Wrong priorities

I’m probably too old to be allowed to move to New Zealand which is a shame, because frankly, GGG should have hired me years ago.
Let me be blunt: you're prioritizing the wrong aspect of the game.

You’ve invested significant time and resources into an asynchronous market purchase system. Sure, it’s slick. But it’s the wrong priority. That decision speaks volumes about what you believe matters most in your game and it’s a signal to players that GGG thinks the market is the core experience.
It’s not.

This direction implies that you believe players want to buy their way to victory. Some do, yes. But most of us? We want to play to win. We want to earn our triumphs through gameplay, not through hours of tedious trash collection followed by a trip to the market to buy success.

You’re heading the wrong way.

You should have doubled down on crafting. Streamlined the gameplay. Reduced the friction. Right now, there are too many mouse clicks, too many barriers, too much wasted time. The market should have remained an extension of crafting not its replacement.

This was a massive error in judgment.
You’ve enhanced a system that should have been expendable, while neglecting the systems that actually define the soul of the game. If you want players to stay, give them a game worth playing not just a store worth browsing.

Nothing better than claiming with no data that your opinion is the majority opinion. :P


Plus it's pretty irrelevant here. GGG explicitly wants the game to be designed around trade, so that's the game they're making even if there a group that doesn't like it. I think they've even started in the past that most players don't trade, but they still design the genre around trade. So even if you're right, they already know and are happy to keep doubling down on trade for the past over 10 years.

Do you ask other games to completely change their entire core system, or do you look for a game that is one you actually want to play? This is just as silly a request as asking Stardew Valley not to have so much farming imo.