Clearly Blizzard is doing one or two patches for the game every year still. So can we have Blizzard either remove the “Balance of Power” achievement or make it so that players can actually still unlock it?
Or simply just re-categorize it as a Feats of Strength so that it’s not worth any points and whoever has it can keep it. It’s the fact that it holds points that keeps players from completing their achievement goals.
It’s super frustrating when trying to unlock all the achievements but you have this one pointlessly gate-kept achievement that cannot be unlocked in any way.
Blizzard has kept the ‘Testing’ playlist offline for such a long time with no hint towards ever using it again.
Those patches aren’t made by Bliz. They’re made by the community using the game editor.
It’s because there’s no development team to enable it.
Which unfortunately also means there’s no one to make the changes to the achievement system.
The community must have connections to someone over at Blizzard to validate the community patches. If the community can adjust things for the game then why can’t they have the achievement delisted as a requested feature?
Anything that can be done with the editor can be done by anyone (that knows how to use it). However anything that requires changes to the client/server files needs a dev team.
In the case of the balance changes (and the bug fixes for Coop), 100% of the changes are made by the community using the editor. The changes are then submitted to Bliz where they are copy and pasted, as is, to the versus mod on the back end. There’s no testing or double checking by Bliz due to a lack of a dev team.
Unfortunately, in the case of changing achievement categories, that can’t be done with the editor. It would require changes to the client and/or server.