TKSax, on 22 October 2016 - 06:39 PM, said:
I was thinking The Phoenix back was released late 2012, or was it 2013? If it was late 2013, yes 2012 was fine and 2013 and the start or 2014 was a dumpster fire.
yeah, basically things were burning until about a month before Clan Invasion... then even with imbalance... seemed like end of 2014-2015 things were looking up..... then they return from holiday break in 2016.... and things just seem like they started to fall apart again... old habits and patterns resurfacing, all the nonsense around the Archer launch and the TH after were the first real WTF moments.... then seems like it's been in decline ever since. MM seemed off... bad matches seemed the norm, more so than ever, FW was dead, and then they pretty much blew up all the KDKs.... except the one that needed it.
I do wonder if the World Championship pulled so many teams and decent players away from normal play, and burned out so many people, if that is what killed FW and the overall match quality.