What are the challenges in maintaining Game Balance and fairness?

Game Balancing and fairness is a very delicate thing. That is because it requires constant tuning in Game Design so that everyone, including the best of the best, has equal chances at everything. Mechanisms are developed fully on the Developers’ shoulders to ensure that no single character or strategy becomes overpowered or too dominant for the gameplay.

The challenge has always been how to add new content and updates without disrupting the original balance—minor change or not. Game Exploits and cheating are one more headache for Developers, amidst a host of other fairness-compromising issues. Massive amounts of playtesting, observing player feedback, and data analysis need to be instituted in order to ensure that a time of fun remains fair for all concerned with the detection and fixing of unbalancing problems.