are we the boomers for preferring PoE1 ?

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ocping#1733 wrote:

If you gave me 200k USD for a car and I had to choose between a Tesla that looks nice on the outside but has shit interior vs a Civic with a tuned V8 engine that runs smooth like butter with posh interior, guess what, I'm juicing that Civic.

It's just better.

meanwhile both cars are shit riding on branding and BYD is the actual good car that's not over priced. checks out

i think the vast majority prefers poe2.

only seen ben_ and pohx being visibly emotionally tied to poe1

kinda reminds me of mr.llama and diablo2 ;)

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teksuoPOE#2987 wrote:

i think the vast majority prefers poe2.

only seen ben_ and pohx being visibly emotionally tied to poe1

kinda reminds me of mr.llama and diablo2 ;)

where are you getting this from? 90%+ of the forums posts i seen are from people who prefer poe1. i have only seen maybe 2-3 people who said they prefer poe2. and steam numbers are 80% bots so dont use that

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phantasmaniac#0916 wrote:

I've seen many people brought the argument of "PoE2 have more concurrent players".

Then we PoE1 enjoyers are just coping in our bubble that the "tourists" will go soon.

PoE2 made me appreciated PoE1 even more. I was wrong for thinking PoE1 was not as good as it is.

Tell me are we the boomers or it's just the "shiny new thing" ?

POE1 players are people that like a complicated game that takes a long time to learn with a ton of stuff to try out. Especially once you learn crafting and remember hideout is lava, this game is just a blast. It burns out before the league is over, but there really are some good things they could do to fix this.

POE2 players are people who don't understand what adding a horse to a game means for the game. They don't understand a company not respecting their time because they don't play a game enough for it to impact them in any meaningful way.

Your typical POE2 player would never have spent enough money over the years on POE1 to get free access to POE2. They either don't spend that much on games or don't play any game consistently.

POE2 is build in its bones from the ground up to artificially inflate your playtime by wasting it doing things like running, clicking wells, sorting through a "bases" tab, or spending forever trading.

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Lyutsifer665#1671 wrote:

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teksuoPOE#2987 wrote:

i think the vast majority prefers poe2.

only seen ben_ and pohx being visibly emotionally tied to poe1

kinda reminds me of mr.llama and diablo2 ;)

where are you getting this from? 90%+ of the forums posts i seen are from people who prefer poe1. i have only seen maybe 2-3 people who said they prefer poe2. and steam numbers are 80% bots so dont use that

Yeah this is an insane take. The largest POE streamer isn't even playing POE2 XD. Are you serious RN?

yeah i think ppl are trying to binge poe2 just like its poe1 but you will burn out and have a bad time imo. i play poe2 in spurs but they are very satisfying and lots of fun, where poe1 you can binge hours on end without ever getting excited.

The original game is PoE1, with the PoE1 spirit...
So we prefer the original game, and not the sequel funded by the player PoE1 and which was not intended for them.
For me, Tencent (rip GGG) wanted a cash machine with a "PoE for Casuals", based on the PoE1 hype...
Personally, I feel betrayed and scammed.

Not really I'm 54 and POE2 is just way better as a core than POE1 they just need to get control of the dumb design space ruining easy buttons like Spark and keep fleshing out endgame.

Unless you like space ship shooters and dumpsters of loot raining down on you then yeah POE1 is better.

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sjeshin#3367 wrote:

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Lyutsifer665#1671 wrote:

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teksuoPOE#2987 wrote:

i think the vast majority prefers poe2.

only seen ben_ and pohx being visibly emotionally tied to poe1

kinda reminds me of mr.llama and diablo2 ;)

where are you getting this from? 90%+ of the forums posts i seen are from people who prefer poe1. i have only seen maybe 2-3 people who said they prefer poe2. and steam numbers are 80% bots so dont use that

Yeah this is an insane take. The largest POE streamer isn't even playing POE2 XD. Are you serious RN?

The largest POE streamers all usually have had enough after 5 to 8 weeks including Quin.

The vast vast majority of POE streamers are quite positive on POE2 and most of them only stopped playing it after week 6 to 8. Pretty normal arc for any ARPG. and tons longer than most of them. A solid number of them are now doing other games entirely a few are in Pohx's private league. Ben and Pohx are actually the only really loudly critical ones I casn think of offhand.

Sure everyone positive or not (including me) wants more content and have balance criticisms but by in large they have POE2 YT reviews up that are positive. I'd say Ziz and Steel seem pretty mid. But harshly critical? Nah.

Mostly just waiting on new shit to do IMO.

The main thing is that some people are addicted to the space ship shooter and they react to change the same way any addict does.