Finally uninstalled PoE2... the wave of relief is crazy!

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Lord_Arami#5382 wrote:

Well, first post here... and probably last for a long time :)

I am a builder, I like to try-out stuff... and die trying. That's what I find "funny". So long I make my way, even if not powerful... I can deal with it. For that to work, I expect that if a game offers a specific gameplay, that gameplay is [at least], funtional.

On this respect, POE2 feels "too much" as Elden Ring: There are quite few options out there... but either they are meaningless [like armor in ER or many initial skills in POE2] or you don't have really agency on them [Roll or die in ER and... same in POE2].

POE2 also falls in the Elden Ring pitfall of not explaining anything to newcomers. At its core, it is game made for catering POE1 fans.

From my side, I followed what OP mention and just uninstall the game.

One constructive criticism here before leaving: I play Magic the Gathering since some time. Main lead design of Magic [Mark Rosewater], offered the following advise for game development: If you want the players to learn mechanism from the game, make sure they get enough exposure on the common / more usual elements of your game. An example for POE2: make sure that WHITE minions teach players useful skills. Last Epoch does a fantastic job here with cold damage in the tundra level of the campaign.

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Minuen#7817 wrote:

This thread didn’t age very well.

If you feel stress and anxiety from playing a game, you should stop playing (unless you like that). Take care of your own mental health.

That doesn’t mean the game is terrible for everyone else, as seen by the crazy number of people still playing every day. It’s really sad that some people who loved poe1 are not enjoying poe2, but take a step back and try it again once they do some tuning. I’m not saying that feedback and changes aren’t needed, but it’s clear that some people are too emotionally invested.

You don’t need to ruin your life trying a game in EA, just chill and see how it evolves. People are taking this game way too seriously. I’ve been there before, I had 15,000 hours in WoW before I quit and it helped a lot. Sometimes you just need to move on and try something else.

Hope you all have/had a good holiday and find something else to enjoy in the meantime!

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FaZe_Midian#2894 wrote:

Feeling amazing already!

It was like a terribly unrewarding mold of all the worst parts of PoE 1 , mixed with all the worst parts of Elder Ring and Souls games, mixed with zero loot, mixed with horrible oversized maps that have maybe 1-2 dense fighting areas per 30 minute map clear.

Just because a game is tedious and slow doesn't mean it was challenging. If that was true, everyone would just be sitting and playing the original Zelda on NES because it's a B*** to play (although I'd rather play that because it has lore and atmosphere).

Only diehard streamer fans and players who have dissolved their brains playing TikTok videos could enjoy this game in its current state.

Also...
The graphics are great, but some things you can't just 'produce' by strongarming money into them. PoE 2 has no soul or lore at all. The main female explorer character whose name is so forgettable I already forgot it, if you zoom in, has a 'Yankee Doodle Dandy' metal helm with 3 huge feathers shoved inside of it under the metal. That's not lore, that's just goofy.

Act 3 is literally Act 2 from PoE 1 copy pasted and changed a little. I laughed out loud when I realized I was basically in Vaal Pyramids except laid flat down with the Soul Stones part.

They had the option to come up with some amazing cool areas and floundered completely. Like... WEVE ALREADY SEEN JUNGLE AND SAND DUNE ACTS BEFORE! It's patronizing. Also, Act 1 should've just been Act 3 since it had a much more demonic and dark feel to it.

The boss ideas are cool at first, until you realize you're stuck in the boss fight for 10-20 minutes unless you chose one of the better classes.


Not to mention, the game simply runs terribly on a lot of different computers. I can run every other game on Ultra or High @ 4k, and this game I'm getting low FPS and 100% CPU usage even though I'm sitting in the main menu still.

Maybe the game eventually 'gets there', but at this point I hope they just cash grab and rugpull PoE 2 and go back to PoE 1. The devs have definitely lost all my respect and I will never willingly spend another dime on a GGG product.

And lets not even get into the fact they just recycled some of the worst content from PoE1 and bragged about it being 'new end game systems'!. Breach is boring. Digging/explosions is boring. No new systems at all, just copy pasted stuff from PoE1.