You have alienated your own playerbase

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eldheim#2436 wrote:

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just_dont#6539 wrote:

The game is fun as it is right now. Please don't write arguments as if you're talking for everyone. You don't.

In fact, personally I consider it absolutely amazing that we finally got a modern ARPG that's not a snoozefest where you just lazily click one button to move through the game.

"The game is fun as it is right now".

Yes, for YOU.

This game has six acts, and a vast endgame.
This idea that it somehow can't scale difficulty better, and let more people enjoy the campaign is silly.
The same goes for drops, and ascendancies.

Just because this happened to be exactly what you enjoy, doesn't mean that's true for most people.
This can be as simple as poor choice of class and playstyle, or build.
If you made a melee tanky build, good luck trying to get your first ascendancy points by maintaining honor.
If you went caster or bow, got some nice movement speed boots, and maybe a fair bit of evasion, you are MINT.
Is this how you want to gatekeep every class most powerful abilities? You get punished for picking one thing, and not the other?

How is this fun? Do you realize why it's NOT fun for a lot of players?

The forum posts say differently, just watch, if they dont change anything at all right now its going to be 70% or more less players in 2 weeks.

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xwolf94#1488 wrote:

The forum posts say differently, just watch, if they dont change anything at all right now its going to be 70% or more less players in 2 weeks.

Now why FORUMS is where hatred concentrate? BEcause the ones that are liking are playign the game 14 hours per day! Look at steam CHARTS. YEsterday the peak of plaeyrs was HIGHER than the release day!

Imagine, you start the game at level 1. Something "modern" arpg audience doesent understand. They are too used for the game "starting" at endgame.

Now, click Hardcore league and enjoy the fucking game, from level 1 instead of whatever 60 levels and full meaningless campaign.

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Urza_Mechwalker#7393 wrote:

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xwolf94#1488 wrote:

The forum posts say differently, just watch, if they dont change anything at all right now its going to be 70% or more less players in 2 weeks.

Now why FORUMS is where hatred concentrate? BEcause the ones that are liking are playign the game 14 hours per day! Look at steam CHARTS. YEsterday the peak of plaeyrs was HIGHER than the release day!

Like I said, wait 2 weeks and check steam charts.

I want to love the game but its horrible.

People have gotten too used to the easymode zoom poe 1..

Take your time.. Get better gear and more levels before going on said boss..
Stop calling for changes or nerfs just because you want to be lvl 80 in 2 days.. Start play the farming game that is poe, like when poe1 was good, when you had to farm docks to actually be able to progress. It felt more socially engaging when you looked for xp groups to level up.
I have like 30 people on my friend list in poe1, and guess what. They're all from that old time when you actually had to stop your progress because you were too weak, so you either farmed alone or sought out other players, it was engaging and fun. Over the past 3-5 years in poe1 i havn't had any need for any groups (=no new added friends), it's become a lackluster, easy and fast zooming poop game..

A lot of us want a slower paced game, slower combat etc. I see people in poe2 already clearing whole screens of mobs easily in maps. It's doable, so just take your time and try to get through the acts, it's harder than poe1 for sure, but you'll get better too.

The problem with people calling for nerfs, and GGG listening is that people get better at the same time, and boom the game is a suddenly ruined by being a walk in the park like poe1..
There's always a learning curve, so let the player-base get used to the mechanics.

It's only that much more satisfying getting through something when it's actually beating you up.

I got my cheeks clapped in the first trial of Ascendency, i tried like seven times. Then i stopped and thought; "I'll have to wait until I'm stronger." That should be everyone's mindset.

To each there own, so go play poe1 if you don't like poe2, they're gonna work on both.

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Urza_Mechwalker#7393 wrote:

Look at steam CHARTS. YEsterday the peak of plaeyrs was HIGHER than the release day!

Wow, it's almost as if more people have more time to play during the weekend or something

im on cruel atm and extremely bored already yeah bosses die fast but there's no loot no currency, nothing so far, slow movement speed dodge shoot repeat boss mechanics

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Wow, it's almost as if more people have more time to play during the weekend or something

+1

As soon as they get stuck in act 3 and second ascendancy all hell will break loose.

No. The peak numbers on almost all games are on SATURDAY, not SUNDAY. Because people need to wake up early on MONDAY. THere were more players on SUNDAY than saturday....

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jomppanen#2370 wrote:

im on cruel atm and extremely bored already yeah bosses die fast but there's no loot no currency, nothing so far, slow movement speed dodge shoot repeat boss mechanics

I think no one is challengeidn that some loot changes are needed. But that is completely orthogonal to the GAME form. Loot is SUPER easy to change.