Announcing Path of Exile: Synthesis

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Außenseiter wrote:

I'm afraid that people saying that they are skipping league don't quite understand that it's not the problem with league, it's the problem with core game and its monetization system.
Next league will not remove any gating on existing mechanics and I bet won't introduce anything game-changing.
I mean Betrayal is the most complex league so far, and it still boils down to clearspeed meta. You either wipe out syndicate dudes or they wipe you, everything on top is just fluff, it's not really new, it's the same as bestiary or breach or abyss encounters, just with some voice acting on top and encounters board macromanagement.

And synthesis league is just remixed incursion/delve/atlas system where I can almost guarantee you won't just go the route you want, you'll have to mess around with additional restrictions as well. Like synthesis fuel or something i.e. sulphite/alva spawns.

Gates are here to stay, reused mechanics are there to stay, future leagues won't change how you progress past the story acts, and you can bet on new collectibles and specialized stashes for them.

Because without gating players will just blow through all content and leave the game 2.5 months earlier than GGG would want.
And free-to-access truly endless dungeon will leave all other content a ghost town. Nobody would even bother with anything if they could grind what they wanted to their hearts' content.

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Snorkle_uk wrote:

honestly all I want is some endless dungeon type content that I can have access to and actually play the game.

This all seems kind of cool, but it also seems really bloated, needlessly complex, yet more limited access content that involves a bunch of nonsense you have to go through basically because u guys are bored. You are devs, u feel u have to do something, u want to do something, your game doesnt really need it, in fact even more complex limited access ultra rewarding content is everything your game doesnt need, but youre gonna crowbar it in anyway because hey, its the next league, u got to do something. its got to be big and u have to feel like ur flexing ur dev muscle to get your job satisfaction fix.


The rewards are meaningless, so much power creep in this game I can blow through all the content that your game will allow me to reasonably access with self found simple rares. Yet here we are, even more bloated layers of power creep introduced via more bloated limit access convoluted content. Youve saturated rewards to the point where nothing is rewarding, I just look at all this new stuff and think who gives a fuck? I stopped giving a fuck about anything reward wise in perandus which is where the entire game because a bloated joke of loot raining from the sky and everyone being able to destroy everything on the screen in a second even if they remove 3 of their main link support gems.



I just want content like delve, except I want to be able to access it. This whole thing uve done is just whatever, thats my reaction, "meh, who cares?". Some of it looks cool, delve looked cool too, Ive never got to the bits in delve that looked cool in the trailer because u fucking gated it to the point where I never managed to get that far and just gave up playing your game.

Does this make me want to come back? No. Simply saying hey, were letting you actually play delve content now without all the fucking around would have been 100000000x more appealing to me than all this whatever this is that uve conjured up. Another dream within a dream with a thing and a menu that leads to an interface where you click the thing and then join it to the other thing and then play the zone and find the whatever that you grab and that lets you go back to the menu where you access the map that lets you select the node that links to the whatsit....

fuck sake man. Endless dungeon, log in, zone into dungeon, play for 7 hours without having to trade or roll something or whatever, just play, just heres a dungeon that has monsters in it that are strong enough to feel like ur fighting something worth while. How hard is it to just do that?

whatever.