Fireside Chat with GGG.

Alright everyone come sit down by the fire. It's nice and warm here next to the soothing sound of the softly crackling wood. Dim light from embers emanate in the room. There's a warm mug of sweet smelling hot chocolate palmed in hand as we subtly sway in our rocking chairs. The soft red and yellow flames captivating like slow moving belly dancers of ether.

Now that we're all comfortable let me introduce myself; I am a gamer with 23 years of experience. Some of my first gaming experiences are of me a my friends playing atari pitfall and that godzilla game. If I'd used that time to play chess I'd be a Grandmaster by now. If I'd been doing mathematics I'd have a fields medal (not really xD). But instead my passion has been video games. I have an advanced knowledge base of games from a vast expanse of experience both past and present. Many of us are in similar circumstances. This gives you, GGG, a unique opportunity to take advantage of this knowledge pool and crowd source greatness. My humble hope with this thread is to do just that (and I'm bored so this gave me something to do for like a half hour xD).


Let's get to what I personally feel is the most limiting factor about this game. Is it desync? Nope, most of us have just L2P around it. Is it broken trade? Nope, it works well enough for those with sufficient ambition. It's the over saturation of skill effects and our inability to turn them down or off. This is so damning to some builds they are cursed to roam Wraeclast alone and if they attempt to party they are asked to leave or get kicked. Things like summoner builds, dominating blow, firestorm, most totem builds, LA, discharge etc etc are all severe offenders of no fault to those who happen to like those builds. We shouldn't have to choose between party or those builds.


Rare items need more affixes in their pool. Rarefied uniques can't be the only interesting and build defining items in the game. This has the effect of just waiting for a given unique to drop (joke) or more realistically trying to gain sufficient wealth to get said unique. If rare items were more interesting the item hunt would have real meaning for having actually played the game rather than it always being trade2win.


Let's talk about maps baby. Been beaten to death then came back cast on death stronger and beaten down again and again so I'll be very short with this. I'm sorry GGG you are simply wrong with maps. High level character progression is nth more frustrating than lower level progression and that just simply feels like we're being punished for sticking with a given character through all the crazy damage spikes and gearing process to have finally reached an even more punishing endgame. I'm sure you had the best intentions with it and it sure is hardcore but hotfix a guaranteed map drop from bosses that are no more than ±3 levels of the slain boss.



Alright sorry for the long read. My hot chocolate is cold so I'm going to get up from this comfy rocking chair and maybe another person can sit down and talk with you. There is no shame in taking our advice, we won't see it as weakness or failure :).

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GeorgAnatoly wrote:

Is it desync? Nope, most of us have just L2P around it.

ahaha

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GeorgAnatoly wrote:

Rare items need more affixes in their pool. Rarefied uniques can't be the only interesting and build defining items in the game. This has the effect of just waiting for a given unique to drop (joke) or more realistically trying to gain sufficient wealth to get said unique. If rare items were more interesting the item hunt would have real meaning for having actually played the game rather than it always being trade2win.

Over 100 Exalted in Ex/Eternal into that Nemesis project(over 1k Fusing as well). 2 prefixes remaining and ZERO rolls of flat physical damage or phys %/acc. The game doesn't need more affixes, it needs affixes that are realistically attainable. Over 100 Exalted in Nemesis is a lot. My last 500 hours of play have gone into that weapon, and after my last 14 Exalted got dumped into it, I quit playing. Remember that time they added more affixes and we got "light radius" and "reduced attribute requirement"? I do.

We are often reminded about GGG's "vision" and how they are unwilling to compromise it.

I have now come to the conclusion that GGG's ultimate "vision" is a game that no one plays.

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GeorgAnatoly wrote:

that godzilla game.

Rampage?

[edit] Inb4moved to feedback

Are we allowed to throw tomatoes like in Clive's thread?

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Robert_Paulson wrote:

[edit] Inb4moved to feedback

Called it.

Your threads aren't likely to stay in general discussion, unless they are some random "poll" or "post one word", or praise GGG (the later is about as rare as a good drop ingame).

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Robert_Paulson wrote:

[edit] Inb4moved to feedback

Bah, guess hot chocolate isn't general enough. Try to do something nice... >.>

And then they wonder why people criticise their forums and game on other forums. Further spreading the bad reputation. Got my thread moved and locked within a second after posting.
It's ridiculous.

Sorry, but you're wrong. Your biggest complaint can 100% reliably be fixed on the user's end. There's nothing anyone but the devs can do about 4 to 5 seconds of free-fall where you have no idea what is actually happening until you are dead a screen away from where you thought you were, or finding the 50th copy of a useless unique you didn't even want one of.

If your biggest complaint can be solved by you yourself, then it's not the biggest complaint. There's not a damn thing anyone of us can do about the real problems this game has, where the lead developer listens to some noob's story about failure, and instead of thinking 'holy shit this guy got to act 1 Mereville without a single rewarding drop' instead thinks 'dude, you got orbs, LoL!'.

I actually almost feel as if it's part of a conspiracy to entice me to play D3 again, and I will never, ever, fucking do that. Just the idea that it occurs to me really says something very very bad about how I actually feel about PoE right now. Anyway, my point is this game has much bigger issues than your PC which you could easily address yourself.