by JustTee
foulksy wrote:
ferris1971 wrote:
After playing a few My problem with the OP is the same problem I have with every post on every new game by a new player stating that in their 2 hours of reviewing the game they've decided that it's broken. Go look at every single game in BGG and you'll find someone trying to apply 'balancing' house rules after a hand full of games. The truth is it's just usually not necessary. USUALLY, a few more plays is all they really need. It gets a little old, so if I seem a little snarky, you'll just have to excuse me. I've heard this song and dance a few too many times... I'll bet a million dollars/deutsche marks it'll happen again.
This 100% - it seems someone would have have to have huge levels of hubris to decide after a couple of games that they had discovered that a game (a game with probably hundreds or even thousands of platest hours) was fundamentally flawed.
You mean how Diablo 3 was released perfectly balanced?
You mean how every WoW expansion never needed tweaking after the fact?
You mean how Modern Warfare hasn't ever needed a balancing patch?
Are you kidding me man? FFG may be a large company. X-Wing may be a large IP for them. But there is zero chance that they put in the man hours play testing that the above companies put in, and there are ALWAYS balance changes to be made.
The one thing that I've learned from playing video games is that the in-house play test NEVER gets it right on attempt 1.
Never.
The bottom line is that the in-house play test will have fewer man hours than the extended gaming public. There's no way they can compete. And the public will find and exploit strategies they never ever thought of.
It happens. All. The. Time.