Goodbye Jonathan

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Sarke#5416 wrote:

When I played D3 for 1st time.. I stopped buying any single blizzard game forever... and I were one of those fans who had warcrafts, diablos, starcraft... Pretty much all them back in the day including wow...

Here Im still playing and hoping them fix things.
The game itself is not that bad. The problem is about balance and some individual decisions, some are objectively bad and some I personally dnt like.
But the game as a whole is ok and have tons of potential..

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Endz#7323 wrote:

I mean it’s still early access and every patch is an improvement.
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Direfell#7544 wrote:

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Xyrian1988#2315 wrote:

And it's getting worse with each passing week.

What got worse this week?

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kumogakure#7381 wrote:

Loot will never be good until maybe at launch.

I remember very early on, during one of the interviews, perhaps even before 0.1 began, that Johnathan said something along the lines of it being difficult to take things away from players.

What that essentially meant, is that loot will only ever be improved in extremely tiny steps, and that the moment players stop complaining about loot, they will take that as a seal of approval from players and the loot will stay that way for the foreseeable future.

It's really a very misguided way to balance game rewards but from 0.1 to now, it's obvious that they are doing exactly that.

Take Perfect Jewelers' as an example. There is absolutely no way they didn't know it was dropping in pathetic amounts. They have the exact data. Yet they waited and waited to see if players will grow to be fine with it.

And only now they finally think players will never be fine with it, and made the adjustments.

Same for all the loot issues. They started with an extremely harsh and stingy, absolutely-no-way-this-is-rewarding level of loot drops, just to gauge player reaction.

POE2 is not designed to be a balanced game. It is designed to be minimally rewarding to players, and they're taking their sweet time during early access to find that minimal level of loot.

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JakkerONAIR#4902 wrote:

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Endz#7323 wrote:

I mean it’s still early access and every patch is an improvement.

To just give up on the game while it’s still being developed is overly dramatic, but the reality is I think you’re saying you’re quitting to bolster your opinion into having more credibility.

If you delete the crying parts of your post it would be an actual feedback post to try and better the game.

When is the time we are allowed to cry?

PoE2 was presented initially as a PoE1 expansion where they wanted to modernise the game, improve systems, update the engine and so on. Then 4 years later, they said "Jokes on you. It's a separate game now.". Was that time enough to cry?

When ppl were able to test PoE2's gameplay and gave their feedback that "Sorry, but that's not it" and GGG doubled down and said "Oopsie daisy, this is the new vision". Was that the time to cry?

When they released PoE2, that looked like a usable base to improve from, but vastly different from what PoE should look like if it wants to be PoE; then ppl gave their feedback, but GGG triple downed and made it even worse. That's not the time to cry?

When we got interviews where they showed us that "the vision" is more important than the long-term community. Is it then the time to cry?

Tell me. How long do we have to wait until we are allowed to cry about PoE2 not being PoE anymore?