[i] "I remember a GDC talk by Blizzard’s Rob Pardo where he outlined a concept any MMO designer should be familiar with. “Always balance up,” he said, talking about both World of Warcraft and Diablo 2 (this was a while ago). If you find something in your game that feels overpowered, that’s good. Players will enjoy it. The solution is never to remove that feeling of power, but to power up other things in the game to meet it. When you weaken your most fun tools, you push everything into a mushy middle. Better to explode everything out into weird and new directions by enabling the players. So if the problem was that players spent an inordinate amount of time with a few overpowered guns, the solution is to give us more overpowered guns to choose from. Or you can make new enemies and game modes that thwart an exotic gun’s special abilities in interesting ways (read: something besides just having a ton of hitpoints). It is, you could say, a balancing act. But it’s one where it’s a lot harder to mess up by enabling players instead of hobbling them." [/i] Until bungie works this out im sad to say im done with this game. Any remaining hope that they would see reason and change their practices is gone. Lost sols, great analysis of the changes. These changes again demonstrates a lack of respect of the day one players. Our hard earned favorite weapons being nerfed is an insane move. How they think we would be ok with that is mystifying. Actually i find it hard to believe that there are players ok with it. They seem more intent on using negative manipulative human behavioural psycology than positive ways to motivate us like quality varied content and an interesting story tied into a progression system that rewards our efforts. I like when people put on their tin foil hats and your speculation on the reasons for this makes perfect sense to me. I hope enough reject this plan of theirs though so they have to rethink it. Unfortunately though it probably shows they have enough presales to be confident they can continue with their money grabbing plans with out serious ramifications. Games im going to for now are rocket league (much better online competitive experience than crucible plus dedicated servers), telltale series games for great story telling. I also have alien isolation, and shadow of mordor i picked up cheap to get to. Eventually im hoping battlefront will be great.