Pre 4.0 hype disappointment

The way Chris speaks about 4.0 makes me think we're going to get a MMO with AH and mounts. Just leaving this here way ahead so I can come back later and say told you so; expectations will hardly be met on any scale.

What are your high hopes?

New engine. Of course this will never happen because releasing cosmetics is more profitable.

Way too early to tell. But one thing is for sure, Speed Racer/Shooter PoE looks to be here to stay forever. Chris made that plainly clear in his GDC presentation. GGG is after maximum player counts to have maximum mtx sales and thus we make PoE into a shooter/racer style game to get millions of twitch game junkies to play. Then we keep them hooked by way of the race reset every 13 weeks. It won't matter what the league mechanic is as much as the ladder and economy reset so the game junkies can race to 100 again (they will play whatever the meta builds are for that league).

What a terrible way to see our once beloved ARPG go. Strategy and role playing is out. The smash and dash race to 100 is all the matters. As long as TencentGGG can see that the player numbers are there then that's all good for them.

Goodbye old PoE, we will always miss you, sniff.  :(

If 4.0 doesn't allow us to set up the delve azurite autoloot for currency items, low-mid value orbs and scrolls, then I'm done with PoE.
This has already been the most bleh league ever, they need to bring a lot to the table to keep me playing, and if the minimum QoL of autolooting isn't there, well I just go play whatever else there is.

I'm just completely done with clicking a billion items
to loot like a fucking tool.
Absolutely no debate, there should be autoloot for most orbs and scrolls and other basic meta currency loot.
Suck it in like a vacuum with a nametag that fades out in a static position where the loot was, or flies to a corner of our choice stacking and fading so we can get a glimpse of what we picked up.

With THIS much shit in the game, even with loot filter on, players are spending more time stopping to pick up loot than actually playing.

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DudeTheLegend wrote:

If 4.0 doesn't allow us to set up the delve azurite autoloot for currency items, low-mid value orbs and scrolls, then I'm done with PoE.
This has already been the most bleh league ever, they need to bring a lot to the table to keep me playing, and if the minimum QoL of autolooting isn't there, well I just go play whatever else there is.

I'm just completely done with clicking a billion items
to loot like a fucking tool.
Absolutely no debate, there should be autoloot for most orbs and scrolls and other basic meta currency loot.
Suck it in like a vacuum with a nametag that fades out in a static position where the loot was, or flies to a corner of our choice stacking and fading so we can get a glimpse of what we picked up.

With THIS much shit in the game, even with loot filter on, players are spending more time stopping to pick up loot than actually playing.

So what you're saying is GGG needs to streamline the game more to reduce breaks in play and increase the speed of the game?

Not everything needs to be about speed and ridiculous numbers - just look at how Actiblizz gutted the Diablo franchise with that crap...

I personally started playing POE specifically because it's an ARPG that's is not Diablo or Torch Light etc.

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Skyi85 wrote:

just look at how Actiblizz gutted the Diablo franchise with that crap...

So D2 was 9/10 but D3 was 3/10 because... players did NOT have to click on every fucking single gold pile to pick them up?? LMFAO

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DudeTheLegend wrote:

I'm just completely done with clicking a billion items
to loot like a fucking tool.

The state of poe players in 2019

I don’t think there will be any revolution. Probably something like “same as always, only twice as much”. How many maps are currently in atlas? 158? Then they make 258, to boost map stash tab sales even more. Also, they can add additional “endgame”, like some T17-T24 maps, with some multi phased, hundred tentacles Uber uber boss, I don’t know, some “Wilsonder”, which will drop some good loot if killed twenty times.

Also some form of AH, but probably very clunky and convoluted, just to proof that “old” system was better. Whet else? Probably 4.0 will be buggy as hell, because it will be additionally loaded with bugs ballast from 3 previous leagues. Why not 4? Because 3.7 will be legacy league. It have to be, because they already stated “we're testing the new league” and in a month they plan to release turmoil, so there is no way they can develop anything other than legacy league, with proven "leaguestones".

I also expect some new "hurdles", which are completely artificial to force players to play 8-12 hours a day. And probably tree rework, with some new class, to lure back all players who quitted in the meantime.

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Head_Less wrote:

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DudeTheLegend wrote:

I'm just completely done with clicking a billion items
to loot like a fucking tool.

The state of poe players in 2019

He speaks from a true racer junkie perspective. The role playing aspect is not of much/any importance, just let me race through all zones/maps to get my build to 100. Role playing, strategy, great content... who needs that. Let me suck up all currency orbs (like azurite in delving) so I can blitzkrieg this map and get to the next one.

Hope: They redo the act monsters to be in line with current character development. They "fix" league additions. Then they set the core game and leave it alone for good. They can still have leagues with new things. But core should remain core until 5.0 if that ever happens. Changing core on the fly has gotten them in a world of hurt.