Talk:EE Aphid/@comment-26356894-20150430215528/@comment-26054694-20150501102420

Money, they wanted it. The EE Aphid happened to be a very powerful weapon, they knew people would buy it if they put it behind a paywall. What some people don't know is that they nerfed the aphid after switching it's cost to gold (by reducing its accuracy, superficially it's stats are the same but most of its rockets miss), with the matchmaking changes it isn't quite as bad as it used to be (more big slow targets, about the only thing it's good against) but on the whole SURA-F Pinata is a much more consistently powerful weapon.