Those debacles are directly related to the piss poor state of online play, btw. 90% of what gets bitched about in the first month is all related to the fact that NRS makes everyone online play in a pit of molasses. If online was SFIV/BlazBlue/SCV levels of decent, at the very least we'd be bitching about slightly more sensical stuff.
That's a load of horse shit.
A lot of the complaints are coming from offline players, as a matter of fact.
The fact that nobody knows a few weeks into the games life is pretty much the point though regardless how good or bad she is. This is why early patching is bad imo.
We really can't make such absolute general statements. Would anyone argue that Shinnok's buffs are bad just because we don't know enough about the game? I think we've known enough to know he wasn't good. No tech could have shot him up from arguably the worst in the game to top tier. Maybe (probably) some new stuff would have been found to help him but nothing major. The patches were warranted. Kung Jin being more unsafe helps. Raiden's damage was ridiculous. It needed to be toned down.
Being able to meterburn fireballs on block has made him really good.
That's what I'm saying. His buffs were warranted. He shouldn't have been left to be garbage tier just because it's too early.
I think any changes in the game this early on are bad regardless of how obvious people may think some balance issues are. There's always going to be lower tier characters in the game, it really could only take 1 minor change to make or break a character and these decisions should be made after some time. My whole argument is to make sure you're not taking from one while another goes unnoticed or gets an unneeded buff. I think there's a ton of undiscovered things in this game and taking from one character can just lead to another character dominating later on. It can lead to the game being better for sure but I think there would be a better chance of that happening if they spent more time watching (more than 6 months) the game before making changes. This way people in the community will have time to really explore the game and find ways to fight things considered to be top strategies. This gives a much better understanding of the game and leads to balance changes that would most likely be better in the long run.
A really good way to boost the NRS community is to actually NOT label it the NRS community. I've (personally) wanted to see a Street Fighter vs Mortal Kombat cross over for (at least) 5-10 years, and even Ed Boon himself voiced the possibility of this one day happening. I think TYM is (probably) the most well known fighting game web site, but it has some flaws only involving NRS titles. I'm also well aware of the fact that the web site probably can't include certain titles for sponsorship or other miscellaneous reasons involving financial dealings (just like any other business). But I think it'd be worth the time to make a deal to include other fighter games on the site. Obviously a MKvsSf crossover would do that right away.
I think you meant to say "shoryuken.com"
That avatar.....
I meant to say what I said, but I'm admittedly not sure about which website is more popular (or visited) based on legitimate statistics tracking.
What? It's Rain.
Kreygasm
He never cared about the game, didn't even try to learn BnBs or play to his character's strengths, so yeah.
Please show us how patches ruin this game.
