No onw wants to be a looser without a valid reason, who would openly admit that anyone else is better than them in a game?

An example from real life is the patent system, especially as it relates to software. Note that patent law was designed to protect the “little guy” from the “big guys” – someone could invent a fancy new can opener, patent it, and gain exclusive rights for some fixed amount of time after which the giant corps could start to copy and mass-market your design. But nowadays, the big commercial software giants are practically falling over themselves trying to fund more and more patent laws to apply to their fields, because they know that smaller software developers will not have the funds or manpower to sift through and interpret the thousands upon thousands of patents already granted to see if any of them infringes on the algorithms they’re about to write. The big guys, on the other hand, can have a cadre of patent lawyers at their beck and call to scrutinize any technique used in new, promising software to see if it could be construed to infringe on one of the patents in their existing library. The majority of these cases don’t even go to court – a small software developer will just fold, be engulfed or pay a license fee since the cost would be higher to go through litigation.

Some are actually honest though. I’ve read in forums people upset about the PvP changes who actually admitted “now i’m not special”.

I have the “Private” rank displayed on Yunk’s character because she is proud of her previous military service! Hey she’s just a little gnome.

That said, there have been cases where gamestyles have become “easy mode, ” because developers didn’t think things through. The best example I can think of, with an attendant backlash later, was CoH’s tanks: 90% resistance, 95% defense, improved health regeration, permanent +hp powers, AoE attacks. I used to herd up 8-person maps and kill them, by myself. I would pay newbies in influence to be on my team but not in my missions in order to crank up the number of enemies in the mission. I did the last 10 levels doing almost nothing but this and helping folks through the respec mission. And when I5 came around, I was a strong defender of it, particularly on the livejournal city_of_heroes community. Same thing for ED. The game, played as a tank or a scrapper, was easy mode, and it was boring. There was never a chance of dying, if you had even the teensiest bit of skill. And because there was no chance of dying, there was plenty of incentive to drag your friends around and powerlevel them, since all it was doing was slowing you down a little, whereas letting them level alone slowed them down a lot.

Nerfing has its place. When one class or skillset far outstrips the others, that needs to be handled. But if it’s the case where no one in the game suffers except for hardcore 31337 players, then, frankly, I think it’s grand to make them suffer. They’ve done enough damage to the genre as it is.

Complaining that some class is overpowered simply because once the stars all aligned for them is a classic one.