Originally Posted by
BabyGhost
With these stat changes, the BAR did get more a nerf than a buff, but that isn't the biggest issue here. The BAR changes have been made too late, resulting huge riot among the community. If these changes have been made sooner, the backlash wouldn't be as severe. As the era community has developed the sense of "Get the most expensive weapon in the game to win". The BAR defined era balancing of what some players like to call Pay2Win. Either Pay2Win or "Grind2Win". All what mostly mattered was that you had the most expensive weapon in the game. Drastically breaking balance between non paying player vs a paying player. If both players were skilled but had different weapons, the player with the more expensive gun would be more likely to win. That's the obvious logic of era's balancing.
In fact, BAR should have never appeared to era in the first place. For a ridiculous price with overpowered stats wasn't initially chaos for era. But it was a slow build up to where it was now. BAR won't stay rare, it will just slowly multiply. Now the BAR users have expanded greatly. The BAR, despite being one of the most expensive weapons in the game, is now one of the more common weapons in the game. Tell me the last time you went basing and never saw a BAR user.
You can earn money for making something that's practically "Pay2Win". But you can't expect positive results from your community. I don't see a reverse coming for the BAR. But the players who paid for the BAR are now affected by the results. What I advise for gun buyers is to purchase expensive weapons with extreme caution. If you think the weapon is overpowered, then don't use real money for it. There have been several overpowered guns that got nerfed. But the weapons that are underpowered get buffed too. Go for balance. Not sheer power.