Please remove any costs to redistribute passive skill points

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Sampawende#6115 wrote:
I also think that respec should be difficult and if needed, we should just start a new run.
What really matters is that you should not be able to easily "brick" your build before the endgame at least. That is where the focus should be.

This early on in the game would it not be beneficial to allow more freedom to respec though? I loathe the idea of having to recreate a clone of my character because of an arbitrarily excessive expense especially since not all of us are elite pro gamers

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z3mcneil#3966 wrote:

Posted this in another similar thread since I don't see a popular thread dedicated to gold drop.

Want to add my 2 cents here regarding the low gold drop overall. I see all defenders of high respec cost basically go by the same argument -> they themselves don't mind the grinding, and they are agaisnt other players having fun in their own way. What a selfish way to run a game, and if you have an entire team of devs thinking like this, well that's exactly how WoW ran itself into the ground.

Those who say currently players have enough gold: no we don't. My witch is 2/3 through Act 2 and still hasn't died once despite random lag spikes, is that good enough for the elitists? I have 12k gold, that's from selling every blue and yellow gear I can't salvage, and a random garbage rare from the NPC costs 1/3 to half of all my total gold. I will go completely broke just by gambling 6-8 times (almost guraranteed to get only garbage) or just total respec one time. That's not acceptable. Some people seem to have no idea how many good games are out there and how valuable gaming time is in 2024. This isn't 2004 anymore, the competition for gamers' time and money, industry wide and worldwide, is brutal.

So according to these people, it's perfectly fine for a casual player who clears maps much slower than me to grind for say 5 hours just to have enough gold to respec once, in the hope it will improve their suboptimal build. Do you guys have any idea how much actually fun, meaningful content I can experience in 5 hours in Elden Ring, Wukong, Baldur's Gate 3, Cyberpunk 2077 and so on and so on? It only shows that you might be a no lifer and you don't play a lot of other games to realize how valuable your time can be. If the game only panders to this crowd, and ignore both the overwhelming majority that is the casuals and players like me who have no problem skill-wise but not time-wise, soon you won't have a game. The idea of trying more than 1 or 2 characters, or playing every season, is already seeming incresingly unattractive to a lot of people.

Since Tencent owns GGG, I'll use China as an example. PoE1 in China had unique QoL features exclusive to that 1 country, like a pet that auto pickup and auto sell, similar to the pet in Torchlight. Because even though Chinese gamers might be quite grindy themselves (all those meaningless gatcha games come to mind) but even they value their time investment. WoW and FF14 as MMORPGs should in theory be some of the most grindy games in existence and as live-service games they're also built around the season/league system, but in China a LOT of players just use real money to buy gold because it's still a lot cheaper than sinking huge amount of time in real life, because in real life time is money, unless you're a no lifer. They almost never get banned because even the companies that run these games realize that you need to let the players have their fun then you earn their subscription fee, or they quit and you get nothing.

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TheTyrant#1502 wrote:

Yes passive kill reset should be free.

The number one problem with POE1 was if you didnt play a meta build you simply "lost the game". Charging for changing the skill points prevents players from exploring interesting and fun combos (solo or with friends).