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In what reality did Street Farming get elliminated because of player complaints? I remember distinctly it was DEV complaints and they never nerfed street mobs they (effectively) depowered mission mobs making them more desirable. Only difference was that you got full debt outside. If you aren't dieing there is no difference in experience from when CoH went live.
Devs wanted players to play a story not just button mash street thugs. In CoV they didn't even set up zones to do street hunting like in CoH.
The same goes for the mission players were abusing. It wasn't due to player complaints but due to DEV complaints. Best example was that Power Diversification and Fire tank nerfs were announce after someone told Statesman to stop attacking mobs in a mission that he was just slowing down the Fire Tank. He apparently took a dim view of being told to guard the door.
The Devs play this game and if you team with random people you may well be playing with one. They have a vision of how the game should be played and will enforce it regardless of what "whiney" players say.
In ALL the cases the OP listed there was a LOT more whining by players after the change than before it. After the announcement of Power Diversification the wailing was crazy bad. For good or bad, if they were just going by posters complaints the game wouldn't look anything like it does.
Before you complain about whiners make sure you aren't one.
MA needs some tweeks. To say otherwise is unrealistic. Hopefully they won't go overboard with the fixes but so far the Devs have been very open to rethinking and rebalancing.
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You are definately correct that the dev's made changes that were more inline with how they saw the game then the complaints themselves, BUT I was one of those fire tanks you are talking about and the consensus from the "Whiners" were that they needed to be nerfed and how unfair it was.
I honestly love I14 and I think its the closest thing to next gen I have seen. I have always been under the fancy that its up to the person how they play the game, but it seems more and more people are stating that it affects their game and needs to be changed because of this.
Make some changes to the MA but don't change it because people are complaining that it takes away from their game.
