It's a strange timeline, isn't it? It used to be that when a company nerfed a build or strategy, we all just accepted it and got on with it. Sure, we mumbled and grumbled. I wasn't happy when they took Soraka out of lanes in League of Legends way back in the day, but I just moved on to the next flavour of the month off-meta pick. However, these days, companies can be brutally punished for nerfing strategies that players are having fun with.
Granted, most of these complaints are in player-versus-environment (PvE) games rather than player-versus-player (PvP) games. The logic is that nerfing something unfun to play against is fair game, but nerfing something that's only being used on NPCs is another matter as it isn't 'hurting' anyone. Helldivers 2 and Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 are recent victims of these attitudes, and both have been review-bombed in the past because of nerfs. All in all, saying that you don't need to nerf strategies in PvE games shows a gross misunderstanding of game balance.
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