Why did you stop playing the game?

I play diablo 4 more than POE 2. I planned to drop diablo for POE 2, but frankly diablo's melee combat and build diversity is better.

Which is shocking.

- Bad loot in the 2nd season
- Most of my friends stopped playing
- Crafting sucked

0.2 killed my enjoyment for the game. I was playing bell monk in 0.1 and was having a lot of fun, getting loot at a decent pace but 0.2 took that all away and i haven't played since.

Lets see if 0.3 fixes a lot of the things, devs need to understand they're making a game for the customer/player base and not something they think is fun. They need to be objective about it all which they where not. 0.3 from what have seen seems to be going in a step forward now.

Trails need to be fixed as this game has way too much rng as it is and ascendancy shouldn't be determined on getting good rng on rooms in Sekhemas or powers in chaos. It's rng if you get screwed over half of the time, depending on class and build and it doesn't work as a whole. In 0.2 and to some extent in 0.1 depending on class/ build you could have a very easy time or a extremely hard time and that is poor balancing and game play. ( I hate Sekhemas with a passion, it's not fun at all and needing resist just to push the higher ascendancy is out right annoying )

Crafting needs to be fixed as it's just more rng on top of rng and i might as well go to a casino than play this rng filled game. It's not crafting, it's gambling. Crafting can have some rng to it, but in PoE2 is just pure gambling.

Also why does gems need a negative attached to it?

- Inability to stay connected to server for more than 10 minutes. I didn’t pick the data centers, GGG did.
- Forced combo system
- Slow plodding campaign
- Nothing drops through the campaign so unless you’re playing a meta league starter that doesn’t need decent gear you fall behind and it just feels terrible.
- I can’t stand maces - wtb: axes
- Crafting isn’t really a thing, it’s less than interesting
- End game towerlympics feels terrible if you don’t have multiple towers with good tablets juicing good layouts. It’s a punishment system, not very fun.
- I really hate sanctum, it’s not hard, I just hate roguelikes
All tolled, I’m just not having fun.
I’ll try 0.3, maybe they fixed their datacenter woes, but still have no intention of mapping (fix towerAIDS).

What I've learned over the years is most devs are coasting on "cargo cult" mentality; so be very scared when they start talking about "fixing" something basic and fundamental to a genre. You see this with PoE 2: when they started talking about "fixing" melee, it meant they were going to make it worse, because they don't even know what makes for good melee combat flow. Their idea of a good melee combat is one in which it sucks to play and you instead play ranged, because that's what you're supposed to do and Johnathan doesn't like it when man with gun is worse or equal to man with club.

Ascendancy trials. I never interacted with Sanctum or Ultimatum in POE 1 because I hated the mechanics. Then you lock major class progression behind even worse versions of those mechanics. I won't even think of returning until there is a major overhaul of those trials and/or they introduce a not terrible ascendancy trial.

im ready to stop playing only because of jonathan keeping nerf the BD or skills , have a very hatred to the player developed BD

Disparity between playtime and getting upgrades. Once I've gone through an entire day of playing (12+ hours) without getting an upgrade, I stop playing. Crafting options really need to be expanded for "normal" people.

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MadSheo#0280 wrote:

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Emmet#9384 wrote:

Game is too hard for casuals. Impossible to land 3rd ascendancy. Tough to climb above level 80. Too many nerfing. They want to cater to the youtuber elites and veteran poe players.

Its smarter to make a game appeal to 20k people instead of 500k of casuals. Steam charts shows this.

Lmao. Would you be willing to talk about steam charts when 0.3.0 comes out? I swear to god, im going to tag you here when 0.3.0 comes out. IMAGINE calling out steam charts in a game where the whole idea is to play the league for 1-2 months and go play something else.

You seem to forget that people do not want to play with just 1 or 2 builds. I want to play with 5-6 different builds...and then replay them from start, again. I enjoy that. Except, playing in ssf its virtually impossible to climb high levels without good gear. So most I can play while struggling would be like 1-3 builds....and then I give up!