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Blizzard Multiplayer Balance - Switch Players Around!
I picked this up when adding a news item for StarCraft: IncGamers, it is a snip from Game Developers Convention that is taking place right now.

One lesson that Rob shared that we've heard from numerous designers in the past is that, when a particular unit or strategy seems underpowered, you want to overcorrect it and make it more powerful than you think it should be. That way, you'll actually encourage players to try the new units and strategies and you'll have a better sense of where the true balance should be.


What this amazing revelation actually means is that my friend Wuushu was right on with his theories of Blizzard Class Design. They simply let a few classes be overpowered at a time, so people are interested and try them out, then nerfing them and the circle continues. What a devious plan indeed! Still, if you look at it, the system could be fair enough, no class is usually overpowered against ALL other classes, just enough to be "ez mode" enough to draw players to it (*cough* Warlock *cough*). I just wish Ret Paladins could have been OP more than just one month between Patch 2.0 and TBC release...


Besides that, the article talks a lot about game design in general, and has equal focus on StarCraft, WarCraft and WoW. Here is another interesting snip on how a developer can choose to balance; with negative changes or positive, and their result for the players:

Rob also revealed that any discussion of balance has to take player psychology into account. The first lesson here is that changes to the game balance are almost universally perceived as a negative thing. We remember all the mail we got from the Barbarian nerf from Diablo II, so we totally get this. So rather than addressing the balance from a purely objective standpoint, it's also worth considering the overall perception of balance in the players' minds which is based more on experience than spreadsheet calculations. The original design for World of Warcraft included an experience penalty that got progressively larger the longer you played in any single session. The players felt that they were being punished for spending time with the game, so the developers simply reversed the process to give a short term XP boost to players who haven't logged in recently. In terms of the math, it's exactly the same thing but it creates an entirely different impression in the player's mind.

I encourage Blizzard fans to check the article out!
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