Are you trying to discourage people from playing poe1 so you can focus on poe2?

Serious question.

I've been playing every league for more than 8 years and this is the first league/patch that made me question if I even want to continue playing it.

After more than a year of no updates/completely abandoning the game I and all other players expected a lot. We did not get a proper end game update for quite some time so when I get to know that that's what I'm getting I was so happy that I forgot all of your mistakes and was just happy to play.

After almost a month of the league I just noticed that I'm not playing because the league/patch is good. I'm playing because the game came back after a year.

The 3.26 introduced nothing and didn't resolve any issues. We got three new pinnacle bosses that feel so underwhelming that it's even hard to explain. When I first encountered them day 2 of the league I thought: the design of the first one is cool, the design of the second one is okay, and third one is just boring but that's okay - they are just quest versions. The real ones for sure will be more complicated and do damage BUT NO. That's it. I got 3 bosses that were less of a challenge than a random rare mob on yellow maps.

Even phercia had more meaningful changes xd

Apart from that NOTHING changed. T16.5 are cool but they don't solve any issues. T17 are still the main way to turn profit and because of t16.5 exist that just means that t16 are even more meaningless.

And I'm not even talking about PVE endgame. The builds variety is even worse than in previous leagues. You go play with your starter, progress it as far as you can and then change to one of the attribute/es stacking builds since it's the only way to play that game and why is that? Because all the exclusive to mechanics items are now in the worst addition to the game: valdo boxes (honorable mentions: recombs and ships). I remember when back in the day you had specific builds to farm labs for helm enchats and for exclusive to labs unique jewels. For almost 8 years of runing labs I never dropped single emperor's jewel AND THAT WAS OKAY. It was very rare item exclusive to few people who had a luck/can afford it.

Right now? Just do a valdo map that is worth 3D and you are good to go.

Not only you did not improve the endgame you actively destroy it.

Boss farming was the most profitable mechanic back in the day and now? For the price of single set of fragments for uber that has 1% chance to drop item you can just purchase a valdo map that guarantees the item.

Also how is it possible that people are playing the same exact archetype of the build for 5 years and it's still not only viable but one of the best endgame builds? I understand that you balance the game around your own experience but for the love of God sometimes just watch some streamers/youtube videos/poe.ninja.

Also I understand that most of the ,,big streamers" play hcssf or ssf but most of us mortals are playing trade. Why would we need a recombinator that makes it possible to create 3x t1 es gloves day one of the league? How exactly is this balanced compared to burning trough thousands of essences or hundreds of dense fossils to create exactly the same thing? Not to mention how bad of a design mercenaries are.

Not long ago you posted a statistics how people do not engage with mercenaries and that really did not create some questions in the team? I remember when during the reveal of the league you said that people who don't like kingsmarch won't have to engage with it - what about mercenaries? Since prophecy league I never felt so forced to use league mechanic. I understand that mercenaries were just afterthought since you worked on the endgame for the longer part of the development but instead we got - no meaningful changes to endgame if not killing it even harder, underwhelming bosses, and completely boosted aurobot that you have to engage with.

Apart from necropolis I never finished league so early - why? Because instead of adding content you are making the game even easier. Never did I have a 1k+ dps weapon on the first day of the league, never did I have 3/4x t1 full set of armour day 1 of the league, and never I felt so bored with content that I can grind.

All players are farming exactly the same thing - harbringers if poor, abyss if you don't want to invest a lot, ritual/stongboxes if you can handle risk scarabs level of content.

I don't expect that this message will reach you anyway since the only feedback you accept is via interview with one of the yes-boys (or Ziz), Bingo so you can freely assume the meaning behind the box or via DM in Discord if you are big enough on twitch.

