Scammers ruining free Lapidary Lens Giveaways. [Rant]

Well I stopped giving them away. I'm not up to the speed of the meta players, heck I even have a 3 year old laptop which is potato-tier by todays standards. Got this out of my most recent T3 Gem Rooms...



Eventually I'll run out of the Regular Gems that have Vaal Counterparts to buy at Level 1 20% Quality but for now I've stopped giving them away.

Couple days ago I finally got around to buying the necessary Primordial Jewels needed to setup a Golemancer in Standard. (Going to reset my current Necromancer) My initial reasoning of helping out by doing giveaways was from past experiences as I've met people who offered free kills for certain challenges for free. (Ulaman Kill, Abaxoth Kill, 6 Essence Enemies, Vendor an Item that results in a Divine Orb) The creed of pay it forward was always a thing I grew up with.

Why even have this poof option? Why even have them shrines? Just make them a currency item. (Lab enchant needs this treatment as well.)

Because they have an ulterior motive. Like the guy already said, they want it broken the way it is. Don't confuse their agenda for incompetence. This is all working exactly as intended. They run a casino, and they don't want people working together against the house. That's why you can't even control click into guild stash, or onto the ground. To make it difficult to share. Same reason they punish partying. Same reason there's no real rushing. Same reason there's no auction house. Same reason legacy items are a thing.

This game exists to ego stroke the children of the 1% because deep pockets. The rest of us are lured here to serve that end.

Any other benefit is purely incidental. Realize this and you can enjoy the game a lot more seeing it for what it is.

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Atomic_Noodles wrote:

Yeah lets just discourage being a good friendly player. That would definitely help out with the new players. I remember when Fall of Oriath released we got hailed for having one of the friendlier and nicer communities. your logic of saying all good deeds should be punished or discouraged seems to fall opposite of this idea...

Yeah, well. GGG was never one to promote niceness. They prefer a cutthroat environment, scamming included. In this type of environment, a "good friendly player" is either prey or the fall guy. You seem to fall into the latter category.

Just buy a 20/20 arc and use the thing yourself. Better course of action than wasting time offering shit for free to ungrateful assholes. And you may just get a 3.5 ex reward.

Lol let's bring out the tin-foil hats. Yea man totally GGG does on purpose things so you can scam each other!

Nah menz, they just don't think it through like that, or it doesn't matter that much to them. It's more straightforward to have some corruption device than having to loot the room for a gem of power that you can insert into a secondary device outside temple so you can trade the gems of power. Same goes for lab enchants, they don't have any clue that to full time players this system is abusive and disrespectful to players time and left it like that.

Just look on how little clue they have to the importance of a properly working guild system and ways to find players as well as importance of party play in creating good player experiences. They simply just don't know any better.

Too bad guys.

Now let's go back to blaming someone for wanting to give away free stuff. They are indeed the real problem here! - remember all of this atmosphere is born from neglect on GGG side of things. People act normally on average according to psychology, therefore when you have games created in a way that guides people to act in these ways the blame should always be put on the systems that guide people towards acting like that(devs).

I have said from ages and ages ago that GGG starvation mode attitude towards game made this game a game full of selfish idiots. It is on GGG. You don't have like in D2 all the nice helping, boosting, giving away of free stuff. This is 100% result of game design. I wish they would get the brain to understand that but no, never will happen. Also, a great social experienceis integral to reaching greatness for a game. All these things add up, and PoE could have been so much a greater game with multiple times the playing base and relevance in gaming industry than it is now.

It also doesn't end there, the half-assed attitude to game design purtrudes far into balancing as well, affix powers on maps/items is too great and creates too unstable endgame that makes it too hard to create a stable experience etc etc. I wish i could take a big fat stone and wack them on their heads one time for good hoping they would wake up but no, i am just done here. There is no point when they are fixated on ignoring understanding and sticking to their semi-level ideas. It's just what it is, had to accept that years ago. PoE has plenty of qualities and should be loved for that but hoping it will transcend into god-mode tier of games will never happen. For christ sake, theorycrafting in poe is far more satisfying than actually playing, because in theorycrafting you still have your dreams once you start to play you are faced with the reality of the game.

The sad thing is, it is as simple as i just said it. Since game release they have neglected so many important aspects of a game and showing zero remorse or wish to change that. It isn't even funny anymore. Goddamn why did this topic get started it really triggered my old frustrations with GGG devs. This one of the reasons why i know when a thoroughly good ARPG comes along PoE will be decrowned in the blink of an eye. Symptomatic to the gaming industry however, nothing better than these half-assed games come out.

I have always been a player that prefers and look for "the best game" that i can play nearly all the time and forgetting about other games. But i have had to acknowledge that nothing is really that good from the gaming industry these days and instead it is better to rotate a few games and give newer games a try - more life flows through that than the stagnant waters of flat games like PoE.

*activating self mantra*
Remember to just enjoy PoE for it's qualities - don't think about what it could have been.
Remember to just enjoy PoE for it's qualities - don't think about what it could have been.
Remember to just enjoy PoE for it's qualities - don't think about what it could have been.
Remember to just enjoy PoE for it's qualities - don't think about what it could have been.
Remember to just enjoy PoE for it's qualities - don't think about what it could have been.
Remember to just enjoy PoE for it's qualities - don't think about what it could have been.
Remember to just enjoy PoE for it's qualities - don't think about what it could have been.

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Bone2flesh wrote:

Just buy a 20/20 arc and use the thing yourself. Better course of action than wasting time offering shit for free to ungrateful assholes. And you may just get a 3.5 ex reward.

On my way to leveling 2 Arc Gems I've had on my Saboteur atm. Latest foray into the Temple Runs haven't gotten a T3 Lapidary in a while. My most recent GG goal has been this: