why do ppl play SSF?

ssf is peak poe imo

The reason I play SSF was that SSF gave me more reasons (goals) to play the game. 

Trade league for me has only one goal in mind, & that is to farm currency (divine/chaos) to do everything you want. If you need to upgrade your gear, you just farm the divine/chaos & buy the gear you need. If you need to unlock a certain map or item or certain objective, just farm divine/chaos & buy it. Everything you do is just centered on getting the most divine/chaos.

It's different in SSF, for each gear or objective you need, you actually need to farm the item or complete that objective. You need a 6-link, you actually farm 6-link gear or items (div, crafting) that can give you 6-link. You need certain influence items, you actually need to play those influence maps that give you higher chance to get those influence items. You need Harbinger or Breach items, you actually need to play those content for a higher chance of getting those items. 

Even though you're going to do the same thing which is "farming" (playing content over & over), but you have a different goal in mind. And sometimes it also forces you to play certain content just to reach your objective. It diversified your experience playing the game, & the game became less boring or stale.

You actually experience playing a looting game with rich diverse loot as it is intended. Every drop has a value base on its actual purpose, & not just based on its divine/exalt/chaos equivalent.

I play ssf because it feels like an rpg, not a slot machine. If I wanted to buy items from a website, id get into RMT.

that being said, I quite enjoyed returning to trade in ruthless this time around, even if it was just a novelty.

Because we like to play the game, create our own builds from scratch. Not pay for a 5 way carry, or grab a 6 link on day 1 off trade. We enjoy the long slow grind, the amazing feeling when you hit your first 5 link, how much better it feels when you get first 6 link. I personally feel that is how the game was designed to be played. The dream of finding a HH or mageblood instead of the guarantee to buy one from the market.......

I play HCSSF , we play solo self found because that is how we enjoy the game. I am as baffled as you guys are when i look at SC trade league. We all enjoy the game in different ways. There is a very immense thrill in ssf or Hardcore when there is something on the line, instead of oh my i only got 3 portals left god forbid i die 3 more times. Some of us like to just play not trade, they also enjoy the challenge of doing it themselves.

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Chadwixx wrote:

SSF is so much better than trade league. It would be nice if we could play ssf with others (no trade or shared drops).

Its only downside.

I prefer to find my own items and get excited on drops, trade league is pretty zzz for that since everyone has the same gear

+1

i would really like to play SSF but i enjoy playing in a group.
however, group play has become very rare.
long gone are the good old days when i would just join some random public party have some fun and meet some people

really makes me sad. wish GGG would put more incentive in for group play, other than 5 ways.

so that makes me think i should just try SSF.

probably will.

i like the idea of making the best thing i can out of the random crap i find. lol.

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plasticeyes wrote:

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Chadwixx wrote:

SSF is so much better than trade league. It would be nice if we could play ssf with others (no trade or shared drops).

Its only downside.

I prefer to find my own items and get excited on drops, trade league is pretty zzz for that since everyone has the same gear

+1

i would really like to play SSF but i enjoy playing in a group.
however, group play has become very rare.
long gone are the good old days when i would just join some random public party have some fun and meet some people

really makes me sad. wish GGG would put more incentive in for group play, other than 5 ways.

so that makes me think i should just try SSF.

probably will.

i like the idea of making the best thing i can out of the random crap i find. lol.

Group play is not very good in path of exile due to the immense learning curve and the monstrous gap in player knowledge//skill level.