In occasions like this, it’s good to look again at different long-running video games that also run as we speak and the way they solved (or not less than pushed again on) complexity and energy creep.
Magic: The Gathering has been the most well-liked collectible card recreation on the earth for over three a long time. In that point, the publishers have created many tens of 1000’s 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 recreation codecs, and pushing their essential format (commonplace) as a rotating format. Which means that their commonplace decks are solely authorized if they’re comprised of playing cards from the most recent units, somewhat than any card printed since 1993. This rotating format system proved extraordinarily efficient at sustaining a constant energy and complexity degree for many gamers – a lot in order that different collectible card video games have adopted an identical method. Playing cards above price on the facility or complexity curve can nonetheless have their time within the highlight, after which rotate out such that the majority gamers not need to cope with them.
World of Warcraft had an identical problem the place energy and complexity was constructing at an exponential price with every enlargement pack as a result of each enlargement wanted to invalidate raid gear from the earlier established order to be able to entice gamers to maintain taking part in. Nonetheless, since WOW should proceed to help all content material they’ve ever launched ceaselessly, performing some form of content material rotation was not within the playing cards. As an alternative, 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 latest content material from getting too ridiculous. Since outdated content material was, for essentially the most half, solely there for achievements and cosmetics and never for precise character development, the quantity of energy these outdated gadgets wanted might be squished down with minimal participant complaints.
These are two profitable strategies different long-running video games have used to unravel their complexity and energy creep points. These are clearly not the one methods to deal with this – there’s a fairly broad open design area to handle this problem. I think that FEH will possible finally must take some steps to handle the complexity and energy creep, given the large energy variations between the discharge models and the present variations. What would possibly some different choices be for decreasing energy and complexity for legacy content material?
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