Why the balance forum feels like a waste of my time

carlorizzante · May 10, 2014

drz1 said: ↑

The problem is, there are people who aren't like you...
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I know. It's so annoying isn't it?

ShottyMonsta · July 30, 2014

metabolical said: ↑

I know we have a bunch of fans of the provocative title, so I felt I should participate in kind. Anyway, there are a few things that contribute to why many companies conclude they should do their balance work behind closed doors.

TL;DR Visibility inspires panic.
On turning Dox into grenadiers. Everybody is assuming we turned the dox into grenadiers with no thought to keeping them. While we did consider their overlap with the t1 tank, we never said we wouldn't have dox. When we go to the balance branch and want to try out a new unit, it's often easier to just take an existing unit and change it in to what we want to try than to create one from scratch. But of course if we then show the build, people start to panic.

TL;DR Semantic nit-picking
There's been a number of ways to express the transition from T1 -> T2. "The right time," or "risk vs reward." etc. How it works is inevitably complicated, so let's not latch on to one phrase and attack it for being oversimplified. We want to make the move to T2 a strategic decision. I'm sure that phrase is sufficiently open to debate that I could fill my day arguing about it on the internet.

TL;DR You can't be all the things to all the people all the time
We've stated that we're ok having direct upgrades in the game. People tend to think that means that we're planning to make everything a direct upgrade. Some people feel there should be no direct upgrades. Other people think it is fine. We have to make a game with reasonably broad appeal or we go out of business. Some people want everything available at T1 or with no cost to go to T2, and others think that is crazy. So we're going to build what we believe is a good game, and we accept that some or even most people won't agree with everything, but we hope that it is fun for many.

TL;DR Everything gets said over and over
We actually do read your stuff and listen, and even try to acknowledge. However, if I don't agree with your posts, I will forever hear that point, often in every thread or discussion. Waste of time.
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tl;dr HOLY CRAP NEVER DOING KICKSTARTER AGAIN!!! (people with no knowledge of game/software development being "intimately" involved in game/software development == brain pain)

But in the end you'll come out as a stronger company (well that's the idea anyway, there's always the risk of it blowing up in your faces I guess)

Imsvale · July 30, 2014

metabolical said: ↑

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Rhetorical question: At what point in the process did any of you guys expect balance discussions to be anything but highly opinionated?

Why the balance forum feels like a waste of my time

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