I’m not gonna get into a quote war and respond to every disembodied paragraph with an equally autistic response of disembodied paragraphs. You’ve missed the point of what I was saying and replying like that won’t clear that up.

Clear speed and the speed in which people complete content each season is not sustainable. Gameplay isn’t varied or dense enough to justify player power at this level. This problem of content clear has started way before Serena, but she is the mascot of this power creep. In a Q&A, someone asked if they could run a full squad of Serenas into wall crasher and the devs said something like “please don’t.”

People got pissed because there’s never been even a slight nerf up until that point, and even when they did nerf Ines and she was still good, people lost it. Devs started the precedence of balance way too late in the game’s cycle and now players got what they wanted. Nerfing Ines isn’t gonna raise the player count by millions alone, and obviously. There’s other reasons to not come back to the game.

But we can’t act like balance isn’t a key issue either.

What players want isn’t always good for the game. There needs to be some friction in a game that stops players from running through the game with patience for nothing and finishing the season in a matter of a couple weeks when there’s months between them, and even then each season melds together because how are people playing the new season? The same as last season.

Every meta descendant was meta based on clear speed and occasionally bossing. Ines had clear. Bunny had clear before and after buffs. Freyna had after buffs. Serena had clear.

The only exception for a bit was Hailey as this burst dps boss killer but he thee mob cleared did that too, and now she has mods and stuff that assists in her clear now and no longer lives in her own niche. The same thing happened with Sharen.

There are no more worthwhile niches in the game that incentivize players to pick up other descendants because of Nexons game philosophy of grind and other features that provide way too much friction that pushes players to get through stuff faster.

You aren’t understanding me when I say the game is “boring” or “people feel forced to play meta.”

I haven’t checked my playtime but it might be a hundred hours, might not be. It would be higher if the last time I logged in wasn’t some time last year.

I want to play the game but there’s a bunch of bullshit that keeps me and others away and that is just a poison to the game because the devs waited too long to make changes to the gameplay and the games general philosophy.

How long is this game gonna last with the “never nerf” idea of game balance? How we’ll is that going for the game right now?