People have a right to be 'outraged'. Diablo 3 released almost 13 years ago now, with MORE viable builds than this has currently. There is no excuse.
And Diablo 3 had a terrible cash-grab release where the Devs purposely made the game nearly impossible so people would be forced to use the auction house to buy a weapon and gear. And of course they made hundreds of millions with that.
But even with that terrible game mode, the game still had more build depth than PoE2 during this 'early access'.
This isn't 'early access'. What this is, is
"If we don't release this game before Christmas our shareholders will demolish us over missing out on hundreds of millions of dollars".
It should also tell you something that the vast MAJORITY of PoE1 and other ARPG vets who aren't entirely reliant on ARPGs (like Kripp for example. NOT like Rhykker for example) are saying the same things. They are saying it's bad. They are saying 2 weeks is the limit for grinding.
The art and details look great, but those things don't make a game a good game. There's an ARPG called 'Chronicon' made by a SINGLE dev which has overwhelmingly positive reviews that has 100x more depth than PoE2.
PoE2 tries to hide the fact it has no original end game, no original takes on items, literally no substance at all. Like, quite literally there is no depth to the game. It shipped with crappy meta builds, and glaringly obvious dev mistakes like Gas Arrows doing 850% weapon damage while Ice Shots do like 80% for Merc.
This was a cash grab. If you are too stupid to understand that, that is your own fault. I'm enjoying parts of the game but as someone with decent intelligence, I can already see from the gem systems and the way items have not only been limited, but simplified, that there is no end game unless you feel like grinding meta builds and sitting on the trading app.
This would be a poor attempt at an ARPG for even a completely new studio. All they did was copy paste some things from PoE1 for end game.
I do want to thank the POE2 Devs though. I am MUCH more thankful for Diablo 4 and Last Epoch now that I see just how bad it can be when the devs are fully focused on selling cosmetics and making shareholder numbers. When even ActivisionBlizzard is outperforming you, it's GG.
And doubling the campaign won't fix anything. There's too many bad systems in the game. You will notice a continuous trend with those who have lower intelligence and worshipping this game and those who have higher who criticize it.
