The more you play, The worse it gets
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" This is the thing that baffles me the most. Instead of buffing underperforming skills and classes, they continuously nerf the few working builds trying to shift the meta. That's right. Instead of buffing underperforming/trash skills and classes, they nerf working skills and classes. It's completely backwards. If they don't want people to use the countless underperforming/trash skills, just remove them from the game already. Quite frankly, it's insanity to me. I've been waiting YEARS hoping they'd buff those skills/classes but nope, just more nerfs and more one-shot mobs and mechanics. It just makes me shake my head in disbelief and disappointment. *baffled* The nerfs will continue until morale improves. Last edited by Rippster on Aug 5, 2024, 10:42:09 AM
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I will say the start of the league was very fun. When my town was sub 5 level keeping up with the gold costs was very easy/comfortable. I enjoyed researching min/max shipping and the town as a whole.
However once I put my head down to max everything out, my game experience nose dived. Now I am experiencing big time FOMO, and just having to alch and go maps skipping league mechanics. Blasting t16 maps to keep up the gold churn is the only viable strat. Not to mention when you couple that with the ground drop nerfs, well I can’t say im having a lot of fun. I know there are super strats and exploits where people are printing currency, but I generate most of my fun and loot off of just casual mapping on the weekends. I have 2 kids and full time job so week day play is limited. This league really punishes players in my situation. Hate to say this but I have s5 in Diablo 4 is good. If not I’ll just struggle bus in settlers hoping I win the lottery with a good drop. Great league concept/idea, but poorly executed and balanced. IMHO | |
The only real problem is that you can't play the game anymore without performance issues in the endgame with an average/okish PC because there is to much stuff going on that eats ressources. I am looking at you Blight!...
Other than that the game is very rewarding and nothing drives players away. On the contrary. Another peak league start for them. The news were positiv: "11 year old game breaks personal best player numbers" and so on... do you think this is normal? Still 165k on today, this was peak at league start day one year ago... Also i find it hard to believe that you cannot enjoy the game in yellow maps with a half upgraded town if you have to work a lot and take care of your family. I mean wtf is every person that logs in 1h in the evening supposed to have everything in the game? It doesn't work that way Also if you have to choose between door 1 where you get a refrigerator worth 1k$ or door 2 where you get a Ferrari, why would you choose door 1? Play a goddamn build that can handle endgame on a budget and not some sentimental obsolete historic build loaded with weird uniques. It's your choice^^ | |
" Amen. Not my game anymore. | michaelstrangefoundationdotorg | r>=0
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As someone who has been playing for 12+ hours a day this whole league, I wholeheartedly agree with everything in this post.
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The title just about sums up my experience with poe. The more I played, the less fun it became. The more I played, the more I realized, game just doesnt value my time. It became more and more evident with each league I played - challenges got more and more grindy, economy got fucked earlier and got fucked more. Fewer and fewer builds to try, due to league mechanics setting the bar too high. And so on.
And yet, the player spike at this league is through the roof. So the studio must be doing it right (according to the metrics they care about anyway). Just not right for me. I do have a few weeks to no life in this league, but I prefer spending time on things where I see results. “We are the race of flesh, We are the race of lovers.”
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" Yes, deeply, I'm stuck between two walls, I want to farm koz I love my build in another hand I know I will drop nothing, so I want to play but at the same time I feel useless to log in my toon 😶 | |
Yup, the more effort I put into this sinkhole of a town the more disappointed I get. (@ ~10k gold/hr, ~2M shipments)
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I'm not really disagreeing with all the points here but i do find it amusing that OP is simultaneously complaining about gold sustain and map runners being useless next to each other.
Almost like the solution is there all along Whats more guys there is a difference between designing passive income and designing an idler and they walked the line between the two by letting you run a lean town for ages or a high passive income for a much shorter duration. You might think its shit but that's probably because you just want full power all the time forgetting that whenever you get full power all the time GGG just remove the scope and set it straight back to average anyway. Variance is what allows power its how design works. That being said plenty of improvements to be made with Kingsmarch and I do share the sentiment that they should have a what we are working on thread. I haven't personally had problem with ground drops compared to past leagues but enough players have mentioned it that I can believe it needs looking at too especially vs T17s. |
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