Communication and the Sacred Orb

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prankmaster wrote:

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WhiteDragonRU wrote:

Vary values of defenses on items is bad idea, not as bad as immunities, but awful nonetheless.

All this outdated mechanics must stay is D2. Just like painfully small inventory.

At least GGG did not add item durability from D2 and a new currency called Enduring Orb, that repairs broken items . KEKW

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Innomen wrote:

This changes nothing. the real game is still outside gameplay. It's trade and third party exploitation, either streaming or discord or some other outside party/guild organization.

Nerfing auras will just make that number of elite cooperatives and system exploiters more rich and more rare.

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This game is becoming just a boring satire of what ignorant people think the real world is like.{/quote]

This sentence does not have any meaning if you don't provide context. And you have not provided any. But what you believe ignorant people think the real world is like is most likely not what I or anyone else thinks it is.

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All the core problems with poe remain. Chief among which is a complete lack of reason to trust the dev team.

You talk about transparency but still no damage log. And so much is done behind the veil of server side calculation that it's simply foolish to trust the word of the dev team about anything.

Of course there are server side calculations, else cheating would be extremely easy. That has nothing to do with trust - but on that matter: Trust into what? Do you think they lie to you? For what and in what manner? That whole paragraph is again without any meaning if you don't provide context for what you actually try to say.

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Every league is the same, and standard is frozen. A handful of professionals blast to lvl 100 in a matter of days and everyone else just serves them directly or indirectly by wage slaving through low content and selling stuff they'll buy in bulk to exploit some mechanic or market imbalance.

That is not my experience at all with the game. Let people play to lvl 100, what is the issue for you with that? And what has level to do with market control?

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It's growing intolerable to play and sell knowing my wealth will simply flow upward to some wallstreet type "earning" more on the market in a day then I could playing for 5 years.

So your issue is that you are comparing yourself with someone who devotes his playtime to make currency and are envious? Why? Isn't it more important to have fun? And if you don't have that because you always have to think about "being exploited" (even though I find that laughable at best) go and play SSF.

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It's insulting and disgusting and there's clearly no reason to expect that's gonna change.

How? As long as there is an economy in the game, that means player trading, you will have people that will try to earn more currency because it is fun to them. What do you even want?

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I'm sure I'll still play, try out a build, slog around in scrubcore mode because I refuse to sign up for one of the actual soul crushing paths to late content, but I won't be spending money, and I'll be constantly hoping I can find some satisfactory replacement.

What soul crushing paths? What has that to do with anything you wrote above? Are you just complaining that you are not handed the whole game but actually have to improve your character in an ARPG to be able to best the endgame-bosses? Like, that is the whole game, the whole genre. If you think that is stupid, that is totally up to you, but why do you play such a game in the first place? I don't like FPS, so I don't play them. I don't complain that they are stupid because you need fast reflexes and good hand-eye coordination, which I lack.

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Poe feels like a dented can of spinach in the apocalypse. I'm grateful to have it, but it's a miserable meal none the less.

Well, there is no apocalypse happening though and enough other meals available if you don't like it. I still don't understand what your issue is nor why you keep playing and now I'm nearly through your whole post.

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Until trade, speed running, meta chasing, and streaming are nerfed, the game will essentially be casino like in it's newb trapiness and I will never recommend it to anyone I care about.

Why should trade be nerfed? Play SSF if you don't like it. Why should speed running be nerfed? That has literally no impact on your own play-experience. Why (and how) should meta chasing be nerfed? What do you mean with that even? That players play meta-buids? That GGG implements changes? Yeah, they of course hit meta-builds with these, but that is because meta is what is strongest or even too strong so naturally balancing will influence these. Why should streaming be nerfed? Is that still that baseless theory that streamers get more / better drops? If you really believe that, just start streaming. Be happy with your improved drop rate or come back and tell us why it didn't work for you...

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All the rest is just claptrap and glitter meant to distract us from the perpetual core betrayal of selling out to a gigacorp and never lowering prices.

What prices? The cost you had to acquire this F2P-game? Not sure $ 0 can be made much cheaper tbh...

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The tightest bind I have to this game is dead friends, old memories, and no real alternatives.

GGG doesn't deserve the honor of hosting their names in my friendlist. And it's disgraceful what a monument to greed this company has become.

Let me guess, deleted for "needless negativity." Probation or dogpiled by zealous fans in 3... 2... 1...

I guess you'll put me in the category "zealous fan", but really the issue is that you are putting way too much importance in a game. And this IS a game, nothing more. Just don't play it. Come back in 6 months or a year, see if you like it again. If you feel miserable playing I'm sorry to hear that - but from experience, complaining in the forum while still playing won't help with that. I have games myself that I feel like that when I open them. WoW is such a case. I go back to it every few years for a week or so before realizing that it still isn't and will never be the game I left, I think around 10 years ago. It just isn't and that is ok. There is so much more in this world, even if PoE has not competitor currently, there are other games, other hobbies. Do something you feel fulfilled afterwards, not miserable.