Exp loss on death topics are getting out of hand.
" It may be fun and exciting to the type of player who also enjoys playing hardcore. They are exhilarated by the notions of sudden death and ultimate loss. I am not that kind of player and I don't play hardcore exactly because I do not want to go through that in games. When I play I want to experience predominantly positive emotions. And since I have explicitly stated that I do NOT want to play hardcore as early as the character creation screen, I expect to NOT have hardcore-adjacent events during my playthrough. |
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" Glad for you I can hardly reach 2k hp, and armor/evasion does not help against oneshots |
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" Then we found the root of the problem. PoE2 isn't for you at all if you need only positive emotions. Blizzard's games are more suited for gamers like you. That's a FACT. PoE never been about giving people always positive experience, and if you avoided that fact by heavily relying on guides, net-building and trading to feel any good, it's on you, not on the game's design. |
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" Exactly. Right now Softcore has Hardcore mechanics that are forced on the player. This is why people are quitting, it's just not fun. I don't wanna ever feel that horrible feeling of dying and losing hours and hours of progress in a game, that is not why I play them. I play them to just have fun and accomplish my goals in them with as little difficulty as possible. That's fun to me. I played hardcore once in PoE 1 because I wanted to get all achievements and I was just missing 1 which was "reach level 90 in hardcore". Died on my first char in Delve at lvl89 cus I got de-synced in the darkness while trying to loot something, worst experience and feeling in a game I've ever had in my whole life. Had to re-level another character, sell off all my currency to buy gear for RF jugg and painfully level to 90 in safe,low-tier maps. Wooow such gameplay. Yeah no, I don't want this shoved down my throat in Softcore thanks. If the devs refuse to see reason then they've lost me and many others as potential PoE 2 players. The goal of PoE 2 was to attract a wider audience, not shrink it down to a niche of people who enjoy ultra-hardcore games that punish you for no reason lol Literally who asked for Softcore to have these cringe hardcore mechanics? Nobody. So remove them or risk losing thousands or tens of thousands of SC players. Because I can assure you they will either quit over this if the game releases with these mechanics still in it, or they will play it in the most boring way possible following a meta build. Great for build diversity. Last edited by Toforto#2372 on Dec 31, 2024, 6:43:02 AM
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" We, PoE2 enjoyers, accept your condition. We accept to have a great, fun, but also punitive and challenging game with those designs, and to have a community without people like you constantly complaining about it. Cordially, a gamer. |
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" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6Oy25AltqY Check this to have a basic understanding of what it means to go CI. 3:31, explained clear and quick. Last edited by iMirageX#4580 on Dec 31, 2024, 7:51:35 AM
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" Enjoy a dead game with Ruthless player numbers and trash build diversity then. This game will die if these bad designs aren't changed. But don't worry, they will change. That's what EA is for after all. Can't wait to see all the patch notes. All you're doing is gatekeeping and trying to chase players away. Go play your perfect "punitive" "challenging" "hardcore" game if you enjoy it so much. Why comment on the forum just to disagree with people? This is a feedback forum, the majority has spoken on what they want and how they want the game to be improved. It will happen, otherwise GGG would lose way too many players and this game is gonna be dead eventually. You'll find that you will be very disappointed with some of the upcoming patch notes, changes will have to be made. Go play hc ssf if you want a """challenge""" when they inevitably revert back to 6 portals per map, and the exp penalty will most likely be changed to only apply after lvl90 btw so that will be a very welcome change by the majority of the playerbase and community. |
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" Uhm, POE2 *has* attracted a wider audience. POE1 is unpopular in part because it's mindlessly easy, and the audience for afk gaming is small. POE1, 220k peak players (steam) POE2, 540k peak players (steam) Elden Ring, 22M+ copies sold I'm not sure what the future of POE2 or XP-loss is, but I can say with certainty that it is not going to be an "only positive emotion" tomagochi simulator like POE1, because *that* would give it a simliarily tiny audience. Last edited by KuroSF#6521 on Dec 31, 2024, 8:00:13 AM
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" Surely 200k+ people haven't quit because PoE 2 is bad right now. Right? These steam numbers are just inflated hype, and even they look horrible. Imagine losing close to 50% of the players who paid 30$ for your early access game 2 weeks in. That's a bad sign. That means the game is failing to attract a wider audience, because it isn't fun. And can you people stop comparing this EA launch with a regular league launch of PoE 1? This comparison is nonsensical. Just because it had a high peak on the second day(which is horrible btw, a peak so early on?) doesn't mean anything. Last edited by Toforto#2372 on Dec 31, 2024, 8:02:35 AM
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" 100% of me abandoning the game just like I abandoned POE1. I only bought early access because I thought there would be no XP penalty. I just reached the endgame and I already uninstalled the game. What a bad idea to lose a player. It doesn't make sense to lose my little progression time because of a penalty. They could add a checkbox in the settings: "I like to suffer" It was going well but they lost another player. |
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