I Play Diablo III Because of Path of Exile's Problems

Worst issue is still the leg when entering inventory or when people come online.

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Holocaustus wrote:

Played some more, ran some rifts. Don't understand what was there to argue about earlier, it's pretty obvious how to run them efficiently. Stack up on movement speed and aoe damage, go looking for glowing enemies and chests as you round up trash mobs and aoe it all down when you have gathered a big enough pack.

I picked up the lightning shrine and ran into a massive pack, suddenly my fps dropped down to 10 from it's usual 60. So much for no performance issues in D3.

So you didn't complete the rifts by killing only magic/rare packs?

I don't remember anyone saying that D3 has no performance issues.

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SL4Y3R wrote:

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raics wrote:

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Xavderion wrote:

Nominee for worst analogy 2014 :3

Except it's pretty much spot-on, but I understand why you don't like it.

No. It's not. Because the analogy implies D3 was good enough to be in the Olympics at all. In fact, reverse the analogy, but both didn't win, and the analogy makes more sense.

I kinda expected some would like to reverse it...

Still think it's good, ARPG isn't a popular discipline so D3 would certainly qualify for the olympics, kinda like curling, you have suck pretty bad to not get invited :)

And if we take 'technical difficulties' as a handicap, then PoE would certainly belong in special olympics which it would win hands-down. In fact, some aspects make it score so high it could compete in regular olympics, but its flaws keep it from winning it.

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raics wrote:

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Xavderion wrote:

Nominee for worst analogy 2014 :3

Except it's pretty much spot-on, but I understand why you don't like it.

Hahaha, no. The abomination of an 'ARPG' which vanilla D3 was with its RMAH and literally zero character customization means it couldn't even qualify for the special olympics. But I understand why you would jump on the bandwagon with such a bad analogy ;)

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Xavderion wrote:

But I understand why you would jump on the bandwagon with such a bad analogy ;)

Why, yes, I guess you would think so.

I don't own nor play D3 because I don't like it, but I admit it's damn good in what it tries to do. On the other hand, I've been playing PoE for almost three years because I like most of it very much - but I'd be a snowblinded idiot not to know I rank it so well just because I deliberately close my eyes to some of its more 'unsavory' parts.

Maybe you'd like a gastronomical analogy then? D3 is curently a family restaurant lunch (stepped it up from mcdonalds I compared vanilla D3 to), it's filling, taste is decent, the place is clean and service is good, but the whole thing is nothing to write home about. PoE is a top-class gourmet meal accompanied with vintage wine served in very dirty plates and glasses by a rude waiter in a dingy shack smelling of rotting cabbage and unwashed feet, it's awesome if you don't mind the inconvenience... and take your tetanus shots regularly.

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SL4Y3R wrote:

Worst issue is still the leg when entering inventory or when people come online.

That's cause of the damn battlenet integration. They need to take the game offline; there's no reason not to at this point. The console version can be played offline afaik.

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SL4Y3R wrote:

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raics wrote:

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Xavderion wrote:

Nominee for worst analogy 2014 :3

Except it's pretty much spot-on, but I understand why you don't like it.

No. It's not. Because the analogy implies D3 was good enough to be in the Olympics at all.

D3 was good enough to be in the Olympics. It worked fine as a game. What it had in it sucked hard, but it worked as a game. As i said, The Elephant in the Room when hanging out with PoE is the constant Desync. Until that's fixed it's never acceptable to compare, if we are to be objective. Why? Because it's technically inferior, by a large margin.

Besides, i never said that d3 vanilla WON The Olympics. I said that it finished last. I said that PoE won it all, but in special. So i don't fully grasp "In fact, reverse the analogy, but both didn't win, and the analogy makes more sense. "

Xavderion: Paranoid, much? You're really quick to pass judgement, bro. All i've read so far from you has been very subjective. It's almost as if you're upset because people disagree. QQ?

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nightblade157 wrote:

Lol really hard to debate with u, because the points u make are not really arguements, but just ur opinions.

We're mostly exchanging opinions here. I also said 'the way I see it...', so thanks Sherlock :P

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nightblade157 wrote:

Its almost as if ur being paid to promote PoE. Open ur eyes dude, the forums are full of people quitting and QQing about the so called "very good" game. Having interesting mechanics alone can't make a game popular, the playing experience needs to be enjoyable as well. Since u don't think that the steam charts are a good indication of how the playerbase is reducing each month, might be do a forum search for "quitting" threads.

Then do me a favor and argue my point instead of attacking me personally. Premises: 1. vanilla D3 was a crappy game (most people would agree with me) 2. PoE is a much better game than vanilla D3 (not that hard, really...). My point: it's easier to improve a shitty game than an already good game. Now tell me how that's wrong.

And the forums 'full of people quitting' is actually just a circlejerk of a handful of people who can't quit the forums x) Most quitters don't even quit the game. Stinky cries about desync since the birth of baby Jesus and he still plays :3 Just an example.

Yeah well after reading this bunch of crap I guess i'll quit posting in the forums as well.
I keep checking the forums hoping to see some news about improvements/GGG addressing the issues with the game, but its not likely gonna happen, because the fanboys hijack every feedback thread with their biased opinions..

All the botters and RMTers have fun! probably they are the only ones who do so anymore. The internet is full of stories of how much $$$ people earned from RMTing/botting in PoE, and how people bot on 50-100 accounts and sell the ill-gotten gains for $$. At least we won't be seeing RMT anymore in D3 with the removal of AH and legendary trading. But maybe that's how GGG wants the game to work? Might be I won't be even complaining if I had botted/RMTed since the beginning.

But I don't really care anymore.. I play games for fun, and had some great times with PoE. Its now more of a 'chore' than a 'game'. I frankly don't have so much time in my life.

ciao! uninstalled the game a week back. Time to remove the POE site from my favorites as well and maybe throw away my tabula rasa T-shirt.

There's still RMT in D3 though....

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SL4Y3R wrote:

There's still RMT in D3 though....

If you think RMT in RoS currently is anywhere near the level of Path of Exile you're completely dumb. RoS is almost non-existent in RoS at this point. Same with Marvel Heroes. They may have accomplished it in a way that is slightly restricting, but it has prevented ridiculous RMT sales like a 6L Shavs going for $400 USD.


Look, I hate to accuse, and I really hate to do it without definitive proof, but you really are blind as hell if you think RMT isn't rampant, especially in the HC ladders among various select players who will not be named.