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Kinda. To be fair, though, aside from 2 people, who ever played Tengu or even cared before this meme started? I started DOA when DOA2U came out. All the way up to DOA5U. I've seen Tengu maybe a handle of times.

I mean, what he actually said is partly true. But if this game dies, it will have absolutely nothing to do with some low tier character no one other than a handful care about. TN does want us to beg. Because that's what a company is suppose to do. Supply and demand. They're literally having a contest for the fans lol.

I'm not talking about Tengu. I couldn't possibly care less about him as I'd never play him anyway and 80% of the people who ask for him wouldn't either.

I'm talking about gameplay changes and other additions. We've been asking for Eliot and Bass buffs for MONTHS and only now Bass got ONE of the buffs people wanted. I've personally done a lot of shit to have them change a few of Tina's properties and even though Shimbori himself answered my messages, the game still has a shitty Tina.

The same with the costumes. Awesmic has been asking loudly for Christie's trenchcoat since mid-2012 and he still hasn't gotten it, even though I bet it's kinda easy for them to get it. Look at how much Master had to kiss their ass to get Busa's classic DOA2/3 costume.

It's ridiculous.

Well they haven't stopped patching the game. You might get what you want eventually. It's just not possible to make every single character in the game perfect. No game company can do that. I mean, look at all the more popular fighters that make way more money. People are probably begging for buffs and nerfs left and right.

The thing is that Tina was perfectly fine in vanilla. She had a shit-ton of unholdables, slams that guaranteed ground throws and 270 default life made every single throw hurt a lot. In DOA5U she was extremely nerfed for no reason whatsoever.

I don't want her to be buff blindly to uber-top-tier. I just want the nerfs from vanilla to be reverted back and the small buffs she just got in Ultimate to stay the same.

I'd like to know what the thought process behind their balancing ideas are. It might just be them not knowing how to balance the game right. If that's the case, then you're right. They need to change that.

In my opinion, they have no idea what they're doing when it comes to balance. They sold DOA5 under the premise that they were giving us guaranteed damage and unholdable shit that did make it into the game but has been slowly destroyed with each patch. Helena was a monster in vanilla with the forced tech strategy and now she barely has any safe moves. She went from being + during the entire round to being -9 at best.