let's talk about your responses to "I Quit because loot system" threads

out of my ~2000 hours of Path Of Exile, well over 1000 were in Open Beta. pretty much no-life.
well in Open Beta, you could drop pretty much anything anywhere, map or not. this thing where you need to be doing maps level >X to get BiS unique Y? a recent addition. if one can call the almost a year since release "recent".
now-"legacy" Kaom's and Shavs dropped in Act 3 from barrels, because the game was even less risk/reward then, than it is now.

life as an under-geared melee in "primordial" Act 3 Merciless, playing on a toaster - was a nightmare.
died like a damned fly. pre-nerf dogs. pre-nerf Whipping and Tentacle Miscreations that hit like a ton of bricks and applied Vulnerability curses to one-shot you with the next hit... you name it, I died to it at least once.
even got to Act 3 merciless thanks to buying a hammer with my first-ever Divine. yes, "trade to progress or you're fucked", at its finest.
and it got even worse in early maps. got murdered by everything. ended maps with negative EXP gain, and that's *if* I could actually take down a boss without running out of portals, or even enter a map without client-crashing.

so I farmed farming spots. Docks. Fellshrine. Dread Thicket. Ledge.... everything. literally hundreds of hours each.
dropped nothing. my melee was getting absolutely nowhere, despite me respeccing it to a better build following some good people's advice.
so made alts. got them to Merciless. act 1. act 2. act 3. one of them is my new Main.
loot was just utter fucking crap. trade my last orbs for upgrades, suck at selling, dirt-poor.

mapped a bit with great guys like Blubber and many many others. couldn't contribute any orbs. died. client crashed. DPS below zero. frustrated as hell.

then met Bill, Anu and Morbo. and started mapping seriously, for the first time ever. highest maps of the lot. unique maps. crazy-rolled maps. got some upgrades for both main melee and alts. still died like a bitch. still crashed because Morbo was playing Spark Totem back then, which was extremely anti-toaster. not blaming him, blaming game optimization which by god didn't actually get significantly better after all this time.
crashed wasting portals. played at least half a second behind the rest because of lag and frame drops. the guys didn't care. they didn't even care I couldn't contribute orbs to the mapping effort. but I did. I can't be a leecher. and when the drops just stopped and I was back at square one, it was the last straw and I ultimately quit mapping. the guys ran out of currency too, and each went their separate ways. Bill went out with a bang, with Anuhart's help, and quit for good. offered me his great "now-legacy" Shavs-from-Docks. free. I said no. want to earn my own stuff.
Morbo took a break from the game. got back angry self-found.
Anu started no-life solo Streaming. clocked six. thousand. hours. still not half as "rich" as the average trade-tycoon. still struggling to get to level 100.

never again, I pledged. by god never map again.
(yes I'm back to mapping now. yes, still nothing. hundreds of hours map time @Chunda. less than one hundred hours effective map time. minus 9001 hours effective loot time. utter crap 99.9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999% of the time.
dropped my pride and begged Anu for a Lioneye's Glare. would get anywhere near where I'm now, without it).

but back to grinding my fucking brains out in farming spots, and leveling alts. until release and beyond.
got into HC. got into temp leagues. got into racing. and back in SC got nothing in high level content areas. couldn't upgrade my bought hammer in over half a year. and it wasn't even "good" by any standards.
Exalts from random Ledge barrels, almost 3/4 my level.
no orbs unless trade.
no gear unless trade.
fuck.

......................................

I'll just stop here.
you can read this, say I'm bad and start trolling. it should give you plenty of "ammo" to troll me.
or you can try to counter me with your own honest recap, and honestly say the game was good to you. RNG was good to you.
I wager you either don't have the balls, or are just going to lie.
when RNG is designed for all intents and purposes to fuck with you physically and mentally, you are on a one-way trip to the get-fucked-by-RNG-city of indescribable, endless frustration.

so you trade-tycoon. IIR grind with parties and a culler. avoid RNG as much as you can, instead of being stupid fucking John Keys who still tries to take it head on, and loses every. single. time.

so many of my Open Beta friends and "brothers in arms", are now "rich" and around level 100.
simply because they figured out playing this damned game like an ARPG, means joining me on that train bound absolutely fucking nowhere. so they got off the train. I won't.

I care about this game. love it. it does so many things so damn right. enough to make this a hopeless addiction.
and yet it does a couple of things so damn wrong, it's just ridiculous.
I want to change this game, into the awesome fucking ARPG it deserves to be.
pretentious? maybe. but I won't stop trying until I leave.