Development Manifesto: Harvest Crafting

I'm looking forward to Diablo 4. If I don't have the opportunity to make my character good, then I simply won't have the desire to buy support packs.

Aside from just deleting Harvest, there is nothing GGG can do tha nerfs Harvest for the top while letting everyone else have fun. This will just annoy top players, which will still keep Discording crafts, and ruin Harvest for the rest.

Harvest was a mistake, because this game's "crafting" system is horrendous.
Well, at least I'll be back running actual content instead of praying for Harvest, so I guess that's something.

"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."

The worst feeling, no one does that.

even if you have the currency to do that, spamming exalt/annuls is definitely not engaging and it is boring as fuck.
oh, wow i have ~ 1 in 1000 to improve my item, if not i have ~ 4 out 6 to not destroy/worsen it and then again 1 in 1000.......booooring

ok then lets identify 100-200 rares per map...zzzzzz. WTF
there are reason no one picks up rares.

Harvest allows you to be a little strategic about crafting and it is engaging, even if you copy known recipes/strategies.

DUMB CHANGE,
enough reasons have already been mentioned.

Never wrote answers like many others, but this manifesto made me.. I don't know, angry and sad i suppose. I usually played the game for 3-4 weeks and left, this legue we even created a private legue with friend and are still playing, cause we had possibility not to buy gear after brainless farm, Harvest gave us possibility to craft what we wanted, i tryed a lot of builds cause i had possibility to create gear i need. Less rng made POE much more intresting and enjoible at least for me and all people i know playing. Now it means we get yolo back and loose a lot of sence in grinding. Yolo annul, yolo exalt, get crap on gear you crafted for several days or bought for xxx exalts, feel all the time you lost, get disappointed. Thanks. I really like this game, but this is the worst decision i saw from developers in a long time. Target crafting was a step forward, now we go back to the stoneage.

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Delv wrote:

Harvest was a mistake and should never have gone core.

Whoa whoa wait wait. You only play SSF? Why the heck do YOU care about Harvest? You know you can just skip that content if you think it is a mistake... right? Why does what other people do in the game have any effect on you? Wow man.. just wow.

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MischievousBot wrote:

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Silence4tw wrote:

lets be honest here, its a gentleman move by chris. Blizzard pass over lots of their playerbase by the immortal desaster and now, chris the gentleman that he is, gives it all back in the possible D4 release year. its crazy how fast u moved from the voice of the playerbase to 100% disconnected from it. i guess the epic quote from that blizzcon youtube video still stayed until today: no king rules forever. you had a good run it was nice to be part of it, thx for all the good memorys and see you all in D4.

+1, really nice of you Chris to push half your player base away to give D4 a chance.

Here I was thinking D4 didn't stand a chance after Ritual, Echoes and the return of \\Harvest//, guess I was wrong.

+1

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ph3l0n wrote:

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Suslikwishmaker wrote:

in this thread, an entire lot of people that don't know what a looter game is about.

This isn't a looter game. The best gear is from crafting, not dropped. It would appear you don't know what a looter game is.

For real was about to say the exact same thing, can't be a "looter" if 99% of the loot is dogshit.

Crafting means u make something that u want not dump a lot of RNG expansive currency thing and pray to get what u want.

Is this a kind of April's Fool joke?

Mr. Wilson you are so out of touch with us players...

Been playing since closed beta. This is the first time I've ever really contemplated just not returning to this game.

It's become so abundantly clear that there are a large percentage of decision makers at GGG who don't really play their own game, or haven't played it like most consumers do in years. There's more out of touch statements in this manifesto than I've seen from the devs of a game in a long, long time.