10 MORE Bosses Removed For Being Too Hard
3. Aventurine - Honkai: Star Rail
The hugely popular free-to-play gatcha RPG Honkai: Star Rail rubbed many fans the wrong way when, about a year after launch, they decided to jettison one of the game's trickier boss fights.
In the game's Divergent Universe, players can battle Aventurine, though following one particular update, the fight was made considerably more difficult, to the frustration of some.
Yet rather than simply nerf the boss in the next patch, developer miHoYo bafflingly sprung for the nuclear option, dropping a new patch in June 2024 which removed Aventurine from the Divergent Universe entirely.
This naturally struck a sour chord with many who felt they'd been robbed of the opportunity to fight the boss again due to the perceived "skill issue" of some other players. For the many who struggled with him, though, his removal most certainly came as a relief.
Either way, options are definitely a good thing, and even if miHoYo wanted to remove Aventurine from the main game, they absolutely could've kept him around as an optional encounter for the die-hards.