cricket_online
ICC Board Member
- Joined
- Nov 5, 2009
- Online Cricket Games Owned
- Don Bradman Cricket 14 - PS3
- Don Bradman Cricket 14 - PS4
I don't see any benefit or "fun" in being able to always beat Russia, no matter the skill level. It's just not a "game" then and if you want to beat a team over and over again, play on a rookie difficulty level. It's a game, remember. Yes, crap teams can still be crap and still beatable whilst giving you a little challenge along the way. Otherwise, you may as well leave them out and just focus on balancing the Test nations and leave the community to build/download the shit teams.
It does serve a very useful purpose when you are making a difficulty jump from say Amateur to Pro or from Pro to Legend. Initially you would want to play against poor rated teams to get used to the change in difficulty, sort of like training wheels. I generally do this on Madden when I go from All Pro to All Madden difficulty and this approach works pretty well. Similarly it gives user an added challenge when you pick a low rated team to play against a higher rated one.
Secondly I would want the player ratings and gameplay not be artificially balanced. Leave it to me as a user to tailor my gameplay experience. If someone wants to play against a 0 rated team with a high rated team, so be it. Let them blow out the opponent and as I said earlier if the said person wants to get a better experience he/she can always go with a higher rated opponent. I don't want the game to try and "balance" things for me. Let me be the judge of what I want to do.