Is RNG, RNG or...is something else at play?

3 People in the house play the game. 2 of which only put in a couple hours a day. And get several items worth a rather fair bit. While the other who spends 12+ hours a day only gets items worth a single alchemy to a chaos. Is RNG, RNG or perhaps there is some system in the background giving people who play less a higher chance at finding goods? It seems really really weird. RNG doesn't tend to have a pattern.

Likely just personal bias mixed with RNG. Also there's other factors like who, if any, have iiq/iir gear, are they in maps, etc.

Your sample size is impressive, you should write a scientific paper about it.

While it's almost certainly just a case of RNG and statistical clustering, it is also possible that it's an elaborate system of checks and balances to ensure that time spent playing the game doesn't result in an equivalent return of valuable items.

The trick is proving either.

You spend 12+ hours playing, that's the problem. They spend 2-3 hours playing and obviously pray to RNGsus the rest of the time. They're doing it right.

Of course that's just a theory, based on absolute nonsense.

League of transmutation shards is at your full disposal)

Path of Exile is not a game about how many hours you play. It's about how efficiently you play.

Maybe that guy who plays 12h a day don't do this correctly, while that guys playing 2h/day do it right.

Guys, guys,
but like,
where are the best fishing haunts?

Does the barrel drop a mirror upon breaking?

Or

Is the mirror designated to the barrel when you enter the map?

And of course Suslikwishmaker proudly wears a shiny tin foil hat. LOL.

Players try to see RNG as some kind of GGG conspiracy against them whenever RNGesus does not favor them.