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Why Does IS Refuse to Actually Buff Units?

Weapon refinements are great and all but some require divine dew(hard to gain) to gain their best effects(ie. Double Lion, Felicia's Plate effect). Why doesn't IS just Nerf some units by decreasing their BST (ie. Reinhardt, Nowi), and boost some units who have an overbalanced stat line(ie. Alm, Corrin)? That would really help with the viability of some units.
Plus other games like Clash Royale do it so...

Asked by DieZombie9610 months 2 weeks ago

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its like some Japanese rule saying they can't actually change the actual stats of characters, at least that what i believe it is.

Oh. That kinda sucks.

^This.
Something about gambling laws.

"In the model, the game displays multiple items for players to randomly draw for a price similar to the Gashapon (or "gacha"), and a player who has obtained all of a designated set of items (or "completed" the set) can combine them to form a rarer item."

That's the one rule of a gacha game. There's nothing anywhere about the inability to buff and nerf units. All you're banned from doing is having the game combine Micaiah and Sothe to create super-Meg. It's so specific that nobody gives a shit, and so easy to misinterpret it that people use it to justify IS not giving direct number changes.

Since FE Heroes is a gacha game, it's considered gambling in Japan where it's made. Since this game is considered gambling, there are strict laws placed on it about what you can and can't change. Changing the unit's BST directly changes the values of them and people might've spent money on them. Adding things such as weapon refinement, on the other hand, aren't directly changing the unit people gamble on, it's an
add-on to the unit that all other units can get too.

So could IS release an almost same version of the unit and make it mergable to the original?

They could, but they won't because that's stupid.

Also, they can buff and nerf units; you could wake up tomorrow to an Odin with 10 less HP and 16 more Atk. You could wake up tomorrow to Steady Breath blocking skills form unleashing, or Rein having 3 Atk put into Def. Suddenly Snake Spirit+ enters the game and Cecilia gets -5 Spd, +6 Atk to abuse the brave tome. And this is all elgal, because it does not break this:

You aren't combining Hector, Roy and Eliwood into a gravesto- I mean, into LA!Hector. That's illegal. Lucina and Robin can't be combined to make a blue-haired Morgan. That's illegal. Said Morgan can come into the game pullable with 200BST, and that'd be legal for her to be nerfed to Odin-tier the next day.

But nobody's stupid enough to alienate consumers with nerfs, or drive suspicion with buffs, so they don't.

I know from a gameplay point of view, FEH would benefit from your traditional balancing patches that a lot of online games get. But this is a game where people spend money essentially buying and building onto their characters. For example, it'd kinda suck if someone spent hundreds of dollars making a brand new shiny +10 LA!Hector only for him to get nerfed, wouldn't it? He wouldn't be the same 'product' that guy paid for.

No way should they change the original stats. You'll lose more players and it is bad business.
They basically just power up some units by making them into variants like h.Henry and h.jakob.

BST doesn't have the LEAST THING TO DO with gambling laws in Japan, per the whaling articles on Gamepress. What their laws regulate are the chances of getting a certain character (i.e, they need to be published).

You are allowed to budff and nerf units. It's not illegal, that's a misconception brought on by the misinterpretation of the one gacha rule:

That is not allowed. In other words, you can't pull a Lucina, Chrom, Robin and Cordelia and combine them to create an exclusive Morgan. That's all there is to it.

In other words, Reinhardt could have 5 Atk moved into speed tommorow. Blade Tomes could suddenly provide penalties with buffs overnight. Distant Counter suddenly does half damage, Steady breath prevents special procs that round. So why not?

Because if you nerf something people will be more wary with their paying. And if you buff something, people will be afraid that their unit will become obsoleted not by something new to pay for, but something old that has already been paid for.

So it's basically money. Not gambling laws, money.

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