GGG has to decide whether or not they want this game to be mainstream or remain niche

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chobo999#2010 wrote:

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Mordgier#6997 wrote:

It totally is but that's the appeal.

Grab a beer, turn off brain, zoom around kill a few hundred mobs, pick up shinies, smash crap, sell good stuff, zoom zoom some more.

It's fun. Like a game is meant to be.

If I wanted to think I'd fire up Battle Brothers or Terra Invicta.

I see no shame in saying that I like playing builds that clear the screen in PoE 1 and 2.

Fair!

Then most folks say that folks can just play PoE1 for it! (and some do/go back to it!) -- thoughts on that?

Others then say PoE1 longevity is "dead" now and playerbase is nothin'! -- thoughts on that? (can this also be PoE2 future?)

Why would I go back to PoE when I can do it in PoE 2 which is new and fresh?

PoE is a been there done that. POE 2 is a fresh stomping ground.


I'll hop from league to league between PoE2 and Last Epoch.

If you want slow paced mechanics heavy games, there's Lost Ark which just didn't click for me.

PoE has never been a slow game, neither is PoE2 - it's 'slower' sure but that's still not slow enough for some and never will be.

That's fair!

You do you...just askin' for you opinion here lol.

Like I said others don't do what you do (they go back to PoE1 for it)


How about that 2nd part of the question about the PoE2 future if it's essentially a clone of PoE1 -- do you think it will have longevity at all..?

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chobo999#2010 wrote:

That's fair!

You do you...just askin' for you opinion here lol.

Like I said others don't do what you do (they go back to PoE1 for it)


How about that 2nd part of the question about the PoE2 future if it's essentially a clone of PoE1 -- do you think it will have longevity at all..?

How many Diablo games are we up to now?

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Mordgier#6997 wrote:

How many Diablo games are we up to now?

Are you trying to equate PoE1 to Diablo now....pls..... -- you dodgin' the Q Lol.

I'll take a niche game with thriving community any day of the week , thenagain i don't run a large business like GGG does so what do i know .

It's a mainstream game. This is why it sucks and it's going to have same numbers as The Last Descendant soon enough. But i rather stare at waifus from last descendant than at a man model of a ranger

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Alivkos#3986 wrote:

It's a mainstream game. This is why it sucks and it's going to have same numbers as The Last Descendant soon enough. But i rather stare at waifus from last descendant than at a man model of a ranger

Um... the "zoom zoom 1-shot" is mainstream..? What..?

Mainstream means WIDER REACH.

You feel many folks want "zoom zoom 1-shot"..?

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nitefox1337#3569 wrote:

So, what they do when they see that players steamroll over their game easily?

They bring up annoyances:


- Encumbrant Inventory. (proof of previous statement is that they didn't even think through the amount of portal trips a player would have to do to salvage items for shards if you keep a tetris like inventory).

of course they thought it through.

they make the items large in the inventory because they want them to feel significant, it has nothing to do with steamrolling.



you think jonathan who coded the engine poe1 and 2 run on and was a key designer of the most successful long term game in this genre "don't have analitic and algorithmic cognitive abilities"?

really?

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Snorkle_uk#0761 wrote:

you think jonathan who coded the engine poe1 and 2 run on and was a key designer of the most successful long term game in this genre "don't have analitic and algorithmic cognitive abilities"?really?

Do you have a source for this?

I tried to look up online but nothin'.

Like maybe a Wiki or article for their game engine or something more technical from the company/team/etc..? Nothin'!

Thanks in advance ;)

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chobo999#2010 wrote:

Are you trying to equate PoE1 to Diablo now....pls..... -- you dodgin' the Q Lol.

But they have exactly the same gameplay. You mash AOE button, you kill everybody, you win. You think your grandma or Elon couldn't do it if you load the game and let them play for your character in PoE1?