Comments on: If it ain’t broke, you better not fix it.

By: Cameron

Cameron — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 01:03:58 +0000

After playing an MMO (WoW) for a while, I -can- see the merit of constantly assessing class balance. The reasons for this are two-fold:

1) You put a lot of time and effort into a character that can be effectively countered and neutered by another class that is just simply too powerful. Then comes along the patch and suddenly the character you put a lot of time into is finally viable again.

2) By redesigning classes constantly, they DO get new abilities. Balance-checks don’t only tweak existing abilities to be more or less powerful. New abilities do come in.

By: kalilea

kalilea — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 04:07:17 +0000

When these developers do this, what is their motivation? It seems to be that time would be best used in developing new content rather than tinkering with things that already are pleasing to the player base.

By: chatobstewart

chatobstewart — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:32:28 +0000

LOL, I was play an MMO, for years, it needed updates but then they started “Tinkering”… took a good format and just dumped it… lost tons of ppl… I even left….

If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!

Chato
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By: debcook

debcook — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 23:42:22 +0000

You have that right. My husband was a committed SWG player but that ended with the NGE.