The_Korrigan posted:
Considering your forum nickname, it's safe to assume you're an (ex) DAoC fan.
You forget a very important factor in your reasoning...
Most if not all nerfs/boost in DAoC were made after whines for nerfs/boost on the forums. A class was perceived as overpowered? The devs would not even look at their own numbers (my guess is that they had none anyway), they would just nerf it into oblivion the next patchG
In WoW, it's very different. Good or bad? Not always. But better than listening to whiny player? Definitely.
I prefer having the developer team take their responsibilities than to be dependent of the amount of whining that is done against my class on the forums personally. No matter how much people bleat about Ghostcrawler here, I still trust him way more than <insert random wow forum troll number 129393 pretending to do better than the devs> on some fansite.
There is nothing worse for a MMORPG balance that to start listening to the player whining and use it as the base for class changing patches.
Considering your forum nickname, it's safe to assume you're an (ex) DAoC fan.
You forget a very important factor in your reasoning...
Most if not all nerfs/boost in DAoC were made after whines for nerfs/boost on the forums. A class was perceived as overpowered? The devs would not even look at their own numbers (my guess is that they had none anyway), they would just nerf it into oblivion the next patchG
In WoW, it's very different. Good or bad? Not always. But better than listening to whiny player? Definitely.
I prefer having the developer team take their responsibilities than to be dependent of the amount of whining that is done against my class on the forums personally. No matter how much people bleat about Ghostcrawler here, I still trust him way more than <insert random wow forum troll number 129393 pretending to do better than the devs> on some fansite.
There is nothing worse for a MMORPG balance that to start listening to the player whining and use it as the base for class changing patches.
Yes, and I agree with your stance. But you have to listen to your customers sometimes, right? DAOC felt like they were behind the customers making changes. WoW is making their changes and just dragging the players along, slinging them off as they go.
I guess we will see which is right. 6 months from now if they are doing well with the new model then they were right and I will just be out of a game I have enjoyed for a long time. Oh well.
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