Player based will leave and this game will die out if they don't remove the XP Penalty

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Ok... so. Let's say your search for a statement goes nowhere because it's too much content to view. Is there another method to get what you are looking for?

You can look up "Reddit Threads/Forum Posts" or any other discussion related to the topic "EXP loss" in PoE. Then you look at the time they were made.
This day, week, month, year, decade... you will always find SOMEONE who is/was complaining.

Then you compared your result with the outcome.

Result: Someone always complained
Outcome: GGG did not change the EXP loss

So... what do you think is their stance on it?


It's not my style to put words in their mouth without seeing even one statement from them on a particular topic. I don't know what their stance is regarding how set in stone they are & nothing you've said/shown to me convinces me that you know either.

Like I said, if you can find just one legitimate statement from them specific to their commitment to XP loss - that would be all it takes for me to stop giving feedback on this topic.


Their stance regarding EXP-loss is that they want to keep it BUT adjust things around it like "stuff you die to" the "progress you do in general" etc. so YOU don't get punished from multiple sides all the time and overall don't die too "stupid things".
The discussion problem atm is that they implemented punishments like "1 death per map" and things in combination with that are something they want to look into.
https://youtu.be/WjxzTAcJqAM?si=Gpc-Mb5uOz1qE1AL&t=5423
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Their stance regarding EXP-loss is that they want to keep it BUT adjust things around it like "stuff you die to" the "progress you do in general" etc. so YOU don't get punished from multiple sides all the time and overall don't die too "stupid things".
The discussion problem atm is that they implemented punishments like "1 death per map" and things in combination with that are something they want to look into.
https://youtu.be/WjxzTAcJqAM?si=Gpc-Mb5uOz1qE1AL&t=5423


It sounds like they are leaning towards keeping it but aren't set in stone on XP loss (and more firm on one map per death). Thank you for your honesty by posting that.
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Their stance regarding EXP-loss is that they want to keep it BUT adjust things around it like "stuff you die to" the "progress you do in general" etc. so YOU don't get punished from multiple sides all the time and overall don't die too "stupid things".
The discussion problem atm is that they implemented punishments like "1 death per map" and things in combination with that are something they want to look into.
https://youtu.be/WjxzTAcJqAM?si=Gpc-Mb5uOz1qE1AL&t=5423


It sounds like they are leaning towards keeping it but aren't set in stone on XP loss (and more firm on one map per death). Thank you for your honesty by posting that.


Like I said, personally I like the "1 death per portal", but fully understand why many ppl don't and even have a solution to that problem I will include in my next feedback post, but them holding on to the exp loss is not out of "we purely want to punish ppl" - for that - they nerf Warrior, always.
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LaiTash#6276 wrote:
> Player based will leave and this game will die out if they don't...

I love these titles. They sound like a silly attempt at blackmailing.

No, players will not leave and the game will not die just because GGG don't do as you demand. PoE is the most successful diablolike ARPG franchise in history and it always had XP penalty despite some people always complaining about it.


yeah its like the emotional "if you don't do what I want" lashing out that kids try to use to manipulate parents. But POE's playerbase is like 18-40 year olds.

Which says something about parenting these days I suppose. Most kids find out that this shit doesn't work when they're 8 or something. If they're posting it on forums that means they never found out.
Pandering to players who don't want consequences for their mistakes is a perfect description of what went fundamentally wrong with D3 and 4.
If they wanted mindless mobile game time waster gameplay they sure did make some perplexing choices and marketing statements for 6 fucking years.
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Something tells me far fewer people would quit over lack of punishment versus people who quit for feeling it's too much.


Well it's just your feelings. I'd certainly at least consider quitting.

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And I fail entirely to see how any change to softcore genuinely impacts hardcore. Maybe you have some room to argue if they introduced a proper dedicated SSF with good drop rates against the trade league, but adjusting death penalties on softcore won't impact hardcore at all.


People will start to reach level 100 much faster with much squishier characters and GGG will have to try and slow down their progress, and historically GGGs way of dealing with the problem has been introducing more unavoidable damage, which will be introduced to every league.

If GGG were to introduce a new "easy" mode without a ladder and kept standard as it is i'd be ok with it.
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The game won't die but they will lose a lot of players who have money like myself.

Look, I grew up on Lineage 2 and other "hardcore" shit when I had no life and derived my self worth and esteem off that. So I get it.

But that was 20 years ago. I have a family, a job, and other hobbies now.

I do not want to lose "time" on this game. When I did "no life" this game, back in December with a small group, we all quit after 2 weeks. All of us had different levels of frustration with me being the most vocal:

I died countless times to stupid shit, losing hours of progress and maps.
I got scammed a divine, which was around 8 hours of grinding.

And what did I get out of it? Some fun memory with my friends.....which we could've had playing Monster Hunter, hanging out in real life, or anything else.

We can argue everything is a waste of time, but thinking back to playing PoE2, it feels fucking bad. Between the community being a circle jerk of whatever we were 20 years ago, and the "hur dur hardcore hur hur dur dur" crap, it just isn't for me at this point and many others.

