My Thoughts On The Next League

Now most likely nobody of value that works for GGG will read this but maybe they should.
I have played alot of computer games in my time even started playing on a Sinclair spectrum 128k and I have learnt a few things in all those years one of which is when you have a winning formula that clearly works you dont screw it up by adding things that have no place in that style of game. Now you might be wondering what exactly im on about so I will explain.
On 23 October 2013 GGG released an RPG called Path of Exile, it followed the standard rules of an RPG of take a quest go kill lots of things collect reward until you completed the campaign then you got do it all over again at a harder level. Over the years new parts were added as in the campaign was extended and hundreds of maps were added to the game and also massive skill tree's, now every 3-4 months GGG kept people playing by adding a new game mechanic that made the long term game interesting, it kept you playing for 11 years but then something happened within GGG where they got dissatisfied with how the game was being made and decided the next league we are going to turn an RPG into an RTS or a Simulation game.
Most game companies create multiple games over an 11 year period to cater for different styles of game and different customers, what I mean by that is some people like RPG and some people like RTS, its rare that people like both especially in the same game.
I have been playing Path of Exile for along time and its one of the few games that has gripped my attention and held onto it in the way this has but over the last league and this new one that starts next week you have decided to alter the game in so many ways that its no longer Path of Exile or at least not the one I loved playing.
Sometimes more often that not you make great leagues but Necropolis
and this new league have taken this game to a place it was never meant to go. Maybe its time you sold the game to another company as you clearly have lost your way, it seems you no longer want an RPG you want an RTS, in RTS games you get to mine commodities place them on ships and do trades with far away lands with customers you never see because it is all done in real time, you dont even have to be playing, also in an RTS or Sim you get to build towns and cities but what you dont do is any of these things in an RPG.
The other night I watched your live broadcast and watched the streamers almost gushing at the thought of playing the new league, I Think it was zizaran who said OMG THEY FIXED THE WHOLE GAME which is funny because I didnt think it was that broken, if you want to play an RTS game go play one.
To round this up I just want to say to GGG if you really want to turn this game into an RTS please consider just creating a different game and leave this RPG alone.

You still have to actively play the game to access the league features, the features are more a case of not punishing an inability to play for a day or 2

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Spurilious wrote:

Now most likely .....

I agree, it seems that GGG has "worn out" all this time, in order to keep the player base and attract new ones, he is doing experiments like this.

This is not the first time they combine RPG with other genres, but it is the first time they try it with the classic RTS genre.

I don't think you'll like this if you're a classic RPG player, but who knows, we'll see.