Bestiary as a Core Game Mechanic

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monkeyonyourtonsils wrote:

I'm sure someone at GGG who is not popular anymore came up with this concept.. or something personal like that. That's how good ideas are being burried at game studios around the world. It takes the wrong person to have a great idea.
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This is an intriguing idea.

Most of the problems I had with is were superficial (namelocking, nets clogging the loot tables, etc.) or obvious rookie choices (lets add a million useless recipes with no way to organize it or search it... lets have an unavoidable splash screen pop up every time a beast is captured...)

It could have been really fun with an extra two hours worth of work... sad.

I was going for around 30 challenges, but completely lost interest in PoE. Mostly due to Bestiary being so broken, and partly due to the release of the new Battletech game (it's good, but not amazing). Now after being away from PoE for a couple weeks, I can't bring myself to play Bestiary league anymore. I really want to continue, but I just can't bring myself to do so. May be in another week?

At any rate, whenever I took a break from leagues for a while, I always enjoyed coming back. Not with Bestiary.

no1 please I really don't like bestiary

this made my day, THanks GGG, takes balls to own up to something like this.

Bestiary is great for SSF.

This will probably be my first and only post

Awesome news!

Bestiary was shit, best decision ever!

Well done GGG

Well i am sad that you are taking it away. there was so many cool things that you could do with the bestiary. the aspect gear was great addition. and capturing all the beasts is what kept me playing it till i caught all of them. I dont understand how people complain about having to read a wiki to see what recipes was good, you literally pulled up the bestiary with the h key and it didnt take a lot of brains to realize that creating a random unique was good, or rerolling your stats for just a few beasts was better then buying a divine.

I think that all the work you put in to the bestiary shouldnt go to waste. why not leave it in the core game? Just dont tie challenges to it. I mean it gave you choices out side of the meta builds, as well as gave players that wasnt as lucky the ability to get cool things, like six links, and if you wanted to try hard enough head hunters, white socket crafting, 30% corruptions, unique maps, so many good things.

i think the people complaining wasnt new players but older players that complain about every new mechanic

Basically you realized this was perhaps one of the worst leagues ever made and decided the right choice was excluding it from the core game so everyone can completely forget about it and move on.

Smart move GGG.

good job GGG.

The League is nice and the mechanics too but it's not something that should remain as a core thingy, some leagues that have a limited amout of new features like breach are an awesome adding to the standard gameplay but bestiary had a bit of too much expanded content that even considering to keep it in the game would be a mistake IMO, as you said balancing around it would take too much of an effort and other crafting methods would be overlooked by many players.
I think that's a good call, keep up the good work!