Dear GGG: You NEED to watch this video! I cannot emphasize this enough! WATCH THIS!

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DutchMilk#4689 wrote:

They do have a direction and identity. A badly misguided direction and a identity no one want but the blinded fanboys.

Which direction and identity do you mean?

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brusin#1479 wrote:

So I came up with a pretty cool (I think) build.
It isn't super effective (it's good enough but it can't blast away whole screens of mobs every half second) but it's really fun to play.

I had fun build around igniting snipe and bunch of other skills, was fun to play. Couldn't do any mechanic except expedition too. But then I tried one-shotted build and it worked so much better and was so much boring that I uninstalled the game :)

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Suchka_777#4336 wrote:

But then I tried one-shotted build and it worked so much better and was so much boring that I uninstalled the game :)

Unfortunately that's pretty much what I'll have to do when I RIP. The game doesn't want me to build cool janky stuff and zooming isn't something I'd enjoy.

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brusin#1479 wrote:

zooming isn't something I'd enjoy.

And that the truth...

Too bad I heard some of these "counter points" from a diff thread...:

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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.

From what I've seen on this forum, I get impression that PoE 1 community is kind of the bottom of video games players. They are crying when meeting any challenge and starting to demand more loot and to make gameplay as easy as possible. I guess this is their "power fantasy", to make game easy enough for them (which is WAY easier than any normal player would enjoy).

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Suchka_777#4336 wrote:

From what I've seen on this forum, I get impression that PoE 1 community is kind of the bottom of video games players. They are crying when meeting any challenge and starting to demand more loot and to make gameplay as easy as possible. I guess this is their "power fantasy", to make game easy enough for them (which is WAY easier than any normal player would enjoy).

Buuuut...how many of the PoE1 playerbase do you think interact w/ Trade?
And Trade is EZ mode!

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brusin#1479 wrote:

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Suchka_777#4336 wrote:

But then I tried one-shotted build and it worked so much better and was so much boring that I uninstalled the game :)

The game doesn't want me to build cool janky stuff

Literally everyone I know who came to this game only did it because of this idea and this is literally the thing Diablo and other ARPGs like Last Epoch lacked for them.

"Hey, try this game, it's so cool! I am playing a witch that uses a bow and shoots arrows. Next character I already know of a ranger build that plays dual wielding swords but throws them like a boomerang, so I'll be playing that"

Little did they know this was PoE 8+ years ago.

The video addressed basically everything I have been saying here for a couple weeks now and they're mostly interconnected:

1) Game is full of artificial difficulty (random one-shots) and artificially long and repetitive grinds (endgame mapping towards pinnacle bosses)

2) Therefore players can't choose how they want to play unless they have copious amounts of time to spend in the game (spoiler alert: most don't and aren't willing to)

3) There is no real sense of progression in this game. 99.9% of gear drops are useless for your own character very early in the game, there is no actual crafting system (just a mod casino system). So very early into the game we have nothing to strive for.

4) Game relies on FOMO-driven strategies to keep players engaged in an endless bait-and-switch cycle of new leagues that ultimately culminate in the same thing after 1-2 months of playing.

I hadn't played this game since around 2022 because I was tired of this bait-and-switch approach.
PoE 2 was just the same thing, but on a bigger scale and I got baited, unfortunately.
I'm sticking around in the hopes something might change, but every time GGG has something to say, they double down on their "vision" and I lose some of that hope.

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Suchka_777#4336 wrote:

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DutchMilk#4689 wrote:

They do have a direction and identity. A badly misguided direction and a identity no one want but the blinded fanboys.

Which direction and identity do you mean?

A simplified ( badly and overly done ) version of ruthless mode. Everything that is in game now, are intentional.

This is their direction and identity. And they did it very poorly to the point there is two gaming directions within Path of Exile 2. The campaign style of gaming and Path of Exile 1 endgame style.

The patches shows that they are tripling down on all the bad decisions.

There is nothing wrong with one shooting bosses as a power fantasy. But it become a serious big problem when a game which just made a player spend hours learning bosses mechanic to avoid them in campaign, only to discard it at endgame because the endgame plays are so different from the campaign.

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Suchka_777#4336 wrote:

From what I've seen on this forum, I get impression that PoE 1 community is kind of the bottom of video games players. They are crying when meeting any challenge and starting to demand more loot and to make gameplay as easy as possible. I guess this is their "power fantasy", to make game easy enough for them (which is WAY easier than any normal player would enjoy).

Dude you just can't appreciate the skill, grace and intellect of the "one shot from range" play-style. Truly, these blaster masters are a cut above the rest.

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LVSviral#3689 wrote:

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Suchka_777#4336 wrote:

From what I've seen on this forum, I get impression that PoE 1 community is kind of the bottom of video games players. They are crying when meeting any challenge and starting to demand more loot and to make gameplay as easy as possible. I guess this is their "power fantasy", to make game easy enough for them (which is WAY easier than any normal player would enjoy).

Dude you just can't appreciate the skill, grace and intellect of the "one shot from range" play-style. Truly, these blaster masters are a cut above the rest.

"blaster masters"? More like Trade Masters. Lol.
Trade is EZ mode. ;)