Slay the Spire 2 players leave over 9,000 negative Steam reviews in one day over a card nerf that hasn't even gone live yet—but China's Steam restrictions might bear some of the blame

Yesterday, Slay the Spire 2 developer Mega Crit pushed its "first BIG post-launch patch" to the game's opt-in beta branch, giving players a chance to test the update's changes ahead of their eventual implementation on the main branch. The beta patch brought "a huge balance pass," retuning enemies, artifacts, and both the costs and effects of a number of cards from each StS 2 character—and in doing so, it unleashed a shitstorm.

It's been less than a day since the beta patch was deployed, and in that time...