0.4 is almost as bad as 0.2

It's worse if we account for 8 full months of development.

According to SteamDB it's actually worse for player retention. 0.2 had a dropoff of 40k first week, this is looking to be a dropoff of at least 80k. The core base of people who keep coming back is getting notably smaller. 0.3 had incredible retention, only lost like 20k during its first TWO WEEKS.

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Darosius#3984 написал:

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Hyperspacing#5593 написал:

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Darosius#3984 написал:

0.4 is 1000x better than 0.2 and 0.3

learn attributes
learn the game

thread can be closed.

I wonder how many people who complain about POE 2 don't know how to make a build? Sometimes they talk about this game and I don't know anyone who has the same experience and ALOT of my friends play this game. We are all crusing. .4 is the easiest the game has been and I want it to go back to .1

+1

0.4 is so damn easy
the whole game is like "easy mode".
just LEARN the attributes, learn the gems.
this game is insanely easy.

I was thinking that as I got into Act 3... like, wtf did they nerf all the bosses again? They used to be a decent challenge, had to pay attention to the mechanics now... nah, just a push over. And that was with me picking Sorc at login, and just free styling it until early Act 3.

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Hyperspacing#5593 написал:

Its kind of like GGG has more data than the people on the forum and referring to steamcharts is not a viable full picture. You would think a company with 12+ years of experience is making right choices. Its kind of like maybe just maybe the community at large is liking it and the direction and that reddit/forum is nothing more than 1% of players complaining. They also know that people are more than likely to leave a negative review than a positive review. You can see that in every game and in every single business on planet earth.

Also, when did you notice spell totems or totems in general falling off? Honestly curious. Cause im using some totems and its super strong.

The only relevant data is the data that is publicly visible and by a third party who has no stakes in making data look good.

And if you think GGG has always made good decisions you are so very wrong, PoE had more player retention 5 years ago than now. Sure it has more players now but less retention.

You do are right that most people quit and leave a negative review. In fact more people quit and don't even leave a review to be honest. But there are less people who complain however this is why it is important to listen to those complaints because those people are giving you the feedback for you to stop bleeding out the silent majority who just quits.

The hardcore players are liking the changes so long as it doesn't affects their build. Any who has a build affected doesn't likes and well, how long have melee players been complaining for too? Perhaps there are several problems in needing of address but melee is still playable and good past a certain point, it's just a horrible way to start. Totems are just awful all around with mortar being the sole exception and even that I'm sure will be made irrelevant because it's a totem and GGG hates the new cool things they invent.

And since you asked. Spell totems are just bad in general. From when you pick them all the way down till the point you have ridiculous currency, they just don't do well. Again a self spell caster is doing so much better in terms of damage and clear speed when in reality they should only have better clear cause they don't have to wait for totems to pop out and start attacking, they should lose quite significantly in the DPS race but they don't.

Maybe give Spelltotems a cooldown that can be skipped with 3 power charges. Then its possible to just play one totem for some helper skill

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Hyperspacing#5593 написал:

You would think a company with 12+ years of experience is making right choices.

Yeah like established companies destroying their games for no reason other than stubborness, misinterprited data, and refusing to listen to player feedback has never happened before.