I am way too committed to fishing in this game.
I've caught over 150k normal fish, and nearly 20k spearfish.
And I was really looking forward to ocean fishing (and love it).
But it will be dead in 2 weeks.
The only meaningful reason to do ocean fishing is to spam-level fisher, or to get the mount (which I already have).
There are no rewards or benefits from doing anything else.
The fish are essentially worthless.
There are no rewards for the super-rare fish.
And the available title achievements are likely impossible without coordination and serious luck (so 99%+ of people will never get them)
Ontop of that, the entire system is time-locked and pure RNG. I have the mount because I got lucky, not because of any innate skill. My friends have gone 10+ runs and never seen 3 rainbows. And most runs I don't even see a single rainbow, even though people are consistently catching all the fish (including spectrals and legendaries)
MOST IMPORTANTLY ocean fishing is pointlessly stressful. You can't just have fun. You have a limited amount of time, and you're desperate to see a rainbow. And there is always a major disappointment when one doesn't appear (leading to some people leaving or just giving up, which likely hurts everyone else).
Ocean fishing should be changed.
There should be incentives to repeat it -many- times (e.g. # of fish caught, total points, etc). Or some of the fish should be valuable on the marketboard.
Rainbows should not be RNG -UNLESS- the time lock is removed so people can spam it.
Nothing is more boring than pointlessly fishing for 25 min with no benefits a few times a day when you have work and real life commitment, just to get a mount.
Make it fun so people keep doing it.
Otherwise, it's just going to be another verminion or chocobo racing. A dead side-activity that people only ever do if rewards suddenly become available.
And that would be a shame. Because the concept is great.
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I've caught over 150k normal fish, and nearly 20k spearfish.
And I was really looking forward to ocean fishing (and love it).
But it will be dead in 2 weeks.
The only meaningful reason to do ocean fishing is to spam-level fisher, or to get the mount (which I already have).
There are no rewards or benefits from doing anything else.
The fish are essentially worthless.
There are no rewards for the super-rare fish.
And the available title achievements are likely impossible without coordination and serious luck (so 99%+ of people will never get them)
Ontop of that, the entire system is time-locked and pure RNG. I have the mount because I got lucky, not because of any innate skill. My friends have gone 10+ runs and never seen 3 rainbows. And most runs I don't even see a single rainbow, even though people are consistently catching all the fish (including spectrals and legendaries)
MOST IMPORTANTLY ocean fishing is pointlessly stressful. You can't just have fun. You have a limited amount of time, and you're desperate to see a rainbow. And there is always a major disappointment when one doesn't appear (leading to some people leaving or just giving up, which likely hurts everyone else).
Ocean fishing should be changed.
There should be incentives to repeat it -many- times (e.g. # of fish caught, total points, etc). Or some of the fish should be valuable on the marketboard.
Rainbows should not be RNG -UNLESS- the time lock is removed so people can spam it.
Nothing is more boring than pointlessly fishing for 25 min with no benefits a few times a day when you have work and real life commitment, just to get a mount.
Make it fun so people keep doing it.
Otherwise, it's just going to be another verminion or chocobo racing. A dead side-activity that people only ever do if rewards suddenly become available.
And that would be a shame. Because the concept is great.
Continue reading...