POE sure seems to be losing a lot of steam

The game encourages you to only play one build or suffer from desync/lag/town portal deaths on hardcore.

Or a huge 15% exp penalty death on softcore.

Tonnes of people have quit because the only viable builds revolve around NOT dying.

Glass cannon is NOT an option.

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tobes111 wrote:

All of us have made it to end game.

Not much to do, so spend less and less time playing PoE.

Most of us ARE WAITING FOR CUTTHROAT LEAGUE.

When will they implement?

LMFAO. You know that every time a developer releases stats on completion rates and such for games less than half of players even finish right? Also that when it comes to forums it's only an absolutely tiny amount of players that even know they exist right? I can guarantee the vast majority of players haven't come close to end game.

When Merciless HC only has 3 public groups running, I can guarantee that most players have *not* reached the end game. I have 4 other friends who play this game, none of whom use the forums. They play about 3ish hours a day, all HC, and only one of them has even reached Cruel. (One of them played with me in CB, and he and I had several different Default players who played in Maps, however.)

No. Not all players have reached the end game.

Most players in DEFAULT league have reached end game.

Can't speak for hardcore.

Cuz HC you will end up dying due to lag/desync/town portal warp/lag/town portal lag anyway before level 10.

So you will NEVER reach end game. So waht's the point? (for Aussies anyway)

Aussies should only have to worry about bad internets for a short amount of time...HOPEFULLY they will fix your cabling. Soon. I feel bad for you guys not having optimized internet like other places right now. Gaming has to suck because of that.

people need to race, it's super cool and you get an alt character out of it. more race advertising?

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Shippal wrote:

When Merciless HC only has 3 public groups running, I can guarantee that most players have *not* reached the end game. I have 4 other friends who play this game, none of whom use the forums. They play about 3ish hours a day, all HC, and only one of them has even reached Cruel. (One of them played with me in CB, and he and I had several different Default players who played in Maps, however.)

No. Not all players have reached the end game.

Nobody plays pub games especially in HC.

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tobes111 wrote:

Most players in DEFAULT league have reached end game.

Can't speak for hardcore.

Cuz HC you will end up dying due to lag/desync/town portal warp/lag/town portal lag anyway before level 10.

So you will NEVER reach end game. So waht's the point? (for Aussies anyway)

Nope.

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sinosleep wrote:

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tobes111 wrote:

All of us have made it to end game.

Not much to do, so spend less and less time playing PoE.

Most of us ARE WAITING FOR CUTTHROAT LEAGUE.

When will they implement?

LMFAO. You know that every time a developer releases stats on completion rates and such for games less than half of players even finish right? Also that when it comes to forums it's only an absolutely tiny amount of players that even know they exist right? I can guarantee the vast majority of players haven't come close to end game.

^ Precisely.
A lot of people are loving the living shit out of this game and still gallivanting around in the lower to mid levels of hardcore and softcore.
Known fact that forums are a very small portion of playerbase. Known about this forum and this playerbase too. "EVERYONE is leaving because of desync!" - GGG dev calmly surveys floating AR live statistic feed provided to all GGG employees - drop-offs: down by 67%. Active Forum Accounts: 0.04% of Playerbase. GGG dev yawns and calmly closes thread.

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tobes111 wrote:

Tonnes of people have quit because the only viable builds revolve around NOT dying.

Glass cannon is NOT an option.

I think if there's an issue at all, this is FAR more likely to be it. In theory the way skill gems and the passive tree work encourage build diversity. In practice however it seems that the game funnels you into the defensive stats no matter what you actually want to build.

Almost every merciless build I've ever seen has 3/4 of their passives invested in defensive stats. That hurts build diversity.