But for the ones who want to be whatever we were 20 years ago, this game will be for them. And I will use the community and game as a reminder for "thank god I've grown up" when times are too hard.

I suggest you do the same as I doubt this shit will change.
Last edited by Lynart#7229 on Feb 7, 2025, 4:38:50 PM
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Lynart#7229 wrote:
The game won't die but they will lose a lot of players who have money like myself.

Look, I grew up on Lineage 2 and other "hardcore" shit when I had no life and derived my self worth and esteem off that. So I get it.

But that was 20 years ago. I have a family, a job, and other hobbies.

I do not want to lose "time" on this game. When I did "no life" this game, back in December with a small group, we all quit after 2 weeks. All of us had different levels of frustration with me being the most vocal:

I died countless times to stupid shit, losing hours of progress and maps.
I got scammed a divine, which was around 8 hours of grinding.

And what did I get out of it? Some fun memory with my friends.....which we could've had playing Monster Hunter, hanging out in real life, or anything else.

We can argue everything is a waste of time, but thinking back to playing PoE2, it feels fucking bad. Between the community being a circle jerk of whatever we were 20 years ago, and the "hur dur hardcore hur hur dur dur" crap, it just isn't for me at this point and many others.

But for the ones who want to be whatever we were 20 years ago, this game will be for them. And I will use the community and game as a reminder for "thank god I've grown up" when times are too hard.

I suggest you do the same as I doubt this shit will change.


If you don't want to lose "time" on this game, when this crap isn't something for you, when your experience wasn't great, when you could do better things, why are you here?
Like... honestly why?
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It's not the exp penalty.

It's wasted time.

UI wastes my time.
Selling items wastes my time
Using maps wastes my time
go through my inventory wastes my time
taking trash back to town to break down into garbage, wastes my time
tials of suckmyass, wastes my time

Then and only then the cherry on top.

You died , lose 3 hours of your time.
Then you ask yourself.

What did I get today for this 4-5 hours.
NOTHING, not a thing.

Not a drop, no gear, no item progression, no skill tree progression.
and got NEGATIVE exp gain for the day.

You realize, hey if i didn't login, id be stronger.
was it fun ?.... parts.

You could have cleaned the house.
You could have washed the cars.
Cut the lawn.

You could be sitting back enjoying that life progression.
If GGG cant compete with the satisfaction of cleaning a toilet.
They have work to do
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If you don't want to lose "time" on this game, when this crap isn't something for you, when your experience wasn't great, when you could do better things, why are you here?
Like... honestly why?


Because this community is incredibly hostile, and brings me back to what I was 20 years ago. This type of community doesn't really exist anymore

D4 community is mostly nice because it's people who've been playing since D1, have kids now, and get it. Hell, I'm playing D4 right now.

This game, on the other hand, has the same vibe as when I was an overweight, virgin, loser with nothing going for them and deriving all my self worth off video games.

Some days, like today, can be stressful due to work. And I get energized from interacting, remembering why I clawed out of that (20 years is a long time.)

TL;DR: To remind myself: I could've been like some of this trash (not everyone here's trash obviously), to bask in the hatred, it's cathartic.

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It's not the exp penalty.

It's wasted time.

UI wastes my time.
Selling items wastes my time
Using maps wastes my time
go through my inventory wastes my time
taking trash back to town to break down into garbage, wastes my time
tials of suckmyass, wastes my time

Then and only then the cherry on top.

You died , lose 3 hours of your time.
Then you ask yourself.

What did I get today for this 4-5 hours.
NOTHING, not a thing.

Not a drop, no gear, no item progression, no skill tree progression.
and got NEGATIVE exp gain for the day.

You realize, hey if i didn't login, id be stronger.


See, this guy's not trash. He gets it.

This isn't like weight lifting or motorsports where you will learn from your fuck up. We literally die to random shit and bugs lol
Last edited by Lynart#7229 on Feb 7, 2025, 4:56:50 PM
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It's not the exp penalty.

It's wasted time.

UI wastes my time.
Selling items wastes my time
Using maps wastes my time
go through my inventory wastes my time
taking trash back to town to break down into garbage, wastes my time
tials of suckmyass, wastes my time

Then and only then the cherry on top.

You died , lose 3 hours of your time.
Then you ask yourself.

What did I get today for this 4-5 hours.
NOTHING, not a thing.

Not a drop, no gear, no item progression, no skill tree progression.
and got NEGATIVE exp gain for the day.

You realize, hey if i didn't login, id be stronger.


Be realistic.....this shouldn't really happen to any player. Not a single one.
If you find nothing in 4-5 hours....you are not playing the game. If you don't make any kind of "progress" in 4-5 hours, you are not playing the game. You MAY end up negative exp for a session, but wow how little that matters. And you are by no means "weaker" because of exp loss.

Also, everything about playing a game is about "using your time". You aren't watching a movie (which even that....wastes your time). If you don't want to DO anything in a game......play an idle game that plays for you.
Starting anew....with PoE 2
Last edited by cowmoo275#3095 on Feb 7, 2025, 5:00:04 PM

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