POE Heading to D3 Land...please reconsider

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Alhoon wrote:

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Undon3 wrote:

Please kindly clarify :)

Well, I could demonstrate it by making everything ridiculous. Better drop and currency drop rates? Let's have the first Zombie drop Kaoms and Exalts for everyone! Less RNG? Let's make ingame item editor, everyone can have whatever stats they wished by simply turning the wheel. Different death penalty? You know what, why do we need to penaltize players anyways? Isn't the game supposed to be FUN? Let's have a man-choir come sing at your door every time you die!

Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to ridicule you. I understand the above is very likely not what you personally want, but it's the direction you want to go, and that's a slippery slope. Where do you stop? Do understand that there ARE people on this very forum that will not stop crying about these things until they are what I described above. And there are people who want to make everything even more difficult to progress than it is currently. GGG literally cannot cater to every taste, so I say the taste they need to cater is not the majority but the one that fits their view.

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UnderOmerta wrote:

Your assertion was that you'd rather see the game die than turn into something that would actually benefit more people and appease the hardcore crowd better. If that's your opinion, then we have nothing to discuss. Move along.

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Alhoon wrote:

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Undon3 wrote:

Please kindly clarify :)

Well, I could demonstrate it by making everything ridiculous. Better drop and currency drop rates? Let's have the first Zombie drop Kaoms and Exalts for everyone! Less RNG? Let's make ingame item editor, everyone can have whatever stats they wished by simply turning the wheel. Different death penalty? You know what, why do we need to penaltize players anyways? Isn't the game supposed to be FUN? Let's have a man-choir come sing at your door every time you die!

Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to ridicule you. I understand the above is very likely not what you personally want, but it's the direction you want to go, and that's a slippery slope. Where do you stop? Do understand that there ARE people on this very forum that will not stop crying about these things until they are what I described above. And there are people who want to make everything even more difficult to progress than it is currently. GGG literally cannot cater to every taste, so I say the taste they need to cater is not the majority but the one that fits their view.

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Alhoon wrote:

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Obsidus wrote:

It's the same with this game, I respect GGG and want them to carry out their vision, but many of the design decisions in this game right now are of the "suicide cult" variety.

I don't quite understand this analogy. Are you afraid that the game will die because GGG doesn't cater to the masses? Because I'd much rather see the game die than be turned to what the masses would prefer.

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Alhoon wrote:

For the last time, I don't care if the game is hard, easy, RNG-heavy, RNG-light etc. Only thing I care about is that the game fits the developers vision.

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Obsidus wrote:

It means that I respect GGG, and I do want them to carry out their vision, and not pay too much attention to the random, selfish whims of the frothing masses; but that doesn't mean that there aren't objectively bad decisions that they should be called out on.

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Alhoon wrote:

For the last time, I don't care if the game is hard, easy, RNG-heavy, RNG-light etc. Only thing I care about is that the game fits the developers vision.

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UnderOmerta wrote:

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Alhoon wrote:

For the last time, I don't care if the game is hard, easy, RNG-heavy, RNG-light etc. Only thing I care about is that the game fits the developers vision.

And as I said, that's great if the developers are making an in-house only game and playing solely among themselves. But if they release it to the public and expect consumption, they should rightfully be called out for any dumb decisions they make. That's a fact of business and commerce. It's called capitalism.