Just as "game balance" makes sense to sell so many different weapons to players who really only need the free basic weapons, so "game balance" also makes sense in bigger, better harvests to encourage new players to continue playing. It's obviously not cold case provable with DNA evidence, but where there's stink there's generally a carcass, and it smells a little fishy around here to me sometimes. I hunt often enough that if the numbers are fair and equal across the spectrum of player's 'tiers,' which we know exist, I should get just as many top tens as everyone else per hour of play time, and I simply do not, not even close. (I'm not that bad of hunter, honestly..., they just aren't there.)
Incidentally, the first animal I ever shot in this game, on my very first hunt, within the first 15 minutes, was a 200+ whitetail buck that was disqualified because I didn't have a license yet: I hadn't finished the tutorial yet so... bupkis. But when I did get the license, on my first hunt on Redfeather I got a 220+ moose about 100 yards from the lodge within the first 5 minutes. I never got another 200+ whitetail ever, or another 220+ moose for the next couple of years, but it seemed a little front end loaded to me at the time, and it still does. Coincidence? maybe. But recently I added a new account and have been on the top ten leaderboards twice already in the first six months vs the measly 3 or 4 times in 5 years on my normal account. And that's why I'm a conspiracy theorist.
