No balloon World
1 year ago
British Columbia, Canada

I have asked, like 100 times for a balloon world run, where you like pop 10 balloons or something!

Germany

the problem is, sooner or later there might no longer be internet for the nintendo switch, which would make this category obeselete from the getgo

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Pennsylvania, USA

also just because you ask doesn't mean you'll get it, you need 3 runs for a permenant board category

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British Columbia, Canada

I didn't see that the online is fare. Lots of switch games have online runs

Also, if you put it up I think people will run it!

New South Wales, Australia

the main problem with balloon world, and the reason it's banned, is because large streamers can just get their viewers to hide easy balloons, putting everybody else at a disadvantage, hence why it is banned it runs, and why this category probably won't happen.

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Basque Country

i would discusse about not allowing it because of the reason of online going off some day but ye the thing is that this category would completly depend of other persons putting you the best ballons posible, until the point where you could just get other 10 user to place a balloon for you right in front of the start, making the category fully dependent of the mashing to hit those balloons, and in case you dont abuse close contacts it becomes RNG based in its whole

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Western Australia, Australia

The reason balloon world is banned is because someone with a larger audience and who is streaming is at a clear advantage, as their viewers can hide balloons for them to collect. If a category like this was created, all of the top runs would be purely dependent on how large you are on Twitch, which isn't fair for everyone. As far as I know, it's the same reason Max% isn't on SRC. I don't see this ever being changed.

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Germany

Absolutely, that's the big reason why pvp balloon world is never happening as a speedrun.

There used to be talk about allowing the singleplayer/introduction balloons for coin farming, but that was also decided against because of worries that online support might vanish and pull the feature down with it (since internet access is required even for that)

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