Hey guys, leaflet here and I'm here doing the video about why I don't really play Grandblue anymore and it's not because I don't like Relink, it's not like that I don't like Grandblue. In fact, I'm still a huge fan of Grandblue and I play the mobile game a lot. We just got finished with a Guild Wars a couple days ago. How's a lot of fun? Uh, I gave it a little salty because we lost a lot of fights. The Japanese were strong this time. Why did I stop playing Relink? There's a couple reasons. Uh, a lot of them are related to actually game design and just kind of what I like about games. And I'm just a little backstory. I've been working in the video game industry for over 10 years. A lot of that is a game designer and I've worked on some, uh, I've worked only as a game designer but various trades within within the game industry. I worked at Blizzard and I worked at Riot Games, um, on League of Legends. That's a little bit about me. So why did I stop playing Grandblue? Couple reasons. Number one is that the game is actually more difficult with players than it is with AI. I don't really think that's necessarily a huge problem. It is a little demoralizing. Um, it's, it's like, I remember when I started playing the new boss, me and my friend almost two man cleared it. We actually stopped playing on purpose and let the boss kill us because we didn't want to beat it without our full team. We went around and started playing with our full team and then it took us a bunch of times before we actually were able to get the clear. Um, other reasons are, and this is the big one for me at least, is that player expression has worsened in the game. So even before this patch, player expression was already pretty, pretty bad. You know, your three damage capsidules, uh, your two supplemental damages and then you had your or elemental and then by then you already have most of your slots filled up. It was already like to play optimally and you know, a lot of these bosses do have damage checks. Builds were very tight and you had very little room to actually, you know, play things in your way and your style. I don't find that personally very fun, especially in an RPG, a multiplayer RPG. I like to be able to try different builds. It just wasn't encouraged in this game. And the problem again is that a lot of the player expression, and it's even worse for players that don't play as much as I do because I have access to, you know, double sigils plus sigils of damage cap. And I don't even have any supplemental damage pluses. I've been playing how many hours, hundreds of hours, over what, over 300 hours I've played the game. It really only left player expression to people that played a crap ton and to cheaters. It didn't really, I didn't really like it that much, that, that's kind of how it went. So now with a new patch, they introduced new sigils and the new sigils had this have the same problem. They take another slot in your sigil grid, which just made it even worse. So now like you have even less room to actually change your build. And I just didn't find that fun. And on top of that, I'm not that excited for sigils being a drop. Like, the helmet was really nice because you would get weapons and it was like really excited to get like a new weapon and like looks really cool on your character. You have like a new thing to level up. And it wasn't like that in the game. You didn't get weapons. So a lot of this kind of just didn't want to play anymore. The fight was definitely fun and it was a great, it was a joy for people that did play Granblue Fancy mobile. You got to see like really cool, really cool cutscenes, you know, it was, it was such a a love letter to the fans. And I really did like that, but I really wish we got better loot for it. And also again, the patch is just a single boss fight. I don't really think this is a problem in terms of, I don't think sigames just intended it to be that way. I don't think they on purpose were like, let's, let's give our community like barely anything. I think what happened was I didn't think they expected the game to do so well. And then the game did do so well. And then now they're like, oh, now we don't have any content really. It was just intended to be a bonus. So I think that's where we're at with it. And we don't really know what the future looks like for the game. The silver lining is that we're going to find out a little bit more with a new livestream on the 25th. So they're going to be doing a livestream probably showcasing things like sandal fawn, song in Seattle, but they'll probably talk more about the future of the game. And that's probably why they needed the extra time. Because during anniversary, they revealed sandal fawn, but they didn't really talk much about the future of the game. And guessing that they were kind of surprised by how well the game did. So they're just going to, they took the extra time to like make a new livestream the next month. And then they'll tell us like what their plans are for the game on the 25th. And I'm definitely going to like livestream that and so I'm going to cast that. So we'll be here for that. And again, like I really love Granblue so much. I'm going to keep playing it. And I really hope that the new patches change things. And I get I can get excited for the game again. I've been playing things like Hell Divers, which has been, you know, incredibly fun unicorn overlord. So I'm still streaming mostly on Twitch, but also here sometimes on YouTube. Anyway, that's that's it. And you know, hopefully next patches is great. And then we can come back and play a lot more and have have a lot more fun with Granblue Fantasy relink. So what did you guys think of the Granblue Fantasy relink Lusilius patch? Did you guys think that there's a problem or are you guys fine with it? Um, I'd really like to know what you think, you know, as a game designer, like do you enjoy the new patch or you haven't an amazing time with it? Or are you feeling the same sentiments that me and my friends do? Please let me know in the comments. I'll read I'll read every single one of them. And uh, I'm really excited to know what you have to say about it. And um, if you like the video, if you want to see more stuff like this, please give the video a thumbs up. I'd really appreciate it. Helps me out a lot. Peace out guys.