Good luck guys, I've uninstalled.

Nothing? You want to do a 30 hours boring campain again?

I won't do campain again, boring, won't do ascendency never, was too painfull and not fun, all those things to discover an empty late game, nothing is good.

I won't touch this game until official release, personnal point of view,

We know the big majority love everything in this fantastic game that do new things that we haven't seen for years in games and that works like a charm.

Look at console players, they are soooo Happy, so smooth engine.

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Junki3JJC#5645 wrote:

The laughing portion was borderline insulting for those of us struggling with the various issues.
Yeah it's a game, and "early access" for sure. But imagine laughing in a customers face - regardless of your industry - for screwing up. People elsewhere have been fired for less.

Overall +1.

One initial thought that may defend the other (the 2 reps from GGG of the interview) side perhaps...their remarks were quite intentional (despite the lack of empathy), and it was in doing so for the best for the future, i.e. prepare those that think there will be change and that it will be diff from PoE1 (end-game/mapping) but he already knows it's a lost cause (currently leaning towards they are in-the-know re. general community sentiments [and perhaps there really is nothing they can/will do]). However, playing devil's advocate, given the past history of PoE1 and what many others have said for their track record - this also isn't anything new in a way...so perhaps this is again no different, and history repeats itself once again (in due time).

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akanah#3221 wrote:

He laughs because ppl resume and trivialise and extreme hard work like it was nothing.

That's an interesting counter-take perhaps. For this, I feel the interview never got into details of course. But if you break it down some more, there seems to be a huge divide between the general community perspective and their perspective (the 2 reps from GGG). For the former, there are tons of forums/posts/YT/Reddit/Streamers/etc on the issues for melee (more Warrior-centric), more than any other class -- and if you make a basic comparison/contrast between this class and the others, it's quite overwhelmingly obvious how large the gap is. While for the latter, they seem to fail to acknowledge this at all -- and while this may seem fine...the playtesting/QA should've been able to pick up on this and have at least noticed this before - and yes, even Early Access (EA). Playing devil's advocate for this point, perhaps you can say the economy issues yes ("rush for deployment, 10 min before release", etc etc etc), and perhaps yes the melee class (Warrior-centric) was the 1st class they worked on in gamedev sure -- but again, the Gap is quite Massive/Large/Substantial honestly (again, to the point where it's near blatantly obvious [and again, their past history has shown the same track record, in terms of "melee < ranged"...and failing twice in a row? I mean, that leans towards intentional more-so I feel...never said game balance is/was easy, but this is perhaps over a decade+ of gamedev now? You can shrink that Large Gap a bit no?]).

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HororoKhan#4378 wrote:

This is what I had in mind during the break. That we should chill and let them cook. But that interview showed that the director heard those complains for the first time

Again, as aforementioned, they have a past history track record -- and no, I don't believe that's the case ("melee < ranged" for decade+ perhaps).

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Lureahawk#2121 wrote:

It took them this long to just make a copy past of PoE1. I don't get it.

That's a bit harsh lol...I mean you can see the campaign is a deviation, right? Yes, the end-game/mapping now (yes, I did complete 1 map on my Merc, and just recently a few on my Warrior [finally])...well, then yes (breach/delerium/etc is diff a bit perhaps?) lol (aka "zoom zoom 1-shot").

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HororoKhan#4378 wrote:

I don't know what could convince me to go through this campaign again

Personally, there are some elements for me too where dodging bosses ("souls-like") gets a bit too much/tedious yes (and the size of specific parts of the campaign too, even with checkpoints/waypoints). But other than that, the campaign is the best part of PoE2 so far. If there's any longevity for the future of this game, it's there I feel...yes, there are still folks mapping of course, but personally, not seeing it for the future growth (again, PoE1 zoom zoom 1-shot).

