The Importance of Balance in the Sierra v Sports Game

A lot of these games are built around like competitive ladders most people don't want to play competitive ladders they never have but one of the things that has become kind of a signature of the Sierra v sports is that suddenly we have a ton of emphasis being poured into ladder matches. I think it feels like entire skill sets have been devalued by these decisions and so you end up withlike a an increasingly hard to follow game. For this for this to work right for this like business to work you have to have like a ridiculously engaged community that you have to always be interacting with. Nintendo doesn't view their games as a live service they're largely ignoring what's going on in melee