Why POE2 is dying

It's Christmas and New Year. Nobody of us wants to work, so let GGG have holiday, too. The Early Access is running in his first days and some players take a break from POE 2, because there is anything that makes no fun for them. I am one of them, because of the weak loot. But I have great hope, that POE 2 will be a much better game in the next year.

There is nothing dying, POE is taking his first breaths...

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Strickl3r#3809 wrote:

damn right ES is fine. It gives you a huge cushion against the bs the game throws at you, which is needed. Armor is not fine, Armor needs to be buffed big time. And it's not the fault of palyers that play ES builds(which is not abuse btw) that GGG decided to jsut remove all % life nodes from the tree, lmao

So its not being abused, its just used by all the top builds, and people are running around with 15k energy shield being unkillable and face tanking boss one shot mechanics... no abuse happening here. You surely know alot about this topic.

So in your expert opinion they should just buff armor and life by x4. That would be great, we could have 16k life then and nothing in the game would be able to kill us, that sounds challenging and fun.

+1 to OP

I stopped playing because my characters are bricked and can't get past white mobs in the campaign when I tried off meta builds. Having only a few of the myriad skills actually be viable isn't fun and the cost of re-speccing characters is unattainable for working people, with kids, in school, etc.. . I can't spend weeks farming every time I want to try a new build.

At the minimum I want a game to respect my time.

All build changes should be free in early access anyway. Nothing is getting tested except Spark, grenades, lightning damage, and minions. Off meta skills aren't being used at all.

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AnimePillowCollector#2255 wrote:

Some death penalty is absolutely necessary for even the most dopamine-fried brains out there. So tired of hearing this death penalty whining. Zero understanding of human nature despite you all probably being like 35+ years old.

The Campaign has no Death Penalties.
It's loads of fun. The best part of the game so far.

So your assertion is shown to be not true by the game itself.

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Nyon#6673 wrote:

So its not being abused, its just used by all the top builds, and people are running around with 15k energy shield being unkillable and face tanking boss one shot mechanics... no abuse happening here. You surely know alot about this topic.

Are you seriously suggesting that folks who use a mechanic that has been proven to work are "abusing" the game? In what game world is that ever remotely true?

Picking up on stronger or weaker things is essential to your success in this game. Using those stronger options is NOT abuse....it is the absolute most basic part of building a character.

Whether the options are imbalanced, and to what degree, is a DEVELOPER problem...not a player problem.

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EffKayZA#1861 wrote:

The Campaign has no Death Penalties.
It's loads of fun. The best part of the game so far.

So your assertion is shown to be not true by the game itself.

That's a joke right? The campaign is nothing BUT death penalties. If you die, multiple things happen.
1) All items that are on the ground disappear
2) The boss and the entire area resets
And you tend to die way more frequently as you learn the game I might add. PLUS its almost more infuriating to be punished in that way because of the sheer number of bosses in the campaign vs anywhere else.

Don't pretend like there isn't a penalty just because you don't lose exp.

Hahahaha. I just realized that this is the 2nd post by the OP about this same topic in as many days. Looks like he abandoned the first try because of 21 pages of responses showing he was wrong. Yep....a new thread will certainly prove different!

Even seems to think the game has "dropped"....ignoring the fact that we are currently in EA which is just a fancy name for "beta" (which OP even claims is needed in his post).

When you are wrong, you are wrong. And when you double and triple down with multiple threads, it makes you look that much more foolish.

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outlander19900#0213 wrote:

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cowmoo275#3095 wrote:

Hahahaha. I just realized that this is the 2nd post by the OP about this same topic in as many days. Looks like he abandoned the first try because of 21 pages of responses showing he was wrong. Yep....a new thread will certainly prove different!

Even seems to think the game has "dropped"....ignoring the fact that we are currently in EA which is just a fancy name for "beta" (which OP even claims is needed in his post).

When you are wrong, you are wrong. And when you double and triple down with multiple threads, it makes you look that much more foolish.

Is he lying?

Yes he is. OP said there are like 3 health nodes and 50 energy shield on the passive skill tree which is a straight up lie. Also it's holidays, of course there are gonna be less people playing but 350k is A LOT of people playing the game on the second day of christmas.

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outlander19900#0213 wrote:

Is he lying?

I wouldn't call it "lying". He's just 100% wrong, and won't listen to anyone who explains why. He even calls out anyone who would correct him BEFORE he makes any points.

Not lying...just incorrect and a spammer.