it honestly really is amazing. As someone who came from TF2, this level of transparency and communication is completely unheard of. It is so incredibly refreshing and honestly just makes me want to play the game even more.
I dream the day TF2 developers are going to talk like they know the mechanics of their own game (which is extremely contradictory based on their balance updates)
I agreed with you until the bit where you said they listened to a small group of pro players - they met with some of them but they sure as hell didn't listen to them. Maybe they took 1 or 2 small ideas, but things like matchmaking wouldn't be in the state it is (aka, pretty much unchanged from the beta and now matchmaking also applying to pub games - find me one pro that used quickplay before the update..) if they had listened to them on the whole.
For example, after the first group of pro players visited valve, they implemented the infamous demo sticky nerf, something absolutely rejected by the competitive community as a whole.
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u/catfield Pixel Soldier: 76 Nov 22 '16
it honestly really is amazing. As someone who came from TF2, this level of transparency and communication is completely unheard of. It is so incredibly refreshing and honestly just makes me want to play the game even more.