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

I'l be totally honest.
I want PoE 2 to be very similar to PoE 1. PoE 1 is my favorite game, maybe ever together with first 5-6 years of WoW.

I'm a simple man, reason i want PoE 2 to be like PoE 1 is so that i can have a fresh "PoE 1" league every 2 months ish instead of 4.

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Essem#3340 wrote:

I'l be totally honest.
I want PoE 2 to be very similar to PoE 1. PoE 1 is my favorite game, maybe ever together with first 5-6 years of WoW.

I'm a simple man, reason i want PoE 2 to be like PoE 1 is so that i can have a fresh "PoE 1" league every 2 months ish instead of 4.

We were all hoping that POE2 would be the saviour. To bring a breath of fresh air to POE1.

But they really shattered all our dreams. No new assets, no new graphics and animations. Nothing at all.

Thanks for a well thought through post and criticism not limited to "This sucks". I personally wouldn't mind the game to be slower than PoE 1 if it didn't mean spongy healthbars and being forced to have movement speed on boots to even get anywhere.


To add to this, I think the game design should offer way more accessibility options. As someone with a protanopia colour sight deficit many gfx effects are virtually invisible to me due to poor choice of effect coloration, background colors and particle density. It's 2025 and PoE 2 isn't develeoped in a garage. It feels like a letdown to me, virtually no thought went into accessibilty apparently.

It's early access though and I really hope, GGG improves on their work.

I'm not playing Poe-2, I'm fed up with the rutless changes and I don't care what they do as long as they don't make Poe-2 a worthy successor to Poe-1 and I agree almost 100% with what OP said.

TLDR: Bumpity Bump Bump.

Well said to the original post.

I've tried for dozens of hours. I'm done. And since POE 1 has been left in a rather clunky, unwieldly state (with no new league in sight if we are to be honest with ourselves...), I'm sort of left without an arpg. D4 isn't fun either.

Why is it so hard for video game creators to stick to that which works and stay in their lane? The developers think they are fine artists but they are in reality commercial artists. I think this misunderstanding of role and identity is at the heart of the problem.

If you want to make video games as fine art, make a different game that's artsy.

Forcing players to play a slower, clunkier, longer, less-fun game isn't "art". It's you losing your player base. Which is insane because you have the blueprint right there in poe 1.

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Which is insane because you have the blueprint right there in poe 1.

Zero sense in making POE 2 a copy of POE 1.

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Azimuthus#1135 wrote:

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Which is insane because you have the blueprint right there in poe 1.

Zero sense in making POE 2 a copy of POE 1.

it is a copy tho

OP is a veteran of cookie clicking, then that veteran comes to forum to cry after game put a bit of challenge at him

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