Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24114180-20140107193454/@comment-1061930-20140530014454

Soulephant wrote: On a side note, I will freely admit that I have a burning hatred of metagames, being an aspiring designer. After all, would you like to have half of your hard work disregarded because characters are "weak" or stages are "unfair"? Nope, you wouldn't. It's simply disrespectful to the designers and developers to live by tier lists or enforce them. That's the mindset of a bad dev. If you don't want people to complain about weak characters or unfair stages, don't make weak characters or unfair stages. Metagames develop naturally as a result of what's already in the game, and claiming that it's "disrespectful" to play to the meta is essentially saying that you don't accept any responsibility for the design of your game.