WTF is Power Creep?

#shorts #gaming #powercreep

Power Creep in gaming happens when developers continue to work on characters making them overpowered.

Hosted by: Elisabeth Marchini
Written by: Niall McCrossan
Edited by: Sara Phillips
Produced by: Bernard Malijan

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[leosimvuiseng]

Grateful cs most balanced game we have

[bryce]

Siege adding defenders be like (I still play DA ROOOK)

[Magicwaterz]

Dota2 releases new hero day 1, typically broken. Several quick patches later, it gets nerfed while several others get buffed. Weeks later, this same new character can be found as frequent as the other heroes when you go online.

[killerdog]

Yu-Gi-Oh power creep is just it's own universe

[EtopiaCA]

Competitve Pokemon has crazy power creep at the moment

[V-O-V]

cs my beloved, biggest change in 20 years was having smokes that react to bullets lmao

[ndricimhalili]

Dota 2 has handled this issue extremely well. It's not just new heroes or items, which get nerfed quickly. They are also mever behind a paywall.
I do believe one of the reasons why thi happens is because the devs don't want the new content to be ignored. I like to use the example of when the Tex-9 and Sg were OP for years and no one knew.
In Dota everything gets stronger at the same time, it's beautiful in a way, sometimes what they do is not nerf the OP hero too much, but they buff their counter, like evolution lol.
Plus, new heroes are not allowed in Captain's Mode (What is used on official games) until the devs feel like it's good.

[riyo.]

Siege was crazy with all the utility being added constantly.
You had to clear like 50 angles, doorframes, stairs, hatches, Idk what, because there were traps everywhere lol

[thecheshire]

This does ignore the reason it happens.

When new content is released it becomes the flagship of the update and thus MUST be strong otherwise it kills hype. The result is new things always stand slightly stronger than previous seasons.

There's a few fixes:
•nerfing new content will rebalance the game at risk of upsetting community
•buffing old content but at the cost of labor
•or allowing new synergies with new and old content making both stronger.

[Snakyy]

Valorant has the opposite problem lol. Every new character is underwhelming

[archwarden]

The sadliest part is that happend to Hearthstone too. The game is overflooded with removals, and rush and lifesteal mechanics. If your creature can somehow survive enemy's turn then it's considered an anomaly rather than pretty normal thing back in 2015 😢

[shieldhero]

This is why I love dota, Item buffs make different heroes Meta, and even non meta heroes will be viable to eventually counter meta heroes Who were buffed due to Items buffs, So every hero really is viable and like a dota pro said, There really isnt a Meta in dota.

[nerfedmann]

Dota doesn't powercreep, all heroes that is broken have been there since the start. For example Nature Prophet and Spirit Breaker

[Swap-.]

StarCraft 1 and 2 still maintains its unit balance ever since while other games always have constant patch and updates for its heroes/champion every months or so.

[Terra_Tempurra]

I love how the very beginning you can see chamber, jumping up and teeing mid air yet you can’t do it in game

[Creym]

Even minecraft got its new weapon powercrept
A blocky game of 50 built 30 mine and 20 fight
And its called mace

[kirpich]

that's why I prefer to get 1-2 hero per year in dota, cause valve would have more time to balance them before adding other characters, instead of having this op clusterfuck in lol

[madnessman]

Release brigitte in ow is the epitome of power creep. Ruined the esport scene because you couldn't play any dps heroes against her or you'd just lose. She dominated every rank in the game and had some bronze players a season before she was released make it to high gm and top 500 because the hero was so strong and easy to play

[fabiopauli]

And than you have osrs where content from 2005 (Barrows) is arguably one of the most popular pieces of content to this day with still some of the most relevant armor for midlevel accounts in the whole game (for the osrs players: yes perilous moons did introduce new midlevel armor but id argue the new moon armor is more sidegraded to barrows rather than just upgrades.)

[leod]

Is very nice to see Dota not mentioned as one of the sinners in this video