What Happened with Items

The below message is for Chris and dev team (and moderator, if my last private message to one them is no proof)


Regards

Okay

There should be balance of loot from kill large quantity of monsters loot vs loot from specific rare or unique monster. Not loot from lottery treasure Solaris Arch Nemesis mod.

There must be adequate returns to BREAK EVEN spent resources to juice maps or challenge harder content, but normal kills should give back resources to maintain sustainability. Else set challenge difficulty free and players can choose.

I usually don't bother wasting my time on responding to anything in the forums. But honestly trying to say that most of the changes have made the game better isn't true.

Maybe some people who where cheaters using the tool to get divine loot explosions in maps benefited and that's what your talking about the exploit looters. But when I jump into the new league mechanic kill a stupid hard rare boss and get some armor scrolls or a white armor set loot explosion after running all over the map trying not to get killed by it that tells me I'm wasting my time and the chests in the league yeah they drop items but usually its trash.

I don't have 24/7 to play I'm not a streamer making a career out of poe but usually I don't have a hard time finding currency and enjoying the game but I found myself not able to gear my characters without doing the chaos recipe only to make a brand new character to loot all the chests in heist to try to make a divine after hours of game play across the week. But good job grinding gear games you did some patches and tried its just not good enough for everyone. I don't mind a hard game but killing monsters in game still isn't rewardable.

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Poe was was supposed to be fun like diablo 2 I thought that's what the vision was based around. You guys did such a drastic change on the game play without even doing testing and feedback its like if you decided to bring out POE2 tomorrow without testing anything and 90% of the game wasn't finished you know what the result would be people would say I'm leaving to go play a better game.

Communication is great but you guys still should be doing beta tests. I worked on a game server for years and even when you thought a patch was going to be flawless people would find some kind of bug, find faults with the way it was programmed or just other feedback to make it better. Do you just hate the community so much at this point that it's better to just ignore the player base and keep making changes you feel brings the game to some better place.

If your trying to go with some loot system that isn't mass killing large numbers of monsters then you can't have rare or special monsters drop practically no loot. Should use some kind of pool based system then where certain monsters have a 100% drop rate out of 1 item out of the pool. Reason being is when you use RNG systems even with 200% quantity and rarity you can still roll 0 its RNG.

That or remove all the normal monsters from game start making a detailed questing system like a normal mmorpg where you kill x mob 10 times to get loot from a quest NPC and make hard unique bosses that drop loot cause it feels like you want to make the game more grindy and be like a mmorpg.

We will see how long I stay playing poe at this point but really if the community is gonna keep getting ignored and beta testing as well as listening to feedback doesn't happen there's plenty of other games coming out over the next couple years maybe poe finally hit the point that its no longer the best free to play game. Cause I used to tell my friends that but now I'll start telling them to just wait for AOC or something else.

drop from the game, you have destroyed the best game of hack n' slash.

You state:

"This is in stark contrast to Sentinel, our last league, which not only dropped rewards in your maps, but was honestly tuned higher than average in terms of league rewards. Players went from receiving masses of league rewards as they clear maps to receiving absolutely nothing from the league until they travel to the Lake. This is unfortunate timing and exacerbated the perception of drop reduction.

The Lake itself was also relatively unrewarding on release and this has since been massively increased since then."


Yes Sentinel dropped a lot of loot AND PEOPLE LOVED IT! Why are piles of loot bad??

Yes they could go to the lake insted... which then dropped 3 rare items from 400 monsters... it was then buffed yes.

Now you can get 12 random rares with bad mods and 2 alchs! - WOW


- Just revert the loot changes and Harvest Changes, Loot and Harvest were both in a good place, and keep the Archnemesis Nerfs - people liked those.

THAT WOULD BE A WIN!

How do you still not understand GGG? Here's some numbers to hopefully help you clue in before it's too late if it isn't already.

08/19/2022 5pm Est.
Steam Player Count Peaks 151,145

08/20/2022 5pm Est.
Steam Player Count Freefall begins 114,618

08/21/2022 5pm Est.
Steam Player Count 108,571

08/22/2022 5pm Est.
Steam Player Count 85,009

08/23/2022 5pm Est.
Steam Player Count 76,166

08/24/2022 5pm Est.
Steam Player Count 71,891

Maybe it's still not sunk in yet so let's check US Prime Time and see how the numbers stack up.

08/19/2022 8pm Est.
Steam Player Count 117,179

08/20/2022 8pm Est.
Steam Player Count 83,555

08/21/2022 8pm Est.
Steam Player Count 73,810

08/22/2022 8pm Est.
Steam Player Count 59,587

08/23/2022 8pm Est.
Steam Player Count 46,106

08/24/2022 8pm Est.
Steam Player Count 50,911 (A few thousand uptick here to check out patch changes)

08/24/2022 9pm Est.
Steam Player Count 47,087

08/24/2022 10pm Est.
Steam Player Count 44,138

08/24/2022 11pm Est.
Steam Player Count 40,978

Well that's if folks here's to hoping you get the hint and take action very fast or you can FAFO with us some more with these awful changes with Arch mods and Loot nerfs and we'll vote with our Time and our Money. Literally GGG you are on borrowed time own up to your mistakes and revert 3.19 changes and 3.18 Archnemesis mods before you don't have anyone left to pay your bills.

All player count information sourced from https://steamcharts.com/app/238960

This is not dark souls, stop trying to make every rare fight based on playskill. I play this game specifically so I can outgear and trivialise fights.

If you don't notice anything else, please understand something very important.

You have an atlas tree.

You can do massive amounts of "beta" testing by using this atlas tree. 3 weeks into a league when things have settled down, add some keystones that do weird stuff.

Set an atlas skill point and the old beyond becomes the new beyond. Is it worth it? Is it okay? Does it need adjusting? People will test it for you.

Set an atlas skill point and rare monsters become archnemesis! Now, I think this should just be standard, but even if not, if you had this be a keystone, people could have tested it for you ahead of time and archnemesis could have been tuned more properly from the start.

The atlas passive tree is an amazing development tool. Please use it.

Very well written. Thank you, Chris, for doing your absolute best. Your game and vision really help me have fun and enjoy the game bit by bit. I know there are many things that players do not like, and, in a way, their voiced opinions and views are helpful to keep making this game awesome, and yet I on the other hand feel as well that everything is excellent and that I can trust everything you have done. I am just the single minority, and this comment is not as important as most in here, but just wanted to thank you Chris and voice as well that I am truly so grateful for everything you are doing for us. I am patient and understanding and again truly grateful for creating such an awesome game.

Probably my only concern is how you emphasized being the PoE1 director vs the PoE director. I really hope that when PoE2 comes out that you will still keep being around for us. We all love you and support you in our own way. Thank you so very much.