The perspective so many of the jaded old dogs on these forums need to hear...
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Paraphrasing here but he also said he'd rather blow his brains out than level through the campaign just to be able to experiment with different builds...
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We can't re-live our childhood, nor the feeling or discovering an amazing game for the first time. As the excitement dissipates, routine and disappointment take it's place. We slowly become jaded boomers. Way she goes.
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It's not like Preach or anyone else is necessarily wrong in how they view the game. That's a very personal and subjective thing. Good/Bad is not objective and not measurable.
We should be thankful for the people giving thoughtful criticism; meaning actual things they disagree with, how it impacts them and ways to improve it. Now when the "feedback" is put in the form of useless spam, or minimal input pejoratives, that deserves all the scorn that they receive in my opinion....well maybe not ALL the scorn they receive. Those people have clearly reached a point of no return and don't care enough about the game to actually give good feedback. They just need to accept that it's time to move on and find something that does meet their needs in a game. I'm sure some of us miss the feeling of a new game, like he has with POE. I certainly don't feel that way anymore, but I still enjoy the game. Thanks for all the fish! Last edited by Nubatron#4333 on Sep 9, 2021, 5:00:53 PM
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At least you did not do as many others do and say "ALL of the old dogs".
...narf
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I tend to have infectious enthusiasm for new games I play as well. It never lasts but for a good month or so the game is fun and addicting.
That enthusiasm wears off, whether it's through nerfs or sheer boredom. When I first started to play WoW in 2009 I was totally hooked, and that excitement and addiction lasted like a year. Then Cataclysm hit and I very quickly lost interest, and haven't played since shortly after the first few days of that expansion. They didn't expand the game I loved to get lost in, they changed it. Sometimes you don't want a game you love to constantly change, constantly evolve. Look at Diablo 2. It hasn't changed at all and it's still beloved (talking gameplay not graphics). When a game is constantly changing, constantly being nerfed, constantly shifting it's focus like POE it upsets players and drives them to competing games. Last edited by MrSparkle001#1624 on Sep 10, 2021, 11:34:34 AM
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" It also creates fuzz, hype and make a lot of players return for more. Diabo 2 is still loved, but the amount of players each 'league'? Well, I don't have the numbers, and I'm not about to pull some random one out of my ass :P I wonder if people actually think that PoE would be where it is today if it didn't evolve, change and progress. As you say yourself, the hype of a "new game" doesn't last. It's exactly that feeling GGG are trying to renew by adding new content, a new meta and new skills each league. Tiresome for some, necessary for others. Bring me some coffee and I'll bring you a smile.
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" yeah i think its a case where people see a downside to a thing that gets on their nerves, and its really there theyre not imagining it or bitching just to bitch, its a thing. but they maybe dont appreciate the necessary alternative to it. often its a lesser of 2 evils. what competing games have people actually been driven to? diablo 2? dead game. diablo 3? dead game. TL2? dead game. wolcen? dead game. grim dawn? dead game... poe? the most successful and popular arpg that has ever existed, more popular today than it was 3 years ago, and 3 years ago it was the most successful and popular arpg ever made. weve all gone and played those games, and had fun, and then pushed them aside and come back to poe because they got boring, stale, limited, old, all the things that poes endless evolution is there to prevent. I love all you people on the forums, we can disagree but still be friends and respect each other :)
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" Sure but what is the resulting impact if changes are seen as devolving or regression? "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt."
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" the game is 8 years old, more people played it this year than last year. 8 years, thats 7 years longer than any of its competitors really lasted. its already proven the point, theres no whats or ifs or buts about it, it worked, it created the most popular, successful arpg that has ever been made by a ridiculous margin. I love all you people on the forums, we can disagree but still be friends and respect each other :)
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" It's the constant change that's the issue. The constant pursuit of a balance that will never be achieved, now in the form of nerfs that drove players away. This isn't a game that can be properly balanced, nor does it need to be. It just has to be "sort of" balanced. There really wasn't much wrong in Ultimatum league that it required nerfs like they did, except that POE 2 will be a slower, harder game and the devs want to bring POE 1 more in line with that. Why play POE 2 beyond the first play through if playing the easier, faster POE 1 gets you to the same end game? It's that kind of constant changing that's the issue. |
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