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Perfect Imbalance - Why Unbalanced Design Creates Balanced Play - Extra Credits

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Multiplayer games like League of Legends design content with specific strengths and weaknesses. When one strategy or "meta" becomes dominant, the counters to that strategy balance it out. Subscribe for new episodes every Wednesday! http://bit.ly/SubToEC (---More below) (Original air date: July 18, 2012) _______ Get your Extra Credits gear at the store! http://bit.ly/ExtraStore Play games with us on Extra Play! http://bit.ly/WatchEXP Watch more episodes from this season of Extra Credits! http://bit.ly/2nIcoZV Contribute community subtitles to Extra Credits: http://www.youtube.com/timedtext_cs_p... Talk to us on Twitter (@ExtraCreditz): http://bit.ly/ECTweet Follow us on Facebook: http://bit.ly/ECFBPage Get our list of recommended games on Steam: http://bit.ly/ECCurator _________ Would you like James to speak at your school or organization? For info, contact us at: contact@extra-credits.net _________ ♪ Intro Music: "Penguin Cap" by CarboHydroM http://bit.ly/1eIHTDS ♪ Outro Music: "Birmingham Beatdown" by Hoha http://bit.ly/1fLHDdw ...more
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Perfect Imbalance - Why Unbalanced Design Creates Balanced Play - Extra Credits
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2012Aug 1
Multiplayer games like League of Legends design content with specific strengths and weaknesses. When one strategy or "meta" becomes dominant, the counters to that strategy balance it out. Subscribe for new episodes every Wednesday! http://bit.ly/SubToEC (---More below) (Original air date: July 18, 2012) _______ Get your Extra Credits gear at the store! http://bit.ly/ExtraStore Play games with us on Extra Play! http://bit.ly/WatchEXP Watch more episodes from this season of Extra Credits! http://bit.ly/2nIcoZV Contribute community subtitles to Extra Credits: http://www.youtube.com/timedtext_cs_p... Talk to us on Twitter (@ExtraCreditz): http://bit.ly/ECTweet Follow us on Facebook: http://bit.ly/ECFBPage Get our list of recommended games on Steam: http://bit.ly/ECCurator _________ Would you like James to speak at your school or organization? For info, contact us at: contact@extra-credits.net _________ ♪ Intro Music: "Penguin Cap" by CarboHydroM http://bit.ly/1eIHTDS ♪ Outro Music: "Birmingham Beatdown" by Hoha http://bit.ly/1fLHDdw

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