This is not an airport, but i ll announce my departure anyway.

i have rage quit the game many times but i always come back.

exilecon 2019's announcement of poe2 and how it would improve poe1 was what kept me so damn invested.

i dumped a ton of money into this game as well as time.

some may argue, dude u cant expect your diablo 1 character and gear to port over to diablo 2.

TRUE.

it was never the way games worked. every pokemon you started again fresh. you could have all the legendary and shiny pokemon in one game but you play the new one you start from zero.

but POE is different.

GGG/Chris himself went on talks talking about how to design a game to be played forever. how poe2 was initially announced REASSURING us players that this is indeed our forever game. i would probably still have played without that reassurance. i would still have thrown money at ggg without that reassurance. but probably less.

with the announcement i was more invested. in a way i as a gamer was invested. if i supported GGG they would make my favourite game of all time POE1 a better game. and they would continue making it better. if the design philosophy stayed as per announcement, this would mean that if POE 3 came it would follow the same philosophy and add on top of poe 1/2.

that idea is now SHATTERED.

i bring up this "promise". because it was a big turning point.

it is akin betrayal.

there are many flaws in POE1 that have yet to be fixed and i kept soldiering on. whenever i rage quit i would return, to enrich my gear on STD for the promised POE2 to come.

POE2 would fix everything.

when i see the recent vid clip of warrior and huntress reveal, all i felt was bitterness.

where the love is the melee improvements in POE1?

when i played tota, i got to various times that i found myself discarding good gear because the gear i had, had better slots/sockets/colours.

this would have been solved with the new gem system.

later onwards i mistakenly bought a bad rolled item because i m dumb and didnt check properly. not only that, i threw in 300 jews. failed to 6s. forced 6s. then dumped fuses on to it till i got a 5L.

when i mapped to my horror i saw my attackspeed drop badly. oh well. i wasted so much resources because of a mistake. thats my bad. but then it reminded me of the new gem system. if this happened with the new gem system at the very least i would still have my gem be a 5L. its not a total waste.

so many things remind me of thing that "poe2 would fix".

i always end up in the forums bitching/whining about this game but always add a caveat, i d return for poe2.

but now, poe2 WILL NOT fix poe1.

i LOVE poe1. or at least i love what it used to be.

personally POE died the day AN went core. there was no testing. no player feedback. we were force fed AN. AN's not a "league mod" its dumped into the universal monster mods. this is different from how nemesis used to work. nemesis mods only existed on monsters that had nemesis mods enabled on them. this usually translates to regular rares. league/extra content rares were excluded, unless the map had nemesis mod applied or if the extra content rare spawned with a nemesis mod.

this helped reduce the frequency of nemesis mods. but not now. its everywhere. regular rares,extra content rares, whatever.

whatever happened to temp leagues being the testing ground before it went core?

players pushed back hard on AN but even when chris announced that AN was taken out of the game with what i would believe was a chagrin. AN mods still existed.

the latest league (tota) is to me unfun. i dont like channelling while combat is to be had. since when was poe's core gameplay involving players doing mundane tasks?

look back to a few years back. GGG introduced devices that activated by the player being nearby, before the brine king area as well as in the lab.

THIS GAMEPLAY ISSUE WAS ALREADY "FIXED" back then. tota came in and reintroduced a problem that did not exist. forcing players to NOT ENGAGE with monsters.

then we have the sanctum rework which took everything i loved about sanctum and LOVED the living hell out of it.

what direction is GGG going with poe 1? is this the way you reassure us that POE1 wont go into maintenance mode?.

anyway. i ve complained enough. the direction of the game has not been in the direction i would have preferred and the "promised solution" is no longer coming.

GGG you have a very awesome game in your hand. i wish you had stuck with your original exilecon 2019 forever game vision. if i was richer and if i had more resentment i seriously would consider suing to get all my money back past exilecon 2019. all the money before that is fair game. i gave that willingly and HAPPILY.

i wanted more of the same. you wanted something totally different. 2 games with 2 leagues?

