Keepers of the Flame - What We’re Working On

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JeebusKrist#0190 wrote:

@GGG - Ok, so, I'm sure you can read the endless comments on nearly EVERY SINGLE POST you guys make complaining about ALLLLLLLLL the nerfs you've made. Both this game and PoE2 have turned into a giant nerf fest. You dont just nerf the things that are broken and performing well above expectations, no....you nerf those things 4-6 different ways until they're completely UNUSABLE - then, for good measure, you nerf a bunch of other things that were performing average or below average. For instance, why didn't Mercs go core? Well, its pretty clear you intend to nerf it into the dirt until its completely unusable. While we all know and understood Doryani's Prototype is too OP on the merc and needed to be nerfed somehow, that is an easy fix. "CANNOT BE EQUIPPED ON MERCENARY" on Doryani's. Done. Problem solved. Mercs are ready for core. Instead of taking a small ballpeen hammer to problems that need solved, you take a sledgehammer to everything and destroy any future use of everything related to whatever is on your chopping block.

That being said, its pretty clear that the community is tired of it. Who is making these decisions? Why do they still have a job? The NUMBER ONE goal of every league should be to outdo yourselves from the last league in one way or another, even if it IS just borrowed power. Thats the glory of leagues, you can make things as ridiculous as you want, and people can have all kinds of fun...and there's never a risk of power creep because you don't have to take those mechanics core, you know, ballpeen hammer and all.

Why has nobody internally at GGG suggested bringing things UP in power/strength/quality to match some of the "overperforming" aspects like skills, ascendencies, passive tree nodes, etc rather than nerfing everything into the ground league after league after league. It's getting to the point where I'm strongly considering uninstalling both PoE1 & PoE2 due to the CONSTANT nerfing of everything, including many of those being things that didnt need nerfed in the first place! WHY ON EARTH WAS LOOT NERFED?!?! I'm tired of being disappointed every single patch because you've decided that several mediocre builds or skills needed to be nerfed into the ground so we can play the same exact meta as last league, except with NO LOOT! Don't even get me started on Kinetic Rain.

You want to know why the league mechanics are becoming so bad? Because you've got your team tied up for 50-70% of the development period nerfing everything into the ground.

I've already stopped buying supporter packs due to the nature of things being nerfed without need or reason, but, I'm very close to giving up on both games and GGG as a whole and moving on to other games - and I'm not alone. Read the forums.

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JeebusKrist#0190 wrote:

@GGG - Ok, so, I'm sure you can read the endless comments on nearly EVERY SINGLE POST you guys make complaining about ALLLLLLLLL the nerfs you've made. Both this game and PoE2 have turned into a giant nerf fest. You dont just nerf the things that are broken and performing well above expectations, no....you nerf those things 4-6 different ways until they're completely UNUSABLE - then, for good measure, you nerf a bunch of other things that were performing average or below average. For instance, why didn't Mercs go core? Well, its pretty clear you intend to nerf it into the dirt until its completely unusable. While we all know and understood Doryani's Prototype is too OP on the merc and needed to be nerfed somehow, that is an easy fix. "CANNOT BE EQUIPPED ON MERCENARY" on Doryani's. Done. Problem solved. Mercs are ready for core. Instead of taking a small ballpeen hammer to problems that need solved, you take a sledgehammer to everything and destroy any future use of everything related to whatever is on your chopping block.

That being said, its pretty clear that the community is tired of it. Who is making these decisions? Why do they still have a job? The NUMBER ONE goal of every league should be to outdo yourselves from the last league in one way or another, even if it IS just borrowed power. Thats the glory of leagues, you can make things as ridiculous as you want, and people can have all kinds of fun...and there's never a risk of power creep because you don't have to take those mechanics core, you know, ballpeen hammer and all.

Why has nobody internally at GGG suggested bringing things UP in power/strength/quality to match some of the "overperforming" aspects like skills, ascendencies, passive tree nodes, etc rather than nerfing everything into the ground league after league after league. It's getting to the point where I'm strongly considering uninstalling both PoE1 & PoE2 due to the CONSTANT nerfing of everything, including many of those being things that didnt need nerfed in the first place! WHY ON EARTH WAS LOOT NERFED?!?! I'm tired of being disappointed every single patch because you've decided that several mediocre builds or skills needed to be nerfed into the ground so we can play the same exact meta as last league, except with NO LOOT! Don't even get me started on Kinetic Rain.

You want to know why the league mechanics are becoming so bad? Because you've got your team tied up for 50-70% of the development period nerfing everything into the ground.

I've already stopped buying supporter packs due to the nature of things being nerfed without need or reason, but, I'm very close to giving up on both games and GGG as a whole and moving on to other games - and I'm not alone. Read the forums.

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Arrcanos#7987 wrote:

I gotta ask....what the hell are ya'll doing that you're not getting loot? From 0-100, I had 4 div drops last league.

Same strats...21 this league. Nothing crazy either. No strat used has been over ~25c a map. The tree also drops dozens of 1+div items a day (over 60 div yesterday alone).

What are you all doing to be so poor? This is likely the single most profitable league event we've ever had.

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YinminTarul#2748 wrote:

I play for the dopeamin. A single "Tink" makes me playing the league for a lot longer than making 100 divine with a farming strat. I do have almost 80h in this leaue and my networth is well over 200 divine. But in all those maps (doing harvest) i had exactly 2 "tinks" --- TWO......

I already notice that i am not turning the PC on after work anymore..... i simply can not understand how something like that can go live - it is borderline stupid to me.