Did anyone else expect some good news?
" There is a HUGE difference between then and now. POE1 was there first game, which was coded by 1 guy, Chris's friend in his spare time from his real job. POE1 was run by like 6 people at that time. They all also had ZERO experience. They also had virtually no funding. Fast forward 13 years, and now they have 13 years of experience, a ton of staff, endless funding, 6 years of development on POE2 and this is what they released. They rushed this release, it needed at least another year of solid development by a core team of devoted devs, not cannibalized POE1 devs. They dropped the ball hard, and people should be pissed for both games to be in the states they are currently in. Last edited by Biovital#3172 on Jan 31, 2025, 12:57:00 PM
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" Im pretty sure it was a lot longer than 2 years before they had 10 acts too, and when it was first released they had 3 acts not 4, you played up to Dominus 3 times over before maps. So much misinformation on these forums. |
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I think its going to be a lot of work to fix this game, they will be working out how to do it, theres no point spending time on fixes for things that they may end up removing or re-working entirely. If you look at the skill tree for example it looks very chaotic and in an early draft state, some areas of the tree have way more passives jammed into them than others, its a real mess. And if they re-work the tree they might have to re-work balance, and then rework skill gems, and then rework affix values etc etc. Its quite a complicated game and changing one thing can multiply other things out of control in a big way so you got to work out where to start first.
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" I dunno, feel like thats similar to saying "it takes 9 months to make a baby, if we have 8 other women help it will be done in 1 month". Some things take time, regardless of how many hands are working on it. I really dont understand this attitude of PoE2 = released either. It's literally in EA with 2/3rds of the ascendancies missing and half the acts not yet in the game. If you're complaining that the game needs more development, that's exactly why they put out an early access of it. to help them with development. I can sympathize with feeling PoE1 has been neglected in favour of PoE2 though. |
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Honestly with POE1 being dead and POE2 being a stillbirth. I honestly have no hope for GGG to turn any of this around.
Tala Moana, Exile.
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