So, I just uninstalled PoE today.
" As for me, the day on which Borderlands 3 will be released will be my last day of PoE, which I will say goodbye without any regrets. I love RPG-shooters like Borderlands and PoE, but unlike PoE, Borderlands serie has a really captivating story, with really juicy characters and, what is more important, does not contain all the idiocies, that currently plague PoE and which will only intensify. I can build my character without without fear that someone will come in two months and sweep it off the face of the earth. And when I get bored of one character, I can create another one, knowing that if I devise it well, it will work. Such thing is currently impossible in PoE, it is like "be meta or quit forever with rage". Also, paradoxically, I miss the game in which there is some loot. PoE is game without any loot and more and more reminiscent of real life, but very boring, and this is after all a game. Or should be. I would like to find some loot, but there is only garbage instead, so to have anything "good" I have to go to "work", craft, fiddling with prophecies or play stock exchange simulator instead of H'n'S or even shooter. To hell with it! I hope at least this Grim Down new expansion will be worth of my time, till Borderlands finally apears :) |
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" As player from beta I just suggest to keep game on disk and play from time to time as you will miss some emotions you/me/we are addicted to. .) There are ton of fantastic games. PoE is real time eater like any other mmorpg and is offering much less. Micromanagement is reason nr. 1 why I do not play much. I have stopped to trust ggg and enjoy game when xp with aoe nerf ocured. I return for few maps, occasionally for one week gaming if there is some new gem to try out and check out on forum only if I play game. I spend money only when game is forcing me to do so. I guess your life will look different and from observations its different, more content and satisfying. gl hf Last edited by Rexeos on Mar 26, 2019, 10:58:28 AM
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" I'm sure if I played enough to stream, I could just power through the terrible drop rate, and be just fine. It would be irritating, but I'd make do. But I don't play that much. I'm all for understanding, and being OK with time investment = easier play time. The problem is, Map drops in Synthesis are still WAY down in terms of quantity. The disparity in map drops between now, and other leagues (and even standard), is staggering. It should not be a slog fest to get mapping. it shouldn't be: Run all the maps you have at higher tier, and then have to go backwards, in some cases down 2 whole tiers of maps, because the map drops are terrible. But, that's where we casual players are at right now, with map drops in Synthesis. Now off you go troll, go find your bridge. 1 | |
Whatever you look at it, GGG is in trouble right now. Not because they released terrible league, just because they released it now. And in this case, time clearly runs counter to them. As everyone knows, the league turned out to be a failure, players leave the game en masse. Even the veterans give up, in addition embittered and pissed off. For image and reputation, something like this is a tragedy. And the third week of the league is just about to end, so even those who have moderately liked it will stop.
So it is still more than two months of this nightmare to go. At the same time, former PoE players, like me, for instance, will be surprised to discover that while they were playing PoE, many other interesting games have been released, which they can now purchase on sales, at a price equal to the price of some pitiful digital slippers in PoE. I already bought few of them and soon will play them too. As if that was not enough, in April, in a moment, and certainly during Synthesis, access to the beta "Last Epoch" will be opened, which does not even hide the fact that it is a PoE clone. To be honest, I already purchased that one too. And in June, when some other PoE expansion or league (whatever) will be released, there will be summer hollidays soon, so people will be on hollidays instead of playing games, including PoE. Bad time indeed for releasing crappy league. You have been placed on probation for: ● Make hateful or needlessly negative comments ● Personally attack or cause harm to the reputation of others ● Antagonise others in an obnoxious manner ●
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As someone who started not too long ago (1 week or less?) I avoided most questions and google them myself.. I did copy this build from seeing kripp when he plays the game here and there, thought it was fun and it's fun I don't deny it.
