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Ah yes, the Bovine Defense Force 😌
We could have fixed that cow hide farming exploit in few minutes bonbons, just kill the respawn or drop the price of the hides. But that's not how we roll. Designer's job is to create fun, not delete it. So we added a chort instead. Chort hide is double the price of cow hide, not by a coincidence. We saw you farming, so we raised the stakes.
The whole thing spiraled beautifully: later Bovine Defense Force became a Gwent card (cow leaves the battlefield, chort arrives). And then, we made something special in Hearts of Stone. Taxman Walthemor Mitty shows up at 35K orens and asks Geralt point blank whether he was involved in the wholesale rawhide trade in White Orchard.
This is what game design is for me: don't patch the fun out, find a way how to escalate it, engage with fun dialog with the players, surprise and delight.
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