Island Sanctuary

[Deveryn]

Spent a couple hours trying out the new plantation owner gamemode. Built the workshop.

The gameplay is a clicker. 90% of the gameplay is running around clicking anything that glows. The other 10% is navigating menus to order your robot slaves to build stuff.

I can't help but compare the Island Sanctuary to the Sunsong Ranch from WoW, which had much more engaging gameplay. You didn't plant seeds by navigating a menu or just clicking. You grabbed a shovel and tilled the dirt. Then you planted the seeds. Then you grabbed the watering can and watered the soil. Then as your crops grew, you had to do various things to maintain them, such as grabbing a tool to spray the bugs, or grabbing weeds and slowly walking away from the dirt patch to yank the weeds out of the ground. Or a bullriding minigame where you ride a living vine that is strangling your crops and beating the crap out of it. etc. You also expanded the farm through a lot of interesting quests with the NPC neighbors you cared about, rather than just clicking and navigating a menu.

If you were looking for engaging gameplay, you bamboozled yoself

[Skivvy]

If you were looking for engaging gameplay, you bamboozled yoself

So....we shouldn't expect SE to be able to deliver engaging gameplay?

[Deveryn]

So....we shouldn't expect SE to be able to deliver engaging gameplay?

We were specifically told this would not be.

[Skivvy]

We were specifically told this would not be.

I'm not finding the quote, can you pull that up for us? :3