Biggest problem PoE2 has is only rmters & craft teams go from 100 to 500+divs

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DavexGG#0471 wrote:

Title. Retention in the long run could be so much better.

The vast majority of the playerbase will never get to experience the real good builds because their cost is inflated to oblivion by RMTers & Craft teams which makes tens of thousands times more currency than the average player.

GGG have somewhat made it better in PoE1 with for example kingsmarch but the underlying issue remains. Accessibility to full content of the game is so much lower in PoE than any other game I've played.

In my personal case, I play an insane amount of hours and have an impossible time getting to do a good build.

And here I was thinking PoE's build diversity and trying out different builds was what set it apart the most from other ARPG's, but no. That's not true.

The separation between accessibility of the top 1% vs the 99% is ridiculous.

- Craft teams get 40 pax together, bundle their currency & get a head start in the leagues.
- RMTer's just buy stuff
- Teams of services just go to TFT and sell 6 man leeches so they can bundle the aggregate drops.

Is this really what we need to do to be a player with access to top end items?

I hope this gets looked as I honestly hope one day we'll be able to fully experience all of PoE, and that that won't be reserved only for a select few who find a way around the system.

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ki784340143#8116 wrote:

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DavexGG#0471 wrote:

Title. Retention in the long run could be so much better.

The vast majority of the playerbase will never get to experience the real good builds because their cost is inflated to oblivion by RMTers & Craft teams which makes tens of thousands times more currency than the average player.

GGG have somewhat made it better in PoE1 with for example kingsmarch but the underlying issue remains. Accessibility to full content of the game is so much lower in PoE than any other game I've played.

In my personal case, I play an insane amount of hours and have an impossible time getting to do a good build.

And here I was thinking PoE's build diversity and trying out different builds was what set it apart the most from other ARPG's, but no. That's not true.

The separation between accessibility of the top 1% vs the 99% is ridiculous.

- Craft teams get 40 pax together, bundle their currency & get a head start in the leagues.
- RMTer's just buy stuff
- Teams of services just go to TFT and sell 6 man leeches so they can bundle the aggregate drops.

Is this really what we need to do to be a player with access to top end items?

I hope this gets looked as I honestly hope one day we'll be able to fully experience all of PoE, and that that won't be reserved only for a select few who find a way around the system.

You are right. That is the case.

In just one month of open beta, a huge gap between new and old players has appeared. This is because the studio started using AI scripts.

As GGG released a new patch, the studio also released their own patch, which is the AI ​​script program.

Players who could kill the final boss before the 0.1.1 version update will now be less affected by inflation, because they already had equipment to pass the difficult content before the studio used AI scripts extensively.

Non-RMT players and newly joined players who cannot kill the final boss after the 0.1.1 version update will be directly affected by inflation, because the props obtained by these players can be obtained by the AI ​​script program and depreciated. These props are no longer valuable, making it impossible for you to obtain equipment with rarity affixes through trading, because you can't afford it at all, resulting in an infinite dead loop.

Equipment without rarity affixes will give you low currency gains, even E will be obtained very little, and equipment with item rarity affixes with 20% resistance now costs 1D to buy, and those low-priced equipment on the trading page will basically not respond to your trading requests.

And those who already had powerful equipment with high rarity affixes before the outbreak of the AI ​​script program can get a lot of E or even D when playing a map, they will think that the inflation mentioned by new players is a fantasy and there is no such situation at all, thinking that they have the ability to obtain high-value equipment and can quickly buy other high-value items as long as they sell them.

Non-RMT new players who want to buy high-value items need to sell a lot of low-value equipment to get a D, and during this period, the AI ​​script program has obtained a lot of currency, causing high-value items to become more and more expensive, and low-value items to become less valuable.

This is the reason for the current polarization of players

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_rt_#4636 wrote:

If you don't like it, quit the game and stop giving GGG your time and your money.

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_rt_#4636 wrote:

You're on point with most of the stuff you said.

This game has frequent meta shifts and requires big time investments in and out of the game if you want to keep up with them.
It has been this way for a long time now. 7+ years.
It's all part of a lot of systems and mechanics implemented that cater to certain audiences. It's the way GGG found to make money with the game and it works perfectly for them.
Trust me, it won't be changed and you're wasting your time creating this post. I'm 100% sure countless people like you went to the PoE 1 feedback subforum in the past to no avail.

If you don't like it, quit the game and stop giving GGG your time and your money.

There are better alternatives if you want more constant progression and not being gatekept from the content by poor game design/balancing.

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kamiknx#1162 wrote:

I can make a real good build with exalts only and maybe a little bit of crafting myself.

I don't need to have multiple mirrors or even 1 to do all content.