Development Manifesto: Harvest Crafting
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Hi,
at the start I want to tell that the Ritual league is the best league which I played. I never spend so much time with POE. And the main reason is how the Harvest crafting is working now. Finally I get some exalt/chaos from it. Finally I crafted something because I start understand what I want and how can I do it. I have never been so far in game because I was never capable to earn so much and craft so good items. Finally I'm enjoying the endgame and I'm happy. With this changes everything what I learned I can throw into bin. I will not be able to earn much money in next league and I will not be able craft something good. And if yes it will cost me too much time/money which I don't have. I need to feel that I'm doing it the game some progress and with these changes I will not do any. So most probably I will quit after week or two and I will not buy supporter pack. Sincerely Ocean | |
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First off I love this game don’t get me wrong. Long time player. Played pc then Xbox from 3.0.
I am against this harvest change. The small console player base already has limited crafters and good gear is very expensive. Rare mods like aug speed are so hard to come by already. Please listen to the community feedback and don’t implement these changes. Thanks Vape |
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This is how you lose alot of players... and makeing the only 1% top players to play ... so from GGG perspective is bether to have the 1% player have all the good items and sell them, then to have 99% players on decent items and enjoy playng POE. This is my last league.I'm shure i will not play on the next wher only Empirion, Zizaran and a few streamers will have rly good items and the rest of normal player's will try to kill sirius in Uniq items
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Well all Standard Harvest crafted gear (and harvest gear from league eventually coming to it) is now going to sky rocket in price after patch drops.
More ways to break economy is always nice, good job GGG :) | |
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All this does is put all the power and wealth back into the hands of the few who can speed to endgame in the first 4 hours of a league and abuse the new mechanics ... ahem ... newly implemented BROKEN mechanics, until the nerf 5-8 days in, because that's how leagues work in PoE, and then control the markets for the rest of the league.
Harvest was finally, SOMEWHAT, of a relief for a lot of players who don't speed rush a league, but by mid-league to near end of league, could actually have crafted some of these better items. AFTER suffering hours in a discord trying to trade for crafts THAT WOULD COST UPPWARD OF 100's of EXALTS in order to complete a few "Perfect" pieces. (btw, this is not about being a casual, personally I roughly would play 8-10 hours a day in game) Maybe try locking harvest crafting to accounts first. Just maybe see how that works. I know it was a tough thing to think up, took me like 2.4 seconds... Ritual, in all honesty WAS NOT THAT GREAT OF A MECHANIC, (pretty sure it'll go core too, joy) I would wager 99% of the community would agree, what was great about this "League" was the atlas expansion, and Harvest. Counting the atlas expansion as part of your numbers in a league mechanic again show's "the brilliance" of this developer. Skipping leagues, at least for me, has become more, and more often a thing. As addicting as this game is, I really truly can't wait to be done with it, and invest my money in a team that can make SOMEWHAT reasonable design decisions ... If there will ever be one. [Removed by Support] Harvest, and it's power should've never been implemented in the game, if in the end the fun of making great items would be ripped away. [Removed by Support] It's well known through out multiple examples, you don't give power then take it away. you gradually give until you find the balance. GGG [Removed by Support], Who clearly only really rely on information from the top 1% ... I'm pointing at Streamers. Maybe actually look at the community as a whole, for your numbers. +1 more reason to hope an pray a "wintery" development studio comes through on number 4. +1 more reason to play a 20 year old remastered game over Path of Exile. [Removed by Support] One last thought for your team. The amount of money in MTX GGG/Tencent receives from it's community I truly hope is not perceived as being the best or greatest ARPG. You really should consider if it might be because right now it's the best option in a pool of lacking options. It won't be that way forever.. Might want to start making better decisions. Hey Chris, Directly at you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5MOiIVu9pY Thanks for the enjoyable, and fun crafting experience! .... Last edited by Lisa_GGG on Mar 11, 2021, 11:47:32 AM
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So, we're still going to have to use Discord to trade Harvest crafts?
Well, I'm skipping PoE for the foreseeable future. Diablo IV here we come! | |
" The performance issues were extreme, to say the least. I was into the triple digit disconnects/crashes before I realized I had an even more game breaking bug that ended my league the moment I discovered it. I was going to overlook that, even, but they posted this an hr later... I want to enjoy a videogame, not agitate my existing carpal tunnel. I tried spamming alts/etc once. I could not play for days after. My wrists were in agony after thousands of gambles. | |
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Thank god for GGG removing the item editor, it really had no place in POE.
So all you really end up having is playing the economy, and plowing maps. And if you want to get anywhere on your character, you are better off mowing monsters down like weeds and just collecting pennies of the ground as fast as possible than any meaningful item hunting.
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It's my 2nd attempt to play the game.
First time, I enjoyed game itself, but I simply hated so-called "craft" which is pure lottery/gambling. So I dropped after story line and few atlas map runs. This time, I spent almost two month with few hours daily (I have job and family) and first of all due harvest possibilities. Harvest is something that you can call "crafting". After reading today's manifesto - I won't even run the game and all excitement about upcoming league went to zero. | |
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Bad move, it will cause me to stop playing the game. Simple as that.
Harvest still requires a lot of grinding to find the necessary crafts. With it's current state and how it took off you should be looking to give people more capacity in the HCS and not nerf it. Your argument that some people feel overwhelmed by the amount of crafts etc is completely unreasonable. If that's how anyone feels they can just not enter the Sacred Grove... Harvest allows people to have realistic goals for their builds and work towards it which in my case motivated me to play for hundreds of hours this league. If you take it away I will not have the energy to play POE anymore because repeating the same boring stuff (levelling up, completing the atlas, unlocking/unveiling all the mods) every single league is just not worth it if in the end I can't make myself a build that I want. |
