Path of Exile Classic

Do you guys have any plan on releasing a Classic version of PoE?

I miss the times when people were not overloaded in content and drops...


When each league felt special, and was really meaningful...

Nowadays it looks like every PoE league is the same, any league you guys put out doesn't mean much because there is too much piled up content...

Do you guys have any plans of putting out such a thing??

I have been trying to get back into PoE for more than a year now, but I can't get hyped up, and I start the leagues already tired, tired of so many mechanics and interactions with systems I don't find fun anymore...

I wish I could play PoE classic and have each league really meaningful ontop of the core game.


I know some people can disagree with what I posted.. People have diferent feels and taste to the game... I just feel I am not satisfyied with anything on PoE for the past 2years+...

Please consider and think about it,

Best regards

It is ok if you don't release it tho..

I am finding really fun to play Diablo 2 Ressurected and I am very excited to play World of Warcraft Classic Hardcore server when it comes out in August...

But I kinda miss the days of grinding PoE and having fun, on a simple & fun game like it used to be back in the days in start of Ascendancy, the War of Atlas, simple cores that were really really fun and engaging... Simple & fun league mechanics, like Breach, Legion, etc... When we didn't have old piled up leagues in the game core, was more a rotation of leagues, remove the old one, put a new one, remove the old one, put a new one... And since you guys stoped removing the previous leagues and started piling it up, I started to feel really tired and bored of the game...

But like I said, it's ok if you guys don't do it.. I have other games to play.

Best regards

Have you tried Ruthless mode which is in the game today? If that doesn't scratch the itch I don't really see how going back to classic would either.

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innervation wrote:

Have you tried Ruthless mode which is in the game today? If that doesn't scratch the itch I don't really see how going back to classic would either.

Yes, I am a current Hardcore Ruthless player,

But that doesn't have anything to do with PoE Classic, it is a Hardmode of the current game, it is still the current game, with piled up content, but harder and escarce... so Yep, it is more fun than regular PoE to me, but I am already tired of it aswell, because all leagues feels the same and I have to interact with a bunch of systems that I don't find fun anymore, like I said in original post...

I love Ruthless and Ruthless community, and the iniciative from GGG to make something diferent for us enthusiasts... but it is definetly NOT PoE Classic... it's just regular PoE but harder.

The game gives you so many options to customize the content you play so easily and it's not that hard to make it feel like a old version.
You want to enjoy just the basic league stuff like rogue exiles, spirits? Just block everything else or don't interact with it. You feel like playing abyss league again, breach or whatelse? Just spec fully into the stuff you want
It's the same gaming experience you had years ago, nothing has really changed about the mapping aspect, especially with blocked and unwanted content.

But an entire "classic" version will likely not be a thing since they would have not only set up a server for it but also hand out a old client. They likely won't put time into "2" separate games as they are pretty much happy to maintain and progress the current version of the game rather than going back to the roots.

Classic server only really work for mmorpgs as you can't really do much to give the same experience of older versions in newer patches.

i really dont mind if POE classic was released.

what i would want in poe classic:

1. current passive tree/ascendancies

2. OLD poe 1 campaign that went up to dominus, 3 difficulties.

3. NO ATLAS TREE, map completion grants increased chance of map drops being 1 tier higher like how it used to be pre maven.

4. ZERO league mechanics or extra content. which means no masters nor even rogue exiles or even strong boxes. its how the game would have been with only expansions and zero leagues.

4a. could take it a step further and remove all expansion content, this would mean no ascendancies even.

5. eternal orbs drop. (since no harvest and not as many crafting options).

goes without saying POE Classic will be separate from current POE with no way to port characters/stash over.

What is PoE classic? 1.0? 2.2? 3.0? 3.4? 3.7? etc. This answer is probably different for every single person you ask.

To me, PoE classic would be PoE 1.0, the very first full release. And that was a TERRIBLE game. Bugs all over the place, performance issues, basically no endgame, supremely ridiculously unbalanced skills, pathetic item mods, absurdly boring Forsaken Master exp grinding just for some very basic crafting options, and a super old school D2-style 3 difficulty repetitive story.

Why would ANYONE want to go back to that?


Also, I think you really don't remember the first few years of leagues in PoE...not a single one of them was "meaingful" (with the exception of maybe Breach) prior to post-3.0 leagues which is fairly recent in PoE history. Don't get me wrong, they were fun but that was mainly because the GAME was fun and still somewhat novel, not because the leagues were "better".

Golden Age PoE, from the standpoint of league mechanics and balance was basically a 2-year span 2017 - 2018. And that is over FOUR YEARS into the development of the game. I would hardly call that "classic PoE". 3 massive expansions, the removal of the repetitive difficulty level bs, multiple excellent leagues in a row, expansion of crafting, etc. Before that, the game was tedious, boring, and pretty darn bugged. I don't miss farming the Docks 24 hours a day nor eternal crafting.

Anyone that played old PoE knows that the atlas passive tree does not make the game feels like it used to.. and if you choose weird stuff you'll only be playing wrong and not getting the most currency/hour which is wrong for nowadays game.

PoE Classic to me would be PoE with only 4 acts (adding 4th act would be ok, since malachai on merciless used to be really badass).

After finishing the 3 dificulties, people would only have Atlas, and Zana, we would have the masters dailies to do, and thats it... The maps would be really simples and nothing attached to it.

If they wanted to ROTATE expansions on it would be fine, as long as they removed the expansions after it was over, and not attach to the game like they are doing now, making PoE a piled up game with so much stuff piled up that every league they add feels meaningless and doesn't add up, it always feels the same. Every league start.

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Bax_CD wrote:

Anyone that played old PoE knows that the atlas passive tree does not make the game feels like it used to.. and if you choose weird stuff you'll only be playing wrong and not getting the most currency/hour which is wrong for nowadays game.

PoE Classic to me would be PoE with only 4 acts (adding 4th act would be ok, since malachai on merciless used to be really badass).

After finishing the 3 dificulties, people would only have Atlas, and Zana, we would have the masters dailies to do, and thats it... The maps would be really simples and nothing attached to it.

If they wanted to ROTATE expansions on it would be fine, as long as they removed the expansions after it was over, and not attach to the game like they are doing now, making PoE a piled up game with so much stuff piled up that every league they add feels meaningless and doesn't add up, it always feels the same. Every league start.

And all this piled up content makes me feel tired every league start just to think about all the systems and stuff I will need to engage with.... That old days of PoE would be really simple and fun.. Sometimes being more simple is more fun for some people like myself

0 chance they do soemthing like this when they are already strained with poe 2, the regular game, and ruthless, and we REALLY don't need anymore people taken away to do side projects, if there's content you don't like, don't do it, customize a filter and see only what you want to see, all kinds of options