I now present the official NRS Game Cycle (For Competitors)™️
1.Around the year and a half/second year mark, top tier characters have emerged and the best players win using them
2. Outrage in the community about how the game still needs "one last patch" in order to be completely fair
3. Veterans and journeymen who stunk at game come out of the mothballs with passive agressive posts like "smh can't wait for [next game] wins won't be so easy" or "can't WAIT for return of footsies lol"
4. A ton of threads come about asking if the game will die when the next one releases
5. Debate about whether or not Evo should include the new game and the old game
6. People argue that the above steps actually never happened for any other game
7. Speculation that this was the worst game in the company's history yet
8. Few to no good players are posting on the forums anymore, so those threads run rampant
9. New game comes out, brief reset for a few days
10. Within the first week, Dave or P2W or some other dip makes a thread about how unbalanced and trash game is and how [insert their character] is terrible and needs buffs
11. A lot of people then claim that they are people who play "reactionary footsies," so they will complain about jumps and air moves
12. Design doc threads overrun TYM until the next patch is out, then go back to number 10
And on and on it goes until the next game comes out. I2 will be no different and will be equally unbearable until you're smartened up.