This is not a post about if the actual balance changes are good or not, we'll see. But reading all the discussion the last few days has made me think that a lot of people JUST care about how balanced the game is for like the top 20 or so players in the world. Maybe even the top 10.
Rarely do people talk about how the game feels to play in Silver 1, Diamond 2 or Platinum 3. It's all just "here's the tournament win rates by race". I either get the sense that people don't play the game, and they just watch, or that they for some reason don't think balance matters below top 20 GM.
99.99% of players play a game where the OP units are often completely different to what is OP at the pro level. Carriers, widow mines, lurkers, battlecruisers, colossus, tanks - whatever it is at the level they're at that's a bit too strong. So why are players so concerned with what happens when Clem plays Serral?
I am not saying the game should just be balanced according to gold league, what i am saying is this:
If all we want to do is balance the next EWC, make sure it's not a TvT final, and make sure that the top 15 or so players in the world are 5 of each race, so we can watch some fun games, then this should be made clear. Then the game can finally be balanced around Clem, Maru, MaxPax, Serral, HerO and nobody else.
So I think the objective of the balance council should be made clear, because it seems like the majority of people just want the game balanced around the tournaments they watch, and if that's what the community wants then that's a lot easier to achieve.
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This is not a post about if the actual balance changes are good or not, we'll see. But reading all the discussion the last few days has made me think that a lot of people JUST care about how balanced the game is for like the top 20 or so players in the world. Maybe even the top 10.
Rarely do people talk about how the game feels to play in Silver 1, Diamond 2 or Platinum 3. It's all just "here's the tournament win rates by race". I either get the sense that people don't play the game, and they just watch, or that they for some reason don't think balance matters below top 20 GM.
99.99% of players play a game where the OP units are often completely different to what is OP at the pro level. Carriers, widow mines, lurkers, battlecruisers, colossus, tanks - whatever it is at the level they're at that's a bit too strong. So why are players so concerned with what happens when Clem plays Serral?
I am not saying the game should just be balanced according to gold league, what i am saying is this:
If all we want to do is balance the next EWC, make sure it's not a TvT final, and make sure that the top 15 or so players in the world are 5 of each race, so we can watch some fun games, then this should be made clear. Then the game can finally be balanced around Clem, Maru, MaxPax, Serral, HerO and nobody else.
So I think the objective of the balance council should be made clear, because it seems like the majority of people just want the game balanced around the tournaments they watch, and if that's what the community wants then that's a lot easier to achieve.