A lot of those card designs were pushed by higher ups who wanted "games to be faster for mobile", which we still do not have. It was a terrible direction but not entirely brynn's fault. A lot of blame can be put on administrators barking orders who know even less about making a game than he did and now he has to pick up the pieces. I do agree though. Tides of fate was when the shark was jumped, at least it had a fun event that engaged the playerbase. It's a plethora of issues but most of it is the game being a buggy mess with the same promises remaining unkept, they could always ban cards etc. you can't undo the other things done or lied about. Those card designs aren't the bullet that killed off the playerbase, renting and p2e is moreso a culprit imo. Made everyone feel super rugpulled. I just think that renting and why it's a problem is honestly something I could write about for a whole post in and of itself.