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Why is "concept" brought up only for certain cases of proliferation and given a complete bypass for others?
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Because devs like concept and have made changes based on it. This is why villains don't have Empathy and heroes don't have Poison.
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You're missing my point. Why is it only brought up SOMETIMES to deny a proliferation when there are so many examples of existing powers that would seem to break those same rules? Why deny Poison to heroes when they already have powers that "generate toxic radioactive gas around yourself". Why is Poison any worse than "deadly radiation"? Or burning people alive? Or cutting them up with a Broadsword?
Even if they suddenly started caring about concept only recently, unless they plan to go back and remove all the non-concept powers from each side that has them... what's the point of caring about it now? This is closing the barn door after the horses have left.
Also, as funny as the MGS references to "It's just a box!" are... in all seriousness Shield Defense wouldn't have anything more to do with HOW the stalker hides than Regen or Willpower or Electric Armor currently do (which is to say, nothing at all).
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It's all about where you want to draw the line. Of course we all pick a different place.