true skill lol.