Bad Itemization is ruining this game

0.1 with all of it's flaws of unbalanced builds, was vastly superior to 0.2. It was in fact such a great game that I put it on the same level of Diablo 2 at some point.

I have almost 1100 hours in POE 2 for 0.1 and only 85 hours in for 0.2
I'm done with POE 2 until the next big patch. But even then, I doubt I'll play again unless something dramatic is done in the vision of the game.

Right now, they have completely ruined the loot system that was absolutely epic from pinnacles bosses. If they really go in this direction further I don't think I'll ever be able to play this game gain in the future. But that's fine because I had my fun and was lucky to enjoy 0.1 and I feel overall that I got a lot of fun for only 30 USD.

It's so sad though that the game is getting completely hijacked by some weird ideology, I have no idea why they're doing that but personally, this is making the game much much worse.

When I replay a game, in this case a new league in POE 2, I plan for what I desire later. The problem here is that there are no longer any great desirable in this game. Everything got ruined.

Balancing in 0.1 was a real issue, we were too strong. In 0.2 we are weaker and I'm fine with that, but the items are completely ruined. The fun of an ARPG is the itemization and progression. You want to have powerful items at the end of a long grind.

There is no grind in here, what are we even grinding for? Everything is absolute trash with ridiculous drawbacks. In fact, even without the specific drawbacks listed on the unique items, a lot of them, if not most, would still be hot trash.

The game is getting bloated with multiple trash uniques and nothing pops out anymore...

I've stopped playing 3 days ago, and was logging in 30-40 minutes but then logged out because I didn't see the point or any enjoyment of the game. There's nothing to look for and the mapping system is absolutely tedious with tower juicing. I absolutely hate that system.

In 0.1 at least I could grind pinnacle area for experience and loot, but hey, they removed BOTH. This game is dead to me until something serious is done about it.

This went from one of the best game of all time in an early access state, to a pure beta/alpha ruined version with 0.2
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This went from one of the best game of all time in an early access state, to a pure beta/alpha ruined version with 0.2
Honestly, I am impressed how they did it. I mean, I experienced many EA's and/or betas and can't remember a single case where the game became substantially worse.
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I am impressed how they did it. I mean, I experienced many EA's and/or betas and can't remember a single case where the game became substantially worse.


Escape from Tarkov:
In the moment they introduce IMBECILITY called Flea.
game turned into economic simulator.
And never recover.
SSF player✔️
ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED!?
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I am impressed how they did it. I mean, I experienced many EA's and/or betas and can't remember a single case where the game became substantially worse.


Escape from Tarkov:
In the moment they introduce IMBECILITY called Flea.
game turned into economic simulator.
And never recover.
Uh. Good point. Never played it, but heard of the drama...
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This went from one of the best game of all time in an early access state, to a pure beta/alpha ruined version with 0.2
Honestly, I am impressed how they did it. I mean, I experienced many EA's and/or betas and can't remember a single case where the game became substantially worse.


It's amazing honestly. It's as if the dev team is divided in factions or that some of the people that worked on 0.1 are no longer here.

Either that or just a massive bait and switch. Since they sold the EA pretty much to everyone that will be willing to buy it, they are switching for future monetization.

RMT is rampant with bots and chinese farmers and GGG is owned by a chinese company. This has to be a command from Tencent at this point, because I just don't see how they could possibly tolerate such an ideology that goes against the vast majority of the base players.

O.2 completely crushes the spirit of what was implemented in 0.1. There's no way that the programmers in the dev team are all agreeing with what is currently being done to a game they've worked so hard to produce.

They can't say anything because they are professionals, but we know what's going on.
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This went from one of the best game of all time in an early access state, to a pure beta/alpha ruined version with 0.2
Honestly, I am impressed how they did it. I mean, I experienced many EA's and/or betas and can't remember a single case where the game became substantially worse.


Oh how the Jakker of patch 0.10 would have trolled this comment. He or she would probably have said that you are a bad player with poor skills with a bad build who is a tourist with entitlement issues.

I'm glad to see this personal growth and hope it continues into patch 0.30.
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Oh how the Jakker of patch 0.10 would have trolled this comment. He or she would probably have said that you are a bad player with poor skills with a bad build who is a tourist with entitlement issues.

I'm glad to see this personal growth and hope it continues into patch 0.30.
I mean, I am mostly realistic, but I can't see the future.

PoE2 0.1 was, like I said, a really solid base, with many flaws, but things that aren't hard to improve on. Who could've known that they go "Hold my beer, let's make it worse" is some challenge they had at the office?
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This went from one of the best game of all time in an early access state, to a pure beta/alpha ruined version with 0.2
Honestly, I am impressed how they did it. I mean, I experienced many EA's and/or betas and can't remember a single case where the game became substantially worse.


Oh how the Jakker of patch 0.10 would have trolled this comment. He or she would probably have said that you are a bad player with poor skills with a bad build who is a tourist with entitlement issues.

I'm glad to see this personal growth and hope it continues into patch 0.30.


I mean, they are trippling down on the vison whilst the player base is melting. I haven't logged in I think in the past 3 days. Just came back to the forums today to play the real end game, which is looking posts from people being mad at the devs.

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