Why I won't be returning to PoE

game is dying and you fanboys can find excuses all day long, wont do shit ... game is dying ...

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Hodari написал:

Pursuing a build TO end-game is one thing. When you start talking about getting into the 90's, you're going well BEYOND that. The game is currently simply not designed, nor intended for most people to get much past the early to mid 80's. As new content is added, this will probably change but as things are now, "end-game" for all but the most absolute hard-core players IS somewhere around the mid-80's. This is already well beyond the level of the highest maps or items in the game and there's no real NEED to go beyond that currently.

This.
I have many characters around the lvl 85, and I don't feel necessary to go further when the content max is around lvl 77.

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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

I can find a bunch of videos of any online game desyncing. Does that somehow mean it happens in them even a fraction as often as here? Anywhere close? No way!

And why does 'similar game' matter? Client-server interaction is just that, client-server interaction. The only criteria for a game to match in terms of possible desync is "player does action, server verifies, client updates" with a similar pace of action.

But to name two that never had desync issues even CLOSE to PoE - D2 and Conquer. D2 you could only have a set number of players on any given game. Conquer was a true MMO and there were often times HUNDREDS of players on the screen at once fighting mobs or each other and desync was never an issue like it is here.

Please also notice I never said it can be completely eliminated - I did however say it could be fixed to where it is the exception rather than the rule - to where a huge portion of the desync we see on PoE could be minimized to a reasonable couple-step rubber band as opposed to the current 'wtf just happened??' rubber banding. The internet, by its very nature, will cause lag sometimes which will cause desync. But when a client and a server are communicating with less than half a second round trip in terms of syncing there should never be the kind of "oh im here one second and then somewhere completely away from anywhere i EVER clicked 5 seconds later".

I freely admit that I have not played D3, nor many other recently released online games. But I cannot imagine the client-server interaction has changed so drastically in the past 2 years that suddenly desync is rule rather than the infrequent exception.

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I freely admit that I have not played D3, nor many other recently released online games. But I cannot imagine the client-server interaction has changed so drastically in the past 2 years that suddenly desync is rule rather than the infrequent exception.

For me, the lag in D3 was so bad that I would get teleported almost two full screens away. Boss fights were nearly impossiburu.

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DalaiLama написал:

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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).

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.

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

Dalai has the right of it. (Only quoted some of it, see his post for full text)

If you don't want to die, then don't die.

Hi everyone, I know my opinion does not matter much since I'm not a well known player or big spender. I paid my 10 bucks 1.5 years ago to play closed beta. I really loved the idea of this game, but after playing for a while and reading these forums, I'm really hard pressed on dropping more money on it. Diablo 3 was a massive disappointment, and I just don't like the style of torchlight. I was hoping to make PoE my new home. I came into some money, and, I wanted to drop a fair amount on a project like POE, but I can't justify it with the current trends in the game. It's flipper-friendly, it's difficult to get good things unless you WORK HARD for it (This is a game. I work IRL), and half the time you play you will end up just spamming trade. I just wanted to put my 2 cents in and agree with the OP.

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DalaiLama написал:

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).

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.

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

ohhh again with the excuses .. now its the lack of endgame content for high levels
rofl, thats the most ridiculous excuse ive read so far ...

The core issue is lost time. If the 1.0 release has content up to max level and allows for the penalty loss to be recovered in a short (reasonable) period of time, that may address the issue. Where PoE is an evolved and innovative play on ARPGs, the death penalty is simply a poor copy from its predecessors that conflicts with the innovative nature of the game.

It's like putting a cassette player in a modern day Ferrari. The car is beautiful and drives great, but once you're settled in and realize the car has a cassette player, you ask yourself how such a talented group of engineers could make such a stupid mistake.