Why I won't be returning to PoE

Have a lvl 77 character, which is about as much fun to grind as a game of "let's see who can kick the other person in the nuts the hardest". Where everybody loses.
I'm playing hearthstone and terraria now. Games meant for fun :p

OP will return to PoE on release. Would bet a lot on it :P

exorzist still mad btw

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Mooginator написал:

Howdy folks, veteran player here.

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Joined: April 4, 2013 12:54 AM

Nice try.

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Ataka написал:

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Fire_Kid написал:

Also, desync cannot be fixed. No matter what, there is pretty much no answer to desync, other than offline play (which they said they won't do).

I've played a bunch of online multi-player games of various types. How many of them had desync that was the rule rather than the exception? One - PoE.

Name similar games.Ill show you the truth.Wont take me more than 5 mins to find videos with rubberbands,rollbacks,dc's,reconnects.I challenge thee.Just name one that uses the same as Poe

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Bozon написал:

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Mooginator написал:

Howdy folks, veteran player here.

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Joined: April 4, 2013 12:54 AM

Nice try.

Shots fired.

Okay, bye.

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elwindakos написал:

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Ataka написал:

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Fire_Kid написал:

Also, desync cannot be fixed. No matter what, there is pretty much no answer to desync, other than offline play (which they said they won't do).

I've played a bunch of online multi-player games of various types. How many of them had desync that was the rule rather than the exception? One - PoE.

Name similar games.Ill show you the truth.Wont take me more than 5 mins to find videos with rubberbands,rollbacks,dc's,reconnects.I challenge thee.Just name one that uses the same as Poe

The only really similar game (online only ARPG) is Diablo 3, and despite the dumbed down mechanics, D3 still has rubberbanding issues.

Seriously what is so "hardcore" about this game? Its enjoyable and addictive untill certain point (levels 1-70? which by the way you can reach lvl 70 in just a few days) but after that its just a dumb endless circle.

All i seem to do now is literally press 1 key and kill everything infront of me hoping for a nice drop that i will most likely never get., and even if i do get lucky enough for one good drop i will probably end up either selling it to have more currency sitting in my stash or use it myself with little to no benefit at all since im already 1 hitting everything and rarely ever dying so even if i find a godly weapon or chest theres not going to be a change at all...


I dont even know what people consider hardcore these days...I remember runescape being called hardcore game back then because you acatually needed months, even years to achieve something and there were plenty of things to do there, not just endless grinding for xp/loot

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Mooginator написал:

Howdy folks, veteran player here. I quit playing PoE ~2 months ago. I have multiple L80 characters, and had been playing quite some time.

However I got sick of losing hours and hours of gametime due to a single death, often caused by the lag/latency issues. I did the math and realized if I got into the 90's, I'd lose days of gameplay time (I can only play evenings).

SNIP.

The game doesn't have the content released yet for high 80's let alone 90s characters. With the exception of a few high level map drops, there isn't really anything for 80's level characters (the temporary level boost of Lunaris and a couple other areas did help).

For right now, where the game is, I think saying it is too hard to level at 90+ is comparable to saying the football is not worth playing because the rules don't make any sense in Zero Gravity.

GGG could have done what Everquest did and cap players based on the content. For example, with the highest non map area at 68, they could have capped players at level 65 or level 70.

Instead, they gave us the chance to go past the level of the game content. Instead of being happy with this option, players complain. To me, this is the equivalent of an airline giving you free tickets to anywhere in the world and then complaining that the airline did you wrong because you chose to go to one of the more expensive cities in the world.

My guess (no inside info) is that when act 5 is out, we will have non map content that lets characters push into the mid 90s. Personally, I would much rather prefer that the higher content was more exciting and challenging because of monster types and AI and not just tweaking numbers.

If all we wanted was higher difficulty, GGG could just give us Terraces level 1 through Terraces level 100.

Creating good content takes time. Where would Lord of the Ring be if fans had demanded JRR Tolkien finish his project in 3 years instead of taking from 1937 to 1949?

I understand your frustration, but give GGG a chance to create the part of the game that your character levels are ready for.

Awhile ago blizzard did a study in WoW of people who made quit topics then came back.

It was something crazy like 80% of every single person who posted "I quit" came back within 3 months.

I really wish I could find the exact study, I know in most games people cry how there are going to quit, but they never do.

I think of it every time I see stupid topics that try and get attention.

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Clarification that the study was for wow :)