You might be a footnote someplace, but you won’t still be winning. The “constant patching” approach by developers also often leads to laziness on the part of the players there’s less reward for trying as hard as you can within the given rules, because if you are successful, your tactic will just be patched into obsolescence anyway. To players of some internet games, the changing of game balance can be an everyday occurrence, as can the fixing of bugs. To players of my kind of games, banning is an ultra-extreme measure. It is no surprise then that players of this type of game see differently than players of more “static” games on the issue of banning and altering a game. The entire notion of radically patching and altering a game after its release may have many desirable properties, but it also has created an attitude among developers that they can release a somewhat buggy and imbalanced game and just patch it later. You can't hit that button too often, but you should be hitting it a lot more often then they have been. And secondly that aggressive balancing would be better anyway because more meta-shakeups keep people interested. I think devs in general are afraid of aggressive balancing because people have to spend a bunch of resources to build decks and they think people will hate it if you then nerf those decks.īut I think, firstly, that this game is generous enough with resources that they should worry a lot less about that then, say, a game like Hearthstone, which is brutally stingy. I know Hearthstone used to take 3 or more months before adjusting anything and soooometimes we'd see a meta shift because someone came up with a radical idea for a deck but for the most part, metas tend to settle in a matter of days and no matter what you put together you're gonna have to shake it up. Honestly they should just have their hands on the buzzers, ready to shift the meta with changes every few weeks to keep it from being stale. I'm positive they know they're going to have to nerf some of them back but they just want people to stop complaining It's cracking me up so many of those changes are nerf reverts.
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