ZIZARAN INTERVIEW - ZIZ your claims are FALSE. (evidence inside)

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Minamifay#1785 wrote:

You can apply to GGG to separate the hardcore server from the casual server, as not everyone is into the hardcore mode.

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I disagree with OP, it's brutal right now. Especially for new players.

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Dropspec#1378 wrote:

Zizz was cringe over embelishing his no drops quotes, regurgitating the moans from adhd redditors. Don't make the game easier to try and keep their attention, you then alienate a large amount of passionate poe2 players who actively enjoyed the challenge. The power was there they just wanted to achieve it immediately, no one wants to work for it anymore, the were going to ride off to play LE anyway, let them. Make a great Game GGG the one you intended, don't make it for these finicky people who simply undermine and don't respect the challenge nor the product, and then ruin emersion for others. DONT MAKE IT FOR ME EITHER MAKE THE ONE YOU INTENDED!! You won't be seeing me play LE or D4 both are garbo, but if you continue to make every arpg the same, easy, with mass loot, and easy crafting and free respecing. what's the point of playing this genera at all, if they are all the same. I'll just go back to D2 were meaning full choices matter. Or stop with arpgs all together. Poe2 day 1 was was legit, the nerf to player size was an L, reducing the cost of respect was an L, nerfing monster speed and making them easier is an L, just full stop. Don't undermine your orginial vision to appease a group of people whos best criticism is to over embelish and complain. They are clowns. Drink their tears, so what people die at the fair. If you make a great game they will be back, cause everything else is mindless and without effort. Trade league is there for them to make it easier, soft core is there when they die, hc and ssf is there too. They cry its ruthless, they are wrong, just had their ego hurt is all. Instead of overcoming and learning they resort to complaining. We have poe1 for zooming we don't need a copy of that, they want skip campain and free respecing with over abundance of drops they have d4. They want to play LE, let them its a bad game, dont make it the same as that. Dont nerf the game. just fix the servers and bugs, make the game fun by embracing the challenge, if they don't like that, let them cry. Not everyone will cry most adults will simply get better and with that being more emersed into the expo. let them review bomb they are wrong and childish. All this catering to gift the spoiled rotten and unappreciative does nothing for your title.

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Ragestorm26#0930 wrote:

Just to clarify my own position though, I’m not saying “It’s RNG, deal with it scrubs”—that kind of response helps no one and comes off as elitist. What I’m getting at is this: when even someone as experienced as Zizaran appears to be struggling because of choices like not dismantling rares, not buying quality items or socketing gear to recover currency, then blaming the loot system... that’s not really an RNG issue—it’s a gameplay and resource management issue.

If we’re going to talk about improving the balance of the game, it’s important we distinguish between true mechanical imbalances and suboptimal playstyles that lead to frustration. Otherwise, we risk pushing for changes that hurt the depth and challenge of the game for everyone.

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Ragestorm26#0930 wrote:

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This is why you always have people complaining loot is bad. It's because it is bad for them. Saying you had it good doesn't mean anything, because that's just part of the RNG.

Both Zizaran and I have logged an enormous amount of time in the campaign—well over 500 hours each—so we're not just tossing around anecdotes based on a handful of runs. When you’ve played that much, you develop a solid feel for how the RNG behaves over time.

The reality is, RNG does average out. Over hundreds of hours, patterns emerge. Sure, sometimes you get a rough start, but that just makes the early game feel more tense and rewarding. You play a bit more cautiously until upgrades drop, and they do drop.

Even in my worst runs, I’ve found that by mid Act 3 I’m typically in all yellow gear, with most pieces properly socketed. No farming loops—just straight progression from Act 1 onward. That’s not “getting lucky,” that’s just how the system generally plays out over time when you're engaging with the game well.

So when people say "loot is bad," what they really mean is loot felt bad that time. And that’s fair—bad runs happen. But if it’s consistently bad over hundreds of hours, it might be more about how the game is being approached than the loot system itself.