0.2.0 so far (no one cares)

Just a few points after over 100 hours in this league and like 80+ in endgame:

GGG exchanged 3-4 meta builds from 0.1.0 for 1 meta build in 0.2.0
My lightning sorc and Gemling got nerfed on every possible axis only for there to be a single build that uses lightning in effectively the same way but cheaper and more egregiously.

The endgame drops are horrifyingly low.
They're so insanely low I thought the new title of this league was hinting that we should be playing this like a survival game. You might not have everyone gravitate to the one easy button build if playing something else felt like it has any value at all. I stopped running high tier maps unless I get a passive point or something because the drops are not really any better from Tier 1-15. I've dropped Divs on tier 3 and 7 solo but never on a tier 15 and I've ran a LOT more tier 15s.

Actually getting to do the Pinnacle content is so farfetched and scant it doesn't feel achievable without a full time investment. The first issue is that this content has a reverse difficulty curve in just accessing this content, and that is objectively incorrect for all types of gaming and entertainment. I can melt tier 15+ content with my warrior and have complete 49 towers now and have 32 of my passive points in my atlas but have not come across a single citadel, completed a simulacrum or breachstone. Only was I able to obtain rituals by purchasing them after running a lot bit party.

That said I enjoy the new maps. I think the new ascendencies are actually pretty cool. I am just not sure they actually have the ability to plug all of the holes up on this cartoon sinking ship before they're expected to drop another content update and start a new league. At that point we are shit putting out a broken league on top of a broken league or we are withholding content and people lose interest entirely.

Just sucks because I really like the game. Hopefully they announce another emergency patch soon to address how the endgame is so bad.

i imagine other than most die hards more peeple have just back burnered this game and hope by release it dont suck ass

there are to many great games to waste time grinding this turd

Vote with your time and money, it's the only way they will take notice.

Don't buy anything from the store, not even the limited edition MTX. And logging out for several months.

These are the metrics by which they determine success, as long as people continue to pay and play they will view the game as being enjoyable.

I watched an interview yesterday with one dev saying something along the lines of "we have over 100k concurrent players so we have must doing something right" My reactions to that was what about the other side of the story, is that this game had 5 times the numbers in decemmber 2024... I face palmed pretty hard at that to be honest. 0.2 started off with 240k and now it sits around 100k-150k. (Steam charts) I know it's not the big picture but it's telling.
My point is, they don't think the game is in a bad spot.

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Stugots#0308 wrote:

I watched an interview yesterday with one dev saying something along the lines of "we have over 100k concurrent players so we have must doing something right" My reactions to that was what about the other side of the story, is that this game had 5 times the numbers in decemmber 2024... I face palmed pretty hard at that to be honest. 0.2 started off with 240k and now it sits around 100k-150k. (Steam charts) I know it's not the big picture but it's telling.
My point is, they don't think the game is in a bad spot.

hmm. in the same interview he admitted that a backlash of this scale has only been seen maybe one or two other times since the company's founding in 2006. I think that implies they have an idea about the spot they are in.

as you say, it's about the size of the frame of reference, this patch was a dud but it is now the beginning of week 2, they have collected the feedback of the past week and I am more than certain we will see some needed adjustments leading into the weekend.

there's so many amusing people (not saying you are one of them) who write up these huuuuge threads, saying how it's all over, it's ruined, everything is a total loss, scrap the game, my life is over, you've destroyed my hopes and dreams, I'll never psychologically recover from this - and it's been just over a week... lol

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Stugots#0308 wrote:

I watched an interview yesterday with one dev saying something along the lines of "we have over 100k concurrent players so we have must doing something right" My reactions to that was what about the other side of the story, is that this game had 5 times the numbers in decemmber 2024... I face palmed pretty hard at that to be honest. 0.2 started off with 240k and now it sits around 100k-150k. (Steam charts) I know it's not the big picture but it's telling.
My point is, they don't think the game is in a bad spot.

I don't think the game is in a "bad spot" beyond the expectations they set. I just think beyond the new content the balancing and attempts to make the game a smoother and more enjoyable playing experience were a total and complete failure, which was in there own words the focus of this update. I'm mostly done until we get a patch addressing the points I mentioned. After fighting the map bosses 30 times each I feel like the developers are just telling me to go play something else.