TLDR: post-interview, (personally) my current (until more data arrives from the community/YT/forums/Reddit/etc) bet will side on past history, i.e. "melee < ranged" and "zoom zoom 1-shot" -- so, no real changes from PoE1, essentially (with the main outlier of the campaign for the 1st ~60 lvls or so...lol --- and new melee classes like Druid/Templar/Marauder...lol [bye Warrior...lol {I don't count Monk...lol -- nor minion/Witch...lol}]) -- and timing-wise, I'll just say 2026+ (so, guessing 1 more year of gamedev until full Release post-this EA).

(Post this interview w/ the 2 GGG reps, I just decided to bite the bullet and re-rolled Monk [finally?] for SSF [felt the additional handicap of SSF would help Balance it out...lol. {Merc lvl ~64, Witch lvl 21, Warrior lvl 66 -- considering trying out the Quarterstaff for my Merc -- Re-spec Again...lol -- and yes, will still be on the lookout for future Druid/Templar/Marauder...lol}])

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Sandcubicle#5745 wrote:

Haven’t quit yet, but definitely feel demotivated after seeing the interview. Really tone deaf responses all over the place. And worst of all is this:

This feels like what they want the endgame to be and it's disappointing after years of hearing them talk about slower, more tactical endgame because PoE1 was too fast.

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Neurodrive#5820 wrote:

Nothing? You want to do a 30 hours boring campain again?

I won't do campain again, boring, won't do ascendency never, was too painfull and not fun, all those things to discover an empty late game, nothing is good.

I won't touch this game until official release, personnal point of view,

We know the big majority love everything in this fantastic game that do new things that we haven't seen for years in games and that works like a charm.

Look at console players, they are soooo Happy, so smooth engine.

Campaign can be finished in 7 hours. One content creator made a guide on how to do it.

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hboi#6131 wrote:

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Neurodrive#5820 wrote:

Nothing? You want to do a 30 hours boring campain again?

I won't do campain again, boring, won't do ascendency never, was too painfull and not fun, all those things to discover an empty late game, nothing is good.

I won't touch this game until official release, personnal point of view,

We know the big majority love everything in this fantastic game that do new things that we haven't seen for years in games and that works like a charm.

Look at console players, they are soooo Happy, so smooth engine.

Campaign can be finished in 7 hours. One content creator made a guide on how to do it.

lmao... a new player who has never played poe1 will never finish this campaign in 7 hours. how dishonest is this community? it's pretty jarring lol

I personally like the part where they locked accounts for a data breach of their own doing and the response has been silence or insults. Way to foster a community of gaslighting btw.

I'm sure the people that played EA for only a week and then got locked out would totally love hearing it was because of 'social engineering.'


You know, if their accounts weren't locked.

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toxiitea#5772 wrote:

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hboi#6131 wrote:

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Neurodrive#5820 wrote:

Nothing? You want to do a 30 hours boring campain again?

I won't do campain again, boring, won't do ascendency never, was too painfull and not fun, all those things to discover an empty late game, nothing is good.

I won't touch this game until official release, personnal point of view,

We know the big majority love everything in this fantastic game that do new things that we haven't seen for years in games and that works like a charm.

Look at console players, they are soooo Happy, so smooth engine.

Campaign can be finished in 7 hours. One content creator made a guide on how to do it.

lmao... a new player who has never played poe1 will never finish this campaign in 7 hours. how dishonest is this community? it's pretty jarring lol

Right they can follow the guide. I'm not saying first time it will be 7 hours but the more you redo it the faster it gets. 7 hours is indeed possible

total '' you think you do but you don't '' vibes on this interview. they're so out of touch and knows nothing about this ''game''. good cash grab marketing tho I have to admit

this thread is so out of touch that i dont even

lots of 0 challenge whiners that dont even play poe1

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PyleWarlord#7248 wrote:

this thread is so out of touch that i dont even

lots of 0 challenge whiners that dont even play poe1

I dunno man, I've got to the end of act 6 on hcssf. And it's not like I don't want to start again cause I've chickened out but it's just such a boring ass experience to repeat those 3 acts 2 more times. Cause I'd have to take them slow once again. The pacing is the problem.

I've died at the end of the campaign cause I went CI kind of too early. So I'd like to go again and build with the new info but bruh