Im exhausted and tired

I dont know how to start here and it was hard for me to find the motivation to write this post, but i think i have to do it. Maybe not for you or for the developers, just for me.

Well, first i have to tell that it is not necessary to repeat everything what was already written in this forum, but this is my own opinion and i want to share it.
What i want to tell you is that im exhausted and tired from the game Path of Exile. I know the game since 2013 where it was released and played it a couple of times. Around 2015 i started to play the game every league and became addicted. I still remember the good old times where i had this awesome fun with this game, but now it slowly finds an end.
Im not excited anymore when a new league start, i dont read the full patchnotes every league and mostly i quiet after some weeks after the league start.
So what is the reason?

I think the reason is that the developers took a lot of things from the players away since patch 3.14. Ritual league was the last league i had really a lot of fun and then there was a lot of changes and nerfs.
I really dont want to say that the actually direction ruines the game, but actually it is. And only because of one man with a "Vision".
What changes i really dont like are that they change the progression during lvling. Im a kind of person that really likes to test and play new builds and every league i had 12-16 characters. I really enjoyed that, but now act 1 is made harder and they plan to make every act harder.
At the start of the league i can take that pain, but i cant when i have to suffer from this everytime i play a new character.
The other thing is that the nerfs in general makes the game harder and there are so many builds that are now boring as hell. I liked Poe for its build diversity, but i think now you have more less and less diversity then long time before. Many skills sucks and many other builds are swallowing a lot of currency to make them playable. Normally at league start i have some builds i want to play and cant decide which one i will start with, because they are all fun. But the last 2 leagues i couldnt decide what i play, because of the question what is playable.

Im just a casual player and dont spent 10 hours a day in the game, so maybe some of you can understand my problem with this.
This league i started to feel good about the new skilltree, but if you take a look closer, it just a nerf.

At the end i want to say that its not a good decision to take so many things from happy players away and im not sure if i will spend any money on supporter packs in the next time. Poe was really the best free to play game for me and i liked it to spend money on it, but im kind of done.

Just my opinion from an exhausted and tired Poe player that thinks about to quit over the last half year.

If you are really playing PoE since 2015 you should know that the games direction is more or less moving a bit back to what it was when it started.

Way harder content and you were expected to invest a lot of time and currency to have a really good build.

That said I would highly suggest you to just move on if you do not like the game anymore. I dont mean that as an insult. Im a bit older and outlived a lot of games I really loved because I outgrew them or they changed in a way that I didnt like. Holding on only makes you angry and frustraited. Their are so many games out their you could try or just go outside and do something else.

Just do what I did, uninstall and play Titan quest (new expansion out) and last epoch. Let GGG keep their bloody streamers if they want to do crappy leagues and give preference to the 1%

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Zerber wrote:

If you are really playing PoE since 2015 you should know that the games direction is more or less moving a bit back to what it was when it started.

Way harder content and you were expected to invest a lot of time and currency to have a really good build.

That's EXTREMELY bad though...

Who the fuck said we wanted that? The game was perfect and at it's peak in 3.8, all downhill hard from there.

10ex should make you unkillable and doing about 20m DPS.

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bennisen wrote:

I liked Poe for its build diversity, but i think now you have more less and less diversity then long time before. Many skills sucks and many other builds are swallowing a lot of currency to make them playable.

There are three reasons for this:
- 'More' damage
- Arenas
- Timers
These mechanics prevent most skills from being actually useful.

'More' damage (in its various forms) multipliers provide a massive advantage to the few skills that can get most 'More'.
Arenas provide a massive advantage to the skills that can get a lot of life/ES regen.
Timers prevent skills that kill more slowly from being useful.

Combined, these three mechanics, which GGG has been increasingly using in the last years, make most skills useless.

Removing them and rebalancing would level the playing field, but it is not going to happen... :-(