0.5 DISAPPOINTMENT

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Azimuthus#1135 wrote:

They had less mobs, less drops, bosses and normal enemies were much stronger in beta, in 0.1.0. This was intentional.

Nah I disagree on that one, especially your conclusion.

In 0.1 it was way harder to get good gear, true, and you had no meta-knowledge - as in bosses movesets, which skills plus supports and ascendancies synergise well and all that. Thats what made it hard.

Once you had good gear, you knew what bosses were doing and you had a proper setup going, those exact same bosses turned into jokes. As they always do without fail.


You either want 0.1 to be a version of a game you prefer way too hard or you do severly underestimate the impact of meta-knowledge or both.

I think 0.1 was simply the "bare minimum" version they were comfy to release, collect feedback and iterate on. Thats it.
Its not deeper than that.

+1.

0.5.0 another disappointment in the horizon....

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Vyend#2601 wrote:

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Argonlo#6237 wrote:

Thats not what complexity means. Youre describing bloat which is another problem entirely

Complexity = opposite of simplicity. This is literally what it means.

Which one is simpler? Four runes that each give +2 strength per tier, or a single rune that gives +5 strength?

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Argonlo#6237 wrote:

Im pretty sure you can hide sockets in the options unless you hover over them with the cursor.

Sockets are hidden by default.. That's not even the point of what i was trying to say..

totally agree

No thanks.... Ill better stick to Windrose rather than playing a failure again with ton of complaints.

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Argonlo#6237 wrote:

Simply having more elements that do the same thing in varying degrees doesnt contribute to complexity in any way

this is exactly the definition of complexity!

WTF are you smoking? Send me some...

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Orbaal#0435 wrote:

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Azimuthus#1135 wrote:

But then the train went off the track. Or better to say switched back to old POE1 track. Probably because POE1 people cried too much and GGG said several times they are not happy if POE1 players won't play POE2. So here we are.

Apparently Jonathan Rogers begs to differ.

According to him PoE2 wasnt trying to target a different audience but was instead designed to attract the same playertype GGG tried to attract a decade ago to PoE1.
He says right here, about 1-2 minutes into the vid:

https://youtu.be/pRu04P47tf0?t=712

Great response, all these people who weren't for the game all these years, now come after a year of EA acting like they get an equal say in how the game ought to be.

I started in Metamorph after seeing the original PoE2 announcement and if it was different or the same, I wanted to get a headstart that ended up being 5-6 years.

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Jagdkommando90#7200 wrote:

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Argonlo#6237 wrote:

Simply having more elements that do the same thing in varying degrees doesnt contribute to complexity in any way

this is exactly the definition of complexity!

WTF are you smoking? Send me some...

Get out of the forums man and talk to people who have the balls to disagree with you and tell it to you straight, you're happy to play D4, why are you posting here when you're beloved game hasn't even hit the 2-week mark since the update.

Get ready for the easiest state of game patch in poe2 history.

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Dark0ne#6104 wrote:

Get ready for the easiest state of game patch in poe2 history.

why is that?

I agree with OP, with a caveat. They should also make D4 way more complex. And then the two games could swap places and we'd end up back where we are.

With that stunt out of the way: I don't belong in D4. Stop acting like you belong in both games and I belong in neither. Let me have my game and I'll let you have yours. Thanks!

FYI, I've played D4, it still has no depth - just pretty shallow content specialization that isn't even remotely balanced. Now, they're even telling you what to play like in D3. How the hell you see that as improvement I will never understand. It also has crafting, which isn't even good for these games regardless of how many of you people parrot it. It's mindless powercreep and it ruins the drops.