Broke down and installed Last Epoch

if you’re a big fan of GGG and PoE 1, just trust them and let them see their project through before judging a product in Early Access?

Trust them for how long? And do what while the game is awful?

I was trusting them when I didn’t quit after 0.2 destroyed all my characters. But it’s weeks and the gameplay is still dull and unrewarding.

I’m not giving up but I’m sure switching games until there’s a major change. And I don’t know if that is possible with the direction the game is taking. And I’m not masochist enough to keep playing with the game as it is while hoping they can fix it.

PoE2 has one giant problem that we here call VISION™

I did enjoy 1st season of PoE2 EA, but only because I could make it look like PoE1 with my widowhail spark int stacking gemling. I farmed ~100 divs via drops only plus dunno how many from trades. I enjoy farming and grinding. Campaign is for noobs, it's a bloated tutorial before the real game starts.
0.2 killed the build and didn't offer much in return, only the gigaboring lightning spear ama, which I instinctively lvled up, then went frost bomb frost mages on a witch (ez mode bosskiller), did try twister ama variants including bleed.. but in the end this season is a brick wall for me. The updated towers system is not to my liking, the nerfed to the ground build landscape too. Drops got nerfed but still it only means that you need more MF on gear - it still does work. Stupid stuff like oneshots from nothing still remain. New spectres are all incredibly weak except for one (Vaal Guard that is just an overlook imo, gonna be nerfed in line with all others).
Generally speaking the game is not a real ARPG anymore, it's a wannabe soulslike or w/e.
Pain is real in my heart for PoE and what it could be if Chris Wilson was still around.
It all did force me to just go and buy that other ARPG game that everybody's talking about. Yeah, the one in the title. You know what? It's pure fun and enjoyment. Endgame, meaningful crafting, skills system that is more like Diablo2 than anything else. Even the skills responsiveness, as one guy said - can compare it to WoW "jump" if you know you know.
Hope PoE will get well eventually, but right now it's a pale shadow of itself. The "new crowd" don't get it, many people joined due to media hype. Vets who supported PoE for years are leaving, devs, open your eyes already. All you had to do was make PoE1 but better. Now there's already such game, but made by different studio. And you made... well, you made this.

I see, you really like the way poe1 is. Would it help you understand some of us and GGG if you thought of PoE2 as a new IP?

Think about it. It's very campaign focused. And they wanted to clearly prove they can dev good bosses given the general RPG community desire to play better boss fights and more well thought out boss fights.

If you want my opinion. PoE1 is barely in my top 5 arpgs of all time. I literally put D4 and D3 above it. I know that upsets people. But at the same time, it's just the way it is. And honestly, it's still a pretty good game regardless where I put on my list.

I think you want PoE2 to reflect PoE1 too much so my suggestion is, take a deep breath and really meditate what they were trying to do. Younger people have the luxury of instant gratification and dopamine. Honestly, this is almost so anti dopamine, it's really about people who like to hurt. Masochism at it's finest for gamers.

I think you might need more open minded? Not sure. Take some time to consider that this game wasn't made for you. It was made for the rest of us. And they haven't given up on poe1 so it's going to be around for a while. PoE2 just might not be the game for you. Have you RR'd a few builds through the campaign and challenged yourself to see all of the different ways to get through or are you an end game exclusive kind of op?

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pollozik#7790 a écrit :

if you’re a big fan of GGG and PoE 1, just trust them and let them see their project through before judging a product in Early Access?

Trust them?
They bait and switched us for 4 years with PoE2, then they lied about "PoE2 not interfering with PoE1 development" while using the PoE1 devs for PoE2, then had tons of 0.1 feedback while doubling down with 0.2 and "the vision" - making it worse...

GGG is speedrunning losing trust.

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JakkerONAIR#4902 a écrit :

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pollozik#7790 a écrit :

if you’re a big fan of GGG and PoE 1, just trust them and let them see their project through before judging a product in Early Access?

Trust them?
They bait and switched us for 4 years with PoE2, then they lied about "PoE2 not interfering with PoE1 development" while using the PoE1 devs for PoE2, then had tons of 0.1 feedback while doubling down with 0.2 and "the vision" - making it worse...

GGG is speedrunning losing trust.

+1

Last Epoch looks like a game from 2005 on Windows 7 with DX9 ....

Its ugly and has no density...


i am not a POE2 but that had to be said...

+1

Nice post OP, thanks for sharing your experience.

I too was frustrated with the direction they've taken with the game. It was clear that they decided not to listen much to the community feedback. Hopefully this changes, because it has to change.

RIP bro... until next patch!

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SpaceFoxyFū#3839 a écrit :

+1

Nice post OP, thanks for sharing your experience.

I too was frustrated with the direction they've taken with the game. It was clear that they decided not to listen much to the community feedback. Hopefully this changes, because it has to change.

It has to change if they want people like us as part of their player base.

If it doesnt, I think the game will be MUCH smaller. And that means less revenue, less development, less probability of POE3, etc. And that is said, because POE as a francize is an amazing game. Hopefully they dont follow the Diablo path and end up ruining the brand.