In the gacha game world, 'most expensive = strongest' is practically gospel. But Resonas developer 'ph' (affectionately nicknamed "Fat Tiger" by the community) has proven otherwise: spend the most, suffer the hardest. A balance fiasco stretching from launch to the present day ultimately ended with ph's Bilibili account getting banned — arguably one of the most absurd launch-period operations disasters of 2024.
It all started with the game's first limited character, nicknamed 'the Bartender.' Resonas uses a deck-building combat system where characters contribute cards of different colors to a shared deck. The Bartender's 2nd constellation reads as follows:
50% chance to deal damage and heal when playing purple cards. With the limited roster at launch, most players dumped their resources into this banner. The purple card team became the universally recommended T0 comp across every guide in the first week.
Many players even used their launch selector on the purple card main DPS (not on rate-up at the time), since that character could refresh their ultimate by playing just 5 purple cards — perfect synergy with the Bartender. But the honeymoon didn't last. About two weeks in, as players' power levels climbed, they realized the purple team's massive healing was overkill for the speed-clear meta, and its damage output was less than half of the top-tier 'Discard Thunder' comp. Worse still, the purple team was almost entirely SSR characters that demanded limited constellations, while Discard Thunder only needed 2 SSRs with no constellation requirements.
Then things got even uglier. When the purple card main DPS finally got their rate-up banner, players discovered a devastating anti-synergy at constellation 2:
50% chance to generate 'Dark Art' — a red-colored generic derived card with nothing to do with the purple card system. Its damage was negligible, but it clogged hand space and prevented card cycling. Since the purple team lacked energy recovery, they couldn't even play these cards. The result: C2 massively tanked the purple team's performance and made auto-battle unviable, yet skipping C2 meant missing the C3 ATK buff. Players began demanding a constellation toggle feature.
Obligingly — or perhaps 'maliciously compliant' is more accurate — ph quickly added a toggle for max-constellation effects. But it specifically couldn't disable C2. According to communications in the official QQ group, ph's explanation was that constellations were coded sequentially, so disabling C2 would break all subsequent constellations and cause 'unknowable bugs.' This 'galaxy brain' technical justification foreshadowed the absurdity to come.
Then came the 'Purple-Fire Team' incident. The first limited event boosted a Fire team main DPS:
The event shop offered a weapon with '15% chance to inflict Ignite on normal attack.' Purple team players quickly realized they could slap this weapon on the Bartender for massive Ignite frequency, needing only one copy of the Fire DPS to pivot — and the damage was roughly on par with a proper Fire team. But here's the weird part: equipping the Ignite weapon on the Fire DPS (who barely ever normal attacks) actually triggered Ignite even faster, to the point where their ultimate would refresh infinitely. Some testers flagged this as an obvious bug, but desperate players eager to escape the purple team trap pushed the discovery aside, and some even pulled for the Fire DPS based on this.
The evening patch notes revealed the culprit: a 'Rend' effect applied by both the Fire DPS and the Bartender.
Rend's description says '5 seconds: take extra damage each time you're hit.' But with the Ignite weapon equipped, those extra Rend hits from other characters' normal attacks also triggered Ignite checks — stacking both effects exponentially. ph hotfixed this bug with lightning speed and offered virtually no compensation, leaving players who'd pulled for the Fire DPS high and dry.
Then came the crushing double standard. The very next day, players found a similarly exploitable bug in the Discard Thunder team — and this time, ph chose to rewrite the description to match the bug instead of fixing it, and threw in 2 pulls as compensation. As the original poster put it: why was the player-favorable purple team bug hotfixed instantly with zero compensation, while the Thunder team bug got canonized as intended behavior?
The meme 'Look at Resonas — it's literally called Lei (Thunder)-sonas' went viral. Some day-one players quit on the spot.
Faced with this PR meltdown, ph deployed their ultimate galaxy-brain move: yesterday morning, ph's personal Bilibili account posted a status update claiming that 'Dark Art' might be changed to purple.
The change went live that evening, and the standard banner simultaneously rotated in a new Dark Art-focused character whose max constellation recovers energy whenever Dark Art is generated.
Making Dark Art purple solved the C2 anti-synergy problem, and the new character patched the purple team's energy recovery weakness. With three high-constellation SSRs stacked, the purple team's damage finally caught up to a 2-SSR standard Fire team — but still lagged far behind Discard Thunder. In the OP's words: spend the most money, take the hardest beating.
However, this change did nothing for C0 purple teams. The Dark Art system itself became collateral damage — a key derived card's color was arbitrarily changed. Many players saw this as confirmation that Tiger Games runs its product like a private server, patching whatever they feel like whenever they feel like it. The final nail in the coffin: ph's Bilibili account was banned, for reasons still unknown.
The comment section was overwhelmingly hostile. A top-voted reply read: 'Posting this on NGA is pointless. Before launch, tons of people were educating everyone about ph's track record. Anyone who still chose to play after that deserves whatever happens to them.' Another bluntly stated: 'This is what you get for playing a ph game — they change whatever they want and then call players idiots.'
Not everyone agreed with the OP's framing, though. Some commenters called out the post's bias: 'You talk about the purple team's costs as if it's all in pulls, but you don't mention gear — the real money sink. It's not like a full Discard Thunder team doesn't need SSRs either. They need 5 pieces of Simulated Star equipment, and without level advantage, bad substats mean you get wrecked.' Others noted that for new players, the purple team's survivability is genuinely useful for clearing story content above their level — but acknowledged that once the honeymoon phase ends, the gap in endgame performance becomes inescapable.
Some brought up the new consumer protection regulations: 'We should push for gacha spending to be classified as prepayment. Under the new regulations taking effect July 1st, changes to prepaid services would entitle consumers to refunds or rollbacks.' But skeptics fired back: 'There are always workarounds. If they can't change this card, they'll just release a new card that synergizes with it — classic power creep.'
Others zoomed out to ph's broader track record, citing another game from the same studio (Mecha Team) where a similar situation occurred: an event launched with units too weak to clear the content, and the issue remained unfixed days later. One commenter summarized the community's advice perfectly: 'My recommendation for this game is always the same — play for a week, try the trade system, then leave. Don't spend a single cent, don't stay a single extra day.'
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