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The only builds that work in POE2 are meta screen clearing builds. Your "vision" is a different genre of game. Try Elden Ring, Dark Souls, No Rest for the Wicked, Lost Ark, Baldurs Gate 3, I could go on.

ARPGs if this variety are about getting super powerful by getting consistently better gear to the point where you are a god. The core customers that play this kind of game want that power creep. If you don't then you are a guy playing a racing game wishing it had some bosses or a guy playing Elden ring complaining it is too hard to beat X boss. You are in the wrong game.

As for POE2 its a dumpster fire because of decisions made to support people with your desires. It will not be a successful product and will go down in history as an epic chance missed. There just aren't enough of YOU to make a viable business mostly because people like you should be playing a different genre.

"If you cater to these loot addicts who just want more and more power ... "

You just described the players of the ARPG genre which includes Last Epoch, Diablo Series, Path of Exile and few other games. You are in a genre where the core game play is about getting loot to get more powerful.

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_Cgaex#2339 が発言:

It is actually the minority of players who want a game where you walk around holding in a button and watching the whole screen explode.

Players with skill crave more of a challenge. POE2 was supposed to cater to a new player base, not appease the current player base. POE1 players will play that game forever, as long as there are new leagues.

I think it's rare for POE players to play any other videogames, which is why everything you said is so myopic and off base. Players like you, and people who enjoy POE1 screen explosions are actually a tiny minority compared to people who play actually challenging games.

Amalgams and suppositions. A lot of players actually love destrOying the whole map swiftly and feel powerful. And I'm extremely confident that they are the majority and you are in fact, the minority.

I also play Street Fighter, since the first game realeased at the arcades and I'm a try hard. Path of Exile is an ARPG where the fun stems from your char being powerful and getting good loots.

You said that the negative reviews are a minority versus the good reviews. That in itself is a display that you don't understand anything to Data Metrics. The most recent fresh data is obviously WAY more reflective of what the player base think since a lot of player that already left their feedback, did it on game release in 0.1.

0.2 completely changed the way the game feels and a lot of players are mad and rightfully so and expressed their views. A lot of players simply left the game and hate it but did not change their initial feedback.

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First of all, false equivalent in reviews. The negatives are mostly for 0.2 , and the positive are mostly about 0.1 . You are clearly a new player that don't have any idea on how leagues work and all the debacle happened with them.

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_Cgaex#2339 が発言:

Unlike poeple who want POE2 to be a POE1 remake, I came for the challenging, slower paced, less trivial game that you promised us

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This is actually what people want even for Poe 1 players. They don't want the game to be PoE 1 remake, but the reality is, PoE 2 still being built upon PoE 1 foundation, identical system with even more frictions and frustration, hence alot of frustration and complain are being told with comparison of PoE 1 or even from PoE 1 persepctive. Every single problem in PoE 2 has been solved in PoE 1 but GGG refuse to import the solution to the game.

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_Cgaex#2339 が発言:

Looking at the current meta builds, people are one shoting the pinnacle bosses and getting millions of DPS, and of course, it's always with a one button build. It seems the game balance is already totally ruined based upon what you said you intended throughout development.

This is just a self-report that you don't understand how the game works.

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_Cgaex#2339 が発言:

Whirlwind and various lightning skills have the entire screen exploding just like in POE1. Pinnacle bosses are not a challenge for anyone building meta.

I play off meta skills, and try to keep as many buttons in my build as I can. I like this engaging play style, and have been playing 11 hours per day for the last two weeks since I started, so it's not true that people who play multi button active play styles play less than POE1 players. I love the kernel of the game.

However I feel that I am running into the same problem that I had in POE 1. I pick a skill that I think is cool, I use all my knowledge, path of building, design items in POB, trade and grind like crazy, but my build can only hit 1/10 or even 1/100th of the current one button meta builds, even with the best possible equipment designed in POB.

Please nerf all these one button builds and give us some true multi-button meta! That is what you promised us. Multi button builds should be inherently superior to one button builds.

This is a "you" issue. You choose to play off-meta build, you choose to not use the best tools available in the game to acquire resources, when the game clearly tells you that its all about resource acquisition efficiency. And that is the problem, mostly the game design and partially you, not players that use the META build.

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_Cgaex#2339 が発言:

If you cater to these loot addicts who just want more and more power POE2 will become exactly like POE1. You shouldn't have increased loot, you should have doubled down. Because as soon as you give these players anything they will try to punish you if you ever take it away from them.

Because these players don't want POE2. They just want POE1 with better graphics. So just update the graphics of POE1. Don't change POE2 to cater to these players. They already love POE1 and they will play it forever.

Players like me, however, who came for the 'vision', AKA game balance, pacing, lack of jank, build diversity, engaging play style;

You will lose me, you will lose us if you turn this game into another janky face explosion simulator.

First of all, you are nobody. Just like you place yourself like someone important in your sentence, I also can use it myself to make myself more important than you. You have no experience in PoE 1, you don't play PoE 1, and don't know how PoE 1 works so you naturally won't have any grasp about what is wrong in PoE 2.

Second, however I completely agree with you with not making PoE 2 like PoE 1. But its not about "catering to loot addicts", its about making the loot impactful and important. Loot was nerfed heavily, people don't have fun and not enjoying the game so they quit. It would be valid to say that their Vision was right regarding loot IF the loot buffs didn't happen. It proves that those that quit were right enough to make GGG take back their "Vision" regarding loot. So you, among all others that keep promoting making the game "harder,slower" were wrong.

Third, its also not about "loot addiction" because the loot buff changes nothing. I disagree about the loot buffs especially making more currency drop. The changes should be about making itemization better and less randomization, not giving more loot with the current system and yet refuse to implement currency sink. It will just make inflation happen faster, and the top players will still dominate the market. With the current itemization and randomization, giving more loot is the easiest solution that doesn't require any thinking at all because how the game is still balanced and tailored around trading. The changes that need to happen are in the design of itemization, not giving more loot.

TL:DR , OP doesn't know what he/she talking about, and ranting about his/her failure because of his/her lack of understanding of the game and wanting nerfs for those that know how to play the game.

Also, doesn't have any spine and sense of accountability, since OP erases all original post.

Well this was an interesting read. lol.

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