6 hours ago, Riamus said:I'm not really concerned about cloth, nor would I consider it any incentive to try the alpha of A21.1 rather than wait for stable. In the end, such a change is just another hit against crafting. They raised duct tape and now cloth in recipes, making crafting even less desirable. It seemed like a good change having the magazines as I found myself wanting to craft, unlike in A20. However, once I realized the changes to the recipes, it was no longer of any interest to me. I'm actually crafting even less in A21 now than in A20 because even things I used to craft just aren't worth crafting anymore. I really don't see why they think that making people want to craft by adding magazines (which worked at least to a point) would go well with changing recipes to be more of a grind and hassle. In the end, I think they'll have even fewer people who want to craft than before. Just a guess based on my own views, though.
I've got no insider knowledge about that but what they are doing seems pretty obvious to me: step by step, they are making the game closer to be ready to catch as many whales as possible.
Following behavourial psychology / looting game design 101, they will catch those big fat ones simply by making some part of the game as grindy as possible while also proposing a very fast line thru the Store:
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