Looting -- The official thread for discussing the loot system. Updated 18th March, 2013.

Please ask the devs to publicly state their intentions on this issue.

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killbilly wrote:

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Vooodu wrote:

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LoliDesu wrote:

With the loot system in it's current state, I'm hard pressed to play in a party of any kind. The desync in this game makes the problem worse. Either you add an option for instanced loot or you will be seeing me, and many other players like me leave. The map drop rates are already too low, and you're telling me that having loot timers is a good compromise? Give me a break.

Goood.. Leave. Im pretty sure thats the best logical step when you don't enjoy a game.

This game is free, give you a break?

..L M A O..

yeap we will leave no worries....it is the best company practise you can offer

unhappy customer >>>>>> out of here

man are you CEO somewhere? with this attitude you can make millions of $$$

Well, to be fair. GGG made a FREE to play game they they themselves wanted to play.


Im sure their goal wasn't appease the masses and make millions. Because lets face it, thats the problem most games make today.

2 year old posts do not count

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peachii wrote:

If you cannot discuss this civilly

I agree but what exactly should we discuss here in this thread? And with what results?

Please enlighten me :)


TIA

ROFL - fucking - copter.

700 fucking pages....

And GGG last post, 1 year ago. Wonder how many people take this directly to the Q&A with Chris thread?

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Well, to be fair. GGG made a FREE to play game they they themselves wanted to play.


Im sure their goal wasn't appease the masses and make millions. Because lets face it, thats the problem most games make today.





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They have a specific audience in mind, and will not cater to every type of gamer, that is just not possible. That's just not this game. They're better off doing what they are doing, aiming for a specific gamer and shooting off in that direction, as opposed to flopping around trying to appeal to the masses.

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Vooodu wrote:

Well, to be fair. GGG made a FREE to play game they they themselves wanted to play.


Im sure their goal wasn't appease the masses and make millions. Because lets face it, thats the problem most games make today.

maybe they arent' gonna make millions but they must generate enough $$$ to keep the wheel running...and believe or not you cant' live from donations...you provide them a service (game) to have fun and players in return they buy things from you

stop saying that they created poe for themselves...if they wanted it for themselves why the shop?

they want to make money from PoE...yes not millions but their wage at least...

and the games DO not suffer from the greed...they suffer from the lack of soul

last F2P business if made right can generate more $$$ than ANY other model (sub,b2p,p2w)...they didnt' went f2p just for your or mine face (there is a marketing rule that says IF a customer gets something for free you have higher chances to give you back MORE..cant' recall the exact marketing wording for that tho)

i can judge from myself for example...i have already payed around $100 bucks in PoE (i try to milk them atm i am already bored)...if this WASNT' f2p i woulda give them 20$ (average b2p indie game)..so they generated 80 additional bucks out of NOTHING (same game nothing more)

please do not go to the economic side of the game...cause you know...a leaving customer is lose of $$$ simple as that

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fragmaster92 wrote:

They have a specific audience in mind, and will not cater to every type of gamer, that is just not possible. That's just not this game. They're better off doing what they are doing, aiming for a specific gamer and shooting off in that direction, as opposed to flopping around trying to appeal to the masses.

this is the problem, you are NOT catering to casuals if you just let some bad habits from the past (FFA) or the present (grindfest for endgame) go away with your game...

PoE is the easiest game out there (even easiest from RMAHed D3) if

a) make a group of 2-3 friends
b) see a)

this game is NOT HARD at ALL and has NO REAL challenge if you have the above requirement...

having a group of 2-3 friends you have solved

a) FFA loot (unless you like messing with your friends)
b) Map Grindfest and currency map dumps (split them in /2 , /3)

even in D3 if my friend RMAH'd and i didnt' the maps were MORE difficult and carry was harder...

see? there is OTHER thing hard and OTHER thing stupid hard...

ps. 25 docks merci and STILL no map (and i am not counting any 58+ lvl map that i have crossed till i reach there). you can say this is hard, i say this is GRINDFEST for endgame (we are NOT talking about gear..we are talking about end game maps)

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peachii wrote:

Please stop the insults. If you cannot discuss this civilly then do not post.

Any further insults and derogatory remarks towards any other players in this thread will result in probations being handed out.

Thanks.

Thank God. Its about time.

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fragmaster92 wrote:

They have a specific audience in mind, and will not cater to every type of gamer, that is just not possible. That's just not this game. They're better off doing what they are doing, aiming for a specific gamer and shooting off in that direction, as opposed to flopping around trying to appeal to the masses.

Of course they can't please everyone and shouldn't try. However this specific issue is obviously very important to a HUGE part of the fanbase. I wonder why they are locking every thread on looting but this one. Because it was completely dominating the forums.

I think its a pretty easy fix that doesn't compromise the game as a whole at all. If it was such a huge problem they wouldn't be discussing it right now.