What Happened with Items

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JellyJones wrote:

Can we PLEASE increase the visibility of Archnemisis mechanics. I hate getting one shot from things that are drowned out by the mess of particles. Heralding is rather muted in sound and no longer has the beam of light to indicate its about to land on you. I feel like I'm back to playing in the days of old volatiles that would just one shot you before you even realized. You guys recognized that as an issue and fixed it once, now you returned it back into the game. It wasn't an issue during Archnemisis league because you knew what you were putting onto the rare.
Now the rare can be off-screen and you just encounter a pack of "Minion"s and just get oneshot before you can even notice. Its just not fun at all and the game is just frustrating to play unless you're 1-tapping everything several screens away.

I agree!

Worst league ever, unfortunately. I miss the old PoE days.
For the love of god, just revert all changes and then restart.

Dear Christ,
im pretty casual player (at this moment). I love PoE. And I am agree with yourchange in this patch about item drop. This should be.

But there is problem with summoner build. WE are harder and harder to play every patch!!

Was really hype, but something just feels off. I'm still playing though

Dang, solo juicing is dead because I can't use MF gear while relying on HH buffs anymore because they removed most of the Rares Monsters from the game.

anyone else have this problem?

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JellyJones wrote:

Can we PLEASE increase the visibility of Archnemisis mechanics. I hate getting one shot from things that are drowned out by the mess of particles. Heralding is rather muted in sound and no longer has the beam of light to indicate its about to land on you. I feel like I'm back to playing in the days of old volatiles that would just one shot you before you even realized. You guys recognized that as an issue and fixed it once, now you returned it back into the game. It wasn't an issue during Archnemisis league because you knew what you were putting onto the rare.
Now the rare can be off-screen and you just encounter a pack of "Minion"s and just get oneshot before you can even notice. Its just not fun at all and the game is just frustrating to play unless you're 1-tapping everything several screens away.

+1
also made post about AN and more problems https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3298458

Well, was waiting till next announcement to make my decision and this is it. Goodbye 3.19. See you in 3 months POE, hope you are not still sick by then...

keep up the great work GGG love the content

First and only post - 48yo casual and former dev

Since I'm often thinking "what kind of person has this take?", I'll give a quick description of myself. 48yo casual gamer who left my career to take care of my 77yo dad after my mom died of cancer. My work history is car audio installer ->laborer/carpenter (family business) ->game developer. I have been playing since Ultimatum and have bought packs/tabs on both PC and PS5. I know it's strange and cringe to give that info, but I think it's important to understand where I'm coming from. I am far from the average troll that exists on forums. This post will be more about the overarching issues with GGG, and little to do with the specifics of the changes they have made this league.

As I read these posts from Chris/GGG, I can't help but to notice many clues that remind me of situations and meetings I have experienced myself in the industry. First, I want to make it clear that hate/threats towards ANY owner or employee personally is unacceptable. However, criticizing and calling attention to specific failure or incompetence is completely valid. In fact, it's needed to make sure people actually do their job correctly.

There have been many examples over the last few leagues that strongly suggest structural and quality control issues within GGG. Items, skills, and content released after design and testing that are simply not working or need to be rebalanced in a way that makes it seem completely untested. Either there is an issue with the testing process itself, or the employees doing it are not up to the task. Surely it isn't unfair to point out the relatively massive changes that are often made to numerical values post launch is a massive problem. It's fine to tweak things once the community "stresses" content, but the size of the changes is alarming. Also, Chris suggesting that a change to the loot table of a 10 year old ARPG was suggested "in passing" and was an honest mistake, seems extremely dishonest. Especially considering his past comments regarding loot in POE.

Based on my experiences, and time in the industry, this is my GUESS as to what has happened to POE. It seems likely that Chris/GGG has wanted POE to play like D2 the entirety of it's lifespan. Unfortunately, creating new content every 3 months has led to massive power creep. GGG realized that since POE was being funded solely by supporter packs by this time, they couldn't just nerf the power due to player backlash. That is when they probably decided that selling to Tencent would be the answer. They could secure the near future of the company, the employees, and most importantly....the vision. The sale likely removed the stress of being beholden to the demands of the player base, and they could now focus on re-balancing POE and go all in on making POE2 the game they really want. I will add that they could have sourced funding for POE2 from so many other avenues based on their market position and years of proven success. Instead, they went for the big payout from essentially the Chinese government.

So why touch POE at all if they will already have a fresh start in POE2? It's pretty simple, if we are all zooming around like the 3.14 days at the time of POE2 release, the game will feel clunky and slow compared to what we were just playing. The majority of the community would still make the switch because it's the new shiny thing, but many players would stay with (or go back to) POE after realizing the new game isn't what they prefer playing. This is probably scary for GGG, not knowing what the community reactions and numbers would actually be. Therefore, the best move is to slowly (or not) ramp up the difficulty of POE until it closely resembles POE2 by release time. Players would be less inclined to stick with the old game and GGG wins by forcing hard mode.

Now I would like to address the people criticizing the community for complaining too much. Here is an analogy of what has happened to help those people understand:

Imagine you buy a new 60" 4k 144hz TV for $1000. You could have bought a 1080p TV for $500, but you feel the extra resolution worth the extra money. Now imagine that after a year of ownership, the manufacturer forces a patch that lowers the resolution to 1080p because it's what the manufacturer prefers, how would that make you feel? Keep in mind, that 1080p is still HD and looks good. You can still enjoy your content well enough, but it's simply NOT WHAT YOU PAID FOR! So when I read these comments, what I see is "stop complaining, you still have a HD TV, it still looks fine". Completely ignoring that what GGG is doing is fundamentally and morally wrong. The supporter packs that people have purchased over the last couple of years was to support the game that they were currently experiencing. Do you really think they were aware of the drastic changes GGG would make to the game?

Now, let me give you an acceptable version of the above example. You buy the 4k 144hz TV. After a year of ownership, the manufacturer forces a patch that lowers the refresh rate from 144hz to 100hz. They apologize in the patch notes "We are sorry about the change to your refresh rate, but we've found upon further testing that 144hz reduces the lifespan of the screen by years compared to 100hz. Do you see the difference? They made the minimum change possible, while helping the ENTIRETY of the consumer base with a fix that most people would objectively call a fair trade.

I will close by saying POE is still a good game, just not as good as it used to be. GGG and Chris are still some of the best in the industry, just not as good as they used to be. Unfortunately, GGG is looking more and more like EA, Activision, Blizzard, etc. and it makes me sad.

So the game atm is what u wanted on launch? this is sad... the game is fking boring and all u can farm atm is rng hope to get the right archmenises mob so u get the juciy divine nice... i have never been disappointed in ggg but this is the first time i feel like the king lost it's crown and time to try other games out i guess....