Does over patching hurt online games?

[Tanner The Monotone]

Over time, I have found many of the games I play changed due to complaints from the users. One example of this is the Model 1887's. When Modern Warfare 2 first came out, the models had a ridcules amount of range. About two weeks afterwords, they patched it, causing a significent reduction in range, making the weapon still useful but not overly powered. Some time later, though, it was patched again. Now, the akimbo version of the weapon is almost useless (compared to what it once was) and now hardly ever uses it. I personaly think that making something bad enough so nobody wants to use it is not a good way of preventing over use of a weapon. It runs the game for people that uses it occasionally.

If you have a differnt way that you think you can fix problem or any other cases were the designers ruin a weapon, please write it below. If you completely diagree with what i'm saying, give your oppinion too

 

[icyneesan]

At first I thought this might have been about games getting a CRAP TON of patches. Most notably MMOs and Team Fortress 2. Yes I know TF2 came out years ago when I bought it, but still, I figured the instore DVDs would be updated or something so I would have to download so many patches.

OT: Did you see what those things did before, especially the Akimbo version. Hell anything Akimbo should have been nerfed a long time ago.

 

[Ruairi iliffe]

With lots of Options now in games for classes, weapons and such. I'd Assume it would be a Balancing act to keep everything fair, but i understand when a patch is added and something is nurffed to the point of death. I honestly cant think of a way to really remedy the problem other than listen to the community and tweak it.

Even then you might get the odd 'Paladin problem' were nothing you do changes the fact everyone feels is broken.

 

[omega 616]

Sounds like you were one of the abusers and are whining about it, to be honest.

Shotguns are renowned for being short range weapons, yet the ones in MW2 seem to double the distance there effective.

87's got nerfed but the rangers are still prevalent and annoying as ever. Them and commando need to go.

 

[Geekosaurus]

87's got nerfed but the rangers are still prevalent and annoying as ever. Them and commando need to go.

Somebody that shares my views of MW2! <3

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

all i can say is, go back to mw1, use a shotgun, then go back to mw2, and use a shotgun. the shotguns in mw2 are ridiculously overpowered compared to in mw1, which it took actual AIM AND SKILL to use in that one, while in mw2 you shoot,and anything on the screen gets fucking hit by it within 30 ft of you, which is bullshit.

mw2 is broken and forever shall be, its the crack addict game of the decade that you rage on but can't stop playing because you want revengeee.

 

[newfoundsky]

all i can say is, go back to mw1, use a shotgun, then go back to mw2, and use a shotgun. the shotguns in mw2 are ridiculously overpowered compared to in mw1, which it took actual AIM AND SKILL to use in that one, while in mw2 you shoot,and anything on the screen gets fucking hit by it within 30 ft of you, which is bullshit.

mw2 is broken and forever shall be, its the crack addict game of the decade that you rage on but can't stop playing because you want revengeee.

I'm not one to be a Grammar Nazi but slow down, okay, mate?

Also. . . It's a shot gun. It DOES have a little bit of range on it, but not a lot. 30 ft sounds about right. And. . . its a shot gun. A weapon specifically designed so it doesn't need all that much skill to use. Just pump, point, and fire.

 

[Ghengis John]

I have never seen a game over-patched. Besides possibly team fortress two. Valve is crazy retarded if they think I want to download an 80-300 megabyte patch for the game that includes no patch notes every couple of days. Sure some patches like the engineer patch are detailed and thus I understand. But what are they constantly releasing mystery patches for? It's annoying. I did not understand what Sony and Microsoft had against our FREE stuff from valve, "stuff we were supposed to get for buying the game!" until I bought said game for PC. Now I plainly believe that ms and sony were pretty damned reasonable and that Valve was being unrealistic at best.

At best? Which leads us to at worse. I think they force you to patch the game every couple days so you will sit there, waiting with steam open so you can't miss the fact there's a large blinking banner that says "Steam SALE! CRAZY GOOD PRICES OMG! OMG! GEEEEEEEET!". This belief being confirmed when Valve merrily announced that Sony gets all the TF2 content now... but also steam. It seemed like a real desperate measure on Sony's part to allow them to undermine the PS3 store. But there you have it.

 

[Amazigh]

Empire Total War took five times longer to patch than it took to download...

 

[Unknower]

Overpatching? There's never enough patches.

Now, how they patch things... I'm probably not the only one here who has played games where the devs made something which was already overpowered even more overpowered.

 

[omega 616]

87's got nerfed but the rangers are still prevalent and annoying as ever. Them and commando need to go.

Somebody that shares my views of MW2! <3

Oh, everybody and there dog hates that game here ... well there are the odd people who like it.

I have a love, hate relationship with it ... I love it when your on a team striving to win and so are the enemy but everybody plays fair.

No spawn camping and no nooby things (noob tube, knifer, akimbo shotgunner etc).

But, I hate it when your constantly put on teams were there aiming for kills on demolition and screw the bomb sites.

On a side note, why do people on all other game types only care about kills but on domination, they want to win too much, instead of taking and holding 2 points they always want the third! Leave the third alone and then you know were there coming from and you still win!