The game for me has alot of content to chew on still but I already indenity the OP issues myself in the game (mostly on the microtransactions wise) I don't care for the cosmetics honestly but the stashes are something critical since you gather ALOT of materials in the game.. so this was my first turn off. Later on I found out that you need to pay more money to post items in order for others to buy them off you why is this even a thing? people forced to download external programs to fulfill this and they havent come with a solution yet? Then as I started to progress on the game for the first time (and I know I'm not even CLOSE to mid game yet) I found out that you have to depend on RNG to progress on maps, I already left a shit game because it was overload with RNG for endgame.. sure I do get maps but mostly 1-2 is that what I'm supposed to do at level 80+? Another thing I saw players constantly saying that this league is basically dogshit and I started to wonder if I picked up the WORST time to start playing this game. Old league content also doesnt seem fully balanced nor tested, there's things that 1 shot you (which is fine as punishment for not dodging when you ACTUALLY SEE WHATS COMING TO YOU) but when you get 1 shotted randomly by whatever with all the chaos going around and not by a real mechanic in game like bleeds or reflect or whatever is legit, I think this is a design issue.. not sure how you guys managed to deal with some of the syndicate content anyway (I can guess it was with a tankish build?) while I'm a real newbie when it come to this game getting 1 shot without (with high resistances 75+ 90%+) being able to do anything reeks of a design problem, as result I'm basically running for my life every single time I get syndicate ambushes, I value more my experience than some recipes. What I'm gonna do with all the info I gathered in my short time? for now will still play, I feel I dont have better items to survive certain things still, learn more about the game, because I got really into it despite the pay for stash thing which annoys me but not to the turn off point yet, still I recently stopped paying a company that go eaf ears when it comes to players feedback and I heard alot of people saying that this game dev's actually listen to players thats another thing that made me finally play this game, so far I'm not regretting it again despite some failures on design and some mandatory microtransactions (for the stashes, don't care about cosmetics) "Parade your victories, hide your defeats. Mortals are so insecure."
Once you break the cycle of fear no angels or demons can whisper you their sweet nothing words. Retired since crucible.(Not a free tester anymore for a multi billion dollar company). | |
" They used to listen, but since Tencent, if you do not agree with them, they either ignore you, or mute you for some time in Global. This league *IS* Dogshite. |
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+1
I personally am back from a poe hiatus (3 years or so). A number of my friends have been continuous players, so I've kept up to some extent with the memes and development vicariously. I really like the way that some things have gone. 1. Crafting, while much more convoluted (and not well explained, anywhere) is much better than when I left, especially with the death of the dailies, which were abhorrent. 2. The maps and atlas etc are a nice touch, delve is neat. 3. I like that Rares have become more valuable compared to uniques, though that appears to have been a fine line that GGG sometimes incorrectly crosses, things like Poets Pen, which I personally find myself fortunate to have never played with in their prime, are gross. However, I cant help but completely agree with the OP. This clearspeed meta BS is gagworthy. When I see content that was clearly designed to encourage and support the clearspeed meta, like Incursion.... I cant, I'm without words. Its just so bad. My friends complain about Reflect maps, but frankly, if it would kill the clearpseed meta, I would like to see all content come with like a 1% reflect for all hits and dots, all damage. Just calm the fek down Sanic. Brainless winter orb 1-button builds are not examples of good gameplay. A single glance at poe.ninja should tell the devs that they have made serious mistakes. The point about QA shouldnt even have to be made. Literally everything about Synthesis was broken in at least one way on release, and when fixed only revealed more layers of brokenness. I dont get it, honestly. Back when I played last GGG was on more of a 4-month release cycle, which seemed alright, but perhaps even then too fast. I get that shorter release cycles means more population spikes per year, and probably more revenue, but it clearly also means absolutely crap development. Why not a 6-month development cycle even? Who the heck besides no-lifers and streamers even has time to really finish a character in a 12-13 week league, especially when GGG hasnt doesnt even manage to actually get the league released in working order until several weeks in? Honestly I would personally just play on standard if it wasnt polluted with all the broken legacy uniques. Can we have a Nerf server, aka a Standard league but where you actually balance old shit? Last edited by urza1234 on Apr 6, 2019, 7:36:11 AM
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" I need another 10 levels of bold to embolden the boldest parts and this line would still be entirely bold Gives streamers & friends queue priority and leaves supporters who spent hundreds $ packs in the 100k queue.
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Agree with the OP entirely. I loved this game in closed beta. Dev's have lost their way imo.
I remember when they said they were getting rid of gold to avoid having meaningless gold-sinks. Then, what did they do? Create 10000 different sorts of 'gold' for you to collect in order to coerce people into buying stash tabs. Sad. Play GD, its an actual ARPG and not a trading simulator. "the premier Action RPG for hardcore gamers."
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I agree with OP and have uninstalled the game as well after Betrayal, will I return in the future? maybe.
But nowadays I only look through the forums once or twice a week. |
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