What's your #1 issue with the current state of the game?

#1 issue and only issue going forward is that they need to hold streamers officially supported by GGG accountable for use of terms that are derogatory towards the player-base like: Softcore

This behavior is already seeped into the new wiki, Its incredibly toxic because the softcore entries not only had to be added to countless pages where it never existed but edited manually to even make sense because fact: there is no softcore, its a hateful slur towards standard and trade league players.



Please do not bring this term into PoE2 GGG, Do the right thing here and clean this stuff up, make your official streamers respect the whole player-base and perhaps offer them a reality check on how many people fall under the term "softcore"

Standard* and Standard* Trade League keep the lights on far as i can see, Please show that you appreciate that, and let us all regardless of our gamemode go forward together into PoE2 without this legacy of hatred that had almost been wiped out from history.

This is the only element in PoE i see eating away at the foundations that had been layed painstakingly for well over 10 years now, You deserve people who will painstakingly place their words with as much care as you have making this amazing game.

^hmm I've never taken it that way. Hardcore = permanent death. Softcore = non-permanent death. It's everything else they say around the term "softcore" that can be derogatory, but the term itself makes perfect sense. They are two terms referring to the same thing: death. Hardcore=permadeath has been a thing in games for decades, and for as long as hardcore modes have existed, softcore modes have been labeled as such.

#1 issue with PoE: Backward-faced updates. For whatever reason, the powers that be have decided that 5+ years of updates were all a mistake and the game needs to be incrementally and destructively rolled back to its prenatal form. Rather than continue to look forward and modernize, time and energy is being spent on erasing years of progress. Things that were removed in the past for being unfun, unfair, and unpopular are being reintroduced and repackaged. Things that have been popular and fun for years are being steadily removed or nerfed beyond recognition. Buffs that are made in previous leagues are removed in future leagues causing a never ending loop of nerfs and buffs that make skill usage unpredictable. It's rather confusing.

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KZA wrote:

99.9% of the time you're sitting at max health, and everything's a cakewalk.

.1% of the time you're suddenly dead out of seemingly nowhere. Hope you were recording so you can go back and analyze frame by frame and *maybe* figure out what even happened.

Almost never in between. And of course, when it is in between, the game is designed for you to just instantly logout.

Yeah I see no point in playing when I die randomly 2-3 times and then play for 20 hours without dying.