If anyone needs a reminder of how good Path of Exile is in comparison to similar offerings from the market, you should go spend an hour or so checking out Marvel Heroes (an hour or so was pretty much all I was willing to sink into it before becoming bored of how horribly broken the game was). I actually wrote a review for it
here... It basically put into context just how good PoE is. To quote, well, myself:
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So, in summary:
- Lousy gameplay
- Crap GUI
- Very hard to wrap your head around the non-gameplay aspects
- Expensive to enjoy
- MMO aspects are buggy, incomplete, and take away from the experience
- Enemies uninspired
- Crafting all but non-existent
- Leveling incredibly lazy and boring
...Ugh. Before playing this, I was burned out on Path of Exile, having played 4 characters to the upper 70s. But the flaws in Path of Exile are mostly superficial (crafting system fairly unbalanced/not worth it, certain bosses being rather hilariously over- or underpowered), or can be explained away on account of it being an open beta (desync, minor glitches, patches, most of what I mentioned earlier, leveling becomes a chore past 75 because they haven't finished all the end-game content yet). The flaws in this game are not superficial, are not excusable, and make it one of the most unimpressive major developments I've played in quite a while. I didn't even get into the samey, oversized, padded level design or just how lazy the boss design is, or any number of other gripes. Crap game. Steer clear.
...Yeah. Burned out on PoE? Play some other contemporary MMOARPG to remind yourself just how good this game is.
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