Retired breeder wrote:
*facepalm* yes, rather than make the game a game, let's make it more tedious for everyone. Here you go, pick where you want your EC to be-- but wait! you'll only get benefits for certain phases of training your horse! then you have to move on to another EC if you want to full benefits of training. Oh, let's also take away jobs! Not like anyone needed those, right? But wait, there's more! Let's also make the maximum price for ECs twice what we give you for daily login! That won't hurt anyone, right? And then let's also add more tasks for the EC owners! We'll at least let you make some of the equipment (even though blacksmiths and saddlers did essentially the same thing and helped more than a handful of people), but you have to raise cattle to do it.
I'm not understanding these changes. At all. These don't benefit the game, in my opinion. Taking away jobs and giving us a measly daily salary of 100e while allowing ECs to charge double that? How does that help? Then essentially forcing us to spend more time trying to cut costs by raising cattle for leather, even though saddlers (was there another one as well?) did the exact same thing in exchange for hiring other players. Which not only helped out the EC owner by providing them with tack, but also helped out the saddler by giving them a reliable income.
What really gets me the most is the draft horses, though. Now, don't get me wrong, it's great to see they're finally coming, but wasn't howrse so adamant about never bringing them that all suggestions to bring them were immediately shut down? I don't know about anyone else here, but I can't trust a company that vehemently refuses something only to suddenly change their mind.
This is a game, and as such it should be fun (though everyone's idea of fun differs). It should be enjoyable, and for a while now, for me it's been anything but. Now, I have all but given up trying to manage my EC money because it all bleeds together. That's not how businesses work. That's not how life works, and for a game that seems to be trying to be realistic, it's failing in several easy departments. I'm disappointed with what has been changing as of late because there's no real reason **for** the change, except for the sole purpose of change.
Obviously there are going to be people who disagree with me and that's fine. Everyone is entitiled to their own opinions, but consider this:
-for realism, why is there no bank?
-why were jobs removed? Are we all supposed to be unemployed?
-why not make changes that actually benefit the community and encourage interaction? (keep in mind that many EC owners often rewarded employees who chose to stay with them, which encouraged friendly relations and gave the impression of a friendly atmosphere)
-Why not create a place for people to hang out, like a sort of off-topic forum where people with similar interests can group up and have fun?
I don't like posting "rants" without offering some sort of suggestion to help, because I feel it's absolutely useless to comment and say "I don't like it" without explaining why and, as I just mentioned, offering ways to improve it.
But hey, I'm just a non-important, non-buyer, so carry on now ^_^
I agree completely, especially with the latest update. I read through what they're doing for the next update and when it comes out i'm going to be questioning the amount of time I put into this game, which seems to like making the game more irritating with each update! I love that they add new types of horses but they keep saying 'realism!' when what I would prefer is a fun to play and easy enough to understand game. I'm going to stop now so I don't end up with a rant just as long as the one I'm quoting.
