Game feels so unrewarding, just hit 2nd year Spring

[Jun]

As I go to the general store to buy the new seeds, I see there are like over 8 new seeds compared 2 crop/1 flower seeds in the first year. Which is a huge jump

I imagine getting them all to 5* would be a drag, but that isn't the worst part. Even if I get them to 5*. They will slowly degrade by 0.5* every time you plant them. Basically continueing the grind infinitely. Who thought this was a good idea? Punishing players for perfecting their crops.

Just turned off my switch and stopped playing.

[wordbonder]

I'm only in fall year one, but I will say from what I've read about the crop quality rating I probably won't even bother with them. I'm the sort of person that can live without 100% everything, but I can see how some elements in this game have been poorly constructed for anyone who does want to take part in everything. The crop star situation confuses me so badly I've pretty much just given up on winning those festivals and will focus on something else.

[tiwwi1]

The most unrewarding thing in this game is the festival prizes! I had never seen a game reward a festival just one and only a useless trophy!

[Tuckr13]

I'm not 100% sure, but for some reason, I can only harvest my crops 3x... (strawberries, wheat, and grass so far). Which makes it suuuper pain in the butt to even want to make 5* crops.

[Tuckr13]

Originally posted by tiwwi1:

The most unrewarding thing in this game is the festival prizes! I had never seen a game reward a festival just one and only a useless trophy!

And you have to go pick it up later! What a pain

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Originally posted by tiwwi1:

The most unrewarding thing in this game is the festival prizes! I had never seen a game reward a festival just one and only a useless trophy!

Well umm, actually you got a boost of affection for all NPC in the game.

[Dimethyltrip]

It's pretty easy to get 5-star crops if you have the seedmaker.
I just got mine and it's pretty great!

[Bhole]

I'm not sure about this, but I read that if you just fertilize the seed before you water it the first time after planting that the .5 star rating you lose when planting is removed.

Overall though, I disagree with you about it not feeling rewarding. I'm almost done with summer and so far it's been really tough to make enough money and to upgrade my tools to gold, all the while slowly leveling up everyone's friendship to get new powers and cutscenes. Is it the best harvest moon style game ever? No. Is it bad? I don't think so personally.

[tiwwi1]

Originally posted by CharlesEndriko:

Originally posted by tiwwi1:

The most unrewarding thing in this game is the festival prizes! I had never seen a game reward a festival just one and only a useless trophy!

Well umm, actually you got a boost of affection for all NPC in the game.

That is a standard thing. Winning a festival you got more friendship point in general but that doesn't make it rewarding.

[The_K00lDude]

not on second year yet, but the festivals could do with a rework...

exspecially the stew festival, you get no left overs to bring home. And even though you ate in the cutscene, you get no stamina back.... like wtf?

also 2 yams (2star) apparently made everyone sick, so I lost out on money :(

[BlueFenixR]

Yes its a pain no doubt, i probably won't actually sell 5 stars crops and stick with 4.5, its a 37% from the base price lost in profit but the cost of re-fertilizing (1 fertilizer won't help, you need fine fertilizer for 1/4 of their grow period) will reduce the difference by a fair bit.

Making then into 5 star again its valid though but only to send them to the Seed Maker since 1 crop = 3 seeds. So for every 27 crops you plant, 9 of those should be upped to 5 star for the seed maker.

Regrowth crops are worser since they lose half a star or a whole star on the second AND third harvest, mostly useful to stock for recipes since star rating DOES NOT affect stamina recovery, only price for selling.

Also making/getting everything to 5 star at least once just to get the completition in the item logs with a gold crown.