Reviews Overwhelmingly Negative

I’m really enjoying the slower paced combat. It makes it more of a game with challenge instead of a walking simulator, which is a very tired and dull model imho. Whilst I love a slower, challenging and more meaningful gameplay, I do think that the levelling should be a bit quicker and more rewards should be granted for complete zone clears. Yes, I’m one of those annoying gamers that like to uncover every part of a map incase I’ve missed something. 😂 I would also appreciate that when you clear a map, all of the locations are unlocked on the map for all characters on the account or at least on your character when you have to go back to the map.

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PARK#6058 написал:

The game on Steam has dropped into the "Overwhelmingly Negative" rating.
I deeply regret and mourn with everyone who believed in these developers.
They continue to stubbornly ignore us, assuming that everyone leaving negative feedback is just a Path of Exile 1 player mocking them for no reason — and because of that, they've developed an immunity to such comments.
But I'm not one of those people. I praised this game for four months, recommended it, even bought a second copy on another account just to support the developers.

We fell in love with this game — myself included — and I played it every single day for four months. I leveled over 8 characters to level 90. I completed the full campaign more than eight times. I lived in the acts. I genuinely enjoyed starting new characters. The game was fun, addictive, engaging.

I know for a fact that testers had already complained before release that player damage was too low. The devs fixed it — and released the game. Four months later, they reverted it all.
That’s madness, multiplied by pure hatred towards their players.
I'm heartbroken that the devs treated us so unfairly.
They took away our freedom of choice and are now forcing us to play builds we don't enjoy — and on top of that, without damage. It's unbearable. There's no fun, no enjoyment. Only grief, frustration, and no sense of relaxation. Just constant stress.

Please bring back version 0.1.0 with the new content, new classes, and the new skill tree — without the downgrades, please.

If you beleive that is not hate bombing you are very naive. Check the number of reviews 7000 negtive reviews.. with 230 K people still playing so at least on some level enjoying.

I'm deeply upset. These arguments just don't hold up under any scrutiny.

1: "Players from the first game are leaving angry reviews, so we’re not concerned..." — Then why are these angry reviews showing up after the league launched, not back in December when the game was released? Why didn’t they tank the rating in the first month, if they’re so vocal and numerous?

2: "There are 230,000 reviews, and they’re mostly positive." — But we’re talking about the current situation. The rating dropped after the latest update. Why are negative reviews being dismissed by lumping them in with old reviews from when the game was still great?

3: "The devs are responding and fixing things." — The devs’ response was to slightly reduce difficulty in a single zone in Act 3... Do you really think that’s a sufficient answer when players are saying there’s no fun, no loot, no damage, no build diversity — nothing that made us fall in love with the game? We’re being forced to play builds we don’t even enjoy.

People are reporting a mountain of issues brought by this patch, and the developers cherry-pick one thing to fix... and then act like that’s enough?

What really made me angry was their response in the interview. Answer 1: "Loot’s dropping for me, so everything’s fine." Answer 2: "Just pick up yellow gear, it’s fine, we’re not changing anything."

I’m someone who followed every step by the book — leveled up, reached town... and found absolutely nothing for my build. Only minion and warrior gear. I bought it, listed it for trade — no one bought it.
I couldn’t find anything for myself. Nothing.

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PARK#6058 написал:

I'm deeply upset. These arguments just don't hold up under any scrutiny.

1: "Players from the first game are leaving angry reviews, so we’re not concerned..." — Then why are these angry reviews showing up after the league launched, not back in December when the game was released? Why didn’t they tank the rating in the first month, if they’re so vocal and numerous?

2: "There are 230,000 reviews, and they’re mostly positive." — But we’re talking about the current situation. The rating dropped after the latest update. Why are negative reviews being dismissed by lumping them in with old reviews from when the game was still great?

3: "The devs are responding and fixing things." — The devs’ response was to slightly reduce difficulty in a single zone in Act 3... Do you really think that’s a sufficient answer when players are saying there’s no fun, no loot, no damage, no build diversity — nothing that made us fall in love with the game? We’re being forced to play builds we don’t even enjoy.

People are reporting a mountain of issues brought by this patch, and the developers cherry-pick one thing to fix... and then act like that’s enough?

What really made me angry was their response in the interview. Answer 1: "Loot’s dropping for me, so everything’s fine." Answer 2: "Just pick up yellow gear, it’s fine, we’re not changing anything."

I’m someone who followed every step by the book — leveled up, reached town... and found absolutely nothing for my build. Only minion and warrior gear. I bought it, listed it for trade — no one bought it.
I couldn’t find anything for myself. Nothing.

I do not think you get it. &k negtive reviews this week with 3K positive. That does nto mean 70 % of people dislike the game. Tha tis now how reviews work!


That is the first thing people in marketing have to learn. If you send a survey by email asking if you like to answers surveys, you will get 90% responses yes. Because the people that do not like do not answer it!

People that liked the game and still like and are playing will NOT add a new review... that skew completely anything you could get from the recent reviews numbers! That is not an opinion, that is BASIC marketing 101!


GGG has very likely much more useful data, as the number of individual accounts that are still playing.

