We Need Consensus For Good Balance

General Discussion
1

There really needs to be a poll or survey set up for players concerning balance changes
to determine whether something is good for the game or not

A big issue I recall devs stating they had when they read forums or Reddit is the contradictory opinions on balance, and a way to help with that is to make a simple questionnaire for each patch

We can’t feasibly expect good balance if we can’t give concise and unanimous opinions concerning balance. Simply posting the same “X hero is ruining games” or “Y hero is trash tier” ad nauseum on forums is tiring and frankly never helpful.

The questions can be listed as follows:

Balance Change: XYZ
How did this change feel to play with?

  1. I don’t play this hero / I didn’t pay attention / I didn’t notice
  2. It felt horrible
  3. It felt kind of bad
  4. It felt okay
  5. It felt good

How does this change feel to play against?
[Same options as above here]

Insert additional feedback below:
Lorem ipsum etc…

2

Player feedback isn’t what you base your balancing on. Yes it has its place, but it cannot be the driving force behind changes. There are too many conflicts of interest and differing degrees of knowledge/skill for it to be taken at face value and used to balance the game.

Instead there needs to be a consensus within the development team itself. At the moment it seems like one hand doesn’t know what the other is doing.