Was Starcraft balanced????

I have a simple question to the PC gaming community:

Was Starcraft balanced when it came out???

I have to settle this bet with a friend. I missed Starcraft when it came out so could someone help me out???

I think it was mostly balanced, or intended to be as balanced as possible, they nerfed a few units and removes some exploits.

EDIT: Match after match after match can only prove is something is balanced. In it's launch condition it was pretty damn good.

It was pretty balanced when it first came out. Its got better over time. But generally you didnt really see huge increases or reductions in damage or resources of any units.

it was decntly balanced, but it wasnt until brood war where it got the amazing balance its known for today.

Ummm... No it wassnt really well ballanced at launch.

it was not horribly broken, or incredibly imba, but there were some things that just did not match up, especially in the protoss cost/effectiveness area.

As someone said it did become alot more ballanced when Broodwar came out, which basicly brought Terran and Zerg up to protoss level.

and there were some units that just did not work as intented.

But as I said thier issues were rather minor compared to some other rts games, (C&C series comes to mind for some horribly imba units).

Ummm... No it wassnt really well ballanced at launch.

it was not horribly broken, or incredibly imba, but there were some things that just did not match up, especially in the protoss cost/effectiveness area.

As someone said it did become alot more ballanced when Broodwar came out, which basicly brought Terran and Zerg up to protoss level.

and there were some units that just did not work as intented.

But as I said thier issues were rather minor compared to some other rts games, (C&C series comes to mind for some horribly imba units).

Maddie_Larkin

No starcraft wasn't balanced when it came out. Zerg rush, anyone? Plus all the bugs & glitches that had to eventually get fixed.

No starcraft wasn't balanced when it came out. Zerg rush, anyone? Plus all the bugs & glitches that had to eventually get fixed.

F1_2004

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No starcraft wasn't balanced when it came out. Zerg rush, anyone? Plus all the bugs & glitches that had to eventually get fixed.

Erlkoenig

I always thought the Terrans had something of an advantage over the other races, although they are probably the race that I was the worst with myself. Their siege tanks backed by other units are very hard to penetrate. They also had high end abilities which were a pain in the ass for basically any of the high end units of either of the other races: Irradiate versus Zerg, and EMP Blast and Lockdown versus Protoss. Terran domination entailed a lot of obsessive micromanagement though, probably why I sucked with them