This game is an abusive P2W slot machine feeding off of peoples' addictions.

alt account pretending to be a new player. yawn.

Dude, I made 3 posts and got 9 pages of triggered responses. You can't pretend that's boring.

For real though, GGG, fix your fricken servers. This is just ridiculous.

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CanHazName wrote:

I can't imagine what you experience, I assume it's not pleasant though.

Sure buddy.. "I don't like this so this means everybody else must hate it as well" - best argument ever. Video games are a form of art, art is a subjective experience, if yours wasn't pleasant then move on. Also mind your own business ffs, other people's assumed 'addictions and dependencies' are not your concern.

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CanHazName wrote:

I tried to play again and I'm honestly blown away at how blinded you people are. The game was proving my claims at absolutely every turn, how can you people actually deny them? I pray you all seek help to get over your crippling addictions and dependencies to this horrible game. I can't imagine what you experience, I assume it's not pleasant though.

Yes, and Flat Earthers think that people are crazy and need help for believing that the Earth is round. Thinking it does not necessarily make it so.

On this (and most other issues) there are three broad areas of opinion. There is the pro view, the anti view and the detached third party view. The pro view of PoE may be that it's the best game ever and is perfect, the anti might be that it's the worst game ever and everything is wrong with it. The detached third party view may be that in a highly competitive sector, PoE has healthy numbers and has maintained this for nearly a decade. Therefore it is reasonable to conclude that the game is doing something right and is offering value. That it's not right for everyone and is not offering value to everyone is accepted. But it does not mean that it is not offering value to anyone. That is an extremist and irrational view.

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CanHazName wrote:

The game was proving my claims at absolutely every turn, how can you people actually deny them? I pray you all seek help to get over your crippling addictions and dependencies to this horrible game.

Could you share your recent revelations, oh Enlightened One, so we poor lost addicts can finally see the Burning Light of Truth, shrug our buttoc..errm i meant shoulders in disgust and turn away our gaze from that disgusting cradle of filth called Path of Exlie?

I don’t know whether to laugh or laugh. Or laugh. Or maybe laugh. I think I might laugh. Am I laughing yet?

Pay2Win means buying gameplay advantage with real money. Currently, this definition fits to all buyable stash tabs.

To me, it's true that Path of Exile is somewhere dull as F if the developers won't enable low-percentage drops of their never ending shop items. But it's their design decision of this game, and we have to see how or if they will develop it by and post the 2.0 update.

Furthermore, I don't deny that things like the implementation of playable opposite genders didn't cost money or wouldn't be in need of effort, passion and care. However, just because it stays "cosmetic" doesn't make it automatically okay to hide these features behind paywalls. Since the core of an RPG is to realize a personal character phantasy and the core of Path of Exile (an aRPG) is loot, I consider even a strict cosmetic system a cut element of this game.
Also, as many players and developers have defended mostly rightfully, you don't need to open up the itemshop (as long you're not addicted - the downside of every microtransaction model). No matter your background, you can just play Path of Exile. Therefore, I assume not few of these purchases which had been and will be made are a "Thank you!" from player to developer, sometimes in ridiculous proportion. I hope a "Thank You!" comes back in around an equal scale, not solely by a possible 2.0 competition survival plan or factually selling your entire company and everything you built up to a dictator state in the year 2018 or selling it all in general.

I feel this game is great and I love the progression or at least the potential and I hope when I open it up I won't see restricted features that will bother me to such an extend I would even yearn for crap like Diablo 3 / Diablo 4 by a company or people I disregard with all my gut and heart but who may possibly achieve decent monetization in the end.