The obvious reason is the we players are in fact testers.
The prelease development took several shifts in direction and the game was delayed about 18 months from it’s original announced release date. Someone up top told the team “you’re going to release the game on this date…” (whatever the Sept date was) and it clearly was not ready.
So yeah, this is what we got.
In this whole situation, I am concerned about the question how could bugs not appear on the test server? Especially a bug with a character that happened to every 5 players
AGS is a small, independent studio with just a few developers. New World was made out of their garage in Sacramento or somewhere. You can’t expect them to have the money to pay QA testers. Come on, now.
You heard about it from other means. There is not one single Post by AGS regarding the crafting changes.
Go click on the PTS section, there is literally nothing about crafting there.
While annoyed at the seeming lack of paying the feedback any heed, keep in mind: They were put on a schedule for not only getting patches out but one large patch monthly. I hope that some of the feedback given to the first round of PTR will start to trickle in over the next two-three weekly (smaller) patches.
Side note, I know many of us are not happy for various reasons about patch 1.1; the people from New World staff answering here really are generally not to blame. They are the forward facing part of the company, it is the managers or higher who force them to push patches to meet schedules, no matter the game impact…
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- Increased the XP requirements for progressing Crafting Trade Skills.
- Once players unlock a new tier of recipes (e.g. Iron > Steel), the XP requirements to continue progressing by just crafting things at the previous tier will be significantly diminished. However, it should still take the same amount of effort to progress the crafting skill if you craft items in the highest tier you are capable of crafting.
Anyways, all the memes aside, I am very disappointed in how the faces of the dev team are just expecting players to use unannounced changes as a feedback opportunity. I’m not here to do your testing AGS, I’m here to enjoy myself.
Well, those aren’t necessarily mutually exclusive. Just have to cultivate a different mindset.
I don’t know what country you are from but go back in your cave and shut the front door!
None of your business. Welcome to oblivion.
Yea I get that, but they could just be more upfront about it. How many wouldn’t like the underdog AGS saying they have “deadlines we need to meet so bear with us for a year until we ironed everything out, we are doing our best to deliver a game you’d like to play for years to come” or something along those lines. Instead, we get this snappy comment:
As with any live game, balancing is gong to be an ongoing thing for New World. Stuff is going to get changed or adjusted, we see how it is doing in the game, we read feedback and watch game telemetry, and if changes are needed again we make them.
The changes for Into the Void have been sweeping, for sure, but we’ve only been live for less than 12 hours. We are watching how everything is performing and tracking all of the feedback. Please help us by keeping the feedback constructive and concise.
Thanks everyone!
I got so upset about I made this post.
Amazon don’t care about your enjoyment. They care about you being a metric and pumping money into the cash shop.
Yea and the government is out to get you and the 5g vibrations from NASA will fry your fertility senses
And it is very unfair to change crafting xp now, without any form of compensation, since there are people who could max the crafting skills before, easily, and now it has become significantly harder. So, like many other aspects of the game, who is already on top will stay on top forever and the others, the “new ones” will forever struggle to reach that top but must use difficult paths. Nonsense.
Again it seems that this MMO has been developed by people who never ever played a MMO before…
They won’t get a single cent more from me untill they fix the mess they made.
Players are testers, when you release an alpha.
But they will from others, slower upgrades will result in people buying cash shop cosmetics to chase that feeling instead.
It’s not, also they just nerfed some low-tier methods, using the real way to level up will both fix the economy for higher-tier resources but also prevent players from making 40k cots to get to 130 furnishing (like I did). It was a much-needed change and I’m sad so many people got to exploit the low-tier way of leveling. It’s an MMO, things are meant to take months or years, the fact people are doing it in a month is just proof of how little they are living their real life.
Everyone is free to do with their money whatever they want, I won’t judge anyone for this )
But I’m sure I will not spend any money on this game until I’m certain they deserve it.
And many people will simply quit playing this masochistic mess thus totally negating the posibility of spending any money at all.
Bud ,they have done this for 5 years 
This is nothing new.