Hello Devs, I would like to know how you plan to take on the HUGE player population imbalance that we're all currently facing. I mean, what's the plan here? As it is I haven't fought anything but LSM for the past two weeks except for 1 round against Eldar (thank Gork'n'Mork fer that!). Every match it's the same enemies doing the same things, no variation to speak of. Also, the vast majority of your Xenos players (Orks and Eldar) have been smarting for awhile on the attention that is being lavished on the LSM and the CSM to a lesser extent. Yes we're getting more visual cosmetics (Orks anyways), but that doesn't help in the realm of replayability. For example, LSM have 9 weapons which can function as anti-vehicle weapons. Orks and Eldar? 3 each (4 for orks if you count the kannon), and you should read how much complaining is tossed about by other factions regarding the Rokkit Launcha, not to mention the fusion gun. That bit alone has caused plenty of salty threads on the forums, as I hope you've seen. We're hurting devs, to the point that people are starting to put the game away. Possibly indefinitely. And you're only on the 3rd month post-launch. I'm trying to maintain hope here, being a 40k fanboy the vast majority of my life, not to mention a Founder. But it's getting harder and harder each week to keep starting up the game. I know you folks are working hard on making the game better, and I really DO appreciate the effort you're doing to try and do good by us, but even that work seems like it's tilted more towards a certain faction. So please devs, give us some hope that we're not just stuffed into this game to be some Space Marine's target practice. Show your Xenos players a bit more love. I'm sure I'll get salt about this, but at this point I'm too weary to care. Bring forth the salt mines.
As mentioned by others and myself a possible solution would be to combine the efforts of CSM and Orks, LSM and Eldar, sort of like the Dawn of War 1 campaign. It would cut down on queue times considerably and would make battles a bit more interesting due to multi-racial teams. With regards to LSM receiving priority in new items and cosmetics, I understand the reasoning as they (sadly) make up the majority of players, but it creates these periods of meta stagnation for the other races.
The best way to even out the playerbase is to nerf LSM so all the sheeple and fotm people move to other races.
You have a better chance of convincing them to magically create the open world game we were originally promised back in the day.
Please dont go the Blizzard-Way about this. I can tell you firsthand it doesnt work. Most people dont play LSM because of "OP-ness" to begin with. The right way is not to make one faction less appealing, its to make others more appealing. I still think we need a Free to play Version that holds Space Marine Scouts, Ork Boiz, and something for Eldar and CSM. So people can get into all 4 races for free and give the game a shot, rather than being turned down by the 50 bucks upfront for a game that gets largely negative reviews. Trying to force-balance the last bit of population we have wont work in the games advantage, trust me.
