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<blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 5520251" data-attributes="member: 996">Balance is already lying in a scattering of broken glass.&nbsp; The intent of the PR communication strategy this poll is part of is to convince enough fans that it's not that bad, so they won't have another exodus of pissed off players.&nbsp; I'd put the threshold for making them sit up and take some notice closer to 90%.&nbsp; If the pro-balance respondents top 90% the Gnome Effect starts to look like a weak excuse. It's interesting that in the prior optionless-fighter poll, there was a response along the lines of &quot;I don't really care about balance, so whatever.&quot;&nbsp; It got less than 4%.&nbsp; Turning that upside down, you can spin it as 96% of gamers think balance is important. This poll might even be a follow-up to that one.&nbsp; Trying to shoot down the idea that balance is important.&nbsp;True, a balanced game can still be crap.&nbsp; It can have a bad setting, or clunky mechanics or whatever.&nbsp; An imbalanced game can be a lot of fun - for the folks leveraging those imbalances in their favor...It could be taken that way - if you were the one writing the article where they talk about the results.&nbsp; But, you won't be.&nbsp; Any response but the first one can be rolled up and spun as:&nbsp; &quot;Most of you think that there are other things more important than balance.&quot;&nbsp; Which is a liscense to continue sacrificing game balance at the altar of... well, any thing they like, because it doesn't /specify/ what is more important.Then your response will be used to excuse the lower priority balance was given in Essentials, and perhaps even to justify further degrading class balance in the hopes of luring back the CoDzilla/God-Wizard fans.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tony Vargas, post: 5520251, member: 996"] Balance is already lying in a scattering of broken glass. The intent of the PR communication strategy this poll is part of is to convince enough fans that it's not that bad, so they won't have another exodus of pissed off players. I'd put the threshold for making them sit up and take some notice closer to 90%. If the pro-balance respondents top 90% the Gnome Effect starts to look like a weak excuse. It's interesting that in the prior optionless-fighter poll, there was a response along the lines of "I don't really care about balance, so whatever." It got less than 4%. Turning that upside down, you can spin it as 96% of gamers think balance is important. This poll might even be a follow-up to that one. Trying to shoot down the idea that balance is important. True, a balanced game can still be crap. It can have a bad setting, or clunky mechanics or whatever. An imbalanced game can be a lot of fun - for the folks leveraging those imbalances in their favor... It could be taken that way - if you were the one writing the article where they talk about the results. But, you won't be. Any response but the first one can be rolled up and spun as: "Most of you think that there are other things more important than balance." Which is a liscense to continue sacrificing game balance at the altar of... well, any thing they like, because it doesn't /specify/ what is more important. Then your response will be used to excuse the lower priority balance was given in Essentials, and perhaps even to justify further degrading class balance in the hopes of luring back the CoDzilla/God-Wizard fans. [/QUOTE]

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