TEBOW BAGGINS
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Posted - 2013.07.19 16:18:00 -
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i agree with what op is saying somewhat, i will say right now i am not a flaylock user or a free lav'er, i'm not trying to champion for my own cause i champion for everyone's stuff to be on par, i don't like to see nerfs to anything for the following reason:
someone gets their nerf. a new vacuum in the game forms from that "fix", and is quickly exploited. usually now the new problem, FOTM, or whatever you wanna call it, is much bigger and worse than the one that just got resolved, now this get's even magnified when CCP over nerfs something.
If they would have just left it alone in the first place, instead of listen to a couple guys whininging who maybe were noobs anyway, everything would be fine, perhaps they havne't added a new weapon yet, but instead they nerf something before the new things added and now when they add it they never should have nerfed in the first place they have new problems and now the couple guys has grown into a mob of nerf callers that saw how only 2 can guys heavily inlfuence the game and perhaps even got a crutch out of it.
so in the common MMO forum scenario:
the forums explode, the 2 biggest nerf callers who actualy were appeased, have now influenced a mob who now demand nerfs left and right then suddenly you have devs looking like their frantically listening to all this and not even testing their own game just letting the mob scream them down. it's good PR to "listen" to your customers and this becomes the mantra of the mob.
no matter what gets nerfed it is never enough for the mob, because now they know they have power to demand a nerf on anything before self procliaming themselves as "community elders/dev advisors" and the mob grows even bigger. the ppl with real foresight get shouted down and finally just give up altogteher as the mob has the gamed nerfed into the ground.
when they're done with their pass of everything getting nerfed they simply start over from the beginning of the list, without doing a complete rollback the devs continue to try and make "minor tweaks" but the only real fix would be to completely roll back to a past build, and no MMO dev has wanted to go there yet, can't say i really blame them for rollbacks are terrible PR.
this went on for seven years in star wars galaxies, for 7 years the mob developed the game. and for 7 years the game never became final it was just an awful mess you had to relearn every 2 months, was depressing because once you got good at a role you new it wouldn't be for long because the game would never be finalized since someone is QQing on the forums again and the mob will soon back them because getting stuff nerfed or "minor tweaked" as they call it once they start renerfing stuff over from the begining, has now become a hobby for them and much of the mob doesn't even play anymore.
there has to finally come a time when the devs say look, the game is final now. they can go out to listening forever the arguments on forums, they have to make a choice and stick to it or they have no intergrety and when their biggest supporters since that they will move on |