Board Thread:Plants vs. Zombies 2/@comment-24843074-20161207133938/@comment-24024415-20161208115111

TheGollddMAN wrote:

1. ...but since you are not gonna upgrade, why are you all complaining?

2. It's mind boggling to think that some of you will upgrade but will complain about game breaking while some of you will stay out of this and will still complain.

3. ...the Chinese version is the only one supposed to have upgrades. Why are you assuming that no one will upgrade after they complain? In my case, I was explaining how all the upgrades felt the same and didn't contribute to helping the strategy of the game in any meaningful way. Does that mean I won't upgrade? No, I want to see the full release and help the wikia grow with more information. Also, the system has no downside and tempts users to use it consistently.

This is a fallacy that attempts to blocks any critique of the system in your mind, "either you use or not, your words mean NOTHING". I can and will voice my opinion about this, regardless if you brand me an "Outsider" or "Hypocrite" because I found a system to be unsatisfying to any standard of gameplay balance or creativity.

The Chinese system put the unique upgrades as the forefront of leveling up and the stat upgrades as the icing on the cake. This international version prioritizes stats and may add in a special ability here and there, which is much less interesting and makes the playing field far too flat that the system just puts us back to square 1. The Chinese system is treated as a superior version of the INT because it largely changes the face of the game! This version makes all the plants fire Direct Hit variants of their projectiles without any major attempts to make weaker plants more powerful or vice versa.

Take for example Bloomerang. PvZC gave it the ability to become cheaper upon planting, making it the "el cheapo" AoE plant. PvZ2 gives it just as much power as Laser Bean, which still begs the question "Why not just use Laser Bean?". The Chinese version solved that problem by making it fill a niche that LB could not, cheap early game planting. The INT version just gave it generic stat boosts and didn't care if nothing actually happened in terms of plant tiers.