Yellowcorn said:
I'm not saying he isn't the best in the game, I'm just confused at the amount of outrage compared to past tiers. I guess the popularity/cash issues you metioned could be valid, though it doesn't make sense to me.
They worded it like he's 8-2 on the whole cast, which isn't true at all. Not to mention, the high level Yun's we've seen are all high level with other characters..
The match before Daigo was Momochi...who is no slouch. I think Daigo's win is more on the side of a bad match than Yun being broken. If he was really broken, it wouldn't just be Daigo.
Past tiers you didn't hear that much outrage because the scene was smaller, and the internet masses weren't out in full force to voice their opinion on the game.
As for the popularity cash not making sense to you think of it this way. Starcraft 2 right now is THE biggest competitive game. Prize pools for that game have been as high as around $100,000 for first place. A sponsored player now for that game can make around $30,000 a year before talking about winnings or streaming, or promotions is what people are stating from that scene. Now imagine if you play that game for 10+ hours a day, working hard at your skills in the match ups, but then you simply lose because of something imbalanced as hell? People would dismiss it quickly and bitch for a fix ASAP.
This is now starting to take case in the fighting game community which is growing and wanting to expand to that level of popularity. No one wants to practice all their match ups non stop, hours upon hours a day, and then lose due to an intentional imbalance for the game. Plus, if 1 thing has a clear advantage over everything else in the game, then you start seeing a shift within those players who DO want to be pro at it. Why practice 12 hours a day learning say Vega, and have a much smaller chance to winning, when you could put that same time into Yun, and have a much higher chance of success thanks to him having so many clear advantages in so many match ups?
Yun does a disservice to the players at the top level who put blood sweat and tears into the game. Most casual/mid level players can't even tap into Yun, so we don't suffer, but even as a stream monster I would have HATED if every stream from here on out was just which Yun or which Fei is going to win this time, and then you start seeing more and MORE of these characters and nothing else.
Hope that sort of clears that up. I do agree people bitching about anything and everything is stupid and it's why Blizzard waits months at a time for trying to even do a balance patch, because they want to see if players can find ways to work around the problems with the tools given to them in SC2. Often players do, but sometimes that isn't the case and changes are made.
It's more like "this is the same in pretty much every fighting game since the dawn of time, why is the whining so bad this time?"
