I know this is a gimmick thread and I probably shouldn't give a serious response, but why not, right?
Imagine you have a move, and everything seems to be going good. Unfortunately, a bug arises: the move is uncounterable in certain situations. You can't jump over it nor can you appear to go under it, and it makes no real sense visually, it's just an invisible wall that hits you. Okay, well that stinks. How can we fix it? Research leads to choosing one of two solutions:
1) Change the move's visual effect by making it so this charging move no longer charges forward, thus negating the moving "invisible wall" aspect of it. This involves getting artists and animators together, taking time from what they should be working on, for a simple bug fix.
2) Leave the animation of the move as is but change the hitbox so it will no longer have the "invisible wall". Doing this means that certain situations where the move used to hit will not work anymore. This may effect how much damage he does in certain combos.
Considering that solution 1 is wasting time and money from multiple departments, and the patch itself is already an expensive investment, that really isn't an option. So all we're left with is solution 2, which is the only answer.
You know that with reducing the hitbox will make some of his combos not work, and that it
may affect how he is seen in a competitive setting. However, there are no alternatives, and the only other possible solution is a drastic rework of a move that was, for all other intents and purposes, working as intended. You make the change. Since that was not intended as a balancing act, it's labelled a "bug fix," because the reason for the change was to fix an actual bug with the attack.
Unfortunately, as most game developers tend to find out, your hard choice is now seen as a cowardly, lying act by a consumer base who often refuses to listen or empathize with scenarios that arrive naturally in the complicated and live-wire process that is game design. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
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