It was a problem for P2W because it made the games balanced and you won with strategy; now as mentioned, it will be a solitaire game for those who start the fight first with the classic Indra team, tendo six, kabuto GNW (or maybe orochimaru GNW returns precisely because its natural counter is missing) and main;

However this was definitely not an upgrade, if we want to be kind, it was a change of skill and that's it.

Henrywong bootlicker as usual

P.S. Next event - 7 welfire, memory summer.

I know, he was very useful in GNW cause he was an issue for stronger teams. Even if your own team was far behind in power, you could still help with those lions alone. Now? At best they will do nothing, at worst will only give extra attacks to Shisui and/or Pain as those immobile they cause is not unavoidable, it is just normal immobile. So Shisui/Pain will cancel them and get extra standards for free. Yay.

But that is precisely why we got this "update" - because Sai was a problem for whales, even if for single round. If he was a problem for f2p only, we could complain about him for years without any results. That's how Oasis works and that's how they bring this game closer to the edge of the cliff with each passing month.

I play this game since December 2019. Yes, there was always a gap between whales and f2p, but it wasn't the size of an abyss like it is now. Entire mechanics are pretty much pointless, others are ignored by certain characters (ie. Asura after BT who utterly ignores 95% of rules regarding chases).

Your question is pointless because history has already proven the answer to be a resounding yes, it already has, the game is dead. Like I have already pointed out before the forums are so dead posts from 2022 and even 2021 are on the front page in all categories, even the "mods" and plants who got all game content for free in addition to 30k coupons in their game mail every month have left, except maybe you, you might be a lone lingering plant defending oasis for all I know. Here are a few things I do know though, these apply across multiple clusters from my original double digit server through to a relatively recent one

- aren't enough people for swb to run

- matsuri cant find a single opponent so you just fight clones of yourself

- there's only 1 group still alive per server and they have such low activity rate that if gnw was still in the server they would not have the activity level needed to register

- even if oasis merged all of the servers that I have played on, which would create an amalgamation of about 40 different servers into one merge, there would still not be enough people to run gnw

- arena3vs is impossible unless you maintain alts, could not tell you the last time I saw 2 other people online at the same time

- even widely cross server things like arena are so dead that I my old 1.2 mil account and a relatively new one with less than 8k can be matched up in arena with about 98% consistency, even with thousands of servers created and thousands of people flocking in between those accounts being created

- all of the known "mod" and/or plant accounts have not been logged into for a very long time

-in space time around 18 out of the top 20 in each cluster are accounts that also have not been logged into for a very long time and there simply are no people left playing to challenge their teams and change the rankings.

- in mines you can only steal from "S0mysteriousplayer" because there are no real players left to use the mines, which isn't even manual like it use to be, meaning people aren't even bothering to log in to click offline mode and let the game do daily stuff for them

So yes, objectively it will stop people from playing and historically has already driving away many thousands, including people who were given content for free, every game mode and even the forums related to the game all show very clear indicators of how many people oasis have pushed away.

I know, he was very useful in GNW cause he was an issue for stronger teams. Even if your own team was far behind in power, you could still help with those lions alone. Now? At best they will do nothing, at worst will only give extra attacks to Shisui and/or Pain as those immobile they cause is not unavoidable, it is just normal immobile. So Shisui/Pain will cancel them and get extra standards for free. Yay.

But that is precisely why we got this "update" - because Sai was a problem for whales, even if for single round. If he was a problem for f2p only, we could complain about him for years without any results. That's how Oasis works and that's how they bring this game closer to the edge of the cliff with each passing month.

I play this game since December 2019. Yes, there was always a gap between whales and f2p, but it wasn't the size of an abyss like it is now. Entire mechanics are pretty much pointless, others are ignored by certain characters (ie. Asura after BT who utterly ignores 95% of rules regarding chases).

The change to Sai's skills has been in the CN version since the year before last.

The change to Sai's skills has been in the CN version since the year before last.