Development Manifesto: Harvest Crafting

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Rzeshut wrote:

Nerf harvest but not to the ground. Harvest is quite fun but was going in bad direction, making this game more casual and items lost their value. Don't make this game like diablo 3, because will die fast. It's sad that people don't want to learn mechanics, they want best gear for free, that's ridiculous.

What gear for free ? Even with harvest, getting the good crafts take hundreds of sacred groves... Why do you think players were spamming Heawark Hamlet maps with full OP Zana ?

Even with harvest, getting good gear needs work and a lot of...

What is not ok though, is the TFT Discord runned by the 1% with scammers in the park...

There is only one thing to do : Bind harvest crafted items to account and no trades of harvest crafts without rethinking how to do it with the classic trade window (like transfering a craft onto an orb)...

This game will die faster in 3.14...

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Azarhiel wrote:

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Rzeshut wrote:

Nerf harvest but not to the ground. Harvest is quite fun but was going in bad direction, making this game more casual and items lost their value. Don't make this game like diablo 3, because will die fast. It's sad that people don't want to learn mechanics, they want best gear for free, that's ridiculous.

What gear for free ? Even with harvest, getting the good crafts take hundreds of sacred groves... Why do you think players were spamming Heawark Hamlet maps with full OP Zana ?

Even with harvest, getting good gear needs work and a lot of...

What is not ok though, is the TFT Discord runned by the 1% with scammers in the park...

There is only one thing to do : Bind harvest crafted items to account and no trades of harvest crafts without rethinking how to do it with the classic trade window (like transfering a craft onto an orb)...

This game will die faster in 3.14...

No it doesn't stop over exaggerating and game will be fine as it has been for years tell me what does removing harvest or even a nerfed harvest going to do when peopler have been doing it for years?

Nothing.

It will do Nothing and you feel helpless because of that answer.

I guess 3.14 is the League to Pause a bit, maybe play some othjer stuff or so

Great, better nerf some more things that make playing SSF enjoyable.

This sentiment was summed up by a member of our design team who recently said "We don't want to take away the feeling of closing your eyes and Exalting an item, scared to see whether you ruined it or not."

Chris, give this man a raise.

CEO of POE !

I hope anyone of your marketing guys can suggest you:

For any product/startup/game, your main business goal is - "How to find a better market product feet".
It means - find the mechanic (product features) which is very liked their Target Audience.

And - continue to improve THIS future.
AND - mercilessly remove unnecessary / obsolete features.

Great congratulations to you and your team
Harvest - it's a great invention.
With great traction.

Because 95% of your users got a realistic way, how to get a FUUL chance to get BETTER items FOR ME, with my own hands and with possibilities to buy a missing Harvest from other players.
Because all of users want to create all of the gears themselves. If it is possible to average of casual users.

Be wise!
Use your invention Harvest and make a maximum improvement.
Not Nerf!

just remind.
You have a second big invention - it's 3 months reset.
What the problem to allow ALL users ta have a better item?
It only for a few weeks.

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My suggestion:
1. Hear 95% of the audience
2. Improve Harvest craft
3. Delete obsolete craft
4. Make Harvest tradable
5. Do finally TradeManifesto from 2016

I think I do play a lot, like few hours almmost every day, sometimes even more, due to corona restrictions, and if exalt was to drop (once in a week or so) I would certainly never use it to augment some item with random stats (reflect 2 physical damage -.-), its just not worth it. I would rather much use it to barter for something, because the RNG is really heavilly not in your favour most the time. Harvest was, for a small casual soft core player like me, some way to get items that would even give me a chance to do some endgame content and to try builds, that i would never attempt due to item cost, or impossible crafting chance. I really dont see the point in making the game harder and endgame content more inaccesible for casual players, I dont give a f... if Empirean has had his 30th headhunter droped this day. The content of this game is larger every league and more challenging, builds i use to play few years ago, are total garbagge today and builds you need to compete with todays content are really hard to put together for a casual people. You guys are turning this game into game that only the elite players will enjoy, the funny part is that you are making it harder, but the elite players will obtain end game godly items anyway, so only the casuals will suffer by this harvest nerfs

Please do continue to piss-off over half your dedicated player base.
This is certainly the right direction.

When the devs choose a different direction, I'll be happy to play again. Until then, I'm out of here. What the devs see as the "fun generating" part of the game is just the crap I try to ignore as much as possible.

See you all around...

So when's the next league going to begin? I can't wait!!!