Challenge league exclusive content

People don't play challenge leagues, because they want to compete on a new ladder, they play them, because the challenge leagues have so many exclusive features, and they are just much more fun because of that than normal leagues.

It really sucks that there are so many challenge league exclusive features. Sometimes normal leagues get these features, but only after 4 months (no, I won't wait 4 months for them), and they are nerfed (more rare). It is bullshit that GGG needs to test these before they implement them in the normal leagues. They don't need testing, GGG hotfixes stuff anyways, they don't break anything. Strongboxes and Invasion mobs/bosses make the game much more interesting. I can't play Standard, because the challenge leagues are more fun. I won't run maps on Standard, because running maps on Ambush is more rewarding (also they'll nerf the shit out of boxes at the end of the 4 months).

You can't play your old characters on the challenge leagues. You have to level characters again. I hate leveling.

I quit several times during Ambush. I have a high level character, but I don't like her build. She is so weak compared to my other characters (and not because of legacy uniques and better gear, they just have better builds). Everyone tries new builds when they make new characters, and new builds sometimes suck, it happens. I don't want to play the character on Ambush, because I have characters on Standard I like more. And I don't want to reroll on Ambush, because I hate leveling. I just played a shitty map and I died because my character is kinda weak, I don't want to play her, I'll probably quit for a few days. Or I'll try to level an alt, and quit because I hate leveling and I get frustrated, because I'm forced to play on Ambush and can't play with my old characters on Standard.

Why does GGG hate Standard so much? They leave broken items in the game on Standard too (legacy uniques). It's so frustrating when they don't implement changes on Standard.

GGG shouldn't wait 4 months to implement the new features introduced in the challenge leagues into the normal leagues. Challenge leagues should be about racing on a new ladder, GGG shouldn't force us to play on them by holding back features on normal leagues.

Edit:
http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1107464/page/6#p9352507
http://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/2o4tv3/the_torment_challenge_league/cmk4uh6
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJ2NWLEsiR0&google_comment_id=z13lvj0batirxroub22ac15ivubax3rzq04
http://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/2lj9wt/anyone_else_considering_standard_because_of/clw6e8j
http://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/29sa3k/forum_announcements_what_happens_when_the_ambush/ciojc95?context=3

I thought we were treated pretty fairly in standard with the last expansion. All the Vaal stuff was opened to us and we basically just missed out on boxes.

I'm okay with adding incentives to the new leagues. It gives people a need to re-roll and keeps the game fresh. Standard keeps a pretty solid population number even with these incentives. The new leagues may suffer some if standard got everything at the same time.

I do worry about nerfing the boxes. Boxes and rogues have been fantastic additions to this game, and they should really keep showing up at a regular pace.

The 4 month leagues serve as a test bed. If you want to play with the new content, gotta play the league. Leveling a character doesn't take that long anyways.

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