This is Why Most People Never Come Back or Never stay - Map Boosting

People who say "you can get amazing drops without boosting maps" are honestly deluding themselves. That kind of thing is an exception, not the fact. It might happen once in a blue moon. If you actually want drops from maps, you have to run areas with increased quantity and rarity. The game forces you into this. Be realistic. I'm certain that the same people saying this now will eventually quit the game for exactly this reason. No one wants to go through the same torture every single league.

Why do you think people are quitting the game right now? Because Spark got nerfed? Because Uniques got down? No. They’re not coming back because of the exact reason I’m explaining here. Once they get past leveling and reach endgame, they face the same misery again. Running an unboosted map is a waste of time. The goal of the game is loot. It's a loot-based game. And to get loot, you have to find a good area and activate the towers in that area.

Diablo 4 currently has 20,000 active players. Path of Exile 2 has 35,000. I really don’t need to say more.

Oh, and one more thing—just because you or few others might enjoy it doesn’t change the fact that Sekhemas and the Trial events are garbage. Most people hate them. Which means the only thing left to do in the game is Atlas maps. And since Atlas maps are a painful grind experience for the reasons I mentioned above, there’s simply nothing left to do in the game.

At the end of the day, GGG—if you want people to actually play your game and keep playing it, you need to fix this problem asap. Either remove the towers entirely or do something to solve the issue.

Most of us have kids, jobs, or families. We don’t have 2–3 hours every day to waste on this kind of grind. And even if you do spend 2–3 hours, it’s still not enough. You need to burn another 4–5 hours just to get into those boosted maps. We just want to skip that 2-3 hours of wasting preperation and enter the farming section.

If I’ve made it to endgame, I should already be strong enough. The game should challenge me through bosses or special content—not in the areas where I farm. We love this game but the game doesn't let us to play it.

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TheAriente#3728 wrote:

Juicing maps via towers.

This is the major downside of the game. Why? Even if you increase loots. Even if you make everything good in this game. Nobody will invest their 2-3 hours into juicing maps, finding good areas for farming etc. Because that 2-3 hours is not rewarding. Just investing time for future reward potential by farming those areas. After you finished that area. Well good luck. Lets invest 2-3 hours again.

This may look ok first. But if you repeat this process more than 10. You will get bored and you will stop playing.

Plus there are tons of poor elements in this game.

why I stop playing after 3 weeks ALWAYS? Because I only care for campaign.. (as right now is too short). The endgame is simply dumb.. not POE2.. ANY endgame of cyclic maps of any ARPG. Makes no sense... feels liek a random grind without purpose. As soon as I finished campaign with my amazon and Smith of kitava.. I had done all I wanted to do in the game.

Anything that requires TFT to get decent results is a bad mechanic. I don't get anywhere near enough tablets drop to be able to put high +quant/ rarity tablets into a three tower setup

I'm sure scarabs or their like will make a return

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Urza_Mechwalker#7393 wrote:

why I stop playing after 3 weeks ALWAYS? Because I only care for campaign.. (as right now is too short). The endgame is simply dumb.. not POE2.. ANY endgame of cyclic maps of any ARPG. Makes no sense... feels liek a random grind without purpose. As soon as I finished campaign with my amazon and Smith of kitava.. I had done all I wanted to do in the game.

It just mean you're a tourist that doesn't really enjoy ARPGs, it's fine you know? Time for you to move on.