Dev usually balance games by making everyone equally suck at the same time.
Casual see this and say “everyone sucks…rawr boring”.
Hardcore pros say"I can will with anyone. Yay multiple legit play styles."
Guess where the big money is? Casuals that like brokenness or hardcore gamers that can skill their way through imbalance ?
So I guess its a fine line.
Why do all the characters have to be exactly balanced when you can take that time and make them truly unique and fun?
I think you have it backwards.
In some cases, when they’re implemented right, subsystems can actually help balance the game a bit and help certain characters deal with things they might not otherwise be able to. Imagine KoF without GCR, Guilty Gear without the airdashes or Dead Angle, or even SF3 without parries. They don’t balance the game on their own, but they help a little bit.
I agree with everything else you said though.
The only dev who does this is capcom
Didn’t NRS kinda do that with injustice?
While they have a bad history with their balance patches, they don’t only nerf, look at Aquaman and Superman for example
Honestly I’d say they only really went nuts with MK9.
Let’s see how fun MVC2 is when balanced
People need to drop this stupid notion that balance = boring
Edit
Also, MVC2 sucks 
True ( Only the first part, I disagree about MVC2) , but people also need to drop the notion that Balance = Fun and the “Only reason I’m losing is because this game is unbalanced” mindset.
What people NEED to do is stop worrying about balance so fucking much.
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It’s not that balancing a game is bad but the rate the games are being balanced is bad for the metagame. Patching fighting games the way you would LOL simply does not work for fighting games. Changing an attack’s startup by one frame could open up a one frame link which could in turn potentially open up an infinite. Of course developers are more inclined to nerf than buff but I’m giving an example. You shat on MVC2 but it’s the perfect shining example of why rebalancing a game ever month is a horrible idea. Look at how Xian won Evo with Gen. Gen didn’t need a buff to be competitively viable, he just needed to be explored.
Capcoms’s patch the game every year or so plan > Shitty F2P patch on instinct plan
The fuck are you talking about? No one is asking for monthly patches.
Hell, if you read this fucking thread you will see that i am agaisnt that shit.
Also, fuck MVC2
Fuck GG
Fuck ST
make love to it that is.
Fuck you all.
Long time.