GGG you're just too greedy now. this reminds me of my late uncle. he bought a tractor took on some projects. business was booming. he got another tractor and hired more people. then another one. and another. he did pay attention to the flow of projects. all he knew was, more tractors is more money. in the end, he overspent, buying too many tractors as projects dwindled up. he bit more than he could chew.

ive played POE for a good 10 years now. its the FUCKING BEST ARPG i've ever played despite all my harsh criticisms i have for it. chris you did a fucking good job. i commend you and GGG on that. all your success is well earned.

i've always wanted to save up and go for exilecon maybe in a few years time.

now. no longer.

there are now other arpgs in the market. funnily i find myself more hyped for grimdawns new expansion and 1.2 patch than poe2. titan quest 2 has been announced and i m honestly more hyped for tq2 than poe2 despite not knowing a single thing about tq2's systems.

tq2 might be a disappointment, it might be good. who knows. but what i do know is that all my disappointments with poe has developed into apathy. i m not rage quitting this time. to be honest. i m not even feeling disappointed anymore. its like how when my pet dog got into a bad accident, he became crippled. he needed assistance all the time. i cried. i was sad. many years later, he died. i did not cry. i felt a little melancholic. i was glad he passed. i realized that i had already mourned his passing many years back. its just a final indicator to move on.

poe is no longer fun to me.

before i end. i will add in some preemptive discussion points to some points of contention that people might want to say.

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I dont get why you're so invested in STD. Its more fun to play in new leagues where everyone starts off fresh.

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LOL GGG is a game COMPANY, youre not an investor, theyre free to do as they see fit.

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lol bro u mad, u ragequitting, no one will miss you, you wasted your time posting this.

this post is extra long as it is extra special.

i have a lot of love towards GGG. i wish them for the very best.


i have enjoyed POE for a very long time. it has been a long ride. a fun one and had many peaks. i might return? maybe who knows. but as of writing. i feel empty. perhaps relieved even.

i m no longer overburdened.

good luck.

Read the entire thing. I am sorry to see you go, but I agree, generally, and I think you make a good point with the amusement park analogy. I also feel betrayed by the unheralded "change of plans," but I still enjoy playing the game (PoE 1) enough to stick around. I still have plenty of offbeat, suboptimal builds to try, enough toys in my Standard toybox to play with.


But I'll only stick around for as long as I still enjoy PoE 1, or until GGG turns the lights off at the old theme park.

Farewell, Exile. ='[.]'=

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exsea wrote:

say what you want but people who gave GGG money are technically investors.

Well no. "Technically" means "strictly"/"according to the formal rules", etc.

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exsea wrote:

if you want to argue on this point, tell me ONE ENTERTAINMENT BUSINESS MODEL, that provides free service FOR FREE and only gains revenue SOLELY by "DONATIONS" and NO ADS.

There's no reason for anyone to give such an example, since there are no donations here. GGG sells products.

At least you used some line breaks.
See you next league.

bye random dude.

No offense, but this post screams... addiction?

Good luck exile!

But on the point of STD, yea, I have to agree, I really enjoy playing standard more than leagues (I still play leagues tho) just because of the stuff that is readily available in the former~

The fact that PoE 2 will be a separate game makes me both happy and concerned. On one hand, I'm happy because previously I was a bit concerned that PoE 2 might turn PoE into a game that I won't enjoy anymore, but now if I end up disliking PoE 2, I will always be able to return to the game that I love.

On the other hand, since initially PoE 2 was supposed to 'merge' into PoE 1 I was expecting some positive changes for the game. For one, the game actually getting the performance and optimization of a modern game where you don't need a 5k gaming PC to run delirious maps on the lowest settings.

The other issue - an alternative for campaign. Not sure it's what GGG said, but I was watching a content creator who said something among the lines - they won't give us an alternative, because they are confident in their PoE 2 campaign that will be more engaging and dynamic because each run will feel different, randomize bosses etc.

But now it turns out that PoE 2 will be a separate game. So is alternative leveling on the table again? And what about other game's issues? Are we just stuck with them 'forever' now, since PoE 2 not comming to 'save' PoE 1 anymore?