>>719674357
>UI is even worse than it was in the beta somehow and actually lacked in features like toasting people back which took them multiple seasons to reimplement despite being the #1 complaint since the relaunch.
>Paid characters instead of free characters which meant that if you joined the game past the beta period you had to actively grind for weeks to unlock the new character without paying.
>Smith was timegated.
>Even if you had the Fighter Currency stocked up you had to wait three days to actually use them because the first three days were $20-30 paid early access exclusives with one skin.
>This also meant that them trying to capitalize on Raven's release to reboot it during season 3 or 4 was completely wasted because the brand new unlock system was even grindier and meant a F2P player wouldn't even unlock her until 4+ months into the game bare minimum.
>Extreme grind in the Rifts if you wanted skins during event periods.
>Paywalling the Rifts unless you were playing since day one and got specific skins for specific characters, and even if you did you still were required to unlock the specific characters they gave those outfits to or outright buy new characters like Joker to progress.
>Tons and tons of grinding for events and then they also made Rifts harder and harder to purposely gate you from the Smith Matrix skin.
>Forcing players to play PVP all the time to do anything instead of facilitating both PVP and PVE.
>Patching out anything that made the grind shorter like idling so that people had to find more and more inventive ways to idle that by the last season you were sitting in the Rick and Morty stage in season 3 on Easy with the badges that caused an explosion which killed the enemies and gave you super armor.
By the last three patches I was just ignoring PVP entirely because I was so burnt out and idling for like 8+ hours at times just to clear events. Don't even get me started on the Arena gametype which was a 30 minute to hour and a half ordeal