Unique and Divination Card Drop Rate Changes in 2.0.3

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CoronaBunny wrote:

Don't really know one way or another about the drop-rates: (crazy-rare) *4 ~= (crazy-rare)


But if your prob is people leaving, well:

1) Respect their game-playing experience/ time SPENT: i.e. murdering, and I really mean that word, entire realms of builds with each, and every, update... bad thing: bad!

I used to try and get my dead builds up and going again. Now I utterly no longer CARE: several THOUSAND hours of time - poof.

More than that: what used to be a finely tuned machine, turned into a rather silly & pathetic cripple... [head-shake]

Why, on earth, do you people refuse to think how that kind of experience, ==MULTIPLIED==, FRAMES how players feel about PoE?
PoE is great - as long as you ignore PoE... [o]_O
I often wonder if GGG is (still) located next to a lead-foundry... sure would explain a whole lot.


2) Since none of this is free, respect the damn money spent on the damn packs: [Removed by Support]
I.e. hold freekin survey's, and RANK replies by total-moola-spent on the game. Unless you are all coming into some Obama-stash, that would only be, well, sane, right? The whole 'paying customer' thing, right?


3) Take note that it is very easy to LOSE trust/ respect. Spin-doctoring is something people HATE. Combine that with a dash (or rather a lot of dashes) of secrecy... and what you have is raw distrust, which will spin off into making assumptions based off of inferred evil.


Oh. And unless you have eventual plans to turn PoE into a FPS game - which would be rather amusing - kindly note that wiping out entire classes of players (cough - balancing around low latency, cough - pet peeve), is perhaps a bad idea.

Just saying. Again. Although there is ever less point in writing these posts...

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hacp wrote:

This is a huge 180 from the stance they had before the awakening. I remember clearly Qarl said that players were getting perfect gear too quickly and GGG needed to slow down the rate of GGG gear dropping so the overall gear level of players will progress at an "intended" level. They liked the idea of having awesome unique being rare and almost impossible to get.

It seems GGG's idea of "intended" was far out of line with what was actually fun. It was smothering. It seems to be a worrying pattern. They've had to reverse their stance on map drop rates, A4 difficulty, and now unique drop rates. Maybe they need more testing in beta to make sure that the game that is released live is actually fun to play rather than testing this stuff on live servers by using players as unwilling beta testers.

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Ventor wrote:

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Chris wrote:

All rare and super-rare Unique items now drop four times as often as they previously did. Yes, this means that four times as many Mjölners or Shavronne's Wrappings will now drop.

Bingo.

Good change.