Please realize that you do NOT know better than the producers/ developers. You haven't even touched the actual patch yet.
I realize what you're getting at here, but there are NUMEROUS examples of the competitive community knowing better than the producers/developers as far as balancing is concerned. PARTICULARLY in Project Soul games.
Truthfully, the developers are often too close to the game to make these objective choices. ALL changes in balancing should be based off of a LARGE sampling of competitive opinion and NOT off of one developer saying "Yeah, Character X is broken so we need to fix them."
Using Tira as an example; WHERE was the public opinion/outcry that she needed to be fixed in any way? Overwhelmingly from what I've seen from talking to Tira players are reading the threads, SCV Tira is her best iteration yet, but definitely not broken, and she still takes a lot of work to win with.
With Maxi (my main), every time anyone does one of his staple MEGA-DAMAGE (and super easy) combos, SOMEONE nearby talks about how frickin' powerful he is. Everyone knew.
With Tira. Nothing. I've never head a complaint beyond "HOLY CRAP HER GLOOMY CS DOES SO MUCH DAMAGE!"
Everything they nerfed for her was decent (but not at all broken) stuff that she had that we all knew about. The developers supposedly said she was "broken" and that we "just hadn't figured it out yet." To me, that's simply admitting that they didn't look to the community AT ALL on those nerfs.
The issue here isn't that someone I play got nerfed (as I said, Maxi probably deserved it), it's that MANY characters got nerfs while basically the entire community is left scratching their heads as to why. It simply doesn't make sense to make so many nerfs that no one was asking for.
