Originally posted by Cuivienen
Quite frankly, good question. My guess would be because Xars made a convincing suggestion on how to bring heart back into the game. Unfortunately, the devs didn't really think it through.
Yeah, blame me.
Seriously, low Heart doesn't seem to effect rushing HBs at all yet it does effect receiving WRs&TEs. That's a game balance problem. Still it means receivers need Heart investment which is typically lacking in Rookie/Soph builds. Personally, I think it's good that receivers need Heart investment. What's not good is that it's not needed by rushers. And, as bhall points out, ruins rushing orientated WRs.
I'm also glad they reduced the gravitation effect. It allowed way too many low Heart builds in the game. Just like there were high Conditioning builds, there should have been a benefit to high Heart investment and there wasn't. Perhaps now there will be.
Though they do need to figure out how to modify the running game with low Morale. My vote is to increase the turnovers significantly.