Granblue Fantasy Emergency-Nerfs Brand New Premium Summon '000' Just ONE HOUR After Launch — Players Who Whaled Are Fuming

A game that nerfs a brand-new unit just ONE HOUR after its gacha banner drops? Welcome to Granblue Fantasy's 2023 New Year's Eve special — featuring the brand-new summon '000', which went from broken-tier to emergency-patched in record time.

Here's the backstory: The original poster shared two images — one showing characters from Granblue Fantasy and Arknights posing together in a heart-shaped arrangement, which players found wholesome and funny ("Two dragon characters from two games delivering a New Year's heart — how cute"). But the REAL drama was hiding in the post's [UPDATE] tag —

GBF just released a new summon called "000" that was so absurdly overpowered it could one-shot endgame Guild War bosses (the game's most challenging core content) regardless of elemental advantage. To put this in perspective for non-GBF players: imagine if a single Arknights operator could auto-clear the deepest Abyss floors ignoring all class counters, or one-click clear Risk 18 Contingency Contract. Yeah, that level of broken.

But here's where it gets spicy: '000' belongs to the "Grand" (贵族) summon tier in GBF — a premium rarity category that CANNOT be exchanged via the spark system (the game's 300-pull pity guarantee). You have to pull it straight from the gacha at abysmal rates. This banner was its ONLY rate-up window EVER, meaning players who wanted it had to go all-in right now.

So what happened? Whales and savers alike saw how busted '000' was, dumped every last resource into the banner, and then — one hour later — Cygames dropped an announcement nerfing its damage. The community absolutely lost it.

While some commenters argued the post didn't belong in the "gossip" section of NGA ("this isn't even tea" / "take this to the GBF subforum"), one user's quip — "Doesn't hit as hard as the '000' speed-nerf" — perfectly captured the collective mood. A hyped New Year's content drop instantly became a trust issue with the devs.

After all, "release with broken stats to bait pulls, then nerf immediately" is THE cardinal sin in any gacha community. Factor in that this was an unsparkable banner with irreversible resource investment and a one-time-only rate-up, and you've got a recipe for maximum player outrage. As of now, Cygames has offered no further explanation for the nerf — and this New Year's drama is far from over.