Development Manifesto: Harvest Crafting

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RymdLeif wrote:

And if I'm once again putting myself in a mindset of a newer player

you shouldn't. game if full of semi "catchup" mechanics (powercreep of skills and items, simplified bossfights and easier integrated league mechanics etc) to make absolutly sure a newer player does not have to invest 8k hours over 9ish years to be able to truely interact with all that the game has to offer.

you come from a way simpeler era where farming dominus was the best way to get fuses. and the game was so barebones maps didnt even exist.

holding on to a crafting system from that time to me, is the equivalent to playing vinyl records on a gramophone. times have changed, but most importantly the audiance has changed.

great read tho, good stuff ^^

If any of yall are interested, go watch videos on youtube about the rise and fall of runescape and how their player base practically died.

Seems it would fit perfectly into what is going on here.

Also, GGG won't consider our opinion. Our opinion has nothing to do with what their profit margins entail.
The only way you can fight back against this is to stop buying packs and financially supporting them. That will catch their attention.

"tHe SkY iS fAlLiNg!1!1"

You people crack me the fuck up. GGG did the right thing here. Period. Now if they would only fix the fucking Harvest boss or at least stop shoehorning her into League Challenges, that would be greeeeat.

Everyone just needs to vote with their wallets. At the end of the day GGG's a business and if you continue to support their garbage decisions financially, they will continue to make garbage decisions.

i've been playing since the alpha lottery keys. more some leagues than others because of work schedules etc.
I have now retired and was enjoying the heck out of the harvest stuff (as i did harvest league)
It's the best thing they have ever done for this game. best league mechanic.
I have tried so many different playstyles because i can get decent gear for them to give them a shot.
My play time will drastically decrease with this nerf and it being the second time i experienced it, i very well may stop playing.
I don't want to but every leauge except harvest for the last 2 years has been horrible.
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them putting harvest back in has caused me to play continously. got my first mirror yay. (had to purchase it). have some decent gear. i do a lot of harvest crafting on TFT. game is actually fun .

Removing harvest again or nerfing it like this is a major slap in the face to average players such as myself. (you know the ones that spend the most Real life earned money?)


Boy they like to edit the heck out of our posts. love the censorship from chinese owned companies.

Yep, this is it for me.

While I didn't get too far into this league, the harvest crafting was one of the main reasons I liked the league. I don't know how to craft for shit, but the possibility of it being within reach was something that motivated me to play for longer hours than I had before.


I'll be skipping the next league GGG.

well well well over 400

This could have been handled so much better - very likely some of the worst approaches out of the dozens other people have come up with to reduce the power level of harvest.

Personally I have 1500+ hours into the game; yes not nearly as much as some, but it is still a considerable amount. The time I have put into this league was at least 50% more than any of the other 4 I have played, and I was planning to spend as much time on the next league. I have also spent considerably more on the game because I was enjoying myself quite a bit - for the first time I was able to actually put together my own gear (was not crafting for profit). Does this look like anything close to "bad for the longevity of the game"?

This game is already very mature and has a large gamer base that provides constant feedback. This league was probably the one with the best feedback I have seen; you developed a feature that is so popular people created ways to use it even further (TFT). Which company in their right mind would change such a popular feature in such a drastic way?

Never posted on this forum before, but this is so baffling that I had to. This makes no business sense and worse yet, this manifesto reads very much reads like "we know best what is best for you", the opposite of what I have seen so far from this company. I am negatively surprised by the radio silence from GGG after such a backlash - absolutely horrendous PR work on this one.

I'm just happy tBC is likely to be released in May. Gonna be a short league for me, hoping that 3.15 will be as good as ritual again. Ritual was the best league so far.
Also TFT trading isnt a bad thing.... it's one of the greatest things, finally some community interaction imo.