A Message to Path of Exile 1 Players
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All the negativity is... hilarious for lack of a better word.
PoE 2 is the game now. While PoE 1 was a great game, it's been out for a long time, and GGG has to move onto the next step in their evolution at some point. They have to prioritize their main game. Have realistic expectations, and be thankful for all the hard work they are putting into the infant stages of what is an amazing new game in PoE2. |
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It was pretty obvious when I thought about it over the week. Splitting the game into two really left no one happy; poe2 is on fire, and has 1% of the game compared to the first; poe1 gets curbed, leaving dedicated fans for 12-14 years shafted. Then when do you release content for either? It'd just cannibalize one game or the other; content creators would bail on poe2 for a new league, or content creators would bail on poe1 if a substantial update came after. It's a lose-lose.
While I understand what he's saying, and it's logical, at the end of the day this is the direction they willingly chose to go; knowing their own games would compete with both players and resources, instead of the original plan to expand one game. If it was all for more graphical fidelity, I'm sure both sides would say that's unfortunate. |
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It was to be expected, I'm not in a hurry, what's bothering me the most is that my PC, even though it's old, has very bad FPS in POE 2, I know it might be asking too much to be able to play POE 2 with my old i7 6700k and GTX 1070, but it's what I have, and I'm not in a position to change PCs at the moment, a lot of FPS drops, where sometimes it's impossible to even move the character or react to dodge situations, etc. If I could solve this, I would already be happy.
And another balancing problem for me, maybe other people don't feel this way, but, is that the Hammer of the God skill is taking away the idea of being a MELEE character (a warrior), it looks more like a caster, please remove this skill, everyone who plays a warrior ends up using this skill, I would much prefer it to be an ultimate Slam that had an area as a new skill, and not simply cast from medium distance, and instead of a sledgehammer, it could be Hand of God, a punch on the ground, as there are already some finishing skins in POE 1, please GGG, remove this skill or rework it, it is really taking away the roleplay of being a melee/warrior character. Last edited by SurpriseModaFkr#5495 on Jan 30, 2025, 12:14:36 AM
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GG
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I just feel disappointed...
Many promises, yet to be held. Putting an early access you might as well call beta TEST before your actual polished and loved Game. |
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Love the transparency and I for one am grateful for the extra support for PoE2. Anyone still stressing over PoE1 confuses me because 2 is better is almost every way lol. Really grateful you keep us in the loop and are working so hard on what is already an amazing game. At 39 years old I haven't been this into a game in many years. Thank you all for everything you do!
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Good thing i quit poe1 ages ago. Keep up good work with poe 2
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A slap in the face to your most loyal supporters.
I dont feel these excuses are sufficient. You couldve hired more people. You couldve had a handful of devs whip up a temp/void league. You couldve made a Legacy 2.0 league. You couldve have race events. You couldve made a small league for PoE1 like in the old days. You couldve been honest from the start. Yet you chose not to do any of those things. You're not some new indie studio. PoE2 is EARLY ACCESS. You can take your time with it instead of pooping on your playerbase. Massively disappointed. I love PoE and how it feels to play. While i want PoE2 to succeed, i want my PoE1 to get regular updates. |
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Unacceptable...
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I think there's been plenty of criticism already and do think this will go down as one of the worst decisions in the history of the game.
Regarding solutions, have you ever considered leaving POE2 in it's current state to create a small shippable POE1 league? There are a lot of people that can live with a simple mechanic addition and a map reset for 3-4 months. It doesn't have to be epic. Like many others I'm not a fan of POE2. It's just blowing my mind that you are completely abandoning your BEST game at a time that is arguably in the best state it has ever been and rushing to create iterations for POE2 that will probably not please most of us for another year. It's making the problem worse IMO. |
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