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

I tried to convince some of my friends to play this game. None of them got past normal difficulty.

Poe is a game that requires significant time investment to be really fun, some folks just cant get into that kind of game

Do what Kripparian did on his stream.


Do 5 uber lab runs and let the server drop your connection in front of thousands. Then uninstall and never play garbage again.


That will surely make them want to play and be super stoked for Xbone instead of fixing anything.

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serotonin89 a écrit :

I managed to get a couple of friends (mostly internet buddies) to try out Path of Exile.

Some stayed and are now enjoying Path of Exile. (◕▽◕✿)

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.

So I'm curious what are some of your creative ways when it comes to
getting people to try out the game? (◕ᴗ◕✿)

Tell them the game is incredibly racist and homophobic

that should get anyone to play it

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blubbber a écrit :

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

I agree that not playing PoE just because the character class is locked at male or female is stupid. But these are same stupid reasons as voting for a no nothing quasi-celebrity over a qualified person for a job is done. Players have some stupid nonsense reasons for why they are willing to play or not play PoE. Logical reasons such as poor QoP (too frequent lag) or one-shot death trap bosses or strongbox opening lag death or labyrinth imbalance (mobs are too weak and Izaro is too uber for the lab level) or sucky trade mechanics (aarrrggghhhh!!!!!... PoE.trade shows the seller is online and when I copy/paste to whisper that I want to buy the item PoE tells me the seller is AFK... damn it GGG, just let me pay the B/O price so I can be on my way... I don't give a f'ck why the seller is off-line.) are not as important as character race or color or physical appearance (such shallow minded these players can be). Logic seems to not be much of a factor in "why I dislike PoE and won't play" for many. Go figure?

At least my friends who I got to play PoE 3 years ago but quit did so because it was pre-Lockstep PoE with desync plus content that needed to be skipped that killed them out. Their view was "what do you mean we have to skip this rogue?" after dieing 10+ times (they were coming from D2, D3, TQIT, TL2, etc. with a mindset that everything should be killed and PoE has some nasty death traps that have to be avoided for many types of builds). I couldn't convince them to move on and skip harder rogues, champions, etc. I had learned that lesson early on but my friends didn't like that and stopped playing soon after I explained this is just how PoE is designed.

Add an Auction House and pretty much all my friends would like the game.

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serotonin89 a écrit :

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

You don't. At some point your everyday conversations will turn into a PoE Gaming Talk Show.
There are enough addicts ingame to befriend, no need to hook innocent people on a needle.

tell them that you are FVC**** rich and that you will e boosting them even give them 1c each if they play. (also tell them that CHAOS is the highest form of currency in POE)

Tell them that this game is made by real indi former Diablo2 players that want to recreate this awesome hardcore experience in a Gore and more and more difficult game each league that come out. Also tell them that if you support them, they will make good use of the support money to improve the already perfect performances, rework older content to Update(ie: old unique buffed to not be outshined by new coming ones) and release new creative and fully bug/performances tested content that lasts for more than 1 month before hitting boredom.

Important thing to do when you tell him this, dont crack up laughing, you have to be convincing that this is the truth

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Represent a écrit :

Add an Auction House and pretty much all my friends would like the game.

GGG has always and forever stated: "Not Gonna Do It" . AH as a fix for PoE trade problems will never happen as we who have played original D3 know how the D3 AH + botting lead to major economic problems and Blizzard finally had to rip it out. Best we can hope is for GGG to finally wake up and realize that millions of arpg fans quit PoE or won't start because trading as it currently exists in PoE is broken and implement asynchronous trade.