Number of players decreasing

I am always surprised at how many people I know who are very interested in PoE but refuse to even give it the time of day because it requires you to be online. It instantly fills them with dread and makes them think it is more MMO than ARPG.

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CliveHowlitzer wrote:

I am always surprised at how many people I know who are very interested in PoE but refuse to even give it the time of day because it requires you to be online. It instantly fills them with dread and makes them think it is more MMO than ARPG.

I'm not surprised, really. I desync pretty rarely, and I've gotten used to the way the game feels and plays so much that it seems very natural.

But imagine the gamefeel of POE offline.

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jstq wrote:

Just for example - all my friends and guys from guild and even random guys from friend list is offline for a looong time :D Some of them read patch notes and said this game is shit.

Wait... what? It's still the same game, with more content.

Not everyone wants more content, some people wants old stuff to be fixed.

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jstq wrote:

Not everyone wants more content, some people wants old stuff to be fixed.

Pretty much this.

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jstq wrote:

Not everyone wants more content, some people wants old stuff to be fixed.

Oh! So your friends thought the game was bad before and this patch won't change it?

Gotcha!

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Hyskoa wrote:

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jstq wrote:

Not everyone wants more content, some people wants old stuff to be fixed.

Pretty much this.

Thats a fair point, i completely forgot about that...basically because they fixed the summoner class hehe :3
But that didn't keep me playing for that long (about a week), so i don't think that it will solve the issue of playing for a longer duration.

Actually i will start adding peoples suggestions such as that obvious one :)

Make leveling more fun. Right now all I do is get Spectral Throw -> Right click to merciless -> Switch to 'main' build. It shows there's some clear imbalances and it makes leveling boring. Back in D2, you could level with anything, it scaled really well and leveling/combat was FUN.

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woodyfly wrote:

Make leveling more fun. Right now all I do is get Spectral Throw -> Right click to merciless -> Switch to 'main' build. It shows there's some clear imbalances and it makes leveling boring. Back in D2, you could level with anything, it scaled really well and leveling/combat was FUN.

that is a good point.

Another thing I dislike about PoE is that when you reach a certain point, you are forced to trade pretty much, since the worst way to find good loot is killing monsters. That's no different than back in D3 you were forced to use AH for loot.

This is just a standard business cycle. This is why restaurants are always having 'grand openings' and changing their name. A certain % of people are just novelty-seeking. It's human nature.