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Due to issues related to the release of Mastery Loadouts, the "free swap" period will be extended.
The new end date will be May 1st.
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Hercules isn't getting nerfed
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He didn't write in all caps or anything of the sort. He made a few comments and people twists his words and then tell him he needs to do better.
Miike- Nerfing Herc isn't off the table.
Player base- Loses their collective minds.
Also, nobody here called you any names or sent a personal attack, I just said you're mad which is true. If you want to interpret what I said as misogynistic when that wasn't my intention of course then I don't know what to tell you, buy a helmet?
I made that observation way back, in a more innocent time (almost three hours ago), before this thread devolved into a full-on flame war
One approach is direct, one approach isn’t. This isn’t debatable.
He also said they have no plans to nerf him at this time, because they have no plans to nerf him at this time. Nerfing Hercules would be problematic in a lot of ways, and those problems in my opinion wildly outweigh any benefit you could get from nerfing Hercules, especially when there are other long term solutions already available, in particular the same rarity freeze used on champs like Quake and Magik.
The reason why he specifically said “at this time” and not “will not” is because no professional game designer can make that promise. Game designers in the future will have to respond to the situation in the future. If nerfing Hercules were to somehow become a necessity in the future, then that’s what they will do. It is what I would do in their place, if that situation became a reality. It might not even be the same people balancing champs in a year or three. The developers today cannot, and should not make promises that bind future developers in unreasonable ways.
The fact that some people say “well, he said not now, so that implies they will later” doesn’t make it true. And there’s no way to actually state the whole truth without triggering such people. You either say the truth and accept that some people will run with their own made up conclusions, or you omit the truth and then later get called a liar when the situation changes and you do something beyond what you said.
Do the devs wish Hercules was not as strong as he was and wish he could be not as strong as he is? Absolutely yes. Do they have a nerf in the works? As far as I can tell, no. And while they could be lying and working on one right now, they’ve wanted to nerf Hercules for a long time now. That’s been no secret. I’ve known that for well over a year, and they have yet to touch him. But could they possibly do so in the future? Yes, because that’s true for literally *every* champ. No champ is safe, no champ will ever be safe, and no champ will ever be stated to be permanently safe for all time, ever. Nothing any dev says, ever, should be construed as a promise to never change a champ. If a dev ever said something like that, I would call them a liar, because they would be speaking out of bounds. They would be making promises they could not keep.
Everything Miike said was the truth, and as far as I can see there is no way to be “careful” about what he said that would in any way avoid these deliberate misunderstandings. Not without deliberately misrepresenting the truth. Not without lying to make people feel better.
Anything can change at any time at the discretion of the developers. That’s the truth. And that will never change. Claiming otherwise, or avoiding reminding people of that fact however uncomfortable it might be, is telling bedtime stories to children.
I know passive-aggressive when I see it, bud.
For the record though, I never derailed the thread, they did. I'm out.