Development Manifesto: Harvest Crafting

Personally, I agree with all of the changes, harvest was very powerful and has reached a more stable level with this patch.
However, the PR that this one post emenates is just awful. The choice of words is absolutely appauling. Stop treating your players like children who want to smash on the shiny exalt button all day. Nobody in their right mind uses an exalted orb for slamming an item. Most of the time, just getting the item you want from trade is literally cheaper than an exalt.
Now, trade is a whole other can of worms i don't want to open.

Common bring the development manifesto again into the news. It should be on the front page.

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Dan1986 wrote:

Common bring the development manifesto again into the news. It should be on the front page.

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Now they're silencing posts they don't like. I tried to say quit buying MTX and supporter packs, since it's all they care about.

GGG watch this about your current decision
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdpA_xHXhEA

GGG: "We need better player retention"
Harvest: "I single handedly increased retention by like 300%"
GGG: "Yeah, but they were actually having fun and we can't have that" NERF!

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urumi wrote:

Any news from GGG ?

Ofcourse! New MTX [̲̅$̲̅(̲̅ ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°̲̅)̲̅$̲̅]

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3070286

Eh. Yikes.

WELL DONE GGG! Ruin the game for your average playerbase while the expert crafters are going to make shit ton of currency of this. The SSF HC streamer such a pain, almost all of them are positive about this change while they run 500 map not even alching them 12 hours a day. No body wants this kind of boring gameplay. Let us enjoy our SC poe with harvest.
No supporter pack for next league from here on.

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masta_czarny wrote:

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urumi wrote:

Any news from GGG ?

Ofcourse! New MTX [̲̅$̲̅(̲̅ ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°̲̅)̲̅$̲̅]

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3070286

lol

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MobileForce wrote:

Personally, I agree with all of the changes, harvest was very powerful and has reached a more stable level with this patch.
However, the PR that this one post emenates is just awful. The choice of words is absolutely appauling. Stop treating your players like children who want to smash on the shiny exalt button all day. Nobody in their right mind uses an exalted orb for slamming an item. Most of the time, just getting the item you want from trade is literally cheaper than an exalt.
Now, trade is a whole other can of worms i don't want to open.

"very powerful" because of trade and rapid accessibility. Trade is pretty big variable here. Think of it as a 'more' multiplier on Harvest. It took me 2 months to find 2 "deterministic" remove defense crafts. That's powerful? Seems perfectly balanced to me. This is the rarity that someone in SSF would probably experience as well. Could I find that craft in under 1 minute if I engaged in trade/forum? Probably. The trade element is what made harvest so OP, because collectively players could pool in together or quickly find the crafts they need.

Trade is the problem and not the Harvest mods themselves. Did you see people complaining that they couldn't even find Harvest chaining maps in Haewark? Yeah nevermind actually getting the craft you needed - first you had to find the damn tree! The manifesto is just veiled messaging to never implement account-bound items. The league mechanic was balanced just fine. In fact given its rarity I would have removed the 10 craft cap as well.

The actions of a few killed it for the majority of players.