Massive RIP to PoE.

"
Malice4201 wrote:
Nah.. ive already played d2 to death. New paint won't make me want to play it again.


Agree 1000000%, who the fuck want the same game all over again..I want new stuff to it, then it would be unreal fun to play again, but new paint, does nothing, the game looked great as it was. love Diablo 2.
"
DreadLordAvatar wrote:
"
WickedSausage wrote:

I have spend about 80$ in total on PoE. Some on tabs, other on skins.
And I really don't have to get anything more. I can live without essence tab and fossile tab.
Concidering the amount of time i have spent in PoE(almost 2k hours). That price is nothing.
PoE is one of the best games out there, when it comes to adding content. So I would gladly support some more.


Blizzard on the other hand. They are greedy on a different level.

1. They add microtransaction to WoW. Despite people are already paying a sub fee and the price of any expansion. And those expansions cost the same price as a new game.

2. Diablo 3 costed like 60$ on realease but also gets a pay 2 win AH. So they can earn more money.
Once that fail, they pretty much stop supporting the game after reaper of souls.

3. Heroes of the Storm is easily the most expensive moba when it comes to unlocking heroes.

4. Overwatch and Hearthstone helped popularise loot boxes.

5. Hearthstone began introducing more and more crazy card by each expansion. Cards you basically must have. Not to mention they tried harder to reach casuals by going for cheap mechanics and loads of RNG. Which pretty much killed the game.

6. They introduce Diablo Immortal on mobiles. And try to convince people its their next great Diablo installment.
But in reallity its a game made for movile cuz they wanna reach the huge casual crowd. Especially high paying Asians.

7. Warcraft 3 reforged promised loads of stuff and was quite expensive. But what people got was a buggy mess.

8. Starcraft 2 is riddled with microtransactions, so much that feels like a big mess.

Do I need to go on? Blizzard Activision is as greedy as EA. So dunno how you can defend it.

You're missing out big time if you don't get the other tabs. It's a huge qol, especially every league. A loyal PoE supporter is on average in the $1000s.

Regarding ActiBlizz, they need to fire their CEO Bobby Kotik immediately. This guy is a massive fail for WAY TOO MANY YEARS and is the single reason (well their board of execs are also responsible) the company has been in the gutter since 2008. A new CEO will renew the company's vision and bring inspiration and success to better games. Thankfully, D2R is under the dev of VV and they have an awesome track record.



Well I have done just fine. I got currency tab, div card tab and map tab. I understand you can get some Qol. But I have played since D2 days, when you where forced to mule. So living without a fossil tab is not a big deal.
I strongly doubt average PoE player spend 1000$. Especially not on stash tabs. Most people i know support the game from time to time because they want a new skin etc.


Bobby Kotik seems like a douch yes. But the problem is far bigger then that. Ever since the merge with Activision in 2008, they have managed to slowly turn the most beloved game studio into just another greedy game company.
Pretty much all of blizzards original staff has left. Poor work contitions etc...they care less about making great games their fans want and more about maximizing profit.
So I have very little hopes for that company and will avoid supporting them.
Last edited by WickedSausage#2727 on Feb 22, 2021, 1:15:18 PM
"Massive RIP to PoE " . I heard the same thing when Wolcen was announced .
"
iuiulitza wrote:
"Massive RIP to PoE " . I heard the same thing when Wolcen was announced .

It’s Diablo 2, son. The king of arpgs. 4K remaster ... WOWOW UNNNNBELIEVABLE!!!!!!!!!
The one thing from D2 that PoE didn't adopt was that top tier affixes were only available on blue items, and rares couldn't get them. Kind of miss that dynamic. It made some blues worth looking for.
"
CefkaPalazzo wrote:
The D2 Remaster is finally happening. 17 years wasn't long enough. Who wants 4k ex and another 17k ex worth of gear?


I'll answer the OG qts, since the discussion went a bit OT - Empyrian and other pro RMTrs that made a living out of this pro RMT game do want another 4ex. So Rory will keep striving "providing them with a challenging content blah blah mumbo jumbo corporate lingo fill as you please". He'll keep giving RMTrs what they want so they could keep RMTing and literally live in this game, you and I will finally have a game to play at our own leisure and enjoy. Happy:)?
"
Shagsbeard wrote:
The one thing from D2 that PoE didn't adopt was that top tier affixes were only available on blue items, and rares couldn't get them. Kind of miss that dynamic. It made some blues worth looking for.


In PoE we'll never have that feeling. After like a few weeks when I started playing I realized how bad itemization is in this game.
"There's no thing like random one-shots in this game. You only die because you take 353,456,237 hits in 0.2 seconds."

"The best items in the game should not be crafted, they should be TRADED." - Cent, GGG
The thread title is stupid and click baity. But D2R will be a bigger threat on launch day than CP2077 was. If POE's league launch coincides with D2R's release I'd expect them to delay a month.

I'm not going to preorder D2R as there's no benefit to doing so. But I will play it at launch.

As far as POE goes, I skipped this league and may not play at all this year. The game has become too bloated for my tastes and having to do the story every time is just old. And frankly, I'm looking forward to TBC, D2R and Total War:Warhammer 3 in addition to a backlog of excellent games. Hell, Lost Ark may release in the West and be worth a try for a few weeks.

POE2 had better hit it out of the ballpark.
"
KiadawP wrote:
"
Nubatron wrote:


D2 getting a fresh coat of paint isn't worth $60. I just looked it up though and it's $40 for the game and $60 for D2R and some Eternal Collection for D3 that I could not care less about. So $40. That's closer to reasonable I suppose for a reskin.




YOu just prove people here have a lack of self-awareness.

The fresh coat of paint is literally remodeled EVERY ASSET in the original again. If it's just up-res, & higher res texture, maybe you have a point.

Whether the MTX is optional is IRRELEVANT in your argument, because you clearly have no issue paying for the overprice MTX which means you think they are worth it. But 40€ for a game that recreates near 100% of assets is too much....

Convenience me you do not have double standards.


Actually, the MTX is quite relevant because I view MTX as optional beyond stash tabs. There is no leverage to force you to buy it. I don't view it as a money grab because of the lack of leverage.

How much D2R costs plays a big role in whether I would pay for it or not, because if the price point is too high, I'll just view it as a shallow money grab because the work they put into it would not warrant the full price of a game IMO.

At $40, I'm mixed on whether I'll buy it for the sake of nostalgia. I'll probably just wait and see if it ever goes on sale because again, I'm okay with loading D2 and playing it as is. The fresh coat of paint isn't necessary to enjoy it.
Thanks for all the fish!
PSA: According to press releases so far, Diablo 2 Resurrected will not have cross-play.

Spoiler
It will have cross-progression, which means you personally can play the same characters across various platforms, and it will have cross-generational play (Ps4 and PS5 will play together, for example) but it will not have true crossplay between the platforms.

This may change at some point but I wouldn't hold my breath. Cross-play is a huge can of worms when the game you're remastering has a well-known history of being hacked to death on PC and you don't want to expose your console player base to that possibility. Not saying that's why (as usual I suspect it's a serious mess behind the scenes) but it's one consideration.
If I like a game, it'll either be amazing later or awful forever. There's no in-between.

I am Path of Exile's biggest whale. Period.

Report Forum Post

Report Account:

Report Type

Additional Info