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Everyone can agree that the game isn't completely balanced; it never has been (not to say that it will never be more balanced than it used to though). I'm not against nerfing OP stuff and buffing underpowered stuff. However, some people are taking it way too far.
Do you guys remember that, before The Forgotten came out, we had been playing the same balance for over 15 years? We dealt with it. We adapted to the metagame. We even changed the metagame; yes, over 15 years, the metagame changed a lot. But it changed slowly. Some strategies, units, civs etc were dominant for a while, but what did we do? We adapted. We learned to counter the seemingly overpowered **** over time, and after a while we got a new view on balance. That's not to say nothing was broken though, since there were definitely some overpowered constants in AoC; it was completely clear that Huns having 30% cheaper Cavalry Archers in imperial was overpowered, it was clear that Aztecs having free Loom was overpowered, etc. But for lots of things, we accepted balance and adapted.
Now what has happened with WololoKingdoms? Suddenly, because we actually have active balance changes, people started taking them for granted. Rather than trying to adapt and find counters to seemingly unbalanced aspects of the game, like we used to, now we just dismiss it as broken and assume that it will be fixed in the next patch, and we constantly complain about it. Everyone's jumped on the "OP PLZ NERF" bandwagon. When I saw this thread, I realized just how far we have taken our balance complaints. Too far. Not only do lots of people think that basically everything is unbalanced, but they believe that we should take our balance changes to the extreme and remove Theocracy entirely!! Don't you see a problem here? Do you see a line that has been crossed?
My point is, don't jump to conclusions so quickly. Obviously there are overpowered things. But, we need time to figure everything out. Most of the unbalanced things in this game are not that unbalanced.
DISCLAIMER: My point is not that balance complaints are bad, but that people take their complants and suggestions too far. A lot of people seem to be missing the point here.
Do you guys remember that, before The Forgotten came out, we had been playing the same balance for over 15 years? We dealt with it. We adapted to the metagame. We even changed the metagame; yes, over 15 years, the metagame changed a lot. But it changed slowly. Some strategies, units, civs etc were dominant for a while, but what did we do? We adapted. We learned to counter the seemingly overpowered **** over time, and after a while we got a new view on balance. That's not to say nothing was broken though, since there were definitely some overpowered constants in AoC; it was completely clear that Huns having 30% cheaper Cavalry Archers in imperial was overpowered, it was clear that Aztecs having free Loom was overpowered, etc. But for lots of things, we accepted balance and adapted.
Now what has happened with WololoKingdoms? Suddenly, because we actually have active balance changes, people started taking them for granted. Rather than trying to adapt and find counters to seemingly unbalanced aspects of the game, like we used to, now we just dismiss it as broken and assume that it will be fixed in the next patch, and we constantly complain about it. Everyone's jumped on the "OP PLZ NERF" bandwagon. When I saw this thread, I realized just how far we have taken our balance complaints. Too far. Not only do lots of people think that basically everything is unbalanced, but they believe that we should take our balance changes to the extreme and remove Theocracy entirely!! Don't you see a problem here? Do you see a line that has been crossed?
My point is, don't jump to conclusions so quickly. Obviously there are overpowered things. But, we need time to figure everything out. Most of the unbalanced things in this game are not that unbalanced.
DISCLAIMER: My point is not that balance complaints are bad, but that people take their complants and suggestions too far. A lot of people seem to be missing the point here.
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