[Arryn]

Originally posted by Nagot Gick Fel:
If you look back at the units and themes that were changed from 2.08 onwards, the list of improvements is much longer than the list of nerfs.

I agree, and I have not implied otherwise.

If that's what you call a trend, its effect looks rather unsignificant.

It's significant insofar as IW is devoting time to trivialities (another word for something "insignificant") rather than spending whatever time it took to do those nerfs/tweaks to fix some of the longstanding bugs that have been listed in the bugs thread. I'm not worried about the nerfs in and of themselves (unlike Norfleet, who IMO takes the nerfing entirely too personally), but that they are doing them at all. IMO, and it's just that, IMO, IW has a limited amount of dev time and IMO it's best spent on real bugs. Zen (in fanboi mode) points to some of the bugs they've fixed but misses the point. The point is the bugs IW has not fixed (as yet) ... which might have been fixed if they were not distracted dealing with appeasing whiners and (IMO) wasting time with nerfs.

IMO, unless there is a gross play-balance issue (and I've yet to see any in Dom 2, even as far back as 2.02), the dev priority should be fixing bugs. After nearly all bugs are squashed, then they can have the luxury of tweaking stuff that isn't outright broken. None of the nerfs post-2.02 were necessary now. They could have waited. The game has other, more serious issues that (IMO) should be worked on first. When you are fixing a house, you deal with the foundation and roof before cosmetic things like paint and landscaping. Nerfs are cosmetic (IMO).

In fairness to IW, they have fixed many, many bugs. And they have great customer support and are nice people to talk to. But there are still plenty of bugs crawling around.