Who else is not going to play PoE anymore because of the lab?

If lab is the future and the devs keep pushing it down our throats I see no reason to continue with this game. Its been nice and all but enough is enough. Cant believe that I am replacing this with Blizzard products(not D3, Hearthstone and Overwatch)but thats how it is. Who else is throwing the towel because of a faulty design decision?

I don't think it's a faulty design decision. It's just not one everybody likes. I quit playing high level MTG when they changed Pro Tours from all limited or all constructed to split format (I was a limited specialist). This change made MTG more popular and helped grow the Pro Tour. It was definitely not a faulty design decision even though it sucked a lot for me.

I'm cool with the lab. I hope the upcoming improvements work well. The new trap type and obstacle pushing thing seem alright. I hope they've also fixed some of the worst trap issues like the super dark and laggy buzzsaw/spike gauntlet, but whatever. A few crappy trap setups don't ruin the game for me.

It sucks that the lab ruins the game for you. It happens sometimes. I'd recommend giving it one more shot once Prophecy is out to see if the changes make it something you can live with. If not, good luck with Hearthstone. I've heard it's a good game.

Im actually hyped to see the new traps and all this new lab shit

it rules that something that takes like twenty minutes per difficulty to run that's now required once per league is able to stop someone from enjoying hundreds of hours of content

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DrGoatMD wrote:

it rules that something that takes like twenty minutes per difficulty to run that's now required once per league is able to stop someone from enjoying hundreds of hours of content

Only the trials are a once per league thing. You still have to run the labyrinth in all three difficulties on every character you want the Ascendancy points on. There's an additional Labyrinth to run on every character for two more points now. Fewer trials, more actual labyrinth.

wel you DON'T have to do the labyrinth you can play builds perfectly without ascendency like we have ever done its just a little extra that can enhance a build but not necessary!

personally i like the labyrinth and didn't have much trouble with it and id love to se a 4th difficulty and making it global for all your characters is a huge quality of life improvement

Oh, okay. I thought that interpretation was a little weird.

It's still not much of a hassle to run each one unless you're going for all the silver key doors and all, which is almost always not worth it.

forced to run lab to get accendency points suck big time if you ask me.

too risky on hc imo.

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DrGoatMD wrote:

Oh, okay. I thought that interpretation was a little weird.

It's still not much of a hassle to run each one unless you're going for all the silver key doors and all, which is almost always not worth it.

They're also buffing the rewards for side areas like those. It might actually be worth it to go for silver keys now! I don't think they've given any specific details on exactly how they've buffed them yet.

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Johny_Snow wrote:

If lab is the future and the devs keep pushing it down our throats I see no reason to continue with this game. Its been nice and all but enough is enough. Cant believe that I am replacing this with Blizzard products(not D3, Hearthstone and Overwatch)but thats how it is. Who else is throwing the towel because of a faulty design decision?

HAHAHHAHAH

wait. what?

I don't get peoples hatred about the lab. Dislike, boring, weird, sucks, sure. Quit the game? O'Rly. It's still POE, same game. With an added bonus of traps.

The only rage I understand is from people with bad Internet + Computers that crash often, makes lab reallllly unpleasant. Everything else... no just no.

How many characters do people play? 10-20? All to lvl 63? I have like 500+ hours on 4 characters in Perandus.

GGG don't go around giving free Ascendancy points, keep it behind LAB forever, or maybe even something worse.

All 8 Points from Uber Atziri... that'd be fun.

And HOW could you have played POE before Ascendancy? I mean if those points are so important to you, so essential to the game, that it gets UNPLAYABLE because you have to play through 2-3 hours of content per character that you dislike, how shitty was POE before lab....