Adding to, and not interrupting the conversation, I hope... The game has several different features/events - players who decided that they liked the old style BA and wanted to be competitive, unfortunately, no longer have builds suited for any aspects of the game. These players have wasted time and money on their builds.
The principle that's been breached is a simple one: when you commit to play a game, everyone agrees to play by the rules and not change them (or cheat).
Anyhow, we're playing a game where the players make the commitment of time and money, but the "house" can still change the rules. When the rules change some people lose out and others win. It's interesting that the winners don't seem to have any compassion for the losers (who now lose because the rules have suddenly been changed). I suppose if Kano would allow people to reallocate their, now useless, defence skill points that'd be something, but it still wouldn't fix the problem - it's no longer the game people agreed to play.
An argument can be made that games like this evolve and changes are needed. This argument is only sound if the game itself wasn't "sound" to begin with. The rules of tried and tested games don't need to "evolve" or change. Still, nearly everyone would accept that if Microsoft and Apple can take our money and constantly evolve the products we've paid for via an endless stream of upgrades and patches, then it's really too much to expect Kano to have gotten everything just right from the start. Then again, MS and Apple make incremental changes to their products, they don't make fundamental changes, like, for example, removing key features. No one likes a "bait and switch" approach to selling products.
Drawing another parallel, I can't imagine anyone treating Kano like a major bank and suing them for misselling and misrepresentation, but it's interesting to see the parallel responses of the "actors". The perpetrator simply doesn't respond to the charges, and the "winners" simply say "adapt" and "get over it" - difference here, of course, is that no one is going to enforce anything, so there's no obligation to "come clean", no justice and no compensation - then again, when did the players "sign away" all their rights as consumers?
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