Ragnarok wrote:DrunkMunki wrote:From: http://steamcommunity.com/app/346110/di ... 999498057/
I read that yesterday, personally I think it may have been the idea but I also feel like part of it was just covering their asses after they made a terrible mistake. Take for example, they literally broke the game for SE with people trying to get wyvern eggs. Every bird on there is now too slow to get both eggs and to kite a wyvern into a trap to get milk from it. I think they didn't fully anticipate how much this would completely destroy flyers and on the whole ark. This patch has basically shown people how many issues ark still has that people used flyers to get around. Mining metal was pretty easy on the quetz. Now if you wanted to do it by not flying you would need a caravan of dinos to get anywhere near a reasonable amount. Unless that caravan is going to be made up of rexs or something bigger they will proceed to get stuck on every tree and rock in their path.
If the post is true, then the devs have missed a golden opportunity to gather rational, unemotional feedback from their community. If they would have advertised a week ago exactly what the nerf would be, explained the rationale behind it and gave people the chance to prepare they would harvest objective feedback by genuinely interested players who knew their feedback would shape the rebuilding of the stats. Unfortunately rather than doing a back-burn to control the bushfire, they have dumped fuel directly on it to everyone's surprise. If there is one thing I know about Arkaholics, we hate surprises....