What We're Working On

Hey guys, we actually hate our community! In doing so, we're going to just test our league so it works mechanically, but knowingly hide the fact that we've absolutely gutted any reason to continue playing this game.

But, we have loot boxes! <3

I dont know. I love this game, but now it seems that i should stop playing it. Im just not having fun. Struggling to find a chance orbs on white maps isnt fun at all.

Pretty damn sad... What a shame you guys are ruining PoE. Pretty insulting the way GGG is handling/changing this game we all love and have supported for so long.

Looks like you guys have really kicked a bee hive with this one though. Hope its a wake up call

archnemesis doesn't really work in delve.

very rarely happening but archnem's are dropping a screen worth of fractured items and other things. inventory is so small i cant pick them up. and I'm in the dark so I cant stand there and identify them all - nor do i want to. Its very frustrating. Drops from archnemesis are terrible as well. found a few with 100 whetstones and armour scraps. haven't really found much else.

I can't sustain currencies unless i run around in the dark in low level delve looking for currency/resonator/fossil chests because their drop rate hasn't been nerfed. its one of the most rewarding things I've found this league.

harvest... well i only kill the mobs if it has a glowing blue mob. wont even bother doing anything else because they dont drop lifeforce and i'm only keeping it to craft cluster jewels and when i have the ones i want i will remove it immediately. removing socket colour craft was a bad idea and crafting a random white socket is ridiculously expensive and i wouldn't even try farming it.

i understand that i can use the crafting bench for socket colours but you need ALOT of chromatics for this... the good thing about harvest was early maps and having socket colour problems could solve this issue.

one of the worst feelings in the game is getting a good item and cant use it because the sockets are wrong colours and then you spam chromatics on it because you need two/three blue and 2/3 red sockets on an eva/armour base and you use all your chromatics and still don't get what you need for the item. and sure, why not use a different base - its because the item dropped that way and the mods are a good upgrade.

harvest was good for this. which is why poe 2's socketing system is very very much necessary.


I think archnemesis has a place in the game, probably only in the core game. so many league mechanics are just absolutely broken and doesn't make any sense.

What's better? Being so iron-locked into focusing on maintaining some arbitrary "vision" of a game that has no respect for a player's time? Or tailoring the game have a reasonable challenge and appealing rewards to the supporting players that have poured thousands of hours and hundreds or thousands of dollars into supporting the game?

While I know PoE infamously doesn't balance to SSF playstyles, but SSF is literally unplayable and feels like it disrespects my time. Harvest I feel like is what kept SSF fun and viable, it's a powerful crafting tool for early maps/gearing. There is nothing in the game that replaces that void. Currency split 3 ways, getting 10 chaos rolls of something appealing to me takes running multiple harvests where a single harvest provided the opportunity to do it several times.

Would love to have the old system back, and maybe harvest the juice out of the rolls we don't care for if we want to trade it away-- Probably a fraction of the cost, but at least it's something for players that care less about using harvest mechanics while those loving the harvest system to still be viable.

How can we even think this is POE? We play this for loot. We play this for challenge. What the hell is the point of making maps harder without incentive? geezus. Go back. Just go back.

Does Archnemesis, Tradable micro crafts and lower loot drops have something to do with the future game state of POE2?

Is it something of a limitation of a new platform or new endgame strategy?

We are all here playing this game because we love it, just having a hard time understanding the direction the game is going when there is a staunch standing on a part of the game the community has repeatedly voiced its concerns with.

We know GGG pours its time, effort and soul into making a industry leading ARPG and would hate to see it fall off.

If the player base is going to be the de-facto QA testers of game mechanics, development should heed their consensus closely.~

I just gave Amazon £448 to buy an Xbox series X, because my S doesn't have a drive for my Diablo 3 disk.

That's how P***** Off I am about your "Vision" Chris.

It's been fun while it lasted.

they really just dropped this bomb (and then this shitty post) and didn't do anything at all for three whole days? wtf??? Not even small pirate game servers do that wtf

I agree that quantity/rarity especially for party play was a bit overtuned when juicing to max with various league mechanics. I agree that there were some necessary changes to make in Harvest (especially augments) to adjust it to itemized form but why always it has to be that GGG nerfs things to the ground instead of making slower adjustments to see how it goes. If it's still tweaked too much and abusable it can be changed further.

And again what a smart move to not to disclose the details of changes before the league start so that high level of hype is kept while players don't actually know what crucial changes have been made. Nor for item drop or Harvest.
After 3 days of power gaming I realized that there's nothing waiting for me at the endgame as juicing got destroyed, Harvest got nerfed AF + I hate heist and I don't want to spend all my day rerolling Tujen/Gwennen. Worth to mention league mechanic which feels completely empty, I kept trying it from time to time to realize again how boring it is.

I really hope someone comes up with an alternative to PoE soon (just like back in the days when GGG founders decided to make a good ARPG) so that you have an easy decision of quitting when the league and general state of the game is so bad like it is now.