Since everyone seems to be sharing their discontent..

I want to just throw in my own two cents here, especially since I fricking love the game? As a matter of fact, I truly enjoy the direction it's taking, and I actually do trust the developers to create something great. We're at version 0.2, and people are seemingly losing their minds. How about calming down? Give it some time, see what happens?

They won't, obviously. But, I do wonder sometimes if there's an actual collective sort of [Removed by Support] going on, fueled by the fire of optical cables and our pocket portals. There's seemingly wild outrage for just about anything, yesterday I saw a person being annoyed the Oblivion remake didn't have better achievements..

World is going to shit. Used to be you'd buy a game and have fun with some escapism.

Now all games are going the hyper dialed in unfun friction route with constant MTX sprinkled on top.

Leads to an environment of frustration rather than fun escapism. People vent accordingly.

game needs work, lets just say

You are not wrong OP, people in 2025 are different and to be frank I feel like the "switch" in gamer mentality happenned since Covid, like it opened some kind of floodgate of super casual and spoiled players.

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Die_Scream#5464 написал:

game needs work, lets just say

DUDE, it's in early access version 0.2

I don't think it's the super casuals that are complaining. It's the ones who identify with gaming as their personality and they can't rationalize a game that doesnt cater to everything they want. They'll talk about how they have hundreds of hours into the game a couple weeks after release. They'll talk about how they played X game that did this better and they'd still be playing X game if the devs hadn't ruined it. They'll talk about the devs in this game and call for their heads to be replaced. They'll try to bully the devs into making a game THEY want and not the game the devs want to make.

I work in the customer service industry and let me tell you, this is not contained just to people in this environment. Everyone thinks they are the center of the universe and nobody else knows more than they do about everything.

There's always going to be friction... dissenters. But it's just gotten ridiculous and I, for one, am over it.

People are very angry now after they destroyed everyone builds with 0.2 it's to late now. They should have fixed at least close to what 0.1 was but they didn't because 1 person thinks the Vision is more important than the players.

This is the successor I have been waiting for ever since Diablo 2. I trust the devs and cant wait for future content!

Dude, people were screaming about 0.1, too. It's never going to be good enough to some people, but they wont put their money where their mouth is and take the risk to go make the game they claim to know how to build perfectly.

Just new age armchair quarterbacks.

Might as well throw in my counter weight to the perceived trend of bashing the game.

I like POE2. I am enjoying it.

There are things I don't like but overall I am enjoying it and feel that the developers will continue to improve the game. I am really looking forward to Delve someday.

I was surprised at launch how hard the first three Acts were. I was fine with it but felt it would not appeal to the masses. The second play through on Cruel was much easier. The game was like gated at Acts 1 and 2 bosses. It seemed the difficulty ramped backwards.

Then I felt the end game with certain builds was too easy. If there had not been so many busted builds in 0.1 then people would probably be ok with 0.2 but once you have played easy mode it is hard to go back to struggling. I assume there will never be builds again that can kill Pinnacle +4 bosses as quickly as in 0.1. For some that is going to be a real problem knowing they will never be as powerful as they once were.

But if you just look at 0.2 on its own without comparisons, it is a good game. I am running T15 maps on an off meta build, haven't killed Arbiter yet or any other pinnacle bosses but I feel like I definitely will. All with zero trade. Less then three weeks and got a melee bleed amazon and artillery tactician to T15 maps does not sound all that slow or hard. Every gear upgrade I find or every notable passive I gain, feels good, feels like an achievement.