Development Manifesto: Harvest Crafting

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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.

NOBODY DOES THAT !! You only do that for fun after farming/buying millions of currency to craft stuff.

Nobody take the risk wtf, if people want better item they farm the currency and just buy it. You don't just slam exalt like that ... do you play your game ?

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kakaniania wrote:

You forget that noone forces you to complete the harvest.The same way you skip breach,abyss,legion and all other leagues that have been nerfed to the ground , you can skip harvest.The real problem from your point of view as i understand it is trading harvest crafts and not harvest itself.

Is that people's main hang up here? That people are trading harvest crafts with each other? If so that seems silly.

Quick List of Crafting types people trade:
Beast, Fossil, Essence, Bench, Currency, Syndicate, Temple, Labyrinth Enchants(Via Paid Runs) Completed Items, literally anything and everything they can.

So why not harvests?

Wait...but....why?....

This is silly and going to make my build totally not viable

Suggestion: Prevent targeting influence mods instead of preventing influenced items to be crafted, I wanna craft at least resistances on my influenced gear.

Eh oh well.

earlier we skip any leagues, but now time for skipping poe. sad.

Dear Chris and GGG team.

I believe it is time for our relationship to come to an end. I have had "fun" over the last four years with our on and off relationship. But as you continue to point out your philosophy on trading and on items is in direct conflict with what I am looking for in a game and rather than expect you to change for the better I need to realize that I am the one who needs to change or leave and I am choosing to leave.

When I find ways to have fun or builds that I find fun it seems that you stamp it out and I understand the need for "balancing" but I dont find the changes to be balanced. I find them to be devastating and removes the parts I was having fun with. If every change you make "balances" the game and I find that the "balance" isnt fun anymore than the "perfect balance" of the game for you means it is not fun for me. Im saddened that it has taken me over four years to realize that I only have fun in your game when it goes against your idea of balanced mechanics.

Thank you for the fun you did provide even though it was never your intent, but I am tired of changing every league to try to find the fun rather than just having fun from the time I start every new league.

I wish you luck as I know many enjoy this game for what it is, I just realized I am not one of those people.

Best of luck, breakups are hard and I will miss the good times I did have but its not worth the pain and time to continue to try to squeeze out any fun I can find while watching you actively try to prevent me from having what I find fun.

Those who are against harvest are clearly rotting the community.

Gambling is not fun.

Back to playing Bingo. Everything is mostly out of my control anyway, and it is up in sky in terms if I win or not. Unless I buy a lot of tickets. So now I just need to be rich to get good items. But that was also true before harvest. Now my feeling of progression is going to be taken from me. it is "okayish" items, and then to "good" items, that is magnitudes differences in prices, nothing in between. Optimal is expensive and barely farmable, and "okay" are sometimes not good enough for weird non-meta builds.

Back to playing Meta if I want to "complete" the game. Back to playing Bingo, hoping and waiting for my numbers to be drawn.

Harvest did hold my attention as a player for the longest time, and I have played more than 5000 hours. Now I am afraid that I will go back to playing the first couple of weeks, see the end of my progress, and then drop the game. Just like before.

Just drop harvest all together, the progress is all gone. It is just going to give me a sour taste in my mouth every time I would find it.