That being said I guarantee you that if we copy paste axis and allied factions so that they're mirrored and they only thing that distinguishes them is the skins, the same people who come on here now and bitch about balance are going to be complaining about which army gets the coolest color scheme and how that makes them have an unfair advantage.
- Solution : Give axis and allies the same skins and uniforms, just with
different badges. Make the badges small. Call them OFFFORCE and DEFFORCE.
or call them "Red and Blue"
Concurrent player counts are indicative of this and show a correlation between "balance patch"
- Blizzard fixed the problem. The took the 2 most played classes and the
2 LEAST played classes and nerfed those, and buffed the other - Hard.
Result: Strong dip in most played, and huge rise in least played.
Do this a few times, and everyone has 10+ level 110+ characters, selling
more monthly passes in the process.
"When everyone bitches equally, THEN the game will be balanced".
Other solution is to make multiple versions :
* Axis OP * The first pio is indestructible and cannot be controlled,
it is immune to suppression, and runs right up to enemy HQ and blows it
up. You get no xp for this, and your multiplayer ranking takes a hit.
* Allied OP * Huge Laser rises out of the ground and nukes all enemy
HQ within seconds. You are victorious. You get no points for this.
* Mirror stat factions : Where you actually go for skill and gameplay
and no pleasing axis or allied fanbois.
If they still insist that blue team's tanks are too strong vs infantry,
simply nerf everyone's tanks AND infantry by 50%. Balance kept
Run back to Blizzard's caption that "When everyone bitches equally, then
the game will be balanced".
As for Community Balance, right or wrong, it kept the game fresh and kept
reinventing it. It's why the game stayed alive thus far, to be honest.
- Dev balance - And genuine balance (mirror) = Soon forgotten game.
Reminds me of Madonna's words :
Haters are fans. If your fans are vomiting torrents of bile at you...
It's because they care.
It's when they've stopped caring that it's dangerous for companies.