Variety is Overrated

I use fives instead of poe in my Droid team. Am I anti meta? Because Droids aren't meta. At least not like they were before the poe nerf.

Rock paper scissors. Takes more than one team to do that. Not saying the game has achieved this balance. But I think that's the goal.

IOW, some teams should beat other teams. One team should not be able to beat all other teams. Otherwise end game is really, really lame.

"MLGebra;381159" wrote:
Your opinion on game balance seems to be incredibly oversimplified. Aside from that, if you enjoy using the meta then do so, and those who deviate will carry on as well.

Correct me if I'm wrong but it would seem that this post only serves to put down a particular group of players.

Ding ding ding.

"stupidfatfool;36558" wrote:
Who cares if every single player uses the same exact team? It's impossible to make every single toon and every single team composition equally balanced. If there's even the slightest advantage of using certain toons, most people will use them.

Those who claim to be anti-meta are like the wannabe hipsters in Brooklyn.

I use a pretty obscure meta. You've probably never heard of it.

Different genre, I grant you, but the game Hearthstone has 10+ classes (factions) and 1000+ cards (characters) and it's almost perfectly balanced in that any class can beat any other. Balancing a game is not impossible; in fact, it would be a much easier task to balance GoH than Hearthstone - 83 characters vs 1000 characters, 5 character battles versus 30-card decks, low probability factor vs live PVP probability, etc.

"stupidfatfool;36558" wrote:
Who cares if every single player uses the same exact team? It's impossible to make every single toon and every single team composition equally balanced. If there's even the slightest advantage of using certain toons, most people will use them.

Those who claim to be anti-meta are like the wannabe hipsters in Brooklyn.

I just love how binary that statement is.
"Same exact team for everyone" or "every team composition equally balanced".

There is a middle ground you know, and it's not that hard to achieve. EA reduces the amount of viable teams on purpose, to keep the game environment under control. Then they release toons that can entirely dominate this environment, and grab cash.

They articulate the meta around a tank/dispell interaction, then release Sun Fac who can do both, consistently.
They also include 40 RG shards in the raid pack, you are tempted to buy it.

They release small balance changes, ie Ackbar, to pump up Chromium toons (Leia), and, what a surprise, you also see Ackbar in the Raid pack.

EA/CG know exactly what they are doing marketing-wise. Their sale strategy is effective and pretty smart.

What's the funniest is that players themselves agree to this. Since it takes time to farm toons, most people are afraid of change

Perfect balance doesn't exist, but that should not stop us from trying to reach it.

"Will_Cocishuge;381332" wrote:
I think he is just saying "anti meta" people are like vegetarians or atheist. They just have to make sure everyone knows while criticizing others

Those people are known as assholes, actually, and they have no particular preference of diet or code.

Maybe not all toons are made for arena?
Some characters that you never would use in arena are great in GW or missions and other are good for raid.
Not all are made to be great everywhere.

The meta is a carefully crafted organism that is constantly evolving.

The idea is that it makes you farm as many heroes as possible, so you spend as much money as possible.

It does this by slightly changing here and there so that one day a hero is meta, the next day they're not. They can do this through buffs or nerfs or through other heroes outperforming or under performing against a certain hero as they progress through the levels.

Case in point, Sidious. He wasn't nerfed, he simply lost power relative to the rest of the pack. He fell behind while others soldiered on.

"Will_Cocishuge;381332" wrote:
I think he is just saying "anti meta" people are like vegetarians or atheist. They just have to make sure everyone knows while criticizing others

I don't think atheists criticise others; they're typically too intelligent to condescend to the level of the religious-minded.