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[PanzerShrekonin]

I'm not denying the devs desire to reduce the bleed meta. I'm simply stating it's factually an ignorant statement to say that's the only reasons either hero was toned down. And ignoring the prior reasons to both character issues just because it's easier to blame the devs for not knowing how to deal with shaman is gross.

So I get where you're coming from. That doesn't mean I approve of your attitude or accept it. I viewed you as a rational individual. And that one post of yours was enough to shake my perspective about you. Which on a personal level is very hard to deal with. But that's on me. I shouldn't be so fragile.

I lost my personal respect for Charmz when he/she said they were going to reroll a FOTM berserker... and that right there is just.... I dont know. I find it sad.

I thought he would have chosen PK cause he liked how she played, not the fact she was broken since beta.

Now I know how he rolls and my view of him was shattered.

[ChampionRuby50g]

To be honest I would have agreed with this more a few months ago when there was a lot more traffic here. A good deal of the people who would raise discussion have left, there are a whole lot fewer of us who are here day to day, today there are threads on the front page that were last posted in nearly 24 hours ago which even three or four months ago would not have happened and a good deal of the threads here are nerf threads that are more venting than actually starting a discussion.

On the other hand, reddit has a good deal more people over two subreddits, people who are more involved in tournament play and while on the main reddit you have to go through memes and videos, the threads like the one I linked gets heavy digital footfall and discussion. Yes this is the official forum but relatively speaking there are a good fewer of us here and fewer still that are interested in more than a sounding board for screaming at the devs over things the person screaming feels should have happened yesterday.

It has also long been said that the whole reason the devs can spend time on reddit is we have the community reps who do do a good job and pass on things from the forum, as highlighted in the last Q&A where most of the questions were from here, perhaps they could do better at crossposting some things like the response to feedback link I posted but they are here and active.

I’ve also noticed how the post volume has drastically dropped in the last few months. This is making me think the games population really is starting to drop, because when there was more posts in the forums, from the “regulars” and players who just made their accounts that hour to post, I found games in FH a lot quicker, the people I fought was different every match and at times you wouldn’t see the same person twice in a day. But now? Now in Oceania you’ll see someone from your last game in the next everytime, often if everyone has left the lobby and searches again we will all find each other again with some exceptions, and matchmaking does take a little bit longer which could easily be from the new MM changes, but still. I saw someone say the other day FH has more players now than it has before, but without hard numbers I find that hard to believe. People always say that “find new opponent” just nets them the same player 3 times in a row. Surely that wouldn’t happen if the games population was really larger than it had ever been? If it’s larger than it’s been before, why is dominion the only mode that sits on high-very high activity while others are permantly on low and rarely medium. At the start of the games life, I could find elimination and skirmish matches no dramas at all, and I believe I could do that because the population of the game was higher. Yes, the low xp/steel gain pushed people away, but a lot of people I’ve talked to said they’d still play Elinination in a heartbeat if they could find a game. This suggests that they don’t care about the xp, and it’s just a low population that is making it impossible to find those games. It’s sad really. I don’t like seeing so many community members give up and leave.

[Tyrjo]

To be honest I would have agreed with this more a few months ago when there was a lot more traffic here. A good deal of the people who would raise discussion have left, there are a whole lot fewer of us who are here day to day, today there are threads on the front page that were last posted in nearly 24 hours ago which even three or four months ago would not have happened and a good deal of the threads here are nerf threads that are more venting than actually starting a discussion.

The spam bots are slowly choking the forum to death. It's the simple fact. That and the fact that the offical forum is not part of the official PR-policy.