You have alienated your own playerbase

I think the core of the game is there but boy does it need changes.

What GGG has tried is to combine many genres to make poe 2, like darksouls and D2 as just two examples.

Sadly this has alienated over half the players, most people I know dont enjoy this.

We want difficult, but difficult should not be having to rerun a zone 8 times because all the monsters respawn when you die.

Starving for support gems that make you not deal enough damage or change your play style even in act 3.

No loot to get upgrades or currency to craft on more than 2 pieces of gear per act only for it to be crap.

Difficulty should come in late game when you make it difficult yourself, loot and Currency should be abundent.

Hope the game is fixed soon.

The balance is good, meaningful gameplay within an hour, not 5-10 trivial and boring hours later like POE 1.

Just be patient, guides will come out soon you can follow to trivialise the game.

Also dieng 7 times in a zone is a strong and clear indicator you are doing something wrong, there are tens of thousands of players in HCSSF into and past Act 3. Think through the mechanics, use all the tools at your disposal, understand how defences work and get comfortable with dodge roll.

POE 2 bad

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AmpegV4#2473 wrote:

The balance is good, meaningful gameplay within an hour, not 5-10 trivial and boring hours later like POE 1.

Problem is normal people cant complete the campaign..

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xwolf94#1488 wrote:

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AmpegV4#2473 wrote:

The balance is good, meaningful gameplay within an hour, not 5-10 trivial and boring hours later like POE 1.

Problem is normal people cant complete the campaign..

why?

Hard stats are needed. How many people have completed the campaign so far, how many are stuck in Act 1, etc. Because when half a million players are online at the same time, what your friends list shows means nothing.

Serious cope here. Game is simply a bad sequel. I do not want to spend 20 minutes fighting an act boss, and I don't want death to make me waste 10 minutes of walking to the boss, in an area where it's possible to die 5-10 times.

If I wanted that kind of gameplay, games like Elden Ring, or even older darksouls, do it far better than anything POE can approach. I play POE for a top down ARPG, not a sweaty souls like. Some might enjoy that kind of game, sure, but I don't think it's a good sequel to what POE1 was.

There's a reason "Ruthless mode" never really took off, no one wanted that kind of game out of POE. Shame that the developers can't seem to see past their ego when it comes to that. At least they wont discontinue POE1 for a while.

Please don't speak for everyone. It's always unfortunate when quality games get watered down due to player skill issues.

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Arghamakkon#0311 wrote:

Serious cope here. Game is simply bad. I do not want to spend 20 minutes fighting an act boss, and I don't want death to make me waste 10 minutes of walking to the boss, in an area where it's possible to die 5-10 times.

If I wanted that kind of gameplay, games like Elden Ring, or even older darksouls, do it far better than anything POE can approach. This is an ARPG.

There's a reason "Ruthless mode" never really took off, no one wants that kind of game. Shame that the developers can't seem to see past their ego when it comes to that. At least they wont discontinue POE1 for a while.

seriously if its taking you 20 mins to kill a boss its nothing other than skill issue, look at your build, and the way your approaching said boss, not boss ive done so far has been anywhere near 10 mins let alone 20

poe2 is NOT a quality game... yet.