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This looks so cool and I love that it is PvE but this water level mechanic kills the whole game for me. I don't want to play a game that makes me lose my progression when I'm not actively playing it. If they change this I will consider buying it but the developers seem to be pretty hellbent on keeping this mechanic unfortunately. Maybe they will change their tune in a few weeks when they notice that they can't keep players around.
There is absolutely no way that people with kids will ever play this, that includes me. I get the idea, but this isn't a question of it being good or bad - it's physically impossible to ask this from parents. Which I guess probably means we're not the target audience
I'm not even a parent and I don't want this. It's just an unnecessary mechanic to punish casual players for no reason at all. It doesn't add anything to the game.
Not even just parents though.
It also punishes people who go on vacation for a week, have a power outage, get engrossed by a different game, suffer any kind of longer term medical issue, etc. There are dozens of reasons someone could stop playing for a while.
It’s really a bullying mechanic that forces players to keep playing the game for fear of losing their stuff. People should be coming back because the gameplay is fun, not because of the threat of lost progress.
The mechanic would be much more appropriate if it were tied to actual time signed in to the game. I was looking forward to this game and was already going to wait for more polish anyways, but as long as this mechanic exists in its current state I’m completely turned off of it.