I am lucky, therefore game is fine

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johnKeys wrote:

really, Scrotie?

of all people I would have expected you to understand the thread's aim.

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johnKeys wrote:

really, Scrotie?

of all people I would have expected you to understand the thread's aim.

instead, you're either here to troll or worse - that's actually your honest opinion.
I sincerely hope it's the former.

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johnKeys wrote:

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Vaux wrote:

Absolutely could not have said it better myself. This whole 'entitled' generation of gamers that thinks everything should be handed to them without having to work for it makes me sick.

and comments like yours make me sick.
I bet I was playing a decade before you were conceived, and I'm far from being the oldest Path Of Exile player. so show some damn respect before spewing out "entitled generation" bullshit.
"kid".

I made this thread about how much "I'm lucky, game is fine, git gud" posts make me rage, and here you are with something even more fkn disgusting.
I'm sure you're fkn proud of yourself.

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Frankenberry wrote:

I think to a much higher degree could be made the other way around: "I am unlucky, therefore something is wrong with the game".

In general a huge part of this community could learn a lot from the E-Sports ideal mentality "I lost. This is my fault. How can I avoid making this mistake in the future?". Often the mentality here is more like "I failed. This is not my fault. Something must be wrong with the game. I shouldn't try to do something different. I should advocate a change to the game".

I respect you disagreeing, and you put some valid points - but I think your reasons and explanations to some of those points, aren't valid at all.

is losing always your fault? always due to making a mistake?
does being unlucky/screwed never imply something is wrong about some aspect of the game?
of course not. don't be ridiculous.
your post is more bragging about how good you are, than a realistic view.

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johnKeys wrote:

first of all Vaux, if the game was as perfectly fine as you claim and all unpleasant experiences were avoidable / results of player error, then no one would have ever died from a glitch, freeze, crash, desync, re-sync, Lockstep halt etc', or got screwed out of loot/progression by any of the above.
heck, those are the reasons the game is completely unplayable for me in HC right now - and although I'm an SC player at heart, I just hate to see my HC chars just sit there and not logging on to them.
technical issues right now are actually worse than ever before, for me. and that includes Open Beta where the game actually had a right to be unstable.

oh and no one would have ever have died to some crap cheap unavoidable one-shot mechanic, even GGG admitted was too much and nerfed the hell out of, 2 days later.
unless they could fkn play in super-slow-motion like in the fkn Matrix, and see a few seconds into the future.

that's why I call complete bullshit on the "all is a result of player error" part of the "game is fine" theory, which you and Frankenberry so proudly and so foolishly represent.
if I go to "full elitist" mode, I'd say "most". but "all" isn't even elitist. it's stupid.

second, I'm not an MMORPG player. I only tried one (Lineage it was, I think) for a couple hours and couldn't quite get into it.

I'm a fan of RPG, Dungeon Crawlers (recent: the outstanding Legend Of Grimrock series), Quests, H&S ARPG (Diablo and TQ being notable examples), "tactical" D&D like Baldur's Gate (recent: Pillars Of Eternity).
those are the standards by which I look at Path Of Exile.
so let me tell you something about RNG: none of the above use RNG like PoE does. many have it in the game obviously, but none "worship" it. design the entire game around it. treat it as an end rather than a means to one.

and what happens when the all-mighty RNG doesn't deem you worthy, even after thousands of hours and hundreds of successful encounters vs. some really scary shit?
well you have to "work the system" as you put it, right? do whatever it takes to "git gud" despite not being RNG's favourite disciple.

well I'm not here to "work the system". I'm here to fkn kill monsters like you are fkn supposed to do in an ARPG, and get pissed off again and again over the fact, just doing so isn't really worth anything in this game.
and I'm not alone in this "silly" mind set.

so when you see us "silly" old ARPG players not "working the system", like you think everyone is supposed to - please show some god damned respect and sympathy, or hell just think for a few seconds before using that BS "git gud, game is fine" argument that drives me up the fkn wall.