If people suddenly all asked for half the roster to be deleted from the game, and Jeff and co. obliged… in the ensuing madness and chaos, Jeff comes out and says “you gotta be careful what you wish for.”
Would that make any sense?
No. Of course not.
The developers are the professionals. They are the keepers of their own game.
They have to be mindful of the community’s wishes, yet they are the the ones ultimatel making the final decisions.
Every gaming community will always be overflowing with tons of ideas. Some outright good, some outright bad. Many others somewhere in between and highly dependent on implementation.
To blame the community for asking something, which the developers put into the game and turned out disastrous is asinine at best and conscious blame-shifting at worse.
YOU are the developers, any praise and blame when it comes to the game rests on YOU and you alone.
Blizzard is responsible for every single change they made to the game, nobody else. If something is bad it is all Blizzard’s fault. If something is good, it is all because of Blizzard.
AGAIN not narrowing this down to when it was used in dive! You don’t have the information to make these claims! This is just more “THIS CHARACTER WAS POPULAR!”
EXACTLY!!! People even asked for a hero that can encounter flankers and dive (remember that even dive was a bit of a issue for supports even for mercy).
They also saw Doomfist as a problem because he was nerfed like 80 times as well, at the same time as Brigitte. But the thing is, all new heroes get nerfs to even them out and make them more balanced. That’s why they need us to play the characters so they can see the stats. Doomfist was intolerable in lower ranks and even up to higher ranks, so they nerfed him. Brigitte was intolerable in certain ranks and was doing things she shouldn’t have been, so they nerfed her.
It takes time to balance a character. They aren’t going to be perfect right out of the gate. We don’t life in fantasy, this is the real life.
Any time you mentioned possibly slightly nerfing Tracer or Genji, you were met with defensiveness, hostility, and condescending statements from people who like/main those heroes.
You can’t! Again you don’t have the ability to filter it out when characters were used for what compositions! You’re just using a popular character poll. Another issue is that you just assume that the majority was Dive meta, but you can’t even prove how much dive meta was actually in use.
You do realize that there are official statistics that are released that reveal hero usages, right? Like, those aren’t us creating the statistics, but a literal, factual source that provides it?..
Wow… all the remaining respect I had for Jeff is gone. There’s not much he could say that would fully wipe it out… but there it goes. Release Brigette was the worse balancing decision I’ve seen in any competitive games I’ve played since I started gaming.
His whole “if you buff heroes they might become too strong in normal circumstances” - basically excusing buffing the dumbest part of certain heroes kits recently. And “if you nerf meta heroes they won’t be balanced anymore” when those same heroes are the most common ones on ladder (for the most part) in comp totally unrelated to the top percent of games.
It just sounds like he learned the basic elements of game balance today. Like that it’s a series of trade offs and that they’ve done them really poorly really slowly and really hamfistedly when they do take action. I thought I liked Jeff but honestly I don’t want him balancing the game at all. Any confidence in his decision making is completely gone
