Poe 2 further away from the ''Broader Audience'' goal

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SwiftKitten#3681 a écrit :

fuck eldrin ring and get it the hell away from my diablo 2 successor

the problem with poe2 is it doesnt know wtf its doing for balance in the endgame

you have players 1 shotting screens of monsters with 1 button press and killing bosses in 3 seconds

but also getting 1 shot by bosses

for the most part defenses mean nothing and everything is glass cannon even if your not trying to be.

GGG just cranked up the number on player and bosses so high its absurd

the gameplay is there.. the combat is there.. the story is there.

the damage numbers in endgame are totally out of whack.

survivabilty for casters is better than what are supposed to be more tanky front liners who are supposed to take hits

the game has everything except the numbers down

damage, both incoming and outgoing, needs to be hit, HARD.

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Ktinga#9135 a écrit :

I played this game for almost 3 months, got to lvl 85, and I'm giving up. It failed on too many levels. Complexity is one thing, but there is just a lot that didn't make sense even after I understood it. Most uniques are not nearly as good as even mid-range rares that I was buying on the trade market for a few exalted orbs. I can understand that they might be really good with some very specific builds that take advantage of their 'unique' quirk, but outside of that one build, they are a clear downgrade.

Not just with uniques, but with basically everything from support gems to passive notables, the game designers seem to think that anything really good should come with some major negative. But the 'crafting' can get you rares that are only awesome, if you dump tons of the orbs into them and the RNG gives you a combination that was worth that much slot machine arm pulling. (Calling it 'crafting' is a cruel joke to someone that was really into the crafting systems of games like Everquest, and especially Everquest 2.)

In the end, the game just got way too frustrating for me to think I'd ever enjoy it long term.

And frankly, the story and characters aren't exactly compelling to me.

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SwiftKitten#3681 a écrit :

i do have to agree on the "crafting" and uniques.
unique should feel powerful.yeah a decent rare should be better. but most unique are just unusable as even badly rolls rare outclass them.

as for crafting. its nowhere near as bad as it was in earlier patchs when essences were absolutely worthless. but some are just too rare or expensive to be used by 90% of players.

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Sakanabi#6664 a écrit :

PoE 2 is definitely for broader audience. It's simplified and much easier to get into than 1st one. It's just not for casual audience. "Broader" and "casual" are two completely different terms but people confuse them somehow.

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Mashgesture#2912 a écrit :

POE has never been a game for a broad audience

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Japonbu#0742 a écrit :

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Sakanabi#6664 a écrit :

PoE 2 is definitely for broader audience. It's simplified and much easier to get into than 1st one. It's just not for casual audience. "Broader" and "casual" are two completely different terms but people confuse them somehow.

That is a semantic distinction without a practical difference.

You do not hit 459,263 concurrent players without the casual audience showing up. The hardcore ARPG demographic is simply not that large.
If the game is simplified and easier to get into, that is an explicit invitation to casuals.

The massive drop-off proves that while the marketing reached that broader casual audience, the game design failed to keep them. You cannot claim to target a broader audience while excluding casuals; mathematically, the broader market is the casual market.