My experience in this game has been nothing but negative and harassive.

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MBata wrote:
LOL.

Harrasive isn't even a word.

L2 Vocabulary.

L2 Internet.

Well neither is ”fitty” but that doesn’t stop ppl from saying it…

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Nasakenai wrote:

The most addicting MMO of all time as far as I'm concerned was the origional UO. It was also the most cuthroat. There has to be some correllation there.

Not necessarily. First, it was one of the first real MMO options, so it was a new thing for a lot of people.

Secondly, keep in mind that there can be personal preferences. You might really like cutthroat play. That doesn't mean other people do. I don't think I will ever even try partying in this game except in-town to trade, because I don't trust the game to provide a fun partying experience. And even if they start changing things, I won't trust the devs not to think "but since everyone REALLY enjoys cutthroat play even if they tell us they don't, we'll have SURPRISE cutthroat play even if you picked one of the pure-cooperative options."

People who are convinced that you cannot possibly actually want something they don't want can be a source of difficulty. So far as I can tell, GGG's design team has this belief firmly rooted; that there exists a "most fun" design, and that anyone who claims not to want to play that more than any other is deluded.

Basically, this is the game design equivalent of the people who try to sneak stuff someone's allergic to into their food to "prove" that they do not actually have an allergy.

(sorry for not reading all 9 pages)
I just felt i should share a complete different "community experience" i made in this game then the threadstarter had.

First off, i lost a lot loot in random Groups (playing ranged), including an exalt, some GCP, a ton of chaos and uncountable uniques.
But i feel that, considering this is the way the system is supposed to work, its ok to loose those. I join random Groups to get xp and not to build up my stash. And as everyone is trying to grab every loot, im having even phases of enjoying it when i could grab something good that wasnt mine.

Im playing since some weeks, atm running Maps since some days. I met alot nice people, made friends ingame (one that even gave me his default league orbs worth 2 exalts when my hardcore died and i continued in def league).
I play maps in Group of Friends i met ingame, where everyone takes his own loot, map openers get all map drops and its just fun to play together without any "loot-grab-stress".

And if none is online and i want to play, i begin searching new friends starting with an open group and closing it when someone joins. I play a map with him, see how it works out together and if its a noble player id add him


Really, i dont see how someone can complain about a whole community. Take the initiative, decide on your own with who you play and who not.

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RandallPOE wrote:

I'd ask if I could have your stuff but seems like you were to slow to pick anything worth having up :(

You made my day.


OP I'm sorry that the bad people on the internet said mean things to you and took your items. You said it yourself though:

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I have a ps3, ps2, supernintendo and play other pc games so its not like i need this game.

Guess what, this game doesn't need you either, you are free to go.

Now, now kids, let’s all play nice and be friendly like to the OP.

@OP,

This game is intended to be a cut-throat kinda game. This was communicated to us via the devs from the very beginning.

For example. If you were a pirate, would you let some other pirate touch your booty? Probably not. Well here, the game is geared towards being an exile in a hostile land and you have to do what you have to do to survive; protect your booty.

Now, if you don’t like this particular loot style, as many ppl don’t, you can always go:

1) Solo – all the booty is yours

2) Necromancer – minions have no use for your booty

3) Play with your friends who have no interest in your booty as they’re your friends and would never think of touching it unless the situation changes

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MrSpaviel wrote:

No community will beat LoL in stupidity, that's a fact. I have over 6k games in LoL and that is a good amount to say that overall it's a negative experience. In PoE i had less than 1% bad stuff happen when socializing, so i can't agree with you. If you play in default, that's out of my knowledge tho, i don't see the point in playing default, but that's me, don't mind.

My only concern would be the actual viability of diversity. I theorycraft in general and the numbers just don't add to using for example Arctic Breath or whatever spell in combination with X,y,z support gems. Using it VIABLE i mean. I still thank GGG for making the game and i'm sure they are trying their best to improve and whatnot, i just hope enough people are patient.

If you think LoL is bad, never play DOTA 2 D:

What did you expect. The D3 fallout spilled all over this game.

And of course, ruined it. Again.

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Udja wrote:

Well neither is ”fitty” but that doesn’t stop ppl from saying it…

Wut?!

Fitty ain't?

geddafawkouddahee

Loot isn't YOURS before its in YOUR INVENTORY! Obviously you will have negative experience if you think some1 is stealing from you all the time - which is not the case... The game is FFA and items CANNOT BE STOLEN (hacking etc excluded)

Personally I dislike map looters but I bet theres options coming to prevent that, but for now, it is what it is

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Nasakenai wrote:

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Nightprowler wrote:

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Nasakenai wrote:

You either get 100% "safe" and happy games like wow that are heavily regulated and have no game freedom or you end up with people acting like dicks. I'll take the latter because I'm sick of games that hold your hand the whole way and make sure you never get ganked for any reason

I'm sick of additional dicks. I have one of my own, and that's plenty, thanks.

So go play 99.99% of games out there that are easy, predicable, and boring. let the rest of us have JUST 1 GAME that isn't dumbed down to mind-melting levels of boredom.

Also, I'm not saying there's not a number of things that can be greatly improved in PoE particlarly as far as maps/rng goes. Just quit trying to change the genre of the game from cutthroat to carebear.

What, you think a game that doesn't let people be dicks has to be easy, predicable, and boring? So the only way a game is fun to you is if I slap my dick around your face? got it.

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MBata wrote:

If only you had a pair of balls to go along with it...

With the hissy fit I saw you throw in another thread today, I wouldn't be talking...