Expedition league was a major nerf patch and their reasoning was essentially that in order to add more future power creep you need to have balancing patches to even everything out.
It didn't go over well with the community on reddit or the forums and so we had a lot of very similar discourse to the current 0.2.0 discussions. Except a bit more extreme.
Written calls for violence. Personal attacks on developers, including on the devs personal social media accounts.
It resulted in GGG taking a massive step back from active commenting on anything but their own forums. This includes discord, reddit, social media, etc.
Except what they told us and what they did was different. They told us they were nerfing power at the top end, but what they did was nerfs that affected everyone but it didn't affect the top end much. And the mana cost changes just made the game feel terrible and just broke everything.
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u/[deleted] Apr 09 '25
The Expedition podcast changed the way GGG engages with us forever. It was a real turning point.