POE new target is mainstream casual?

Do you guys think - new target for poe 2 will be just a casual that spent few hours in game weekly? people who use just builds from maxrolls and other main-stream sities without discovering your own builds? People on chat really think Lightning spear is one viable skill - while there is about 40 of them or even more that are comparable

so

also as main-stream and casuals are the biggest in amount of players group - do poe 2 will target them to make better numbers? the typical player of arpg didn't want meaningful combat, hard combat and dealing with obstacles and just rock the content with power - they like "bully the weak" power fantasy. And hard games will never be a main-stream games that gets the highest amount of players.

I have no idea who the target audience for this game is, but it doesn't look like its casual players either because the game is designed so aggressively against that. Most won't even get to maps to even have the chance to copy a meta build.

I have no idea why they went with this Ruthless 2.0 design when that gamemode was and always will be a ghost town in PoE 1. It just makes no sense at all, and on top of that all the people that bought supporter packs now feel completely scammed that the game isn't what they thought it would be.

Trading still exists which is a mystery, why doesn't an online game in 2025 have an AH? Like what new player is gonna deal with the trade site, getting a PhD in stat filters to be able to search properly for the item they want and then whispering 50 people that don't respond or 1 guy with the item you need not responding and then raising the price lmao

PoE 2 made so many of the same mistakes that they already should have learned from in PoE 1. It's clear this Early Access was severely rushed out.


Like who is gonna play for 5 hours in act 1 then open up the shop and buy a 60$ supporter pack? They're just gonna quit because they're bored and uninstall because this game takes up so much disk space. I also don't get how this game takes up so much space like at least provide players a compressed version with potato graphics, I don't care what it looks like the gameplay is the only thing that matters. At least LE only takes 22 GB and it still looks fine lol

Sensing OP hate at people with real lives.

mainstream casual will have a hard time in endgame right now

I've always felt POE 2 is marketed to the niche market since 0.2.0.....

Casual or not the target has always been those who swipe their cards and spend microtransactions.

I have live but im not a casual as i didn't use any guides and i create all builds by myself - with no research in internet what to do and i enjoy the hard content.
Your words talks only about your mindset and not mine. Having live and not being casual doesn't negate itself. You can play slower and do everything by yourself - like slower progression. One league is about 3 months not weeks.