The Truth About PoE 1 Versus PoE 2

I think another issue players are believing it's that tencent = money and theyr'e after hundreds of millions of investment that they need immediate returns on.

I really don't think this is the case, I think there was a relatively small team working on poe2, until the last year, this feels very much like a company that cares about their employees and doesn't want to crunch an AAA title out the door to maximise profit in as quick a way as possible

I’ve enjoyed PoE2 and can see myself playing it for the long term but in the little experience I had with PoE1 (maybe a couple hundred hours) it feels like they’ve sacrificed player autonomy for accessibility. Not to say this is a deal breaker, but with the amount of rng in PoE2 it plays a lot closer to D4 than I would have liked. That being said I understand it’s EA and the game will continue to evolve so I’ll be going along for the ride until Elon calls me back to farm his S7 char (only kidding).

I honestly feel like PoE2 is just better than PoE1 in so many ways. I’m not even talking about the graphics being 10x nicer it’s the feel of the game. Every hit, every kill has this weight and impact that makes it so much more satisfying. For someone who played PoE2 before ever touching PoE1 like me, the fact that you can’t roll to dodge in PoE1 is just brutal. It feels almost unbearable after getting used to the responsiveness of PoE2 , poe 1 suck hard at combat feelijg which weird because this game is about action but i understand it is 12 years old