Quote Originally Posted by Supersnow845 View Post
Again your personal enjoyment of the content is irrelevant to this discussion, whether you think Bozja is bad or Bozja is good or variant is bad or variant is good it doesn’t change the stats, Bozja had high retention, variant has garbage retention; Bozja is the second grindiest core combat content in the game and it has interaction that exceed some roulette content

By every measure Bozja was an overwhelming success, part of that can be contributed to the inclusion of the relic, if they can generate that level of interaction via what Bozja already has plus the relic then what’s their incentive not to, yes they could have tied the relic to variant, they probably should have, variant isn’t bad content it’s just this “people will play for the sake of it if the content is fun” doesn’t exist in this game, people will only play when given rewards, and that’s why criterion failed
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A scathing indictment on the playerbase and honestly the genre as a whole but it's not far off. This is why the genre is trash.