>>58164640>I get your explaination, but can we stop exaggerating about 'Arc Suit killing the game'?Well that's why I phrased it as "for many people". Obviously there are people still here but I'm not going to act like people didn't drop off because of it. They chose to celebrate a period that's supposed to be about generosity by asking for more while delivering less, as Arc Suits aren't even new outfits/hairstyles from scratch that are strong like SS Serena, but lazy white recolors with heavy asset reuse.
>I don't know why people react in a visceral manner to this day. 500 pity sucks, sure, but it still beatsThat's like saying getting stabbed at the gas station sucks sure but at least you're not dying of malaria in the scorching sun of Africa. Then those people dying of malaria can say oh but it's not the worst thing, at least I'm not being eaten alive by an animal. There's always a way to downplay the severity, so it's not a helpful angle if your goal is just being better than the absolute worst you can think of. Because the fact of the matter is, people don't want to be just better than worst, they want to move in the other direction toward best.
And that's the other thing as you give your anecdote about the units. They cannibalize each other because of their reliance on the same yellow candies. It was poor short term planning led by greed that stifles their own ability to sell Arc Suits, as their spamming of them leads to a breaking point in affordability. Why candy Arc Silver to 4/5 for the ability to crit ruthlessly denied from the base kit when you can candy someone else for a 2nd B Move nuke? It wasn't worth designing them this way to begin with.
>Point here is, there was little change in profit.It would've been much more profitable for them to focus on good sales like the candy ones than alienating a portion of the playerbase by embracing a tougher banner. They get most of their money from whales, but whales and content creators have been resentful too.
