Development Manifesto: Harvest Crafting

Truth is most modern game developers make they games INTENTIONALLY WORSE for they gains.

RNG, MAU and all shit we got now...

We've had this carebear argument before, in the thread against loot filters (lul), in the thread against loot allocation (lul). This league has had the strongest retention and diversity that's shown up in a long time, possibly ever.

The argument I'm making will demonstrate itself next league. The argument most of the whiteknights are making doesn't even bear itself out in the gear they have on, or even the gear on the index.

But I'm sure it's the Ritual league mechanic that has people actually playing Standard again, those carebears.

People playing your game for 2-4 weeks out of 3 months is not longevity. Permanent leagues being permanently dead as a result of your focus on 3 month content churn -- which you can barely keep up with yourself -- is not longevity. If you're afraid people playing multiple builds in a 3-month league is somehow going to cause them to run out of content and quit your game entirely, then you have surprisingly little faith in the game you've spent a decade making.

This solidifies my thought that GGG really dont understand how there players play the game... me and none of my friends ever use exalt on items and we just vaal items right before we done with the league... this shows GGG is stuck on a mentality that doesnt work anymore and going forward i dont want to play the game with such mentality from devs...

SO as a protest i will not be playing until poe 2 comes out and its the same i will be done with poe altogether... Thankfully there are some good alternatives coming soon.

What a mess. Already messaged support asking to refund the Harvest supporter pack which I bought a couple days ago.

Let's put it this way. I have a 98 and two 96 characters this awesome league and I would say that Harvest was pretty much a waste of my time this league. I allocated every Harvest upgrade on my new atlas and I was already never going to do that again in the future without this change. If I used Discord trading I would likely have a different opinion - but I refuse to do that on principle. So why do I care? I enjoy trade league and this will impact that greatly.

Back to the real issue that only a handful of players understand or care about. Having the crafts tradable (on Discord) is the problem. Heck, take out Harvest craft trading and problem solved and no rework is needed....I am certain GGG staff played WOW - just make the crafted pieces soul bound to the account.

Easy....come on man...I have read many of the comments in this post. GGG (Chris) needs to rethink this bad decision because it is only OP because of trading.

Comrades, we can not stop, we need to continue to pay attention to the fact that we are dissatisfied with the nerf Harvest.

RNG is not crafting.

GGG pls watch Path of Matth video

GGG, you feeld soo bad, that 0,1% of all starting league players game have easier way to have fun from game than playing 800h. And u have to kill it cos u think more play time in game more chance to geet money from player. I tell you what. i'll not play in next league and i'll not tell about this game enybody in next league and i'll not teach new player in next league. I hope so many of your core players do that and your chineese friend feel it.

Um... No thank you.

As a pretty casual player will join the squad that is horribly disappointed with the change.
As usual dev team makes the experience of playing for casual players (and i mean those who can't afford playing for more than 3-4 hours a day) horrible with their RND philosophy
Ritual was the first league where i finally managed to craft myself a perfect belt for my build and it's the first time when my build is close to being superb. Much due to the Harvest mechanics (which i skipped not playing the corresponding league) i am close this league to 40 challenges and was planning to finish this goal.
Harvest gave me both a nice source of farm and a way of crafting good dear this league and this manifesto makes me unsure if i would even update my client to play 3.14

IMO if GGG wants to limit crafting options of harvest just the removing of crafts on the influenced bases should be enough, but i'm not even expecting any adequate decisions after such disconnected from reality of playing the game manifestos 

Made me vote with my wallet! No supporter packs until these are reverted.