This is an immensely frustrating game for many players

They need to take a hard stance on botters and RMTers. Botting? Account banned. Selling for $$$? Account banned. Buying currencies? Account banned.

Not suspended. Banned. And if this isn't enough to deter either side of that market, start dedicating some resources to researched connections to these accounts. The ones funneling currencies in with quantity X. And ban them.

Also, don't worry about them being streamers, ban them. If DarthMicro was caught and banned and decided to badmouth PoE, his own community would mock and abandon him for being a shill and doing the thing most of us despise, buying for $$$.


Take this stance, get past the initial frustration from some, and come out the other end with more trust from the community, a stronger player base, and a better in-game economy/chatrooms/etc.

Meanwhile I think, if they stay on the current track, they will not win new players. PoE1 players will gradually migrate to PoE2 and that's it.

Tinkering with some numbers will not change this. More radical changes are necessary.

They could add coop-support: somewhat balance the different skills, significantly lower the speed of the game and clean up the pixel-mess.

GGG could also turn it into a proper single player game: boost the item drop quality (e.g. not generating bad tier 7+ modifiers in end-game) and remove the always-online requirement.

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Eden#7078 wrote:

a full day of dedicated farming might only yield a profit of 4 or 5 Divine Orbs.

I am an average Joe. Once I have spent around 700 divines to craft an item, I didn't brick it in the end and decided to stop at the point when I will sell it for the same 700. I didn't sell it for 700, only for 500 divines. Not really a big loss I thought, without knowing about an amount of currencies the other people have. Now it turns out this is a fortune for some people outhere! Surprising.

Notice, I am an average Joe with 150-200 hours this league, speaking to another average Joe. Where is the difference? And what we were doing different?

You very much are not an average Joe.

"Once I have spent around 700 divines to craft an item"

Not an average Joe. An average Joe will never do that.

"I didn't sell it for 700, only for 500 divines."

Not an average Joe. And average Joe will never sell something for that much.
An average Joe would keep that item, because they'd never have anything else anywhere near as good, but also an Joe would never have an item worth that much in the first place.

"Now it turns out this is a fortune for some people outhere! Surprising."


Not surprising. Normal.
For the average Joe, hundreds of divines is a ludicrous fortune.
Scrooge McDuck level.

"150-200 hours this league"

Not an average Joe. That is substantially more hours than an average Joe will get in a league. An average Joe won't even hit 50.