The endgame 'needed a lot of work' because you decided to reinvent everything

Worst part: make a sequel when you are clueless about endgame then post a video saying "poe2 need fixing" and "poe2 is on fire".

Ummm, yes? Why are you acting all surprised? Thats their descision. Cuz the old system sucks, its old, bloated and outdated. If you don't like it - leave.

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l_Caxius_l#7930 wrote:

I don't know what toxic, half-brained group of people you were playing with and getting feedback from in Standard, but this is 100% false. There are far more ways to play the game and make currency than whatever shit you just vomited on screen here. And not a single person of merit is going to sit there and tell you it's the wrong way to play the game. If making a profit is what you're focused on, you can do so with literally every single core league mechanic held in the game. Don't get angry at the game because you gimp yourself by min-maxing whatever farming strat a streamer pigeon-holed you into. And change your damn friend group if they're sitting there telling you you're an idiot for playing the game a certain way. Wait....you are part of that toxic group.

The "toxic, half-brained group of people" is this forum and literally every streamer, i.e. the PoE1 Community. This 'community' is the best argument I can ever make to someone for never touching Path 1, and frankly the only time I generally post here is when I'm stuck between calls at work and this is all I really have access to.

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There is no "planning". You see a tower, you rush a tower through the least toxic map layouts, rinse and repeat. Maybe get lucky and find a citadel along the way. There are no "lucrative" or "interesting" nodes. There is literally nothing to look forward to in progressing the "atlas".

Oh noooooo.......you can't do LITERALLY NOTHING BUT Strand Sandspit 100% of the time every single day! You have to actually learn how to run maps that might take more than twenty seconds to clear! The unmitigated horror! You might have to set foot in Augury once or twice a night - however will the game survive?!

It's always a strange mix of weird and amusing to see people who cannot comprehend that you can have fun without having to do "THE BEST THING(!!!)" ad nauseum for years on end. People who just fundamentally cannot understand that for a large number of folks, being able to do a variety of different things is more fun than following one dumb stupid fucking Streamer Approved(C) ultrasuperhypernarrow Farm Strat that produces a thousand divines a night if you're willing to sacrifice your whole sanity to do it.

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This is literally a skill issue. The majority of players never have to trade for map completion because they find ways to get them naturally instead of relying on others to give them what they need. If this was truly a core issue in the game, you'd have every ssf player (myself included) complaining about their inability to complete the atlas.

Yes yes, I know how to trade three maps for a next-tier-up and change out the specific set of three until I see one I haven't completed. Or use Kirac to run them, with "uncompleted maps" scouting reports. Or all the rest. Doesn't always work. I do love that all the PoE1 diehards see people complaining about virtually every system in PoE1 being weird, bloated, counterinutitive and utterly hostile to anyone without 10k hours in the game and bleat "skill issue!"

Ye think maybe...just maybe...the first game isn't the Perfect And Flawless Ultra Masterpiece Forever y'all keep proclaiming it to be? After all, I remember that before PoE2 was a thing, y'all also threw up this kind of horrible toxic miasma of horribleness literally every time Grinding Gear released a new league. PoE1 only became a Perfect And Flawless Ultra Masterpiece Forever once the new game hit.

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Just admit you don't like POE1. And that's okay. But don't sit here and try to defend the absolute mediocre game that POE2 is right now.

I don't like PoE1. Not anymore. The game I enjoyed died many years ago on the altar of Streamer Memer Religion of Zoom assholes turning it into a completely unplayable psychedelic nightmare. path of Exile the First hasn't been about making interesting decisions or exploring fun interactions for at least half a decade - now the game's literal only purpose is Streamer Memers finding yet another edge case piece of quintuple-dipping jank that lets them deal a hundred billion DPS, then saying "for the low low price of one Twitch subscription and watching my content for two thousand hours, you too can learn how I made the fifteen hundred divines this build costs in a matter of thirteen minutes after league start prior to rendering the entire game trivial to the point of utter meaninglessness!"

Path the First isn't a game anymore. Not really. It's a platform for conveying money into Twitch accounts, assembled from the zombified, decaying hopes and dreams of a company that wanted to make a game instead. The more PoE2 is forced to resemble PoE1, the less PoE2 will qualify as a game.