Guess starting a twitch channel is the easiest way to get your message across just like Ghazzy getting golems and animate guardian+ mercienaries buff in one league just by doing two or three tarvern podcasts XD
Thank you,
GGG please fix

GGG doesn't want you to know this but they are actually the ones responsible for the ddos attacks.
It's part of a vast plot to make people quit poe 1 and focus on poe 2, as you would have aptly guessed

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LFA01#0120 wrote:

GGG doesn't want you to know this but they are actually the ones responsible for the ddos attacks.
It's part of a vast plot to make people quit poe 1 and focus on poe 2, as you would have aptly guessed

there is so many ongoing issues with the game that I completely forgot that Europe was hardly playable for 2 weeks and they did not even acknowledge it for first week xd

enjoy the limited time we have left and don't spend money, it will fund poe2

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LFA01#0120 wrote:

GGG doesn't want you to know this but they are actually the ones responsible for the ddos attacks.
It's part of a vast plot to make people quit poe 1 and focus on poe 2, as you would have aptly guessed

they claim its ddos but i seriously doubt that.
ofc i have no proof otherwise,i just dont find it believable

i really had fun with this league and it made me realize how much i dislike current PoE2
sure there are things i like (WASD movement,no sockets on gear),
but everything else feels draining (constant combo for reasonable dps) or poorly designed ("crafting",low amount of fun skills,class lock)

i really hope this league wont run for nearly a year and they dont keep neglecting PoE1 for PoE2

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Rextec#4521 wrote:

enjoy the limited time we have left and don't spend money, it will fund poe2

This.

No more fucking money.

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ciel289#7228 wrote:

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LFA01#0120 wrote:

GGG doesn't want you to know this but they are actually the ones responsible for the ddos attacks.
It's part of a vast plot to make people quit poe 1 and focus on poe 2, as you would have aptly guessed

they claim its ddos but i seriously doubt that.
ofc i have no proof otherwise,i just dont find it believable

i really had fun with this league and it made me realize how much i dislike current PoE2
sure there are things i like (WASD movement,no sockets on gear),
but everything else feels draining (constant combo for reasonable dps) or poorly designed ("crafting",low amount of fun skills,class lock)

i really hope this league wont run for nearly a year and they dont keep neglecting PoE1 for PoE2

I can't agree on half of your statement.

Yes POE2 bad.

But take a second and reflect if you had fun with league or was it because of almost a year break from poe?

This league added nothing. New endgame is just sad, boss were not challenging, we did not get any new archetypes apart from mana spending wander and even todays post about builds just confirms that the game is stagnate. New bosses/memory strands had less of an impact than balance to atlas modifiers (apart from moment when t16.5 were t17 is disguise).

Apart from endgame all they added is buffed animate guardian that can have up to 3 auras. I can hardly call it ground-breaking and something they needed a year to work on :(


My best description of the league or rather past few leagues and phercia is:
,,just go es/int stacker put random spell and trivialize the game"

You:

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scooter1997#7755 wrote:

New endgame is just sad, boss were not challenging,

Also you:

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scooter1997#7755 wrote:

My best description of the league or rather past few leagues and phercia is:
,,just go es/int stacker put random spell and trivialize the game"

Maybe don't play cracked meta builds and the bosses won't be trivial. I personally think the new pinnacle bosses were the most reasonable GGG has ever made them. No offscreen 1shots, no invulnerability phases that wipe the arena if you failed to complete a puzzle quickly enough or dodge a rippy bullet hell that short-circuits ADHD brains, no arenas matching the color theme of the boss's attacks.

Sirus was absolutely awful, Maven was an improvement, and Eater did better. It's like GGG is starting to understand that difficulty shouldn't boil down to 1shots you can't see due to it coming from offscreen or buried under a mountain of particle effects.

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Rextec#4521 wrote:

enjoy the limited time we have left and don't spend money, it will fund poe2

NO MORE MONEY!!

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But take a second and reflect if you had fun with league or was it because of almost a year break from poe?

the reason i had fun this league are pretty easy to list

-econemy reset
-"same" game i love playing for a long time
-new goals (challenges,i kinda go for 36/40 most leagues)

i didnt like the league mechanic at all and i even removed the merc as soon as i was done with merc challenges
poe1 simply doesnt need "much" new stuff to give me a really good time for like 1 month

the thing is, i enjoyed poe1 even though the servers in EU had a lot of problems
and
i couldnt enjoy poe2 for even 2 weeks despite everything beeing new