Please let us skip campaign!

It'd be cool to skip the campaign but itd be the same amount of cool if we could just participate in the new season content from the get-go too.
Im hardly good enough as of yet to clear the game in 20 hours but Im also a loot goblin and Im not really trying to speed run my first completion either. I always get so bored of the same new game grind and stop playing before I even complete chapter 3.

I'm sure this will become a microtransaction at some point.

Campaign is part of it, if you don't feel like leveling up you're playing the wrong type of game.
.. and what would be the next step?? After the campaign do you want others to level you up?

people, learn the game! You don't have to get everything quickly... grind and have fun doing it... that's why ARPG lovers play POE

The people who want to skip the campaign are the people the campaign is FOR.

The campaign is just 120-ish maps automatically chained end to end, with one key difference: you can't always skip the map boss if you and your build aren't up to snuff. Forcing these benchmarks onto players periodically is the entire point of the campaign.

If you hate the campaign so much, maybe ask yourself why that is? I assure you, everyone else already knows.

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ARealLifeCaribbeanPirate wrote:

If you hate the campaign so much, maybe ask yourself why that is? I assure you, everyone else already knows.

because its a complete waste of time. you are not even using the gems/gear you will use once you hit maps. probably not the same tree either. you will need to refund at least half of it once you start maps.
campaign only exists to slow people down and discourage them from making too many characters and getting bored quickly and quitting.

i guess you're one of those people who also assumes that everyone who hates doing cardio must be because they are a lazy fat slob? i assure you there are a lot of skinny people who hate cardio

I think they could do a middle ground.

I complete your campaign once per league. You let me skip it with my alts.

We both got we wanted in this transaction. I get that your art department and everyone worked so hard to make the campaign and everything.

But noone enjoys it. Especially doing it multiple times.

Should already have this feature in the game. Not only will it grow your player base but also keep your players playing your game longer.

Just leaving a lot of dollars on the table, because ego.

campaign is only there for one real purpose. to slow people down and discourage them from making too many characters and burning out quickly and quitting.

if there was no campaign we would all make 50+ characters every league until there is nothing left to try

The only reason I make 1 character per league(with some rare exceptions where I level a meme build and have 2 characters in a league) is because campaign is too damn annoying and boring to do, even with twink uniques like seven-league step and thrillsteel, even if I don't have to do the lab trials, even if it only takes 5-6 hours.

I can't be bothered to put in THAT much time then search for map juicer exp leech groups where I stay behind the leader in the t16 deli orb'd crimson temples, or breachstone groups for exp leech, or just 5-way legion carries till I get to the level I want for the build, then buy all the items and finally I can play the build I want to play and have fun? Yeah no thanks I'd rather boot up another game or watch something lol

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Lyutsifer665 wrote:

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ARealLifeCaribbeanPirate wrote:

If you hate the campaign so much, maybe ask yourself why that is? I assure you, everyone else already knows.

because its a complete waste of time. you are not even using the gems/gear you will use once you hit maps. probably not the same tree either. you will need to refund at least half of it once you start maps.
campaign only exists to slow people down and discourage them from making too many characters and getting bored quickly and quitting.

i guess you're one of those people who also assumes that everyone who hates doing cardio must be because they are a lazy fat slob? i assure you there are a lot of skinny people who hate cardio

The Cardio example is surprisingly excellent, I might use that from now on because it's a very good analogy.

I know a lot of people who "hate" cardio, and every single one of them is out of shape. Fat v skinny, it's all the same: I've never met someone in good shape who categorically hated ALL exercise. Especially cardio, which has near-limitless options. Maybe you aren't a fan of running? That's fine, I'm not that fond of it myself. But there are literally thousands of alternatives, from biking to swimming to playing tennis to dancing, and I refuse to believe any given person can't find ONE aerobic activity to enjoy - especially when we're talking about something which will objectively improve the rest of their life.

Doing the Campaign in PoE certainly doesn't have nearly as many benefits, but the complaints are the same, and they're just as laughably transparent. People don't hate running the campaign because "it's a waste of time," they hate running the campaign because they are bad at it and, just like the people who refuse to do cardio, they'd rather complain than self-improve. They want an "alternative levelling option" solely because they want a way to hit level 90 without having to ever fight anything stronger than a white mob, because these are people who genuinely struggle with act bosses.

Thus my initial statement:

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ARealLifeCaribbeanPirate wrote:

The people who want to skip the campaign are the people the campaign is FOR.

^^ I agree with the Pirate :)