Looting -- The official thread for discussing the loot system. Updated 18th March, 2013.

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SMRD wrote:

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iamstryker wrote:

Speak for yourself. I think gamers are smart enough to know what they like. Thats why D3 is so universally hated and POE is so loved. If people know that they don't enjoy FFA telling them they are wrong is ridiculous.

Nobody said you are supposed to "enjoy" it. (most of the games mechanics are trying to kill your character as well - do you enjoy those too?)

Call me ridiculous, that’s fine. but I'm in there playing in groups daily (the one week race had many great pub games BTW) and there is drama, there is fighting, and there is friendship, none of this I would see without FFA loot.

Well, with instanced loot, there's friendship ("hey, keep an eye out for a white " insert high level weapon/armor/etc here). I would enjoy it more without the drama and fighting, which always revolves around loot drops.

I played the D3 demo and all I know is the ONLY public game I played on there a weapon dropped for me and it was for the guy I was with's class, I picked it up, dropped it, he took it, and dropped something that fit my class. If that's not friendship, I don't know what is.

Open beta is getting quite close... could we get a definitive post from someone at GGG about where they are on this issue? It's the deciding factor on whether or not I put more money into this game.

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Netherm wrote:

Open beta is getting quite close... could we get a definitive post from someone at GGG about where they are on this issue? It's the deciding factor on whether or not I put more money into this game.

agree 100%, wish GGG would just tell us one way or another. just glad i got into beta by luck of draw.

Edited to not extend any more arguments.


One of the posts below me is right, and that they have basically already stated their stance.

Back to playing.

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Netherm wrote:

Open beta is getting quite close... could we get a definitive post from someone at GGG about where they are on this issue? It's the deciding factor on whether or not I put more money into this game.

They made their position clear long ago regarding the looting system:

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/392

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Chris wrote:

It's important to us that Path of Exile has a cut-throat feel where players are not only competing against monsters, but also their fellow players. We do not feel it is an option to arbitrarily hide items from players who have not been allocated them.

To my knowledge, they have not made any further posts on this matter nor have they announced any intention of including different looting options. As such, players should not take the absence of additional GGG posts as evidence of anything: they simply have nothing new to add to the conversation from their perspective. If/when they do: you'll know.

Otherwise it's safe to assume their vision for their game has not changed.

Doesn't earn them any brownie points in the "we listen to our community" though.

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lethal_papercut wrote:

Doesn't earn them any brownie points in the "we listen to our community" though.

if they changed the game every time vocal opinion decides something on the game needs changed, this game would be terrible.

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SMRD wrote:

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iamstryker wrote:

Speak for yourself. I think gamers are smart enough to know what they like. Thats why D3 is so universally hated and POE is so loved. If people know that they don't enjoy FFA telling them they are wrong is ridiculous.

Nobody said you are supposed to "enjoy" it. (most of the games mechanics are trying to kill your character as well - do you enjoy those too?)

Call me ridiculous, that’s fine. but I'm in there playing in groups daily (the one week race had many great pub games BTW) and there is drama, there is fighting, and there is friendship, none of this I would see without FFA loot.

I absolutely enjoy it. I don't play for the enemies to run up to my character and give him a hug. I enjoy everything about the game even the difficult stuff. What I don't enjoy is public games because of a pvp requirement to play.

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Netherm wrote:

Open beta is getting quite close... could we get a definitive post from someone at GGG about where they are on this issue? It's the deciding factor on whether or not I put more money into this game.

Here's a player I don't recognize. I wonder which side of the issue he is on....