Detailed overview of Diablo 3 vs. Path of Exile

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Teplokot wrote:

They joy of having a debate on f2p forums. Most people in here are not even playing PoE nor D3 anymore)

Lets be honest, most people been playing games because of friends. For one reason or another friends quit. Now suddenly game is not as good as it seemed.

Others got in because they had to understand the system, it was something new for them. They liked it very much at first but deeper they went the less they got in return.

And so on...

If you would think about it - most games are "places" where players entertain other players while developers get the money. Games themselves are s hit. Worst part is people fighting over whose piece of s hit is better.

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lightmoon wrote:

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tuttifrutas wrote:

poe is more geared towards hardcore gamers/ traders. Lack of reward vs difficult( upgrading gear, if you find it, can be tricky).

D3 ros is more casual friendly, it's easier to get geared and upgrade. higher difficulties higher chances.

Im one of them who got trick from POE.
I was trying to farm lv74+ gear for upgrading my lv6x gear in lv74 map, all i got is lv4x trash gear and run out of map to continue farming gear.
So must i keep doing lv6x to farm map at lv8x ?????
Nah, i quitted game.

The gear checking is one of many things kills POE

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Pewzor wrote:

PoE has much higher potential than having barely 10k active players.

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mrpetrov wrote:

I miss so much about PoE. But here's why I've been into D3 since RoS, and particularly since the introduction of greater rifts.

I come home. I have a few hours to play.

I kick back and face roll T6 - easy farmable zone, non exclusive content, still efficient from a loot perspective. The only challenge is how fast I can do it.

I want a bit more of a challenge? I fire up a GR 45 and see if I can beat it. The gameplay is seat of the pants stuff, very exciting and not a little bit frustrating. Still, far less exclusive, gated content than Poe provides for end game.

The gameplay keeps me coming back, in combination that it suits my lifestyle. I am a better (hand-eye) player of arpgs as a result of time with D3. Trying to manitain stutter-stepping for hexing pants, dodging elite affixes, lining up mobs to gain full effect of my piercing buriza, timing my pet calls and all the while trying to maintain a full stack of taeguk uptime is the sort of test I never experienced in PoE (spam, hope, try to out-dps or heal). but then again, I've never experienced Atziri, so I'm probably out of touch.

If I die, I don't lose many hours and hours of time (this is a game, not real life). Also, I can enjoy my family when I'm done playing, I don't have to go "trading" at any stage to enrich my gameplay experience. I have other games for that fix.

Neither better, nor worse - just sharing my current experience.

P.

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Xavderion wrote:

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Pewzor wrote:

PoE has much higher potential than having barely 10k active players.

Source?

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Pewzor wrote:

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Xavderion wrote:

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Pewzor wrote:

PoE has much higher potential than having barely 10k active players.

Source?

There's really no source kiddo. GGG is not the kind that would reveal any figures... thats blizzard they are not afraid to let others know if they are growing or rolling downhill.

One thing is fore sure, Steam do have a statistic on PoE and mathematically and statistically correct. (before the fanbois saying steam chart is only 0.00000000001% of PoE population)


At least on stream currently PoE peaks out at barely 10k players and averaging 6k... and is declining overtime... sure rightnow is not the worst population ever in PoE history but it's almost tied with the lowest and is still declining and this is well AFTER the whole RoS hype has cooled off.

Again the point is to the blinding fankids that think desync is nothing... its "tiny inconvenience"... its "stfu just get a 3rd party scripting program is spam /oos script" it's "desync doesnt exist, its your cpu" and so on...

I believe PoE will be a lot better of the stupids dont give GGG all the excuses to keep their game play like a piece of garbage.

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Sam wrote:

February 22, 2015
You gave Progression and End Game & Replayability to D3? What is going on… This is coming from someone who has most recently played D3 as of Season 2 (hint: which started 9 days ago) and already had a full set of gear and farming T6 on hardcore… and am now done with the game. It took less than a week.

The rift and greater rift “end game” is very boring and repetitive, since there is no change. Also, comparing “Progression” would come down to gear (which both games have) and Paragon Points vs Skill Points… in which case PoE is significantly better.

Replayability is far better on PoE, since once you have every character maxed on D3 there is literally no point in ever leveling again. PoE encourages all different builds and playing classes multiple times, as well as continuing to push your character higher and higher in levels.

Also, the penalty for death on PoE isn’t “days of progression.” You are thinking of D2 at like 95+. In PoE it will set you back a few maps. It also makes sure people actually have good builds in softcore…

The rest of your points were fair, and D3 definitely has some better qualities than PoE (and were designed for completely different audiences), but the gameplay of PoE is much better and should be rated as such. I would much rather play a higher quality game than a game with good sound and voice acting.

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February 22, 2015
Thanks for the feedback! The End-game & Replayability section was a bit of a struggle, and if PoE had come out on top, it would have won. The core issue is desync; no other ARPG has the desync issues PoE does, and it’s really unacceptable. As somebody who has built a number of characters into the 80’s (haven’t gotten into 90’s but I have friends who have) I can say desync impacts every aspect of the game, and my friends who have quit did so due to deaths tied to desync. This directly and negatively impacts end-game dramatically. And when I say days of progression, I mean for gamers who play a few hours a day. Once you hit 95+ you will lose days of progress if you’re playing ~4 hours a day. 90 is very different from 95. But I agree the “gameplay” and “features” of PoE exceed D3. It’s just a problem when desync impacts all of these features, making the weight for comparison lesser than greater.