Zanziber

This game was starting to look like comicon. So much culture and art being displayed. People were able to represent themselves like never before in this game. There are people still playing minecraft in creative mode to this day, and the gameplay hours in that are literally astonishing. Minecraft was the number 2 most popular game. When you place such heavy logical restraints on people, you make it much harder for new people to get into the game, and you stifle a whole lot of creative energy. Going this direction, certainly limits you from having the potential of a game like minecraft.

Couldn't you just do what most MMO's do and just fuse the systems together? Like what if anyone could craft a white space engine, but only the powerful merchant guilds could craft gold legendary ones? If you were to follow Neverwinter Night's gem system... then you need so many high level items that usually come from bosses so unless you can spend a lot of money it takes a very long time to get super high quality power. However... anyone can play the game, continuously grow, and enjoy the gameplay. It was criticized for being Pay-to-Win and even Elder Scrolls Online has a similar system where in order to upgrade the quality of an item it takes more and more increasingly rare and valuable materials. Those items have retained worth over the course of 5 years.

Yea I suppose that's true, but I'm not very interested in this game anymore.

I thought this game was about building a spaceship. Now... I can't even use the equipment I already made, and have to suffer at the mercy of what is amongst popular opinion? I have to do everything that major organizations want me to do? I want to... escape from real life, where I can't afford much of anything and live out my fantasy of building a ship... 100% solo with only scavenged materials. That flies both in space and in the atmosphere. So I can fly away from all of those who dominate and control others through money market manipulation. So I can prove that a single man can build a ship by himself... with his own two hands, just like an X-wing from Star Wars. I was actually able to live out that dream in this game... and somehow you took that away from me. I can't solo craft a ship. I am forced into money market manipulation as a means to "build things" I can't use the equipment I already bought. There are hundreds of thousands of hours someone will spend just playing with your voxel editor, and you somehow think... that it won't last? The gameplay was already going to last years with just your building engine guys...