An outdated, dead game - a review

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I've created a character build, I just don't see why I should keep doing repetitive tasks to achieve it.

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Bunnu wrote:

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Firecrest5 wrote:

Be fair. There’s some truth in the OP’s statement. This is not a regular Beta. Regular Beta’s don’t last half a year. The point of a Beta is to gather popular opinion and make changes to a nearly complete project. PoE Beta started way way too early. The problems this causes are two-fold.

First is as the OP stated. It starts to look like an excuse. Beta’s are supposed to help put final polish into the game. Instead, this Beta is all about scraping the caked dirt off something that kinda sorta maybe looks like it might end up being nice.

The second issue with the length of this Beta is the “been there, done that, didn’t/did like it, moved on” effect. Many many people have already spent all the time on PoE that they're going to spend. One of two things happened. They liked it, but have had their fill. Or they ran into enough issues that they decided the game wasn’t for them. For this last group of people, you can shout all you want about how the last six months have been just a test and how everything is magically going to get better with 1.0 but they’re not buying what you’re selling.

The industry standard is a couple months for Beta polishing. GGG has spent the last half a year letting people romp around in their woefully undeveloped product and has lost many customers because of it.

It's not like PoE went open beta and we've been playing the same game since then. We've had plenty of major changes to the game and GGG has been paying close attention to the game's feedback with the larger population. I don't think it's fair to say it isn't a beta just because it's lasted longer than most betas, not to mention the OP's point was that betas do not actually exist and that any and all betas are excuses.

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DropBearAntix wrote:

i don't understand the motivation of the original poster. nor of people who do likewise - that is, write a post about "i'm quitting because blah-blah-blah".

if you don't like a game, don't play it. writing on the GAME'S OWN FORUM about how you haven't enjoyed it, is not going to create converts to your way of thinking.

this is just another QQ thread. i can NOT understand why people b!tch, moan & groan over a game that is essentially free (apart from time & data capacity maybe). just uninstall the game, and find something else. it's not rocket science.

leave the forums to the people who do enjoy playing the game.