What We're Working On

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PhoebePOE wrote:

This whole situation reeks of something.

I would not be surprised if the business model for POE2 is actually different due to Tencent influence and that the idea for POE2 is to have the game be in a state where they can roll microtransactions/P2W models out, where base free gameplay is giving you heavy incentive to make transactions in order to progress your character in any meaningful way.

The only way they can do this is to systematically increase the difficulty of the game and then start taking away reasonable ways to obtain loot and progression from free players leading up to POE2.

I tried to break my brains over this post since it was posted this morning, and the only logical conclusion I can come to is that GGG is not as Out of Touch with their players as they are pretending to be. They know exactly what is on the roadmap for the next year, and as players we're all on rails right now to sit through a multitude of global game nerfs to reduce your power as a free player. They could never justify such a model for POE2 if players were able to progress "as normal" through the game.

They are slowly grooming you into "being ok" with losing your power and progression, the loot and items you are used to, and it will get substantially worse in the next few leagues. The currency drop nerfs you are experiencing right now are intentional and GGG knows exactly what they're doing. They also know you will all be frustrated with it.

They will increase rewards slightly over the next month. Not to get you back to 3.18 -> but to make you believe that "It was better at league launch" and hope you turn a blind eye. The next few leagues they will repeat this strategy. Strongest builds will see nerfs, the currency or crafting methods to create those builds will be eliminated or harder to achieve -> and the top end of players right now are betatesters for GGG to determine just how miserable their game needs to be to have enough incentive for people to purchase power in POE2.

I'll be back with my, "Told you so" quote when the POE2 models start rolling out and the game ends up being Diablo Immortal Lite

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Veqtor wrote:

Can we please have Like/Dislike (+/-) buttons under every comment in comment section and a sorting based on it?
The constructive critics are lost in the forrest of disappointment.

This would be nice on official forum posts too, like this "What we're working on". Put a Like/Dislike icon at the end of every planned changes, and see if its wanted. Not worth developing something thats opposed by the majority of the current players, unless you wanna make a new playerbase, that has Mr. Wilson preferences.

POE was doing fine 2-3 leages ago, before the hardmode changes the game currently headed to.

Some suggestions for changes:

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Archnemesis:
- When mixing multiple mods pick the highest value from each mod type (dmg, hp, etc.), don't stack them, plus a small multiplyer based on map tier.

Harvest:
- Give each monster a fix amount of life essence based on its type/tier (essenceBaseAmount x Tier) plus a fix multiplier (1.1-2.6x or something) based on map tier.

Loot:
- Make items drop on maps based on relevance more.
Act 1 items and currency on T16 monsters are not really needed.
Increase drop of relevant craft materials with map tier by a bit, and decrease the chance of getting not-relevant ones (transmute, armor scrap, scrolls) nobody wants to pick up.
Same for items, make specific basetypes and uniqes drop on specific map tiers.

(You could check relevance based on what people get from expedition NPC-s, rituals)