RE: 🔥 DAR GOTTEM GEARNUT — The Dragon Gnome Rises!
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Then who created a high damage meta then now needs to create another stronger one to counterbalance :)
@Splinterlands is moving in the wrong direction. Rich ones with stronger cards always win the game, that's what I mean by "money over skill". And it makes the new ones don't want to enter the game. Even the old players quit playing as well.
Looking at all the longlife game likes Fornite/PUBG/League of Legends, .... they are all the game with spirit of "skill over money". New players if they train hardly on their skill still can win the game with heavily investing players, cause they only can invest on the skin or rewards/bonuses, not the character - especially a too strong character makes the game unbalanced.
Another card game "God Unchained", player can invest to upgrade their cards to get more rewards instead of making the cards stronger. Bronze cards have the same stats with Diamond cards. Only skill players who knows how to combine a good deck can win the game, not rich players.
The higher damage / faster game meta was absolutely necessary in my opinion. We are a rapid strategy TCG - matches should not be lasting well into fatigue rounds and taking 10+ minutes to resolve.
That said, there should be some sustain available; enter Gottem.
As far as the mechanics of the game itself you are calling out, SPL has always had chase cards that were necessary to win in whatever the current meta is, so I'm unsure as to what here surprises you.
There are new game modes that seek to balance this - the impending Survival rework, as an example, where players can be very particular about where they compete and therefore everyone in said pool is on much more equal footing.
We, as a game, had gotten away from that for a good while, I agree (removal of leagues, Hall of Legends, Heloise the Hollow, just to name a few), but the pendulum is very much swinging back in the right direction here.