This game's philosophy used to be to switch heroes. What is happening?

[turtle-13106]

What is happening is that the developers are rationalizing their inability to balance the game. This was the most notable development today. The meta is the meta’s fault. Neither the wonderfully creative people who play this game nor balance sufficed to deal with GOATS, according to the game director.

@JeffreyKaplan

Also, something we talk about a lot in game design is the that there is often no one, correct answer. Design is all about tradeoffs. If the thing that the community decides is “the most egregious” is a “static meta” and they “want the dev team to do something about it”… we’re going to take steps towards change. We can’t force the meta to move and not make the game work differently. Last year was great proof that player creativity and balance changes alone weren’t enough to move people off of 3/3 fast enough for the community to feel satisfied. The meta would have moved on it’s own… just slowly.

We’ve decided to help you move it along.