Is PoE2 even PoE?
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0.1 is what sold me on wanting to support further devlopment
Game has been drastically changed since.... Regret not waiting because their going a direction I no longer enjoy, just pure luck and rng, items would be fine thats normal, but affixes aswell? no way to gurantee and this easy to brick gear? its not enjoyable, Also not really skillful combat, the challenging aspect is due to one hits, not enough visuals in boss fights, and random gear/affixes the whole selling point for 0.1 has been ignored and now its zoom zoom poe1 all over again!!! Last edited by Jobama#9902 on Dec 28, 2025, 4:41:24 PM
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Nope
Pee2 is a game for the developers. When they develop the game they always gamify it for themselves, where they try to predict what a player would try to do and then make it so it isn't possible to get the feeling "Haha, I knew you would try to do that... I WON!". PoE2 is not a game, its a simulation and developers are playing it. It could be that they don't themselves realize that but that is what they are doing. Also they named the game Path of Exile even the story is about a fugitive not someone who was let go and not allowed back in. ------------------------------------ PS. Sad that they are not trying to make PoE better, the game is not progressing upwards anymore just sideways. Last edited by burre#6800 on Jan 3, 2026, 7:23:48 AM
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" Do you have any example of this claim? Objective reality seems to disagree with you, or the Holten strategy would not have been in the initial release. It only got patched because a good chunk of the community hates it. As Carl Sagan once said: extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence " I keep seeing people overlooking the cumulative improvements from tons of QOL having been added over the past couple leagues. Individually they may be small-ish but they add up and make playing just that much more comfy. Plus they added asynch trade which is something they didn't want out of principle for the longest time. Still, people like you try to portray it like the game isn't the best it's ever been. League content could have been better, but with them having to divide attention between 2 games it's expected. Just try and appreciate what we have. The opposite of knowledge is not illiteracy, but the illusion of knowledge.
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" Thats debatable tbh. Betrayal, Heist and Lab got dumbed down and not improved the slightest. Betrayal is horrible since the first rework already Heist is a curio rush and log out simulator right now And Lab got totally gimped with the removal of enchants |
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" Lab and Heist have always been hated by a good chunk of the playerbase. Betrayal is rewarding as heck if you set up your board properly. Shame on the Mastermind fight though. I was specifically talking about quality of life changes tho not system reworks The opposite of knowledge is not illiteracy, but the illusion of knowledge.
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Its like PoE1 if you made every possible mechanic and innovation in the game worse, then made the content the players liked the least mandatory and much much longer.
PoE1 2500 hours and still installed PoE2 20 hours and uninstalled. |
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Strangely for me the two games feel almost identical except POE 2 has better movement in terms of gameplay itself, but only if you are at end game and doing juiced content.
In terms of leveling, POE 2 feels awful. Maps feel awful. The movement debuffs everywhere stacking on top of each other feels awful. The constant downsides and punishment for everything feels awful. But when Im just blasting I like POE 2 way better for a variety of reasons. Smoother gameplay, better sound, better graphics, better movement... If they had just stuck with the plan and made POE 2 be POE 1 upgraded it would be hands down the best ARPG ever made. Last edited by Waitn4D4#0477 on Jan 6, 2026, 4:16:29 PM
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