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desper940#2462 написал:

Tell what is good about the game? I cant see any improvements over 0.1 at all.

One example, Rogue Exiles. I went in blind to this patch pretty much, but I knew they added rogue exiles. Playing through the campaign I was so confused when I entered a zone and right at the start and
and then That was unexpected and pretty cool. Stop spoiling yourselves with patch info before it's even out and worrying about what others are doing and thinking and just play the game.

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PARK#6058 написал:

no build diversity — nothing that made us fall in love with the game? We’re being forced to play builds we don’t even enjoy.

I don't think GGG expected the sheer amount of players who wouldn't even bother to utilize the weapon swap system.
Most complaining about build diversity are those like "I can't make a giga single target Arc spamming build anymore!?"

I really appreciate the early access in the efforts of fully exploring and providing quality feedback and perhaps this game can be a true king but it won't if we're degraded to 3 skill slot maximum users who just can't stop wanting a graphical upgrade to Diablo 2/POE1.

GRANTED, they need to at least provide more incentives to many skills...I think they could make "lesser skills/support gems" and have them drop fairly frequently because the loot vs discipline/research factor is difficult.

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I don't think GGG expected the sheer amount of players who wouldn't even bother to utilize the weapon swap system.
Most complaining about build diversity are those like "I can't make a giga single target Arc spamming build anymore!?"

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Weapon slots. I know they are there. I know that when my fat fingers hit the default weapon swap key in the middle of a chaotic Boss fight, I die.

But the reality is there has been little to no guidance on how to actually use this mechanism other than dismissing or respawning minions.

The same thing goes with weapon set skill points on the tree. There are no design doc's as to why these would be useful or necessary or even how to use them to play the game. Streamers seem to closs over this as well, like they don't even understand it.

Don't really like opaque systems in an already chaotic jumble of systems, prefixes/ affixes /suffixes / sockets / resistances / buffs / debuff's / poison / etc.

No using the weapon swap in 0.1 was not a showstopper, why should it be now?

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TrunktenUK#3407 написал:

40% of people have given a positive review since the patch.
Maturity, discipline and skill aren't so abundant with most gamers...

PoE2 is still great to play and still rewards investment, even if you can't do a ridiculous overpowered nerdy build (or in most cases, copied someone else's creation).

Most of you don't even know what a bad game is, I've suffered a few mmorpg's fail miserably with their expansions, skill and economy balancing and just recently, I had to finally lose all hope in Tekken because what they've done to Tekken 8 is literally insulting to all human intelligence, even scrubs and super casuals can't make sense of it.

What skill? Show me YOU PERSONALLY doing t4 pinnacle content with any class not warrior or huntress. Then you can blanket insult the majority with asinine statements.

I can roll around all day and "not die", I can kill the bosses over time but it is boring and unrewarding. I still do the same combos over and over and over to infinity where is the skill part Mr god? Show it or......

The game is unchanged just most classes don't do enough damage with mirror tier builds to clear T15s even using OP legacy uniques. I know mate I have one of each class on standard except warrior and tested endgame, not stupid. I need to know if a build works endgame before investing 30 hours of my time in it. If it don't work on standard it ain't working in league mate.

Please I am curious to why your anecdotes are somehow proof of your godlike skill? Truth is you are probably playing warrior or a meta YOU copied yourself. If you were enjoying the game you wouldn't be trolling the forums trying white knight.

Really embarrassing stuff for the community, especially considering how significantly improved the end game is from 0.1 and how quick to update GGG has been.

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TrunktenUK#3407 написал:

Please I am curious to why your anecdotes are somehow proof of your godlike skill? Truth is you are probably playing warrior or a meta YOU copied yourself. If you were enjoying the game you wouldn't be trolling the forums trying white knight.

I'm glad someone finally noticed that something is seriously wrong with the game when there's no real choice in builds anymore.

Back in 0.1.0, I played as a warrior, as a spark caster, with minions, a monk, an archer with two different classes, a mercenary with two different classes — maybe even more I forgot to mention. I had over 8 characters. I tried almost everything. I leveled them all up and completed the campaign. I was having a great time — the game offered the most enjoyable campaign experience up to level 60.

Now there’s no damage, NO CHOICE — we’re being forced to play as warriors, spear builds, or some chaos-based build (I forgot the name).
I feel like howling from boredom. The devs are ignoring fundamental things like fun and joy. They say they want to fight metas, but they’re the ones creating the meta by their own hands — cutting off all other builds and classes we actually want to play.

For some reason, they changed the stats of old unique items, making them pretty much unusable. It feels like they’re intentionally trying to make these items uninteresting so no one plays with them. But then why even keep them in the game? Logic has left the GGG office. I’d even dare to say they don’t play their own game anymore — otherwise they’d know how dull it has become.

The developers' misconceptions have reached the level of negligence.
And still, some people on the forum have the nerve to say that people like me are just fans of PoE1. Honestly, I wish they’d shut down PoE1 entirely so that all focus would finally go into PoE2. I want to enjoy the game — not suffer like PoE1 players who have to wait an entire year for a new league.