Games you enjoyed at first, but an update ruined it.

[Valdsator]

Recently, I was playing Battlefield Heroes, and as I was listening to the music I loved so much back when waiting for the game, and then later fighting off some Royals in Riverside Rush, I thought to myself, this game was funner in beta...something's wrong here. The new maps weren't that great compared to the first 3, the community wasn't as cool, and DICE started releasing weapons for real money (and removing Valor Point clothing), when they said only, "5% of the players would spend real money." Now, it's a lot more than that (due to players, not willing to spend money, leaving).

So, what games that you have played, whether it was at beta, launch, or late in it's release, have been ruined with an update, or a change in community?

 

[Anticitizen_Two]

Team Fortress 2. I wouldn't say that the unlockable weapons ruined it, but they certainly made it worse. I try to just stick to vanilla servers when I play.

 

[51gunner]

Would I be being edgy by saying World of Warcraft?

Never mind: that's what I think anyways. Not interested any more; there's nothing that fits the "hard as nails" category that can be done by five people. Anyone who did the old-school tier .5 stuff will know what I'm talking about: 45 Minute Baron scared people away and it only got harder after that.

 

[Gladion]

Counter-Strike is definetly very high up in a list like this.

 

[Blackadder51]

Burnout Paradise

The Hunter Citizen (ie the cop car)

The update slowed it down and caused a glitch in which the car would always be wrecked on a crash, it was my favorite car

 

[Lightslei]

Would I be being edgy by saying World of Warcraft?

Never mind: that's what I think anyways. Not interested any more; there's nothing that fits the "hard as nails" category that can be done by five people. Anyone who did the old-school tier .5 stuff will know what I'm talking about: 45 Minute Baron scared people away and it only got harder after that.

No, you'd be accurate. They made EVERYTHING casual gamer friendly instead of just splitting the servers as it's been petitioned a number of times for dedicated games and casual gamers.

 

[Plurralbles]

a lot ofpeople with Empire total war. It was playable around patch 3 but at like 5 or something it started NOT working for hte people it was at first and gave only a few people a better functioning experience.

*patch numbers... I have no idea.

 

[Ithikial]

Gonna have to say Fallout 3. Not really an update more DLC packs.

Certain DLC packs provided the player with such awsome weaponary it makes the game terribly easy. My first play through when the game came out I was scrounging for weapons and ammo. Second play through it's a cake walk once I completed Operation Anchorage.

 

[ethaninja]

Counter-Strike is definetly very high up in a list like this.

Aye. Especially when it came to bots. I miss the old counter-strike games back when they were pretty much a mod.

 

[ethaninja]

Gonna have to say Fallout 3. Not really an update more DLC packs.

Certain DLC packs provided the player with such awsome weaponary it makes the game terribly easy. My first play through when the game came out I was scrounging for weapons and ammo. Second play through it's a cake walk once I completed Operation Anchorage.

I know aye. Especially with the Mothership Zeta weapons.

 

[Bob_Bobbington]

Not exactly a update, but Soulstorm was effectively a crippled expansion for the Dawn of War series.

 

[Invariel]

StarCraft.

The game, when it was released, had been balanced to a T. The infrequent updates changed unit prices and build times, but the game felt finished. Maybe the story didn't, but the game did.

Then, along comes Brood War, with its new units per team, and the game felt wrong. Marines and Firebats lost the penalty associated with Stimpacks, as long as you included one or two Medics in your squad. Guardians could now be protected by Devourers, which rip through air units when sent out in packs. The Goliath became a viable unit.

Some will (and have) argued that Brood War made StarCraft a more interesting game, more fluid, more challenging, and with more choice and strategy. However, it changed the fundamental way the game worked from something I found fun to something I find not fun.

For example, Dark Templar, while a fun unit to use, are very frustrating to deal with. In a squad, they tear through buildings, meaning your precious detector buildings don't stay up for very long, and they do high damage, which makes them ideal for ripping through infantry. They are useless against air units, it's true, so you send in a group of corsairs once the land-based air support has been neutralized.

Believe what you will, but I stick to my answer.

 

[Altorin]

StarCraft.

Believe what you will, but I stick to my answer.

you can think what you want, but even your description leaves me with the sense that the game was still balanced.

If there's one game that was actually RUINED by an update, it was Star Wars Galaxies

 

[FretfulGnome]

The first thing I thought of when I saw the title of this thread was Battlefield Heroes. It was a fun casual game to play during beta, but now, not so much... It's still f2p though so I don't really care, I just don't play it anymore.