Will GGG cater casuals

I'm casual. There is a big difference between being casual and being a whiner.

And alpha is tough, trust me - it hasn't gotten any easier.

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Danoga wrote:

One of the things im hoping on is that PoE is a free game by an indie company so its not like GGG will lose anything by keeping it hard

Not to mention they have a fanatical group of fans that'll still be playing even as others come and go

Also, that's what she said :)

ok what i ment was ppl that dont like a challenge , they want everything to be a mindless faceroll and get the best gear easy . I hope this game dont turn into that

D3 was a joke except for origional inferno.

As for the difficulty I dont think we need to worry about that. If you have watched Kripps stream at all its pretty clear that the average player will struggle big time late game.

As for the "D3 kiddies" complaining till it gets nerfed I'm not worried about that. Most of thoes people will take one look at the skill tree and not bother or if they do will complain about how slow the game is at the start and leave. I feel pretty confident that the complainers of the world wont last long enough to see the difficult content.

These people are not casuals by the way. I wish this newer generation of gamer would learn wtf a word means or stop changing what they mean to suit thier lazyness. A casual is NOT a bad player. Its someone who cant dedicate alot of time to games. They may verry well be great players. I know plenty of HC players who suck compared to casuals. I'm one of them lol.

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ifarmpandas wrote:

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ibax7588 wrote:

I have the utmost trust that GGG will keep things nice and difficult for us

Who knows, maybe we'll convert some of the more casual Diablo III players into the purer faith

Diablo 3 was harder than PoE. Then people QQ'd and Blizz caved.

I`m sorry but maybe this is just me but... there was nothing hard about Diablo 3.
Inferno as it was on release was not bad, but to call it hard, I don`t know.

I guess the only reason why it was hard for some people, was because of the lack of decent loot so you could not gear up as you normally would.

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Dinovash wrote:

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ifarmpandas wrote:

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ibax7588 wrote:

I have the utmost trust that GGG will keep things nice and difficult for us

Who knows, maybe we'll convert some of the more casual Diablo III players into the purer faith

Diablo 3 was harder than PoE. Then people QQ'd and Blizz caved.

I`m sorry but maybe this is just me but... there was nothing hard about Diablo 3.
Inferno as it was on release was not bad, but to call it hard, I don`t know.

I guess the only reason why it was hard for some people, was because of the lack of decent loot so you could not gear up as you normally would.

Agreed. Diablo 3 wasn't any harder (PoE is much harder than D3 after launch). But D3 was so horrible badly scaled, that it felt like reaching a wall in inferno. And you couldn't grind the right gear in Hell, so you had to fight that lame difficulty and escape when you saw an elite.

Specially tailored league can solve casuals.

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ongZ wrote:

Agreed. Diablo 3 wasn't any harder (PoE is much harder than D3 after launch). But D3 was so horrible badly scaled, that it felt like reaching a wall in inferno. And you couldn't grind the right gear in Hell, so you had to fight that lame difficulty and escape when you saw an elite.

Indeed, and that is why some people might view Inferno in Diablo 3 (at least in the beginning, now its a snore fest) as being hard.

To all those saying D3 wasn't hard, pls post your D3 profile so we can see that you beat Inferno Hardcore before the nerfs...I am willing to bet that noone here did that.

D3 inferno at launch was 10x harder than POE is or will be come OB. Yes it was badly balanced but it was hard as hell. Even with godly gear it was no pushover.

POE is balanced better & isn't as gear dependent but it is without a doubt 'easier' to get to POE's endgame than it was in D3.


As for D3 casuals I would speculate that they no longer exist, the only ppl still playing D3 are hardcore fans of the game & probably have an obscene amount of hours played in that game, all the casuals already moved onto the next big thing or whatever their favorite caster is streaming.

Playing this game doesn't make you 'hardcore' & playing D3 doesn't make you 'casual' & to be quite frank anyone who thinks like that is probably quite childish & immature.

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ongZ wrote:

Agreed. Diablo 3 wasn't any harder (PoE is much harder than D3 after launch). But D3 was so horrible badly scaled, that it felt like reaching a wall in inferno. And you couldn't grind the right gear in Hell, so you had to fight that lame difficulty and escape when you saw an elite.

That means it was too hard for you without the right gear. Path of Exile has pretty much devolved into me literally holding down the right mouse button and mowing down packs of mobs. Are you really going to say this is harder than Diablo?