Why POE2’s Direction Is Worrying for Veterans and Newcomers Alike

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Ex D3 and D4 player, just a few hours (around 500) on PoE1: came here just to say that I agree with OP, except maybe for the jems and the skill tree, but that's me being ignorant of PoE1 probably.

Being plagued with the crashes, I came in this section of the forums in search of good vibes. And now I just want to put the game down until they change stuff. I think I'll play something completely different during the festivities.

Uff.

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mixersan#7996 wrote:

I have something like 3000 hours in PoE1 and I have to say I DEFINITELY appreciate the slower pace. The actual gameplay in PoE was a bit of a meme, spamming one ability to clear screams instantly and traverse the entire map in 30 seconds doing so was pretty dull.

That being said, I agree with most of what the OP said otherwise. So many of the design choices and systems in this game seem overtly hostile to the player - like they want to punish us or something.

GGG DOES want to punish the player though. They have made it abundantly clear that is their sole purpose and intent. By making these design decisions they are intentionally trying to punish players in every way they can.

It's like someone punching you in the face at a bar and saying they are just there for a good time, that's GGG right now.

Everyone needs to call them out on their mistakes or it won't change

I love and respect GGG a lot, PoE1 became great over time because of them, but when someone has their head so far up their own ass Ive always felt they need to be reminded of that and right now that's GGG.

All of the horrible design decisions are baked into the almighty vision. Their vision as it stands, sucks.

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Agreed 100%.
Now, I have serious doubts if the game stays as it is.

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Turddog#8292 wrote:

This is exactly why newcomers won’t take you completely serious. You act as if people who have never played POE don’t have an opinion.

Fact is , many people who are playing POE2 didn’t want anything to do with POE1. Your crowd is trying to dictate every decision GGG makes.

It doesn't matter at all who "newcomers" don't take seriously, again, you do not matter. You have no context to understand how this game is a massive downgrade from PoE in nearly every single way.
And its a massive failure by GGG for this to be the case with PoE2, they wanted PoE fans to be fans of PoE2 as well. You arent going to be seasonal players for a decade. And neither we will. This game is doomed to die if it keeps catering to one playthrough gamers like you.

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Turddog#8292 wrote:

You guys are acting like tyrants.

How ironic. You are the only ones who are arrogant and tyrannical. We are giving feedback on the failures of PoE2 and advice on how to fix this game, to make it what GGG wants it to be, a forever playable seasonal game. They want our feedback, your simping for the game doesn't contribute anything at all and they don't need to hear it.

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Turddog#8292 wrote:

POE elitist “ No, we want the whole game to almost be a carbon copy of POE 1”

No one said it should be an exact copy, strawman argument.
It should be built on the same core mechanics and depth, because that is what a sequel is. A sequel does not throw away the working mechanics that made the previous game successful in the first place, and replace them with objectively inferior, dumbed down mechanics, tedious speed of progression and 1% of the build diversity and build creating freedom.

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Turddog#8292 wrote:

Ok I guess if that’s what GGG does than bye bye new audience.

Goodbye and good riddance. Good thing you don't matter to GGG, because they know your kind won't be there to play this torturous slog of a game every 3 months. They know they have to change this game for us actual PoE fans in order for the game to be profitable.

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RedHarmonic#5877 wrote:

Agreed 100%.
Now, I have serious doubts if the game stays as it is.

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It will stay the same for a while more than likely

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DIOandTheWorld#7430 wrote:

How ironic. You are the only ones who are arrogant and tyrannical. We are giving feedback on the failures of PoE2 and advice on how to fix this game, to make it what GGG wants it to be, a forever playable seasonal game. They want our feedback, your simping for the game doesn't contribute anything at all and they don't need to hear it.

No, you are bitching and whining and claiming the sky is falling. Even chicken little wasn't as bad as you people are.

This is not POE 1. Just in case you didn't get that, this is NOT POE1. It will NEVER be POE1. If you want to play POE1 I highly recommend you to GO PLAY POE1.

This is POE2, where GGG is trying to attract a NEW audience. POE1 isn't going anywhere, it is still getting updates and new leagues. It would be FUCKING STUPID for GGG to make a new POE1 to just cannibalize the players they already have locked in. They need to attract NEW players, ones that are not interested in POE1.

TL;DR, chicken little needs to STFU and go play POE1 if they want to play POE1.

If you have actual feedback to give then be constructive and do so. Whining that it's not just like POE1 is not constructive feedback.

All they will need to do is ONE league reset and everything the OP said will hit home like a ton of bricks.

This is so hard to gauge because I have a lot of things I don't like about POE 2. The speed of white mobs and deadliness of them, feels like poe 1 but on poe engine. Strongboxes at all. Ritual exemplifies these problems even more so.

Yet I see so much feedback from people that reeks of poe 1 brain and it just makes me laugh. Bosses should be threatening and take time. If you think dodge rolling and respecting a bosses mechanics is boring, you dont want a boss fight. You want a loot pinata that rewards u for hitting it a couple of times.