Least your balence team GGG isn't bad as Blizzards.

Those cig trailers that don't match the in-game characterization, or appeal it would otherwise introduce, probably doesn't help.
The Lilith character was turned into what I can only describe as one of the women from the tv drama 'selling sunset'.

Not that I'm hoping GGG don't rely on to sell their game.

We're at a stage where an arpg could look like that and they instead don't for reasons that fail to match what I've seen both the PS5 and the Xbox Xeries has shown to be the case; making PC owners resort to posting massive image files of their games to make a point we know can't exist unless your bank manager was hit by a baseball bat.

They just nerfed the density globally in every dungeon

Less mobs
DO YOUR OBJECTIVES

HAHAHAHAHA AHHHHHHHHHHHH

Mean while friend is doing 100b crits using rend rupture while they turn off items LMAO fucking dogshit balence dude.

Blizzard lives rent free in so many of your heads, lol.

Freedom of speech, but the above poster is correct. I thought the cultists for this game was a myth, but I really do feel like they exist, lol. Blizzard sucks for other reasons than Diablo 4. This game has a billion pointless and overly complicated systems just for the sake of it seeing like it has 'depth', maybe they could prune a ton of stuff and make PoE2 not so bloated with a bunch of pointless systems/league mechanics.

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Destructodave wrote:

Blizzard lives rent free in so many of your heads, lol.

You should have seen the D4 stans here in the 3 weeks prior to launch like holy shit its any wonder they had the energy left to log into the game after what they spent here 24 hours a day.

They would bring up D4 in EVERY thread no matter the topic and talk about how much better than PoE it was going to be. At least the D4 chatter here is in a thread about the subject.

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innervation wrote:

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Destructodave wrote:

Blizzard lives rent free in so many of your heads, lol.

You should have seen the D4 stans here in the 3 weeks prior to launch like holy shit its any wonder they had the energy left to log into the game after what they spent here 24 hours a day.

They would bring up D4 in EVERY thread no matter the topic and talk about how much better than PoE it was going to be. At least the D4 chatter here is in a thread about the subject.

Yeah. I wonder where they went. Huh.

Otoh I have seen Exiles do the same on general gaming subs so it's not as though it's some sort of unusual phenomenon. And honestly I recall there being a LOT more D3 fans clogging this place up back in 2012 and 2013. Thr gap between the hype and the reality is much smaller this time due to two major factors: Blizzard's withered image and the fact that no one really knew what to expect this time. All we really knew was it had fucking chefs kiss aesthetics and an open world. So...D1/D2 mixed with Lost Ark? Guild Wars 2? How would that work with a proper campaign? And so on. With D3 it was a much more straightforward affair. And likely a third factor: DIV came out amid a historical glut of high profile games and announcements. Even if someone is susceptible to hype, there has been no shortage of things to get hyped about and over.

At any rate, I think you are blowing things a little out of proportion -- most here recognised that DIV and PoE are on very different tracks and can/will appeal to fairly different player types.

This really is a live and let live situation but as the poor Wolcen devs said by way of defending their implicit move to maintenance mode, DIV will suck all the oxygen out of the room for a few months. It's not a question of whether or not people talk about it, but how. As proven by the OP, whom I genuinely thought would have known better than to compare PoE and DIV. But nope. Everyone is gonna have an opinion on this one.

Meanwhile plenty of DIV players probably haven't even heard of Path of Exile which I imagine is how everyone likes it. :)

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vampirekid13 wrote:

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Pashid wrote:

You guys just get 10 character slots for a 70 bucks game even with the 100 bucks early access? Damn that's quite cheap and sad

because they made it to where you will NEVER need to level more than 1 of each class. the 10 char slots are placeholders for future classes.

1 char per class is all you need. and just change spec to whatever whenever.

Except a full respect at 100 costs you about 15 million gold, and will eventually lead to RSI as you manually refund 224 paragon points.

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鬼殺し wrote:

This really is a live and let live situation but as the poor Wolcen devs said by way of defending their implicit move to maintenance mode, DIV will suck all the oxygen out of the room for a few months. It's not a question of whether or not people talk about it, but how. As proven by the OP, whom I genuinely thought would have known better than to compare PoE and DIV. But nope. Everyone is gonna have an opinion on this one.

Meanwhile plenty of DIV players probably haven't even heard of Path of Exile which I imagine is how everyone likes it. :)

OP has been making posts flaming Diablo on this forum for like a decade, lol. I can leave and randomly come back at various times, and she will have some diablo bashing thread up. You have to admire the dedication.

If anything she has been waiting on this moment as long as the most die-hard Diablo fan has. Gonna be a ton of these over the next few years.

PoE and Diablo remind me of Dota and LoL. One is almost oblivious to the other's existence, meanwhile one of them cant keep the other out of their heads.

Both are amazing games, but one set of fans always seems to have an inferiority complex about the other.

And for D4 stans, lets be real; those are PoE players. They are disgruntled PoE players. No D4 stans are coming to this backwater, tiny forum to make posts about D4. They would at least go to reddit for that. Its mostly PoE players disgruntled with the current state of PoE. Maybe they are playing a bit of D4 now, maybe its not as good as they hoped so now they have to just sit and eat crow and wait on the next bit of forum ammunition they can use. But we are definitely putting way too much stock into this tiny little forum where even I can remember someone like I_NO spamming D3 posts all day everyday for a decade.

Meh sometimes it just isn't worth extended effort, at least not multiplicativly across so many threads. I mean look at GD right now on the PoE forums. D4 this, Blizzard that, don't worry GGG, Blizzard devs are trash; I mean lol what is this? I think thou dost protest too much.

All while most have given Blizz $100, and played many dozens of hours already. Hell in this thread the OP and friends are still playing if I understand correctly, apparently against their own will or something? Blink twice if you need help. This happend too during the LA launch. Gone for months. It's honestly difficult to take some of this criticism seriously, given the the credibility hurdle.

Anyways much of this was, while confusing, predictable. It seems often enough that the PoE Andy's try too hard to denigrate Diablo to what ends I cannot understand really. D4 being a solid game should actually be good for PoE development (and vice versa on a lesser scale). Why hope for a shit game? Makes no sense to me. Like I'm hoping PoE 4.0 is good, cynical commentary aside. Will it be? Idk.

But D4 is actually out, and did not miss. Now the pressure is all on GGG for July and Exilecon. As I have said before the silence on PoE 4.0 has drifted into confusion and misinformation, so this is a vital presentation to manage player expectations. At the very least it will be nice to see and hear things in an official capacity (for good or bad)

All that said, D4 is too big to fail, where as GGG can't fuck up this expansion. GGG needs to tread carefully while D4 will probably be north of a Billion dollars by Exilecon. Nobody here has to worry about Blizzard and D4's survival, they should be concerned about PoE and GGG. At least I would be.

hah eat crow I like that.