POE: The Best of Games and the Worst of Games

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geniusbean wrote:

i, too, only play games to whine and complain about them.

stay classy op

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Chris wrote:

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Randomzx wrote:

But why does almost everything have to be RNG? How can it be called Hardcore when skill matter very little?

The experience we are designing Path of Exile around is the experience we had playing Action RPGs when we were younger - the thrill of the next item being potentially the best one you've ever seen.

Skill matters in combat. Skill matters in races. Skill matters in PvP. Skill matters in trading. Skill matters when checking the vendor and knowing what to look for. Skill matters when looking at white items on the ground and realising that one of them has chromatic sockets or is a really high itemlevel.

If you succeed at the above areas through your skill, then you receive more (and hence better, on average) random items. Without the RNG, it would not be fun.

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the thrill of the next item being potentially the best one you've ever seen.

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Slayertip1 wrote:

---------------------------The "crafting" system is a complete abomination. Sorry but it is true. It adds literally nothing to the game other than annoyance and frustration and serves no strategic or skill value, rather simply a nested completely random slog through tons of orbs just to get features of an item to progress in the game. There may be underlying "economy" and grinding rationales behind the orb system but the reality is that is not fun on any level and really brings the enjoyment level of the game down significantly. There should be enough barriers in build, gear, monster AI, stat stacking etc...to make progression difficult and thought provoking not to need a gambling system on steroids to grind everything to a screeching halt. I am not convinced it does anything to make people play more, but it certainly will make people leave. It should be completely scrapped and overhauled to be honest. It is abysmal.----------------------

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Antigegner wrote:

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Slayertip1 wrote:

---------------------------The "crafting" system is a complete abomination. Sorry but it is true. It adds literally nothing to the game other than annoyance and frustration and serves no strategic or skill value, rather simply a nested completely random slog through tons of orbs just to get features of an item to progress in the game. There may be underlying "economy" and grinding rationales behind the orb system but the reality is that is not fun on any level and really brings the enjoyment level of the game down significantly. There should be enough barriers in build, gear, monster AI, stat stacking etc...to make progression difficult and thought provoking not to need a gambling system on steroids to grind everything to a screeching halt. I am not convinced it does anything to make people play more, but it certainly will make people leave. It should be completely scrapped and overhauled to be honest. It is abysmal.----------------------

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Odoakar wrote:

Also, what irks me a bit about Chris post, is that he makes comparisons with how it was to grind in D2, but forgets that the average gamers age has risen significantly. When I was 16-17, I had all the time in the world to do meph/baal runs, but right now, the situation is quite different. The things I was able to do with D2, it's not possible to with PoE. It's not realistic to expect the same dedication from gamers today, what they had with D2 decades ago.

Interesting market survey, btw:

http://www.theesa.com/facts/pdfs/ESA_EF_2013.pdf