damn-I-Suck
[12] Conqueror
Dear Namco,
I'm writing you this letter in regards to your balance patches for sc6. The game hasn't even been out for 6 months yet, yet there have been 3 balance patches. I always advocate a 'wait and see' approach. This game should have been out for 6 months before ANY balance patches were made, but instead you hastily patched away. Bugs should be fixed immediately, but balance needs to wait. Why? Well because it takes a long time, even for the elite's, to fully discover all the possibilities, heck sometimes new tech is discovered years after release. What seems like a broken character now may not be in the long run after anti-character tech gets discovered and shared around. The other way you went wrong was to listen to casuals, like myself, about balance. Casuals don't know the game at the deepest level, will cry about how broken Nightmare is (when he's mid at best) because they don't know basic defense. And one last thing, this notion of 'balancing online and offline play' makes no sense. Everyone knows that playing online is kinda bullshit and no one expects anything different. Fighting games should ONLY be balanced around offline because that's where tournaments take place. Online is meant for fun only when you don't have a human player right next to you.
I'm writing you this letter in regards to your balance patches for sc6. The game hasn't even been out for 6 months yet, yet there have been 3 balance patches. I always advocate a 'wait and see' approach. This game should have been out for 6 months before ANY balance patches were made, but instead you hastily patched away. Bugs should be fixed immediately, but balance needs to wait. Why? Well because it takes a long time, even for the elite's, to fully discover all the possibilities, heck sometimes new tech is discovered years after release. What seems like a broken character now may not be in the long run after anti-character tech gets discovered and shared around. The other way you went wrong was to listen to casuals, like myself, about balance. Casuals don't know the game at the deepest level, will cry about how broken Nightmare is (when he's mid at best) because they don't know basic defense. And one last thing, this notion of 'balancing online and offline play' makes no sense. Everyone knows that playing online is kinda bullshit and no one expects anything different. Fighting games should ONLY be balanced around offline because that's where tournaments take place. Online is meant for fun only when you don't have a human player right next to you.