Take the first Mercy rework for example. She was painfully broken for months before she got her first nerf. Literally everyone who played the game agreed that it was too much, but the devs refused to at least temporarily revert her changes while they tweaked her rework. It wasn’t until months of backlash that they finally did something.
Now look at Reinhardt. Two years later they finally try to fix his bugs, but he’s worse than ever. He takes damage through his shield more often (still somewhat uncommon) and now his ult is like playing at a slot machine. Every time a Rein ults he’s gambling and hoping that the animation won’t go off 2 or 3 times. Amazing. Instead of temporarily reverting this change, we have to deal with this broken mess for who knows how many months.
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Mercy’s rework was a success and Reinhardt is currently being worked on.
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When you have Jeff in his recent video saying Symmetra was a success and change everyone’s perceptions. I’d say yes because that’s been Blizzard’s motto from the start of WoW.
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Her original rework had her at a 100% pick rate for months.
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It was a success in terms of fixing the original problem, which was hide and res. With a full year of straight backlash can you really blame them for taking so long to balance her after. Anything they did had people up in arms.
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Are you too proud to not blame the devs?
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And to think…Jeff supposedly has 100 hours on Rein.
(No I don’t believe it, that’s just me cause didn’t he say he was a Genji main during retribution? And then a Hanzo main before that?)
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The main problem isn’t they won’t admit they did something wrong. It’s that they always try and think of “new ways to fix an old problem” that doesn’t revolve around changing what they already did.
if they nerfed the CD of an ability they won’t lower it. If they improved dmg it won’t go down. For the most part they won’t undo anything they did, even if was only ‘to test’. And being open to 'feedback" is just send dead letters to an inbox they don’t read.
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He was poking fun at weab mains. He may very well be a rein main, but honestly, I want some gameplay footage from papa jeff.
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I have trouble believing they play on public servers at all. I mean one night in que would get what a dozen or more people banned? Pretty much find a toxic troll or a leaver in every game if they didn’t know it was a developer.
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Yeah Blizzard can admit their mistakes.
Thats why they removed mass rez. Because it was a mistake.
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LMAO. Probably more leavers if they new it was a dev.
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I doubt they’d actually use the ban very often if they even had access to it.
If you used the ban on someone and they are recording it and didn’t 100% cross the line you’ll be losing your job or earning the company a significant black mark. The company might choose to shield themselves and you by not actually giving you the power.
Some people also have more restraint when they are the one calling the shots. It’s one thing to feel someone deserves punishment x or y and it’s another thing to actually do it.
The thing is they have gone on record of saying having a zero tolerance policy on a lot of things. They have banned people for very minor things on the whole basis of “if a lot of people reported them, they must be doing something wrong”.
So no I don’t think they would hold back on Bans when their big stick for a while was how they were working on cleaning up the community. Plus most bans are not life time, but more of a slight pause to behavior.
Plus even if people record, how would they know what to argue against? The actions never tell you what game on what day you are being punished for.
He’s been in that state since release.
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People don’t necessarily have high enough offense counts to merit a ban and would be suspicious.
If people notice bans dropping mid match when a specific person is in it they’ll connect the dots. The server that I was server police on regularly had people figuring out who the server police were before it ever became public just from when actions occurred. Most didn’t make it a month before the regulars knew who they were.
You say they’re too proud to admit their mistakes yet they have been working on toning her down, while you’re still here mentioning her first iteration.
And they know pretty well how buggy Reinhardt is. Which is why they have been working on him, and why he has been locked in the PTR.
So idk maybe you want to vent some frustrations by focusing on the negatives too much without realizing that things are being worked on/have been worked on?