Uninstalled for second time, SSF frustrations.

Ok I think I am finished for now. 400+ hrs in SSF over 3 characters, Monk, Sorc and Huntress. All got to mid 80's at least and I ran into the same problem on each of them. This is SSF. If I was trading I probably wouldn't have had these problems.
My progression stalled and I couldn't get the gear to make it further. It just didn't feel like I had any control over my ability to improve my character to handle higher tier maps. The loot change was nice because it felt like I wasn't wasting my time doing maps for no loot but over time I realized it didn't change much at all.
I never picked up anything that was useful besides rings and necklaces. Thousands upon thousands of useless items. Millions of gold that is also useless. I see you introduced a gold deleting RNG device, cute. My bank is full of currencies that lead nowhere. How many lesser jewellers orbs can you collect? Slot machine enhancing. Item deleting recombinators.
Buying from vendors is a thing you have to do in SSF, almost all of my gear has come from vendors, not looting. What is going on with item levels? Check the vendors when you level for new items they say. I need a new spear, vendor has nothing above lvl 55. Maybe a piece of armor, nope, it's all campaign level. Try gambling, get items in the 40's and 50's.
It's all frustration, never rewarding. I can't come to terms with a game that has so many items dropping that mean nothing. Just keep grinding away for that tiny, tiny percentage chance that you will find something useful. Crafting is so totally random, can't rely on that.
If this game is built on player trading, designed for player trading then what hope does SSF have to provide enjoyment? I can't stack magic find while keeping up resists relying on pure RNG to provide that gear. It's just not enjoyable, only frustrating.

I feel your pain. I have felt the same way playing SSF. I have stopped playing now. The game is just not enjoyable and is more frustrating as you climb levels. I just lurk here from time to time now in the hopes that some magic fix will come that will improve SSF and help out the beginners/casuals crowd that want to enjoy this game without the frustration.
GGG needs to understand that not everyone is a veteran/elite player that has played POE1.
This game is the best looking ARPG at the moment and I really want to enjoy it as I have spent $50 on this early access to support their free-to-play game. I truly hope they will consider the other fans that are having difficulties in its current state and provide us a 'beginners' SSF mode with some players buffs/enemy nerfs of some sort....

check this:
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3776374

again I don't want to spend any more time to reason, no need, because this is not a well developed, or least fundemental right game.

Just make the most of this game, for fun, no need to be so serious about what so ever.

It doesnt deserve us to spend so much time on it, it DOESNT.

I dont want to list all hundered bugs or not-right things because others already did it.

Dont reason anymore.

SSF as a game mode is one of the dumbest thing GGG ever did.

On yeah! Online ONLY game that's more fun with friends or in a group and balanced around trade. Then go out of your way to give players a 'ego' mode where they can go play by themselves with a SSF tag to prove they are loaners on the forums. (it aint for their friends or party members!) it's pointless ego padding. Plenty of us don't trade or group up more then a few times in a whole season anyway.

SSF IS POINTLESS FRUSTRATION MODE.

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Zee#5446 написал:

SSF as a game mode is one of the dumbest thing GGG ever did.

On yeah! Online ONLY game that's more fun with friends or in a group and balanced around trade. Then go out of your way to give players a 'ego' mode where they can go play by themselves with a SSF tag to prove they are loaners on the forums. (it aint for their friends or party members!) it's pointless ego padding. Plenty of us don't trade or group up more then a few times in a whole season anyway.

SSF IS POINTLESS FRUSTRATION MODE.

GGG needs to make up their mind. Is this a game centered around trade? Then they can't go on with this dog shit trading system.

Or is it a game about loot, progression and dopamine kicks? Then SSF needs A LOT of love going forward.

You'll be back. I know you will be.

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Zee#5446 написал:

SSF as a game mode is one of the dumbest thing GGG ever did.

On yeah! Online ONLY game that's more fun with friends or in a group and balanced around trade. Then go out of your way to give players a 'ego' mode where they can go play by themselves with a SSF tag to prove they are loaners on the forums. (it aint for their friends or party members!) it's pointless ego padding. Plenty of us don't trade or group up more then a few times in a whole season anyway.

SSF IS POINTLESS FRUSTRATION MODE.

Noone force you to play it, weirdo.
People play ssf because they get bored on trade too fast with how easy it is to get good gear there. That's all. I see some people flex because they playing on ssf, really cringe.

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Zee#5446 написал:

SSF as a game mode is one of the dumbest thing GGG ever did.

On yeah! Online ONLY game that's more fun with friends or in a group and balanced around trade. Then go out of your way to give players a 'ego' mode where they can go play by themselves with a SSF tag to prove they are loaners on the forums. (it aint for their friends or party members!) it's pointless ego padding. Plenty of us don't trade or group up more then a few times in a whole season anyway.

SSF IS POINTLESS FRUSTRATION MODE.

Dude, ive been talking ingame more with SSF players than with people on trade, as SSF players been more chilled and relaxed, not frustrated by dealing mentally with not getting any answers to their 100's of PM's on trade market.

Solo Self-Found came naturally as normal single player mode for online gaming era. Walkthru's, roleplay and sticking to class or chosen theme been always part of the genre. SSF brings more to the table as you must more often adapt to what you found and sometimes discovering paths or mechanics interactions no one tried yet on meta trading state of mind.

Never heard from SSF players ive met, that they think of themselves than better breed. SSF tag in character naming youve mentioned, been used before SSF mode been even added to game, helpful for unofficial sites to carry unofficial ladders this way. Most SSF players i knew been playing late night after work, appreciating their short free time window for more meaningful experience and whats more important, one of a kind journey.

So stop painting SSF playerbase as some self-imposed elite entity, thats never been case. SSF giving space for people who want be free from chaos/div per hour jail and dont want to be RMT'ers chaos farming slaves.

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Zee#5446 написал:

SSF as a game mode is one of the dumbest thing GGG ever did.

On yeah! Online ONLY game that's more fun with friends or in a group and balanced around trade. Then go out of your way to give players a 'ego' mode where they can go play by themselves with a SSF tag to prove they are loaners on the forums. (it aint for their friends or party members!) it's pointless ego padding. Plenty of us don't trade or group up more then a few times in a whole season anyway.

SSF IS POINTLESS FRUSTRATION MODE.

No.
You didnt understand the main point of SSF.

- you play the game, as devs projects you to play it. No trading, no $$ RMT trades with your wallet.
Just pure game as it is.
It doesnt have anything with ego.
You just explore the game itself. Its limits.

IMHO ssf is the best mode you could play.

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Miiiike#8668 написал:

Ok I think I am finished for now. 400+ hrs in SSF over 3 characters, Monk, Sorc and Huntress.

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I never picked up anything that was useful besides rings and necklaces.

For me, as a SSF player myself, its like reading someone saying "Yeah Im playing this plateform game but I dont use the double jump, I feel it useless".

You are just refusing one of the mechanic of the game, just cause you are lazy to pick up stuff.

As a SSF player myself, 250h, 3 characters lvl 85-90, all doing T15 maps with some personnal build (like ember crit + flameblast), I have an upgrade for my characters every few hours played. With NPC of expeditions, fresh items of Alva, recombinator, essences and then, exalted, sometimes fractured and chaos orbs.

I always have transmuts and augments on me to craft white items and augment blue one that feel good.

And again, most of players who complain about the game here, SSF players or not, dont even use all ways to craft or upgrade their stuff in the game... So for me, as I said, its like reading someone who complain about a game but not playing with some major mechanics of the game !!!