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TheNightmareGrows wrote:

I'm with Chris. Honestly, the game since Betrayal reached the state when it needed to nerf the loots. The loot bombs are disgusting, honestly. No irony. If you get some yellows - now you 99% skip them. PReviously in PoE you would pick up any yellow to check it's stats, because RARE loot was RARE back then.

This game really need nerfs to loot systems. 41k % to rarity from Arch monsters isn't good as well. I would like to see the "Hard Mode" for PoE. I want it.

And honestly, it is so funny to look at all you simps, who saw some whining from youtubers who plays in stacks of 6 ppl, that they got nerfed, but you, soy boys, were playing in solo mode most of the time. Stop screaming for your idols. This madness should have been stopped long ago, I'm very glad this time has come at least now.

The RARE loot SHOULD BE RARE.
No more loot bombs!

More edge than a Gillette factory on this ultra mega hardcore l33t r0x0r here. Feast your eyes and be grateful we are allowed an audience with His Leetness. He pwnd Path of Exile before it was 5up3r c00l.

I'm sorry I missed out on the chance to buy a VIP ticket to come meet you guys. I'll try next time. I sing your praises (GGG) to all of my friends, about how nobody is more in touch with their game and their players. Nobody's perfect, and I wouldn't be silly enough to ask you guys to be. Thanks for the quick fix, and the update. I hope you guys get some rest and don't stress too much, you rock.

They should just have the "touched" mob drop 50 divines all the time.
You need them for the crafting lottery anyway thanks to removed harvest crafts.

Apologies accepted, last chance for me… the changed from last week were
Ok not the best needs to be buffed little more not to much. Also maps are barely dropping,
So far I’m enjoying it but we need more interesting things to do, for example harvest.
Make new players craft away during that Leaque it opened my eyes really and started to learn crafting
Now it’s just a painful grind (even after the change) to get to crafting that I rather spend 600 Alts then farm for harvest mats, I miss that part of the game allot, but overall for what it is right now i enjoy it

The state of the game is so bad that at this point in time i realy regret that i have bought supporter packs for a company that doesnt listen to its players and lies in their faces. What happened to the ggg that cared about us? Did it sell all its soul to investors?

@Chris

The biggest kick in the face was that people warned your team that this was nuts and the collective response was "We have EXTENSIVELY playtested the content and it feels good to us."

But YOU just said that it was not playtested enough. These two are mutually exclusive. So are you lying / uninformed, or is your team?

While seeing certain content creators, who your team has busted in the past for exploiting, quit this game is AMAZING and fills me with warm fuzzies, the justification for their departure is VERY sound. Punishing Solo players for playing alone and Flogging and Torturing the late game farming types is not the way forward, it's the way down. Like... Hindenberg or Titanic Down.

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Riektas wrote:

But YOU just said that it was not playtested enough. These two are mutually exclusive. So are you lying / uninformed, or is your team?

I saw another post that mentioned the same thing. Honestly I think Chris is just keeping with his "My Vision, My Way" mentality and a lot of the Dev team probably doesn't agree with it. But since Chris is the one with control they have to follow suit.

"I know that if we destroy the loot we will destroy the game"

I just can't understand why there is no true "beta testing period" prior to launch. There are a few dead days between leagues. Could something be done there? The time crunch is really that severe that you have to risk this outcome?

Out of touch. The OVERWHELMING majority of your players are playing solo. All you've done is force solo players to fish maps for a Solaris Touched rare, so that they can find someone on Discord to come cull it for half the profit. You have reduced the game to hunting for a loot pinata.

Just nerf the shit out of group play already, so that the game feels good to play for the 99.999% of us that aren't streaming in optimized groups 18 hours a day, and running third party programs to find "-touched" in maps. "Streamer X is getting 50 Divines and 60 Exalted in a single drop, while everyone else is struggling with map progression and is broke af" is an absolute fucking joke. Watching a PoE stream shouldn't be 'the best way to play PoE'. 50 Divines and 60 Exalted vs 5 Chaos for the rando solo player is an abomination. We are at this point, because you continue to focus on the .0001%, while implementing changes that just further cripples the majority of your player base. 3.06-3.13 was the height of PoE, and the retention numbers prove it.

I have been here since launch. After piddling around with my "unaffected on average" change in drops and then watching the loot pinata videos today, I am absolutely broken, and I lost any motivation to dump anymore time into this season. I didn't uninstall, and I will be back next season with optimism, but this game feels like absolute shit to play right now.