Balance impact fun, a lot, and it kills E-sport, E-sport bring a lot of people.
i dont understand, or you said that Grey Goo or Dow1 were balanced ?
His argument was that balance is all that matters, mine was, its just one of few equally important factors.
Grey goo is balanced, but its really unpopular.
DoW1 was as imbalanced as it can get (necrons, TAU and IG anyone?).
Balance is obviously very important factor, but balance alone isn't enough for a game to succeed.
In regards to CoH2, we can be happy, because we already have other factors there, which is fun from playing and watching the game as well as slowly, but growing community.
If only new content updates(aka new armies) didn't completely break the balance for the next 8-12 months, it would be perfect.