PoE 2 Is For Tourists

It really does feel like a "streamerbait" game.
90% of these people blindly praising the game and rejecting all forms of criticism will play this game for 40-60 hours max and never touch it again, moving onto the next IP in a couple of weeks.
Last edited by Asymptomatic479#2799 on Dec 9, 2024, 11:09:13 PM
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90% of these people blindly praising the game and recjecting all forms of criticism will play this game for 40-60 hours max and never touch it again, moving onto the next IP in a couple of weeks.



100%

People are following a twitch meta, playing part of act 1, and then leaving a six hour steam review about how wonderful the game is.

Retention won't even last through early access, let alone seasonal content after the game comes out.

It's good for the studio they made significant revenue now, as without major revisions to core ideas the game will have shorter legs than Diablo 4
Do you guys just want PoE 1 with updated graphics?
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I'm having fun right now, but yes, I think OP nailed it with how the game feels unrespectful of our time.

I got 14 or 15 uniques, most of them since I went +60% magic find and... none of them are useful. I'm lvl 60+, and I get lvl 10-15 uniques. Then most other items are bad. I'm stuck with my lvl 35 bow because I didn't find anything better since then! Same thing for armors. Old stuff from 20-30 lvl ago. Loot is bad, it's D3 Vanilla or D4 1.0 kind of bad when it comes to "good loot" scarcity and how uneventful most unique drops felt in D3 Vanilla. In PoE2 right now, all you get is a couple of rare if you're lucky to destroy and get a shard. Yay. Wash, rince, repeat... I want some loot, not some chance at crafting it.

You must be getting some crazy RNG. I'm at lvl 61 and I got 0 uniques, most of the rares I get are for str/dex classes and I'm playing sorc. Loot feels unrewarding, I'm still using a lvl 36 staff that I crafted somewhere in act 2. I've been picking up every single white ring/amulet in an attempt to craft some upgrades but keep getting crap.
It does remind me of D3 launch and how bad the original loot was.
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Do you guys just want PoE 1 with updated graphics?



Ideally, yes.

I didn't expect it to be that, but yeah I would have loved that.

Full auction house, update graphics, add/change some bosses with annoying monologues and stall phases, delete labs.

All I wanted to see.


That was never realistic though, and I didn't go in expecting that.

I just didn't think they would dumb it down to where once you understand it things become simpler than Diablo 4 and yet also constipate gameplay into a nearly impossible to enjoy slog with no rewards payoff at all. Hope you enjoy grinding slower than ever before, because all crafting is RNG which is just ground loot with extra steps lol


Boss fights are cool though. So I guess there's that.
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Do you guys just want PoE 1 with updated graphics?
No, but I certainly did not want the complete opposite of everything that makes PoE1 great.
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Moerlin#4140 wrote:
It really does feel like a "streamerbait" game.


What pisses me off is ZiZ and Tri are claiming that its the best game they've ever played. And they couldnt be happier with the current state of the game. Theyre such sellouts.
+1 good write up op.
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Moerlin#4140 wrote:
It really does feel like a "streamerbait" game.


What pisses me off is ZiZ and Tri are claiming that its the best game they've ever played. And they couldnt be happier with the current state of the game. Theyre such sellouts.


They can't be seen to be critical when they are hosting sponsored streams can they. Their brand is their business; is their livelihood.

Give it a few months for the dick riders to go to the next game. Till then I am peace out on the forums.
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