In instances like this, it’s good to look again at different long-running video games that also run in the present day and the way they solved (or a minimum of pushed again on) complexity and energy creep.
Magic: The Gathering has been the preferred collectible card sport on the earth for over three many years. In that point, the publishers have created many tens of hundreds of various playing cards. As such, deck constructing complexity is probably off the charts. Nonetheless, Wizards of the Coast discovered early that retaining a number of sport codecs, and pushing their most important format (commonplace) as a rotating format. Which means that their commonplace decks are solely authorized if they’re comprised of playing cards from the newest units, moderately than any card printed since 1993. This rotating format system proved extraordinarily efficient at sustaining a constant energy and complexity stage for many gamers – a lot in order that different collectible card video games have adopted an identical method. Playing cards above charge on the ability or complexity curve can nonetheless have their time within the highlight, after which rotate out such that almost all gamers not must cope with them.
World of Warcraft had an identical difficulty the place energy and complexity was constructing at an exponential charge with every enlargement pack as a result of each enlargement wanted to invalidate raid gear from the earlier established order with a purpose to entice gamers to maintain enjoying. Nonetheless, since WOW should proceed to help all content material they’ve ever launched ceaselessly, doing a little sort of content material rotation was not within the playing cards. As a substitute, World of Warcraft would introduce the idea of the “stat squish” the place energy and complexity curves can be flattened – a form of world cutting down of energy to maintain the complexity and energy of recent content material from getting too ridiculous. Since outdated content material was, for probably the most half, solely there for achievements and cosmetics and never for precise character development, the quantity of energy these outdated gadgets wanted could possibly be squished down with minimal participant complaints.
These are two profitable strategies different long-running video games have used to resolve their complexity and energy creep points. These are clearly not the one methods to deal with this – there’s a fairly extensive open design house to handle this difficulty. I think that FEH will doubtless finally have to take some steps to handle the complexity and energy creep, given the huge energy variations between the discharge items and the present variations. What would possibly some different choices be for decreasing energy and complexity for legacy content material?
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