Why do you keep nerfing fun every league?

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vlmndd wrote:

I'm farming essences/harvest/harby in high yellow maps, rolling them blue and sustaining maps and getting currency just fine. I don't know what you're talking about..

If Mr. Softcore can't succesfully run juiced high reds as a lvl 90, that's not much of a counterpoint.

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EvilDoc wrote:

Can almost guarantee the folks complaining in this thread are the same ones that are running corrupted maps with 4 damage mods and crying that the game is too hard

Little to no defenses and small lifepool very likely as well. :/

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Azarhiel wrote:

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mariox1011 wrote:

Some of us don't want an easy game where you can get bis gear in a few days (harvest). I don't think the average player should be able to easily work their way up to t16 maps without farming a lot. If hard mode actually came out like Chris promised then I would be fine with making the standard league version easy.

There is a fine line between difficult and impossible.

I get that GGG does not want casual players in their game but :

T16 is a base line farming for aspirationnal content and it is where you should spend your time as an endgame player.

The problem is :

if you don't spend enough time in the game, you won't be in T16 by the end of the league.

GGG every league adds something to slow down those who don't play the game 12/7, those players won't reach T16 by the end of the league. They could play in standard, yes, but in 3 month they will have to start over the same way.

Whatever GGG does, they willl screw casual players whom play PoE for the fun.
Whatever GGG does, they will screw midcore players whom try to finish a character in a reasonnable time span (6-9 month) <- They don't play 12/7.

The only that are never screwed are streamers and 24/7 players of POE whom exploit all that is exploitable in the game.

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vlmndd wrote:

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Rakie1337 wrote:

You're acting as if every new idea they have isn't dramatically worse than the last.

That's some glass half-empty talk. They have ideas and they are implementing them. I can't quantify what "worse" means here. I didn't like Synthesis league, for instance, and that's fine. The game isn't supposed to be Exactly how I (or any other individual) want(s) every new league.

Just because I don't whine and complain like an entitled brat every time something goes wrong, doesn't mean I necessarily agree with the design choice. Bugs are to be expected.

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They keep upping the bar for stupid fucking ideas, and intolerable gameplay.

I mostly like this league. There. Deal with it.

I really need to know who teaches you to give such silly arguments and then sincerely believe you've made a point. Who??? I need to know!!

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jerot wrote:

This is a forum for feedback and suggestions, not for insulting the skill of other players to make yourself feel better.

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mariox1011 wrote:

Some of us don't want an easy game where you can get bis gear in a few days (harvest). I don't think the average player should be able to easily work their way up to t16 maps without farming a lot. If hard mode actually came out like Chris promised then I would be fine with making the standard league version easy.

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Ashandaar wrote:

It's been two leagues i finish the campaign and then leave.

Why? Boredom essentially.

I was able to push several characters to lvl 100 (i've 6 or 7 toons max levelled) but it really seems GGG and a good part of the addict community have been decided to exclude a wide range of players out of PoE since 3.17.

At this point, i barely have 1 h to 1h30 a day to put into PoE, late in the evening when i'm exhausted. There are some days in the week i finish to work at 9pm, beginning at 5h30am. The time to eat, take a shower etc it's 10h30 - 11hpm and i only play for like 15 minutes before going to sleep...

Now that the campaign is over, i'm supposed to continue into maps, like it was before. I'm of course supposed to invest in some items to simply make my build work, as i've been going through the campaing with a mix of stuffs that could bring me through but that really lack both of survivability and damage to perfom in maps.

So what are my necessary upgrades to make it work (actually to simply enable the build i wanted to play)? Araakhali's fang 2.3ex and aegis aurora, 8ex rising...

Guess what? I have like i said roughly 1h30 to play a game at the end of the day, i'm not going to stupidely grind for 1104 chaos at today's exchange rate for the shield and to add 303 chaos on top of that to get the dagger, only to hopefully make this build begin to work within what? 1 month and the half?

When you have little time to play to relax at the end of your day, you are not interested into some silly grinding of that sort, taking in account the fact that you are not doing it because it was designed this way but because you have to cope with an "economical" system drived by people who either consider your time has no value at all, that you can continuously grind for some virtual currencies to even begin to play the game or, even worst, that you can spend your money on rmt's to get the items you need if you don't have time to grind for them.?

I'm not stupid, i'll never buy anything virtual with real money (on a free-to-play game it's even sillier) and i have better usage of my time than running after a silly amount of virtual currencies that rises up every day at a pace any person with little time cannot follow.

You have on one side this insane grind to get necessary items to begin to play what you want to try and on the other side GGG that decided to add some mods on rare mobs that simply deletes you if you don't deal enough damage to one tap them as soon as you see them. Meaning losing experience on each deaths that mostly come under the form of an offscreen oneshot.

This combination of endless grinding plus the total waste of your time as dying after lvl 90 means you play the last two days for nothing (that the price of one death, roughly 1h30 - 2h to farm back your xp, cool when this is the total time you can sometimes put into the game on 3 days) make me think that this game has been completely targeted from a wider audience to a small group of people to makes everything necessary to keep people away from challenging endgame content. And the design of the game that is more and more oriented each league toward streamers that can put 36h straight on launch (which is btw either silly and totally unhealthy) is now convincing me that this is not a game i want to lose time in ever again.

This is how i personnaly feel about the state of this game that i loved and played a lot (more than 10 000 hrs on 9 years on it) but now i really feel like it's simply not my cup of tea anymore. I understand that some still love it but for the love of God, those people have to understand that there are people with different opinions, different available amount of time and that is silly to try and make them change their mind just because you can't stand that some of us really dislike the direction this game is taking.

I know it's been a long text but i hope i somewhat managed to summarized my personal feelings about the game without trashing it for free. It's not the fact that the game is bad that makes me move away, it's the total lack of balance bewteen the time needed to progress to a stage that is enjoyable and the time i have at my disposal to put into a game. Because to me, PoE is not a way to earn my life, it's just a game i used to play to relax at the end of my day. And at this stage, it frustrates me far more than it relaxes me. Meaning, it's time to move to something else.

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vlmndd wrote:

Agreed for the most part, but it seems completely fine to talk mad sh about ggg. If so, then anything should be free game. And don't even think about calling it criticism, much less constructive.

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vlmndd wrote:

When you have little time to play, it's sensible to look for a game that requires less time. There's no reason to write a mini-essay on thousand reasons you can't play poe.

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vlmndd wrote:

When you have little time to play, it's sensible to look for a game that requires less time. There's no reason to write a mini-essay on thousand reasons you can't play poe.