Development Manifesto: Harvest Crafting

"

UKlimanco wrote:

I hope this manifesto does not come true, without harvest i will not play the next league.

"

Zaraky wrote:

"

Zodrac wrote:

(...)
This is the worst idea ever. The problem itself is how everything is locked behind RNG layer. So 99.9% of the item dropped are useless and the chance of getting any currency worth to craft beside trading is like non existent for casual player. So unless the craft is the perfect craft and not RNG shit again, I could see it being "possible" but then again, most people wouldn't be able to pay the annul orb + exalt for every damn craft.
(...)
If player could just have fun in PoE instead of working like it's a damn job, PoE would be the bets game ever.

You should be able to level from delve ALONE without having to redo all the damn acts over with a new character. You shouldn't have to farm sulphite for delving. This is just retarded.

Oh well, Chris and GGG will listen to player and keep their eye shut and blind themselves to their stupid ideology.

Your thinking is correct and I agree with you. The problem is that this game design ideas are taken mostly from streamers. GGG does not want to see the difference between people playing poe for money and people playing the game for fun and pleasure. Those are two different worlds. People making money on POE wants this game complicated and requiring a lot of grind. People playing for fun expect... fun. Obviously correctly designed game will have difficulty progression and limited access to the best stuff, to keep people interested, but if there is required too much grind and job-like endless farming because endgame content is not doable with average gear, then the game stays frustrating and there is no reason to play it.
GGG approach is to add more and more content, more and more RNG layers. The only way to "defeat" the RNG is to increase the number of tries. GGG thinking is that if the game will be more complicated things will be less accessible, people will play more, to deal with RNG and to achieve better results then. What is wrong! People will quit, because endless, job-like grind is BORING (and we see that every league - 50% of people quit after one month of play)!
I quit few leagues in the middle of Atlas completion already, because doing every 3 months the entire Atlas is something that makes me sick. Unfortunately GGG wants us to do that every league, again and again, because if you do not do that, you cannot have access to endgame, you cannot obtain good amount of sulphite, you will not drop high tier Heist contracts, you will not have better crafts, you will not see endgame bosses etc. I would like to play content I want - If I want to play Heist for one month I want to play Heist. If I want to play Delve it means I want to play and enjoy Delve. Instead of that I have to do maps and all other bloated content which is for me unpleasant duty needed to gain access to the content I want and what is even worst I will then have no time to do a content I want (my time is limited - I have many other things to do than playing PoE). I still like PoE, but this is not that fun as it was 6 years ago (and not due to missing "the feeling of closing your eyes and Exalting an item").

"

finkel1024 wrote:

I don't like craft but i cant identify tons of shit loot that drops just looking for something not awful.

"

nickwch wrote:

came here with a nice coffee on hand and reading butthurt kids whining abt how this has hurt their butt. Finished 300+ pages in 20mins, wasnt disappointing.

Pls, for those who believe "this shall teach them a lesson", just save your breath already and go see the world out there.