Quote Originally Posted by Orophin View Post
Read my post above Llen. Fish will still be used in crafting.
The problem, and this literally just hit me, is that bots will completely corner that market. Because he's making it so dead easy to bot, whatever few fish might have some worth due to crafts will be controlled by the bots.

The second issue is that fishing will actually no longer be something we want to do. Yoshi isn't making it so that we can go fishing if we have nothing to do, he's making it so that fishing will ONLY be something you can do when you have nothing to do. In 1.0's system, you had to pay attention and actually fish. Because of that small amount of interaction, and because I have a high threshold for repetitive tedium, I could fish for hours and hours. My longest sessions usually hit the 15 or 16 hour mark.

With this new system, that won't be doable because we won't be doing anything. We'll choose our bait and rod and location, but then we'll choose cast and wait. I'm sure the amount of time spent waiting will be randomized, and once the game decides that you will receive a fish, you get the fish. Then you repeat. And that's assuming the game won't do like it did before, where at random you'd get no bite. If they left in no bites, and you have absolutely zero control over it, then Yoshi will have well and truly killed fishing for people who actually want to fish. My idea of fun isn't sitting in front of my screen and waiting for the game to maybe let me have a fish so that I can then continue staring at the screen, hands completely free of the keyboard. If I wanted that I'd just make a screensaver showing that. I require at least some interaction beyond choosing my bait. The only people who will want to fish will be those who, like Yoshi said, want to do other things but can't at that moment.

With that realisation, the chances of me quitting over this have risen exponentially.