From what we've seen so far, do you feel you're going to stay with PoE1 or move to PoE2?

I'm definitely mainly staying with PoE1. I don't play Trade anymore and I find PoE2 in the endgame, as an SSF player, is incredibly boring.

Once PoE2 has proper crafting I might revisit it, but until then I'm not touching it anymore.

It's not even remotely about zooming and going fast (Monks in PoE2 play pretty much like a PoE1 meta build), it's about the agency I have as a player to build the character I want through my own efforts, not waiting for Lady Luck to gift me with a perfect instance of RNG so I can slam a good item.

The endgame mapping loop also feels pretty dull. It's more akin to Last Epoch monoliths than PoE1 maps.

PoE2 obviously has potential, but it's a few years off being even close to PoE1 for me.

yeah only poe 1

waiting for a league similar fun that was scourge for me.
that league mechanic gave so much adrenalin and dopamine rush with epic music in the background.
a fun league like that the only thing that can make me pay for poe 1 ever again. I dont even care the loot or the shiny graphics. I only care about the game loop if its fun or not.

There is no doubt that my desire is to remain in POE 1, but with an annual league that is currently reality I will not play Poe 1 or 2 but another game.

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xBerkshire#0953 wrote:

There is no doubt that my desire is to remain in POE 1, but with an annual league that is currently reality I will not play Poe 1 or 2 but another game.

Yeah, Monster Hunter Wilds it is. Easily 2-3k hours grind ahead with monthly updated content.

When GGG launches a new league I would play it, but PoE2 is so far off from what I consider to be fun or enjoyable that I doubt it will be ever a game I like.

for me , here is the plan : POE 1 forever and poe 2 as filler between leagues.

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BaumisMagicalWorld#0673 wrote:

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1453R wrote:

To be fair, your stance for most of this thread has been that Path of Exile 2 is a mistake

Well, then I suggest you start reading the actual words that were written, and not making up your own interpretations thereof. Because what I described as "a mistake" was their plan to try and maintain two different player bases and two different games at the same time. Big difference in context.

Big oof. Looks like all the nay-sayers were right after all. Maybe this one will finally get you to respond and acknowledge you were wrong and arguing for no reason. Or do I have to quote all of them? At least you got to be sarcastic for several pages. I never forget.

PoE 2? No. It's plainly bad.

Poe 1? Sometimes, maybe.

I am in D4 now and having fun. (D4 BAD)

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BaumisMagicalWorld#0673 wrote:

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BaumisMagicalWorld#0673 wrote:

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1453R wrote:

To be fair, your stance for most of this thread has been that Path of Exile 2 is a mistake

Well, then I suggest you start reading the actual words that were written, and not making up your own interpretations thereof. Because what I described as "a mistake" was their plan to try and maintain two different player bases and two different games at the same time. Big difference in context.

Big oof. Looks like all the nay-sayers were right after all. Maybe this one will finally get you to respond and acknowledge you were wrong and arguing for no reason. Or do I have to quote all of them? At least you got to be sarcastic for several pages. I never forget.

I don't know what those arguments were about, but I will say that I still don't think their plan to try and maintain two different games at the same time was a mistake.

You see, calling it a mistake implies it could never work. Them not having figured out how to do it yet is absolutely not a sign that it could never work. Keep in mind PoE2 is not a finished game, but at some point it will be. Making expansions for finished games is a completely different thing to making a new game from scratch.

Maybe they won't be able to support both of them in the long run, but it's literally way too early to draw any conclusions about that. Even if you end up being right in the end, that isn't because you "knew all along", it's because your speculations were right. Because that's all anyone can do right now, including GGG: speculate.

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MarsAstro#7928 wrote:

Them not having figured out how to do it yet is absolutely not a sign that it could never work.

Fair point, granted they can actually pull it off. I had my doubts and still do. That, to me, still looks like a mistake, but we'll see. And I do prefer to be proven wrong, because I actually like PoE (most of the time). I just can't stand it when someone keeps grinding my gears (pun intended) with the intent to piss me off, simply because they want to feel right. It was never about that, I just don't like it when my intelligence is being attacked for things I never said.

Would love to stay with PoE2, but the endgame.... man, the disappointment. The campaign was great, had more fun with it than with PoE1 in a long time but the endgame is somehow more boring than playing PoE1 in standard.