Went back to POE1 this Evening after playing POE2 a month and this was my experience.

1. The controller controlls are completely different. Messed with my head. I guess making them the same was too problematic? I dont know.
2. I ran 5 expecition maps (yep, in a row) because I like expedition and I didnt have to run 90 blank maps in between to find them.
3. Found a logbook and ran that expedition.
4. Got a ton of fun loot in expedition.
7. Ended up completing t10 maps, all of them.
8. Needed a couple of fossils so ran delve a while and got the ones I needed as well as a chaotic resonator with 3 slots.
9. Crafted a new pair of boots with the resonator. Didnt hit move speed. No matter, went to the bench and crafted it. Then it had cold resist but I dont need that so I went to the harvest bench and converted cold to fire with the lifeforce I had.


Most importantly I had fun.

Yesterday I played POE2. And ran random boring map after random boring map, cant upgrade any of my gear because its 100% RNG.

I guess the early access part really does confuse people

So weird

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Poe2WarriorMan#6401 wrote:

I guess the early access part really does confuse people

So weird

EA isnt the problem. Boneheaded decisions by GGG are the problem. Crashes and bugs are fine. Deciding no more real crafting? Deciding no more movement skills, deciding no real goal in the atlas, these are all decisions.

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Poe2WarriorMan#6401 wrote:

I guess the early access part really does confuse people

So weird

It’s the entire game design and play that isn’t fun for me.

Did none of the PoE2 devs work on the first game? Or play it? Obviously they don't play this one, or they'd know warrior was trash from the get go and probably know that bleed attacks have to do life damage to work(I mean...it's in their own keyword alt-description...).

Yes, its early access but why is it so wrong to start with when they had plenty of experience from an obviously good game?

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Kraythax#2592 wrote:

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Poe2WarriorMan#6401 wrote:

I guess the early access part really does confuse people

So weird

EA isnt the problem. Boneheaded decisions by GGG are the problem. Crashes and bugs are fine. Deciding no more real crafting? Deciding no more movement skills, deciding no real goal in the atlas, these are all decisions.

They added the beams to citadels. Made the goals easier to visualize. Reforging bench is annoying and timewasting though. Although they could probably add something to infuse an item with a specific lower tier mod. Like they do with maps and distilled emotions.

P.S. I wouldn't respond to platitudes. Everyone knows it's ea.

not going to slog through HOURS of boring content getting one shotted by white mobs to get a one shot .. oh wait now 6 shot .. attempt at Xesh. Why when I could be doing Maven invitational or tracking down shaper or one of the 400000 things I can do in POE1?

POE2 is just ... plain ... boring.

Clearly not the op

They listed off things that are rudimentary that make the game not fun

Crafting
Mechanics


It’s EA, these things come with time. Much less a full release of the game


And if it’s so boring then don’t play. You aren’t leaving feedback by whining how POE2 doesn’t have things poe1 has

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Poe2WarriorMan#6401 wrote:

Clearly not the op

They listed off things that are rudimentary that make the game not fun

Crafting
Mechanics


It’s EA, these things come with time. Much less a full release of the game


And if it’s so boring then don’t play. You aren’t leaving feedback by whining how POE2 doesn’t have things poe1 has

Do you get paid to be here shilling this hard, or do you do it just for the love of it?

Also it is completely fair to make comparisons between the two because the devs have had over a decade of experience and are making arguably more game design choices in regard to implemented league mechanics compare to POE 1.

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Poe2WarriorMan#6401 wrote:

I guess the early access part really does confuse people

So weird

EA doesnt mean "This if fine" while the game burns into dust.
If you can't handle people thinking the game is bad don't get on the forums. This is feedback. Not white knight forums.