Was this league a success?
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Now that it's all over but the screaming I would like to know- does anyone view this league as an overall improvement to the state of path of exile 2? does anyone think it's good that it lost half its player base as soon as free weekend was over? does anyone think it's good that the entire economy was determined by an unintended feature of how the temples interact with one specific part of the temporary-solution interludes? does anyone actually enjoy the current state of balance? does anyone enjoy the feeling of dread they get from looking at the patch notes and wondering if their favorite skill will be rendered literally unusable for absolutely no reason? (Cough Incinerate, cough cough Lightning Warp)
I have 800 hours in Poe 2. I put 8 into this league before uninstalling, and my harddrive is now a better place for having empty space and fragmented files that were once wasted on holding this atrocity of a game for weird masochists. Will the devs actually listen to their players who overwhelmingly hate the direction this shit is going, and have demonstrated that by dropping this league in record numbers? Or will they double down on their "vision" and cater to the like 5 people who apparently still enjoy this shit? Time will tell. Last bumped on Jan 17, 2026, 11:54:51 AM
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" I would say no. Each patch they just keep pushing what casual players that are left to quit. They allowed the temple exploits to be available for way too long, and allowed this seasons economy to self destruct. No communication about things, just silence and a dick on our salads. Keep it up, when game leaves EA many ppl will NOT recommend the game! Damn shame too! Last edited by TheUndying#7256 on Jan 14, 2026, 5:13:18 PM
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It has daily 70k players 1 month+ into the league, even after suffering from 2 waves of insane currency dumps from abyss and early holten spam
And then there's the medallion changes, you would think the medallion change would drop players to abysmal levels but that simply didn't happen, why? first because it got reverted and second because the league mechanic is just that fun, there's also crazy good build variety, abyss is still a good moneymaker if you're not into temple, you can also do spirits or ritual for omens The league is a massive improvement even compared to the last league, and abyss league was pretty good already (after tower changes) Almost forgot about druid, haven't played it yet (had a bad experience with amazon back in 0.2 so i didn't want to brick my start) but heard people praising it so i guess even the new class was good |
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Yup
Mash the clean
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" There's a lot of time left, but that's where I am too. Def my favorite league so far. 0.4 SSF: Gemling Minions: https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/DistributedAutomaton-5739/character/CrystalController
0.3 SSF: Evasion-only melee challenge character: https://poe.ninja/poe2/pob/119e9 |
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" You also need to account for the uplift around the holiday period that has extended the life of the league, it never reached the numbers that we had in 0.3 but compared to 0.2 and 0.3 based on percentage of players compared to day 1 Xmas and NY gave it a little boost but is now back in line with 0.3 and 0.2, and i suspect will drop below after this weekend. https://poe2db.tw/us/League#ConcurrentPlayers But this is not to say this was a failure, in my opinion the Druid was a win, the balancing for the other ascendancies and tree was good but could have been better, i still feel the Temple wasn't well implemented and the back and forth nerfing and buffing really played havoc with the league and now that inflation is rampant, i very much doubt the league will have much life left, but we all got a good month out of it, just wish we could have doubled that time before feeling like we have finished, fingers crossed on 0.5! Last edited by Drayvn#7423 on Jan 14, 2026, 5:32:26 PM
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Pretty objectively sucessfull at this point.
50k people starting over for the same league? Easy answer Mash the clean
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Mhm, I'm a bit split with this question.
I like the implementation of Abyss into the main game. On the other hand, I didn't like the temple mechanic at first. However they changed it a few times since and people figured out a way to make it fun/rewarding. That lead to a completely new endgame and progression system in itself. Even tho the drops in the temple are way over the top and have to be balanced for 0.5, I've never played a league this long in PoE2. (maybe 0.1, don't remember exactly) I even made a second character just to build another temple. So, for me personally it is a success, but it has alot of downsides aswell. The mechanic wasn't tested enough and 0.4 had way more bugs than previous leagues. For GGG I think the league was mediocre and considering it was THE Druid league + Christmas I'd guess they expected more. Nobody knows how much people spent tho, so maybe it was worth in that aspect. /edit: I didn't play Druid yet, but Wolf has to be the most fun melee I've played in any ARPG so far. So they did a really good job with shapeshifting, from what I heard about bear and wyvern aswell. PoE2 0.4 Character: https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/Sadaukar-2191/character/Sadaukar_Vaal https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/Sadaukaria-3556/character/IcySadaukar_Vaal OS: CachyOS (Arch Linux btw. <3) Last edited by Sadaukar#2191 on Jan 14, 2026, 5:34:58 PM
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" for exploters i guess??. . |
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i played less than 2 weeks, got what i needed from this failed league and left.They have already demonstrated an inability to improve technical problems and gameplay issues.
This dev team is totally out of touch. But I've learned in life that everything has its consequences. The price for all this will be very high. Meanwhile, they're just doing what they do best: punishing more and more, and keeping the exploiters happy. |
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