Any tips on how to get my friends to try out Path of Exile?

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Maybe I cant even get my brother playing and he wa a D2 fanatic. He's like lvl 84 in std after 2 yrs. All my older friend here were grinders in d3 and we came together. My RL friends arnt into it.

Anyway just posting for bookmark maybe someone knows.

I know the feeling. I have some that stayed but one of my buddies just calls the game strait up boring compared to D3 >_>

1.Beat them up.
2.Tie them up.
3.Force them play the game.
4.Stockholm syndrome.
5.Profit.

Sorry, still under the influence of the nazi theme.

I came floating off of the high that was Diablo 2. Which was kept alive for me through all the years by playing lone wolf style. Solo play. Didn't trade or use jsp. Asked friends for help with items when necessary. If I didn't have any I'd do key runs and sell sets to afford things "Critical" to my build. But I also kept mostly to Hardcore in the later years. That kept it alive for far longer. There was also Median XL.

Despite this, most of my IRL friends all immediately went to Diablo 3 instead. I've told all of them about Path of Exile, but they just don't bite. Some of them I'm sure haven't even tried the game. And the ones who have didn't seem interested and mostly tried it to appease me/say they did.

At this point, you're either a true fan of Diablo 2, or a die-hard Blizzard fan. Sadly I see Blizzard as a dead entity and 3 as a mockery. But that's another story and I don't want to derail the thread into a D3 hate circlejerk, so let me get back on topic.

How to get your friends to try out PoE? And then afterwards, interested and invested in the game?

Xbox One.

No, I'm serious. Ask your IRL friends if they have the console. If they do, tell them about "this cool free to play hack and slash game" on it. You can tell them "it's like D2" if they had any prior interest in Diablo 2 to sell it to them. Then it's more likely they won't see it as competition to things like D3. And it will "feel" different, since it's on a console. Eventually, they may change over to the PC version after enough emotional investment.

Don't doubt the power of the port. I began my initial interest with Blizzard because of a StarCraft port to the Nintendo64 way back in the 90's.

If your friends are competitive, the port will probably be even better for them than the PC version (let's be honest PvP is dead on the PC servers - we had an attempt to ignite interest and it fell flat, and now PvP events are only player-driven and hosted) since Xbox is a competitive crowd and PvP will likely be bustling and alive with the huge playerbase.

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serotonin89 a écrit :

However, there are those who just straight out won't even try the game. (◕︿◕✿)
One of their excuse is that the various classes are gender-locked.

When I heard this from my friend I thought this problem must be uncommon since it seemed a petty reason. But it seems Im not alone in failing at dragging my friend to the game because of that - she said she would never play a male character and it would be disturbing for her to play with me controlling a female character (I prefer playing male too, but playing female is something I could overcome) - and she was dead serious about it. In fact now that I think of it all girl gamers I met played female characters only and being forced to play male / restriction to certain classes would be at least a disturbance - not sure for how many of them it would be serious enough to give up on game. For guys it didnt matter that much, some actually prefered females because of nice views.

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DistyDevice a écrit :

In fact now that I think of it all girl gamers I met played female characters only and being forced to play male / restriction to certain classes would be at least a disturbance - not sure for how many of them it would be serious enough to give up on game.

Kidding? Wow, that's almost blatantly sexist, I feel so inadequate right now.

I haven't had much success in that task either, but I managed to get a couple friends to play PoE for a short while, by starting a new char with them and playing together, explaining as best as I could everything we encountered that was hard for them to undestand - and there were lots of things!

So maybe offer to party with them and act as tutor? It's was not easy and also frustrating at times for me, and it didn't pay out in the long run (both don't play anymore), but maybe you'll have a better result :-)

sorry but that is one of the most stupid reasons I ever heard for not playing a game... with that attitude, they probably wouldn't last anyway so no big loss

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Wazz72 a écrit :

So maybe offer to party with them and act as tutor? It's was not easy and also frustrating at times for me, and it didn't pay out in the long run (both don't play anymore), but maybe you'll have a better result :-)

I tried that too. I think its not a good idea. The fun about POE is to delve into a cmplex world completely on you own at first.

If you explain everything like "hey you can alt that Strongboxes" - "dont use your silvercoins now - they will be more valuable in endgame" - "most uniques are shitty anway - dont pick it up unless its a shav".... - you will kill a lot of fun and its quite frustrating on your end