Chris mentioned new content that fixes a arpg problem

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Aynix wrote:

That's why I want it in PoE ^ ^

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Chris Wilson: There's a thing we're doing next year, that we think is kind of new, like when we've described this to a couple of people they've said, "No other game would try to do that", and I'm keeping this incredibly vague, like I can't say anything else, because that's for a later announcement. But it is pretty wacky, and I think it will help solve a problem, in Action RPGs that our game has, that other games have not solved well. And an example here, and it's not at all related to flasks, but an example, 100% not an itemization flask thing.

LiftingNerdBro: Okay. (laughs)

Chris Wilson: I don't mean that as a wink. It actually isn't related to flasks.

ProjectPT: So it is related to flasks?

(laughing)

HegemonyTV: We got it. Read you loud and clear.

LiftingNerdBro: Confirmed.

Chris Wilson: Confirmed, yeah. Now when we don't release any changes to flasks people are going to be "I'm pretty sure you promised that..."

ProjectPT: We're just going to use your quotations and apply it to everything. Like all these changes apply.

Chris Wilson: Okay so, example, Diablo 1 and 2, and Titan Quest, and various other games had potions that you drink. You get a lot of them. You got to town, like in Titan Quest you buy like a stack of 80, and in Diablo 1 and 2, you fill up your inventory and belt full of potions. You go out in the world, and whenever you're taking damage, if you need life you're just pushing the potion key. And so, the next generation of Action RPGs had to solve this, because no one liked that. We said, "Well, we don't have gold so, you're not buying potions, let's go with this flask system that refills on kill.", and Diablo 3 added the red orbs on the ground, that you get during combat, which is like getting life on kill, but done in a slightly more indirect way. And so, we prefer the way that we did it, because we like our game, and we feel this is the case of different companies solving the same problem in different ways. And this system that we're looking into in the future is another way of solving an existing problem in a different way than other people have.

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Namcap wrote:

I think it's significantly simpler and all he was hinting at was the removal of several difficulties which need to be replayed. He mentioned that other arpgs have the same problem or didn't fix it properly. D3 tried to fix it by having difficulty levels not being tied to the story but it did create other issues. If you play on normal you'll finish the entire story at like level 40 (70 being max level) and then most newcomers will go "now what?" and are left in the dark and quit the game.