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Ultimatum X, on 10 November 2014 - 05:31 PM, said:
This is what happens when force multipliers are allowed to stack indiscriminately.
^^ Becasue no team EVER did the exact same thing with ECM, no, impossible, nothing that happened in the last 2 years took place, no 3xD-DC, 3x3L + 3xSHD 3x 3d companies ever existed, especially not in competitive play.
When the competitive scene (or the playerbase as a whole) regards a piece of equipment as an "absolutely must have" to the point that at least half the group is sporting them, there`s a 95% chance that it`s broken.
That`s why people stacked feral druids for the earliest Sinestra Kills in WoW.
That`s why during CS Beta stages the AWP /Deagle combination was absolutely dominant and is to this day often banned on public servers
That`s why the grenade launcher was de facto the best weapon period in the original doom betas.
That`s why Gauss/PPC Dire Whales were directly targeted with the 2+2 mechanic.
The list goes on and on and on for as long as games (NOT just video games) have existed, and is actually a very large part of how rules and regulations eventually start to manifest themselves as standard. In the early days, it was legal to score a basket off the tipoff in basketball, kick straight for the goal instead of a "backwards pass" in soccer, or score a field goal from teh kickoff in american football. Then it was abused, and rules were designed to discourage /forbid it.
The alternative is seen in tennis: Tennis rackets are in fact "broken"... you can legally play without one, but nobody in their right mind would, because the advantages are total game changers. So instead of banning them, you deem them explicitly legal and instead regulate their design.
Edited by Zerberus, 11 November 2014 - 09:29 AM.
