Create an account, verify, login, buy early access, immediately get blocked.

This is probably the most frustrating introduction to a game I have ever had. I'm seeing all the hype of POE2 and early access coming up, so I thought lemme give it a try, it looks great.

So I register for an account, verify it, buy the $30 early access. Day of early access rolls around, I can't login, I have been blocked. What for, nobody knows.

I can't even login to post in this forum. So I do the only thing I can, send the support ticket. When will we get a response on that, maybe a week or two. So much for early access.

I had to go spend $11 buying a VPN with a private IP just to be able to register a new account, in order to post here.

Someone should pay attention to this. It's a massive friction point. It's really not the best to care about static IPS. In South Africa, our Internet service providers constantly recycle IPS for all consumers almost daily. Blocking someone because of bad activity from another customer makes no sense.

EDIT: I am able to access my account through a Private VPN dedicated IP. I shouldn't have too!