Hello ? Is dis league ded ?

Such a sad league, the game is performance wise in the best state it ever was, skills are fun and yet ggg managed to create a stupid, tedious league mechanic.
Normaly i would have bought some stash tabs as every league but there is no way i'am going to reward this league mechanic that seems to be centered around occupying as much of my stash as possible.
Fuck this.

I skipped the league mechanic from the beginning because its simply not fun and stopped playing after 2 weeks.

Agree in most of the points of this rant. If the future Leagues go in the same direction and more and more bad stuff gets added to the core game GGG might lose some of their playerbase.

Speaking of content.

I actually played this league till now. Almost every day for few hours, 2 chars, more or less geared, I think about 50-60ex combined, 36 challenges done.

And still:

— not a single Cortex spawn until yesterday. Seriously, why the fuck he spawns SO RARE and SO RNG that people even sell taxi to it for 3-4ex? Whats the fucking reason behind it? I didn't see a single fight just because I prefer to sell it.

— 3 Delve bosses total. At about 280+, doing rotas, spending shitloads of sulphite (not digging deeper, just farming fossils). Another endgame content is absent.

— 1 (one) betrayal boss. I just couldnt spawn more by meeting random events on random maps. I didn't even think about farming it.

— Zero (0) Beast bosses at all with about 350 captured on t16-t15 maps

— Maybe 5-6 temples since they are less random.

Here it is, all leagues content combined. I feel REALLY frustrated about how content is damn blocked by damn RNG or poor mechanics.

I'm not even speaking about crafting recipes, they are literally impossible to get if you are not playing 24/7.

If nothing gonna change in terms of content availability I guess I will skip the next league, it just doesn't feel like worth spending time.

If you have 3 months cycle with this amount of content — you ether make it more available or let people choose what mechanic to play. For now even for VERY dedicated people game has absurd level of complexity.

And speaking of complexity: i'm tired to watch hours of youtube guides just to understand what the hell am I playing now and how it actually works. I still have no idea about betrayal rewards (except breaches, leo slam and vorici white) and how to manage them, I still have no idea why beasts even exist in game (except spider craft). Streamers who are dedicated to deeply understand the league mechanics were started to post some guides 2 weeks after league start and thats just to understand how it works, not to actually make it work with all these bugs and patches.

I am not a challenge hunter and I play very casually but most leagues I play every day (or every other day) for like 1 hour max till the league ends. This league I haven't logged in the last 2 weeks.

I am not saying dead game, but I will say that GGG has some major work to do next league. They will pick an easy league mechanic but they will have much work to do with the bloated mechanics they have been shoving in our throats the last leagues. Hopefully the recipe system will get a major overhaul with the next league. I wish them the best of luck, since I will try PoE again then and hopefully one of my most favourite games ever, will find a second breath.