Originally posted by
JackBinimbul
cause you to experience the game in a very different, likely not good way
This is rather subjective, isn't it? My wife prefers the changes that were made. It's a good way to her.
I completely appreciate your point of view on this, as someone who is part of the Eco team, but there will always be people who enjoy some elements of your game and not others. Opening your game to mods and player-controlled adjustments allows for people to make those changes that they find more enjoyable. That changeability attracts a lot more players who would otherwise not have made the purchase (like my wife!).
I understand the reasoning behind this core mechanic and I know that a lot of careful consideration and work was done to utilize it effectively and I'm grateful for that work. I'm also grateful for the ability to adjust it to suit the multiple different kinds of games I have going.
Thank you for your input, all the same. I'm excited to watch the game develop as I play.
I have to give this recommendation. We had people that modded their games, didn't like it and subsequently went to Steam reviews to leave a negative review - stating stuff, that really isn't in the or caused by the game, but through modifications they made because they thought it was better like that.
We obiously don't want that, hence i'm warning you that this change makes Eco no longer being Eco. It's not what we designed and nothing we feel fits Eco. If your wife likes it like that, you can of course mod the game to your liking in any way you want, it's just that often what people feel they like will have countless side effects in as complex games as this and suddenly they don't like it anymore when they see what consequences these are. If we get the negative review for that, that makes us sad.
It's not far-fetched that there is a big possibility that you'll see a lot of items in the game simply no longer needed with this change, effectively removing them from the game, making it dull or even boring at a specific point in the game, even early on. You might not be one of these people that then go over to write a negative review because it's dull, but there are people that will.
As we do not feel it fits Eco, there won't ever be a official possibility to do this either. But that's what we got modding for!
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