The Blizzboy effect is real.

Bestiary was patently terrible, and on release was just the worst.

Syndicate was divisive, but terrible for mediocre players like me. The endless Syndicate Sucks Vs Syndicate is fine Git Gud threads proves this beyond reproach.

Synthesis is simply too complicated/convoluted for no reward - and because of that will NEVER be popular. There are actual baselines to compare with here, and it has provably fallen short. Without even mentioning that it has little fun factor beyond what is already in the game, and actually has negative fun in the stupid decay mechanic.

All this has nothing to do with D3 or its fans. That is simply a convenient scapegoat for you to vent your spleen on, and to type REEEEEE several times to make you feel like an internet cool dude.

The complaining about stuff may get a little tiresome by times, but it is important people talk about both their positive and negative feelings of the game. No matter how terrible or great YOU think something is, invariable someone will think the opposite. So don't take things so granular, take them as a whole and evaluate.

Or stay in your echo chamber, whatever you like.

Dunno where OP gets off blaming the decline of a game on a player base from another game and those players interference, when they themselves wreak of toxicity.

The devs chose the direction POE has gone, not a mob with pitchforks.

I've played both games for a long time, and a few others. I don't play one arpg over any other because they all have their strengths and weaknesses.

At the end of the day ARPGs are about monster slaying and building a strong hero, if (personally) a game in the genre doesn't fulfill those 2 basic requirements I will spend my time elsewhere.

I find it so sad that people invest so much of everything into a game that hearts break and lives get wrecked over updates and changes.

POE is fun, simple at its heart and refreshing when you change builds/playstyles. It's still a linear hack and slash not some MMORPGs...

"Everyone I disagree with is a D3 casual troll!"

Bonus alternate snark:

"Stop trying to make GGG turn PoE into what YOU want, they need to turn PoE into what I want!"

I think the title is wrong, but I did get a chuckle out of the everything is always the worse thing ever commentary lol.

I'd say for the most part there is usually something I like about every league I've played so far.

I think the ones that tend to get disliked the most are the ones where the content is not segregated enough from the main playfield, so folks can't avoid it (so far this has basically been Beastiary and Betrayal). The other main complaint is on the need for speed (timers / fails unless you can not only do the content, but do it FAST).

Synthesis is not bad, but its not super strong either... I will say that it had A LOT of annoying bugs at launch, and things that are/were mechanically clunky as fuck in implementation, second probably only to Beastiary in that regard.

It looks pretty cool, and I like the quick runs through the small zone per area a lot more than the actual nexus puzzle part of it.

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Woodydave44 wrote:

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I_NO wrote:

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Woodydave44 wrote:

first reply proves my points

That made zero sense.

It made perfect sense.

Post isnt about how good or bad the league is.

Post about people like you going REEEEEEEEE at every opportunity.

That would make sense if I_NO came from D3 recently.

She did not.

So it definitely makes zero sense.

Some people just want to be contrarian and bait others into arguments. Like the OP.

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codetaku wrote:

That would make sense if I_NO came from D3 recently.

She did not.

So it definitely makes zero sense.

Found the white knight.


Re-read everything and think about what you just said.

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Some people just want to be contrarian and bait others into arguments. Like the OP.

You mean this isnt another REEEEE thread?


MUST BE BAIT.

Both sides can be nasty if they want to. You taking a different stance does not make you better.

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Apachy wrote:

Harbinger was not that bad. The league lasted 4 months and people got tired of it eventually. However, everybody loved orbs!

Abyss - people complain that the spawn rate of liches was too small. That's it! Actually, GGG increased it in the end.

Bestiary - it was bad. Most players hated the "Zoo". Almost nobody wanted it to go core. The RNG was very bad as well.

Incursion - the only problem was with challenges about corruption etc. People got sick of farming Quarry. All in all, it was not bad.

Delve - it should have been an alternative to maps. This was/is the biggest complaint.

Ho boi, you either wasnt here or you have amnesia.

Harbringer - EVERYONE and their mother was bitching how Harbringer is worst league ever and GGG must be joking to release league in which transmutation and alternation shards is reward. Exalted and Mirror shards were literally non-existent. GGG buffed drop, speed of monsters spawn and amount of monsters spawn at least three times before people finally stopped raging so hard.

Abyss - People were complaining about Liched for whole league but at the start there were countless threads how Abyss is just worse breach and how it barely spawn any monster. Same as Harbringer - GGG had to buff speed of moner spawn and amount of monster that spawn. People were also complaining how you barely can see the crack. It took like 3 weeks for GGG to make cracks more visible and finally they added minimap icon for them.

Bestiary - Same story as always. THIS IS WORST LEAGUE EVER MADE. THIS LEAGUE IS A JOKE. THIS SHIT IS UNREWARDING!!! Those were just couple of problems people had with it. Other were "YOU NEED TO FARM BILLION MAPS TO FIND LEGENDARY(portal) BEASTS!!! or "The UI of crafting is so bad I want to puke when I see it!". We also couldnt sell beasts at the start.

Incursion - People were raging on Forum how incursion is most unfair league ever made because of chaos damage everywhere. People were dying like flies. In addition to that, at the start you had to have VERY fast build to not fail timer in incursions. Temple was supposed to be "build your own adventure" but in reality was "pray to RNG to get one of three good rooms, otherwise you can ignore whole Temple"

Delve - at the start of the league people were saying Flares is the worst mechanic that was added to the game. ever. They were also complaining that side zones are unrewarding and not worth risking your life. They also constantly were complaining how they need to start over their mines every time they make new character (untill GGG finally made it account wide) and how they need to buy enchants on new characters (untill GGG finally made it account wide)

I can go like that about EVERY league that was ever added to this game, but there is no point.

Thats the point. No league was perfect from day one. Just fucking wait and see if GGG will fix this one.