Agreed. It seems to me that childish behavior becomes heightened when there are obvious balance issues within the gameplay/mechanics/stats and individuals look to use this imbalance to their advantage when these individuals would otherwise not be tolerated in the game or be unable to compete due to their lack of PvP skill bleeding through.
With the overpowered guns in PvP, if you have a finger and can tap auto, you can do well in pvp regardless of your skill level. That's how low the bar is set to do well in PvP nowadays. And to further this, Cinco has adopted the view that since Rhinos were underpowered at previous caps (under 85), he will not be changing the stats of any guns. Rather than argue for a position that believes in trying to balance all classes, he argues for the nonsensical view that because Rhinos were underpowered previously, they should be overpowered now and have their day in the spotlight.
This isn't only a PvP issue either. There have been countless PvE and holiday event decisions that haven't helped the game in anyway whatsoever. No attempt has been made to help the PL economy out by either lowering the drop rate on certain items (i.e. starries) or adding new items into loot tables at lower drop rates. Everything that can be looted in this game is easily obtainable and nothing is worth farming anymore. The only reason to play PvE is to cap nowadays.
The decision to implement the new Winter content in such a way that allows players to spend 25 platinum on a chance to loot something worthwhile and only drop 3k gold Crowns of Frost has also angered many players. This is essentially gambling 25 platinum for a chance to loot something new like a Redstar vanity but receiving something from last year's event that was farmed so much (Crowns of Frost) that it's essentially worthless. In my opinion, there were many other great ways to implement the new holiday content without angering players by doing things like this. When there is a unanimous negative opinion about the way the Winter content was implemented from players who normally can't agree on anything, you know that the update was bad.
Until there are more sensible updates, I too will not be hosting a tournament or even playing the game beyond dropping in once in a while to say hello to friends.
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