PoE 1 ZOOMERS WON'T BE EVER HAPPY IN PoE 2

They made themselves believe that game starts in maps.

They want to skip campaign and they will ask for:
Movement skills and Quicksilver flask to avoid monsters or any danger
Smaller maps, checkpoints, skips so they can zoom-through asap

They want to play the minimap, just like PoE 1, so they will ask for any objects that block their movement to be removed, because they don't want to look at the actual game. Essentially wanting a flat open field without a single rock.

They want passive skill tree to solve all their issues like resists or stats, so they don't need to "waste time" on looking at the gear.

They want 30sec map time otherwise their dopamine levels drop and they feel like shit actually playing a game longer than a minute without a spike.

They want juicy drops from every rare and strongbox. If not, the game is bad.

They essentially want PoE 2 to be a re-skin of PoE 1 to have everything above. Because for some reason, even if PoE 1 has all that, they want it in PoE 2.

They will spam forums, reddit and sadly most of these PoE 1 zoomers are streamers, so they are trying to make noise.

They don't want to, but with their constant crying, they will eventually fuckup the game for anyone else who actually want to enjoy the campaign, have meaningful combat and appreciate the game as a whole.

Jonathan is awesome!
Mark is awesome!
GGG is the best!
Thanks guys, keep up your vision, you are on a good track.

Your game will get old very very quickly. Your tune will change as future becomes present and nothing changes. Your patience will run out quicker than you can refill your health flask by killing mobs.

Instead of looking at the now you need to expand and look at the future.
Replayability in a game that relies on resets every 3 months is paramount and highly depends on the journey to level your character every 3 months
Personally once has been enough in its present state.

Not all Vets are streamers
Not all vets are speed gamers (poe 1 campaign took me 2 days as i'm easily distracted with shiny things and the need to clear areas/maps completely)

POE 2 has 2 choices:
Make the game a balance and succeed
Make the game to a vision and have a decimated following.

The game has choices.

The game is pretty bad on its own, having nothing to do with PoE1

As someone who doesn't enjoy POE 1 nor POE 2, I just want to offer the following objective viewpoint from a neutral outside observer: The way the toxic positivity trolls are blaming all of POE 2's problems on POE 1 players is pathetic and laughable. You are all just POE players. The Venn diagram is an almost perfect circle.

'toxic positivity' now that's a mouthful :D

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arandan#3174 написал:

'toxic positivity' now that's a mouthful :D

It's another buzzword that lets you instantly know people are getting their opinions from streamers and youtube videos and not their own brains

So, can we finally talk about the fact, the most successful people in the poe realm really do not play that much compared to the average Joe, who tries to beat the game with time!?
Streamers need the content. But for the most part it is not playing the game but showing the overtuned stuff or exploids. The rest is like showing off trade builds.
The hardcore ssf guys are kind of an exeption. But honestly, more than the youtube-short of them dying is not worth to watch. In 3/5 cases it was Arbiter anyways.

The solution is splitting into gamemodes -
"Vision Mode" (aka normal), and "PoE1/Zoomer/Streamer Mode".

It kinda worked in poe1 with Ruthless. With about 8-10% of the playerbase, it caters to people like myself who would have otherwise fallen out of love of playing the bench league.

And before people counter-argue with 'but it splits the player base' - that already happens with the various SSF/HC/Private Leagues/etc, and in truth - it is better to have a divorce than an unhappy marriage. It will keep everyone still playing PoE2 (or whichever version of it they like) - and since MTX is shared, it won't affect GGG bottom line.

It's only Early Access. PoE Deuce will become rife with "Zoom-zoom" over time.

Like life, Zoom-zoom finds a way. =^[.]^=

This is an arpg game right? you all seem to forget that. If i wanted to the experience you want i will play other games and its is safe to say there are far far better games out there. You are ruining the game not us. What you want or expect from poe2 is not feasible. Nobody wants to spent 20 hours in campaign and 10 hours for the next character assuming he wants to go through that tedious campaign.

I am not here to spent 20 mins in mire to get 3 rare items and 2 exalt and say what a meaning fight i had in the map and say wow what an experience. Oh wait another mire is over there i must rush and spent another 20 mins to say: wow what an experience and meaningfull fights i had just wow. Great mindset to ruin an arpg.

Poeple will not keep playing poe for the type of things you ask for hours and league after league. I played witcher 3 ones (arguably best game i played) maybe totaling up to 200 ish hours and not planning to play again anytime soon. So your expectation for poe2 simply makes people to stop playing.