You are killing Sea of thieves. I am in school for game design so I understand but come on Rare. They were good where they were at. I only made 9 mill off 40 hours. Considering you have a set that cost 80 mull that's not bad plus I'm playing the game. You guys need to check Twitter and see how mad everyone is. I've been playing 3 years and only have 20 mill. This was a good way to make gold then you hard nerf it. I'm probably done with sea of thieves as are many others because you guys add something actually good then hard nerf it. I hope someone actually reads this and listens to feedback cause it's costing the game by your greed.
Merchant commodities
Personally I think that it's ridiculous that these cheese cakes keep somehow making it past the insiders program but just people it does doesn't mean it should stay when it's obviously not a balanced feature
3 years for 20 mill? that's barely doing anything productive. That's not the game's fault that's just not an efficient use of your play time if gold is on your mind.
Criticisms for how the feature was released and then nerf'd and nerf'd again are valid from a quality control perspective but those things were just too much gold for too little effort.
@quicksniperr agreed. The first nerf and the duping bug fix was needed. The second one basically killed it for me. I like many others will probably only do these for the commendation/monocle and never touch them again.
@wolfmanbush said in Merchant commodities:
Personally I think that it's ridiculous that these cheese cakes keep somehow making it past the insiders program but just people it does doesn't mean it should stay when it's obviously not a balanced feature
3 years for 20 mill? that's barely doing anything productive. That's not the game's fault that's just not an efficient use of your play time if gold is on your mind.
Criticisms for how the feature was released and then nerf'd and nerf'd again are valid from a quality control perspective but those things were just too much gold for too little effort.
I think OP doesn't play frequently or for 4+ hour sessions in those 3 years. I am in about the same boat and the same total. Plenty of FotD under my belt along with tons of world events. Sometimes people want variety though and this game is pretty good for that usually.
Originally (without duping) I could earn 400k+ in two hours solo merchant running the commodities alongside lost ship quests to get to level 5 and then do one complete loop. After the first balance patch that turned into 276k. Two hours for 276k is surely not broken as two world events in half the time get you more gold with Reaper 5. These people shouting "2 million in an hour" were guaranteed to be duping and be on a galleon. The other possibility is alliance servers. Both those metrics should never count for balancing. One is exploiting a game bug (which was removed quickly thankfully) and the other is exploiting an unintended mechanic of MM and the alliance feature.
4 / 5
