Why did you stop playing the game?

for me because i cannot run the maps i want. i have to run layouts i dont like half of the time, so i stop playing because it sucks

A combination of things, but mostly because the target/movement system.

I understand WASD is an improvement for many people, and the more options the better. But the way that was implemented here made it a WASD game, with an option to use mouse+click, rather than the opposite.

And the result is really bad. When you use controller or WASD the game looks fluid, but with mouse+click something feels very very very bad. Ugly result, crap feeling while moving and casting, etc. It is a great idea having both options, but they did making one looks awful in every sense (targeting, moving, casting, feeling).

So I went back to Poe1 or other games.

Because 0.2 patch

-Skills gated behind nonsense you have to do just to use them
-Downsides on everything. Ascendancies, supports, notables on tree...
-RNG will dictate when you can level up a skill
-Skill cost is out of control late game
-PoE 1 monster density but poe 2 players feel like we're moving in mud
-A totally aimless and random endgame like LE which feels so bad. You have no control and focus with what you can do and can't form any plan.
-Can't convert skill 100% to something feels weird and just hampers damage scaling and to a lesser note the thematics of a build

Lag spikes, terrible lag spikes.

When EA started I was unemployed and was able to play endgame.

With 0.2 I wasn't anymore and when I realized I wouldn't even reach endgame within a month, I just stopped.

Still keeping track of what's going on. I'll dabble a bit in 0.3 just to see the new act

0.2 really did a number on playing minions, at least it did for me. No fun feeling like no progression.

after 0.2 I couldn't stomach the monotonous grind through the campaign, halfway through act 2 I just found I was looking for household jobs or doing unpaid overtime to get away from it.

there are plenty of other things I like and dislike about the game, but that was the finisher.

1 portal maps and trials, neither of which they seem to be touching with this giant patch full of more downsides and nerfs for every buff they claim to be giving us like with sprint.

year 2025 and they block 32:9 resolution