Valve U-turns on Artifact card balance after complaints

Valve has U-turned on Artifact card balance after complaints from the game's community called for tweaks.

Valve had employed a no-messing with the cards approach to Artifact, the Dota card game, preferring instead to keep balance changes as a last resort "in large part because we thought players valued immutability very highly".

But since Artifact launched, players have called for Valve to tweak the way some cards work in the game. This feedback, in combination with discussion among the development team, sparked a rethink.

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