Terraria has lost me forever

[Sky Render]

Previously I could tolerate this game. 1.2.3 seemed like it was designed to make me hate it with the many changes to effectively brick-wall the player as quickly as possible in Hardmode, but I put up with it in the vain hope that things would get better. They got worse instead. The game no longer respects autosave settings, and will forcibly auto-save upon death no matter what you do.

This, Terraria developers, is what we in the business call a "♥♥♥♥ move". It not only is disrepsectful to your players' desires, it also clearly violates the covenant you make with the player when they select not to autosave. You do not betray your user by adding a feature, and then selectively denying them that feature under circumstances that they're not made aware of until after it's screwed them over.

I honestly don't care if you do think that it makes the game "too easy", because quite frankly, that is not the point. The point is, you are breaking your own rules for sake of "difficulty". And that is not difficulty. That is arbitrary punishment, as well as glaringly bad design. Games that don't even follow their own rules get abandoned quickly by all but the most dedicated niches of their fanbase. This is a game that has so much potential, and it frankly offends me that every single update it becomes less playable and more anti-player.

Fix it or don't fix it, I care not any more. Your bad design decisions have gone far enough that I don't care, because I won't be playing Terraria ever again, and I will not be picking up any sequels to it either. I'm sorry it came to this, but really, it was inevitable so long as you aimed only to please the most vocal minority of your audience that enjoys this kind of needless suffering. Goodbye.

[andrewb]

There is autosave option in the menu...you can turn it off.

[Sky Render]

Originally posted by andrewb:

There is autosave option in the menu...you can turn it off.

That's part of my point: it is set to off. It autosaves on death no matter what that setting says it will do.

[andrewb]

Hmm and why is that so much of an issue? Loosing boss summoning item? Just duplicate them, that's what I did because I'll be damned if I'm gonna waste my time farming the materials over and over again x)

[Monsieur Helmet]

I am with you but mines differant
i can stop stuff with auto pause yet i cant craft the drax bugs
my friend can but i want to get my stuff by myself

[Celator]

Yeah, I noticed this too. I tried to use the new Spectre Mask to fight Plantera, just to see how it works, but then I died, and sometime afterward I encountered the money-replacing glitch and shut the program down in Task Manager to avoid losing my money, but when I started it back up again I noticed that I was still missing stuff I'd used up in the Plantera fight. My autosave was set to off. It makes a bit of sense, since players shouldn't just be able to keep fighting bosses and resetting after death until they win, but it's still annoying.

However, I think I may have discovered a glitch with it that could be exploited, too: it seems to save only your character after death, not the world, so it could possibly be used to duplicate items by moving them from chests to your inventory/piggy bank and then dying. The reason I think this is that I'd used some Chlorophyte from my chests to make the Spectre Hood beforehand, but then after I died, quit, and restarted, I noticed that all my Chlorophyte was back again. I didn't know if it was just a fluke since no one else seemed to have encountered it, and I never tried to duplicate it, but if other people can corroborate me it might be worth reporting to the devs.