I will be playing Last Epoch in April instead of POE2

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Kraythax#2592 a écrit :

1. Gear in POE2 is a slot machine that rewards endless hours of grinding and not much else. If you have thousands of hours to play then you are fine. If you are a working adult like me then you can forget Hardcore or Solo Self Found as a viable play style. I always play SSF because I dont want to "buy my build". Id rather ... uhh ... actually play the game.

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2. Lots of very popular systems in POE1 have been removed and the least popular systems (Sanctum and Ultimatum) were promoted. In Phrecia I have been more than a bit irritated that I am not able to remove Sanctum or Ultimatum from my maps because of the stupid RNG idol system. But at least in POE1 I can ignore them. Not so much in POE2. Since I play SSF and didn't buy a one key clear the whole map build, and I like to play melee ... well that third ascendancy just never happened. Personally I think they should forget trials completely.

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3. Most importantly the attitude of GGG. They basically told their most loyal paying customer base to "pound sand" and not in a polite way. Think of the most impolite way to say that and you still wont get there. They didn't make a sequel to POE1, they made a game targeted at Diablo 4 by borrowing POE1 code. Its a total mess. Not only are they promoting the D4 playstyle, the forums and global chat are overrun by a plethora of these players that are rude, crude and nasty. You are more likely to get conversations about politics or reproductive body parts in global than conversations about the game. THIS IS THE CROWD GGG IS WORKING TO GET. They think they can get a lot of money off of them. GGG doesn't care one bit about making a good game anymore, their game is now run by bean counters.

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I realize I will be flamed and that is just ... meh ... par for the course with this new audience and I dont care. But there are a LOT of GGG diehards that feel the same way. I talk to them constantly in POE1. If that is the derection GGG wants to go, count us out. If we wanted a community like this we would go to Reddit. If we wanted a game like this we would just play D4.

Peace ... out.

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Least popular? What? The "Ultimatum League" was so well received that many ppl pressured GGG to bring it back. And even then... compared to "Sanctum"... oh boy. The amount of ppl who love "Sanctum" is insane. Least popular... dude... where do you get your information from!?

Why would they give up on trials? It's the way your character ascends and with PoE2 we have 3 different trials to choose from.
I hope they bring Izaro back as the third trial, so he can teach you a lesson:
Wisdom is the offspring of suffering and time

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BattLeSCVs#6386 a écrit :

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Least popular? What? The "Ultimatum League" was so well received that many ppl pressured GGG to bring it back. And even then... compared to "Sanctum"... oh boy. The amount of ppl who love "Sanctum" is insane. Least popular... dude... where do you get your information from!?

Why would they give up on trials? It's the way your character ascends and with PoE2 we have 3 different trials to choose from.
I hope they bring Izaro back as the third trial, so he can teach you a lesson:
Wisdom is the offspring of suffering and time

Honour system is for ranged characters. I liked Sanctum, so by your logic and their statistics reading albitites I should like Chaos and Suhkmyass trials too? I don't, I hate them. Honor system more like coward meter.

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Kraythax#2592 a écrit :

Sekhima trials require you to be ranged. Any melee loses on honor, especially at the second trial. Chaos trials are stupid overpowered in order for a melee character to win a wand.

I would have Izaro and the lab back in a hot second over these two travesties.

Whoever invented these 2 trials is either a sadist or a complete moron. I will let GGG pick. Since I know I wont be able to get the third trial on any char I like to play, that alone dampens enthusiasm.

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Kraythax#2592 a écrit :

POE2 has a lot of work to do to earn my business back. I have bought almost $2000 worth of stuff from GGG but its clear that bean counters from TenCent have control of the company. Chris Wilson left but clearly he was given an NDA and non disparage (I hope he got paid well for that) and he cant talk much about his departure. POE2 is not a sequel to POE1 and in fact POE1 is a better game in many ways. There are only 2 or 3 things in POE2 that are better. GGG has gone AAA and that is very unfortunate. Baring some dramatic shifts in the philosophy of GGG my days with them might be done. Who cares? About me, probably no one. But if enough feel as I do then there will be a big problem.

My Issues:
1. Gear in POE2 is a slot machine that rewards endless hours of grinding and not much else. If you have thousands of hours to play then you are fine. If you are a working adult like me then you can forget Hardcore or Solo Self Found as a viable play style. I always play SSF because I dont want to "buy my build". Id rather ... uhh ... actually play the game.

2. Lots of very popular systems in POE1 have been removed and the least popular systems (Sanctum and Ultimatum) were promoted. In Phrecia I have been more than a bit irritated that I am not able to remove Sanctum or Ultimatum from my maps because of the stupid RNG idol system. But at least in POE1 I can ignore them. Not so much in POE2. Since I play SSF and didn't buy a one key clear the whole map build, and I like to play melee ... well that third ascendancy just never happened. Personally I think they should forget trials completely.

3. Most importantly the attitude of GGG. They basically told their most loyal paying customer base to "pound sand" and not in a polite way. Think of the most impolite way to say that and you still wont get there. They didn't make a sequel to POE1, they made a game targeted at Diablo 4 by borrowing POE1 code. Its a total mess. Not only are they promoting the D4 playstyle, the forums and global chat are overrun by a plethora of these players that are rude, crude and nasty. You are more likely to get conversations about politics or reproductive body parts in global than conversations about the game. THIS IS THE CROWD GGG IS WORKING TO GET. They think they can get a lot of money off of them. GGG doesn't care one bit about making a good game anymore, their game is now run by bean counters.

I realize I will be flamed and that is just ... meh ... par for the course with this new audience and I dont care. But there are a LOT of GGG diehards that feel the same way. I talk to them constantly in POE1. If that is the derection GGG wants to go, count us out. If we wanted a community like this we would go to Reddit. If we wanted a game like this we would just play D4.

Peace ... out.