You have alienated your own playerbase

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shape3169#6973 wrote:

Majority of players do not complete 10 acts in PoE1.

Stop parroting this.
Does this take into account the tens of thousands test accounts created? How about all of the accounts and characters used for race pratice?

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Gulch#5697 wrote:

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shape3169#6973 wrote:

Majority of players do not complete 10 acts in PoE1.

Stop parroting this.
Does this take into account the tens of thousands test accounts created? How about all of the accounts and characters used for race pratice?

I've tried to introduce this game to a lot of people. They almost never complete the campaign. I'm sure there are others batting 100% but it's not a wild statement that most people that try PoE won't like it especially since the only barrier to entry is bandwidth.

Also, the accounts you mention measure in the hundreds out of several million accounts.

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Redthorne82#3177 wrote:

That's literally PoE 1. Play PoE 1. Difficult from the start is engaging right away.

I want to play poe 1 but devs forgot to make new league. I have nothing to do in almost 5 months old league and new one won't be out in 2-3 months.

They killed poe 1 for what? This undercooked slow ass game with no loot. Oh but it's so hard and fights are so meaningful that my Witch takes 10 sec to kill act boss and I don't even know their mechanics. Kitava was better fight than anything in poe 2.

It's all so tiresome, I swear to god.

It's always been this way. Unless there is extreme backlash and people abandon the game entirely ONLY then do these devs change. Chris Wilson's almighty vision is superior to the customers enjoyment and satisfaction. Need I mention Archnemesis? That's what PoE2 feels like, I never thought I'd have hope for D4, but here we are. All of the worst PoE1 ideas packed into one game, what a waste of talent, resources, and artistic vision.

GGG.... A Grinding Gear Game without the gear.
ARPG.... An Action RPG without the action.

That's how it felt to me. But people are taking 3 shifts to defend the current state of the game 24/7, so i did what was suggested to me quite smugly. I uninstalled. I'll follow the boards and patch notes and will give it a second try if major changes are implemented. Once the hype is over and the usual streamers get paid to advertise the next game, we shall see if PoE 2 is what the masses wanted or if it drove them away.

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dontango#3737 wrote:

GGG.... A Grinding Gear Game without the gear.
ARPG.... An Action RPG without the action.

That's how it felt to me. But people are taking 3 shifts to defend the current state of the game 24/7, so i did what was suggested to me quite smugly. I uninstalled. I'll follow the boards and patch notes and will give it a second try if major changes are implemented. Once the hype is over and the usual streamers get paid to advertise the next game, we shall see if PoE 2 is what the masses wanted or if it drove them away.

I'm casual player, played POE1 for no more then 1.5k join hrs, don't even understand tiny bit of mechanics, yet been waiting for POE2 and enjoy it from begin to the end. Is this game easy hell nope, is it fun hell yeah, is it balanced hell nope. I loved always melee and had high expectations yet all failed badly. Did this bad experience made me rage quit? Nope it didn't. Now play as caster(never liked casters) is it still fun yeah but way way out of balance, seems like some devs wanted to make casters op and melee trash and they did this well. The game is rough, drop rate is rough, some mechanics are rough too, still its fun for casual, more then D4,D3 and all others. I like customization in any game genre and dark theme and all of that I'm getting in POE2. There is still loads of the stuff to be fixed, nerfed, boosted, but hey People is EA(early access), don't expect polished product from EA, devs been so kind to Allow all to try it way way way before release , so be happy. Yeah they took some $$ for it, but you all forgot that servers dont run for free, people dont work for free and bills dont pay themself without any $$.

So after all its great game in EA, seen far far far worse games in closed / open EA then POE2.

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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..

Get good and pay attention then. You want "difficult" but also want it to be handed stuff on platter for you.
Something tells me that you don't really want difficult but you want to pretend that you play difficult games while not putting in the actually effort.

And don't get me wrong - not everyone has to enjoy difficult games. If you enjoy PoE1, that is fine. But why pretend that you want difficult games?

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Arghamakkon#0311 wrote:

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.

You're trying to tell us that its "cope", but then you say that you take 20 minutes to kill a boss or die 5-10 times in a single area.
You're just bad man, we don't have similar problems, lol.

we knew poe 2 isn't made for poe 1 audiences, why are you complaining? why the hell would they make 2 games for the same people LOL

I couldn't disagree more with your post.

No, loot should not be abundant. That's the whole point! When you do get a new item, it matters. you feel the power. This isn't D4 when everyone and the dog has Ubers.