You have alienated your own playerbase
" Not even the 0.1% will stay, i´ve done everything that could be done in PoE 1, builds worth mirrors etc and i respect myself too much to playing this unrewarding crap for long, imagine a game about loot where you get noone of it, noone plays these games for the story, noone does it for the "skillful action" (for that you have actual games that shine on that, like souls etc), ARPG´s are about grinding for loot and improving your character, always have been, noone did baal runs in D2 for the crazy combat, everyone did it in hopes to get a dopamine rush from the good drops, guess what? theres nothing like that here, im on Maps at and i get 1-2 rares for clearing a massive map, wich end being sold to the vendor btw. IGN - Slayonara
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" Player retention for EA stage might not be anything stellar, it doesn't really matter though. We're likely to see player numbers vary greatly depending on how much additional content will be released and how fast. I honestly doubt that many people will keep playing EA for months if there won't be a big content patch in the meantime. |
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" That's the thing - you barely get enough loot to progress. I have gone back to farm zones repeatedly to get loot. I have farmed vendors every single level up to see if I could find an upgrade. I have blown through all gold and all transmutes hoping for upgrades. It was sure memorable when I finally got an upgrade - but it wasn't satisfying. It feels good like being able to pee after holding it for hours feels good - you're happy you're done suffering and the struggle is over. That's not really want from a game. I want to have fun. Not to be punished and then happy when punishment is over. Even with the good gear, I don't feel 'powerful' - I am just not struggling. |
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Well guys, for the most part you all make great points. However, I feel it's just too early to be so frustrated. The EARLY ACCESS became available just 3 days ago. Of course the GGG will listen and tune the difficulty / drop rates to make the gameplay more enjoyable without making it too easy. Just have some patience and faith.
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" but the masses are already playing? it has 350k online on steam atm, poe 1 will NEVER have this many concurrent players if people quit poe 2 because it's a bad game, it's not like those people will come back to play poe 1 anyway. most of the people playing poe 2 aren't even poe 1 players for one, as a former poe 1 player, I'm not planning to ever return to poe 1, no matter what. it's an awful game and I'd rather play Grim Dawn than that abomination. even the GGG devs hate poe 1 lol "buff grenades"
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" And it's fine. You can always progress by grinding anyway, if you want. It's an ARPG. You can progress by regularly visiting shops, they exist for a reason (and I'm really glad that shops aren't useless in PoE2). "Just enough loot" is not a progression blocker for the campaign. "Becoming powerful" should be a sum of your actions (making a good build, getting enough synergistic equipment), not just "oh I found a new gun, time to oneshot everything for the next hour". Last edited by just_dont#6539 on Dec 9, 2024, 10:23:53 AM
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GGG, you made an amazing game with PoE 2. I know some people do not share this opinion, but that is life. If you would want to make everybody happy you could not make video games, but rather sell an ice cream. Everything is all right.
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" They alienated us original players with the past 6 years of power creep. You have your game, let me have mine. |
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" Well said. PoE2 gets this right -- lots of ways to eke out more performance and smash the game. Nice progression up to maps. Maps could do w some small tweaks but its not as egregious as ppl are saying. |
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" I have an entire tab full of support gems. Please stop making shit up. HCSSF is the only way.
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