POE 2 to have Open Zones, WPVP, World Bosses, Bigger Towns, More Multiplayer, RP Taverns, Future.

Prologue:

I took a break of POE to try Lost Ark (even tho I quit 1 or 2 months after LA's 1st day). I made the thread Asmongold titled " The Angiest Thread Ever " For replying to his P2W video. 400 to 600 replies. 20k+ views.

Then I made the main pvp threads for LA too. Talking about how limited Arena was. The classes were unfair. Ranked them. By listing 100 arena matches & the stats of all the classes for every class, I made a spreadsheet. So the game was rigged for some classes to pvp better. The skill tree was like a noob version of WoW's Talent Tree. & nobody seemed to mind except me on that issue. As POE has the best skill tree obviously. So only 3 options per skill tree & less skill tabs to use than WoW? No thanks. Also LA is mainly a solo quester stolen from a mobile auto quest game, so the party experience was nearly obsolete outside of dungeons. Some world events, tho the questing itself was all solo & monsters give zero exp. LA needed a party feature better than Guild Wars 2 & was essentially worst than most games tbh party wise. I never had to run to so many npcs ever. LA is horrible.

So I mentioned LA has no pvp rewards, no new pvp maps, not enough skills per class, not a big enough skill tree either & making a thread about this. Had the admins suspend me for 1 year over no salt, just simply negative true feedback. They also banned a ton of people. Then I pretended I knew Asmongold & they unbanned, only for them to ban again. On all accounts for mentioning how lame their pvp endgame goals were, as they had none. LA mostly just waits for its dungeons or alt expansions, yet does nothing to give more skills to the original classes.

Anyways besides this I play Planetside 2 as a general there, after LA. Till now. Now returning to POE next season.

Thread:
So returning to POE. D4 is the trending topic. I found threads of people telling others how these 2 games are different. Than D4 is open world or open zone. & POE is a ARPG. The usual POE reply'er remark. Yet what I find amusing is that. Yes these games are listed as slightly different. People now are still suggesting that Open Zone may be better, that open boss worlds may be better. Than Diablo 2 is. Or that a ARPG is of the 90's is based off of. So ye you have the regular POE type who say stuff like, " Not every game has to be a mmo ". Which is true. Tho not really. Most of POE would favor story zones & towns open zone at least, over this portal hopping endgame that POE has right now. Peoples " hideouts " are too similar to WoW's Garrisons. Too isolated. Too zoned off from the rest of the world. So no Hideouts suck tbh. They are neiche art for showing your friends. Tho shouldn't be the endgame. Open world story zones with real meaning should be the real endgame. I haven't progressed to the last 10% or 20% of a season till next league. So I'm not a real endgamer. Yet I'm still not a fan of portal hopping. I'd favor real towns over towns only use to run past a stash & quickly run away from the town. A town used just to bail on it or hear zoomers believe that takes too long. Meh.

On some lvl I hate zoomers & on another lvl I get racing is entertaining at times. Still Diablo 2 was only 1/4th of a racing game & POE is 4/4th of a racing game, it's kinda wack. Too much zoomer methods. Too many rewards for zoomers too. Is it strategy or racing?!?! Pick 1 or the other not both. May as well give players a race car as this is a race car game now. Hurry past go people, obviously rpg's have always been about running past the finish line & have nothing to do with " role playing ". Or RTS strategy.

How about more " planning " than zoom zoom. For everything. Ez. Simple.


Short Version: I've gotten off topic. So briefly people have mentioned D4 features, ye they are different than a ARPG is. Reply'ers have stated this. Tho I'm the guy who's asked for WPVP & had debates & now people are mentioning all these mmo d4 features a a positive? So I titled this thread everything I want this game to evolve to, prior to people mentioning d4 features. & Not bekuz of d4 either. Just for the sake of general evolution. MMO general features are better than d2 features, that's the debate, always has been. Yet I'm over that debate. Only displaying the irony of more people relating with the style that I prefer.

Yes more open zoned maps & less portal jumping. Ye bigger towns to socialize. Yes free instruments like Guild Wars 2 with notes that aren't some 40$ cash shop fee. Yes RP tavers. Yes rewards for lore experts on a ui page devoted to lore players. Yes WPVP. Outguild guild hangouts. Less Garrisons or Less Hideout stuff. More outside town stuff for POE2. The main hangout area should be a new town, not these isolated hideouts for endgame hangout potential. Bigger towns for POE2, leads to bigger story zones for POE2. Story Maps > Portal Maps. That's the future right?! Or Are we staying at D2 lvl forever? World bosses. The msg of this thread IS poe 2 going to fully rival d4, even if d4 is a flop, feature wise? Feature for feature. Road map for this?

Isn't it funny how POE reply'ers kept saying a ARPG has to be like Diablo 2. Having a limited multiplayer. Than Diablo 4 is a MMORPG. haha. That's why squares never understand trends.

Unread wall of text crits for 10,000. Zenjelly dies.

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ZenJelly wrote:

Unread wall of text crits for 10,000. Zenjelly dies.

Ye that's why there's a short version

Zenjello.

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ZenJelly wrote:

Unread wall of text crits for 10,000. Zenjelly dies.

The wall of text seems more like a degen.

My TLDR: In OP's short version, OP explains title as his wants for POE 2 not what is in development.

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RuneLuthien wrote:

Isn't it funny how POE reply'ers kept saying a ARPG has to be like Diablo 2. Having a limited multiplayer. Than Diablo 4 is a MMORPG. haha. That's why squares never understand trends.

No one is saying that ARPG's have to be like Diablo 2. No one is saying that PoE benefits from having limited multiplayer. Where do you get this stuff? You're whole thread could've been shortened down to this: "I wand better multiplayer. I want open world PvP. I want bigger towns" which is totally fine, you're allowed to want those things.

Personally, I don't care about PvP. Personally, I don't care about "socializing" with random people; I have my guild and the discord for that. And when it comes to multiplayer; be my guest, add as much multiplayer features as you want, but don't gate mobs, items or any content behind it - and don't make it required in any way.

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" Not every game has to be a mmo ". Which is true. Tho not really. Most of POE would favor story zones & towns open zone at least

It IS VERY true. YOU would benefit from "story zones" (whatever that is) and "open zones", whatever that is. But how are you so certain that PoE would benefit from it?

To be fair. I don't want to sound rude about the Diablo 2 style. The D2 style for POE is better than Diablo 3 tried to theme. So POE is the better game for a D2 dark omen themed game. Diablo 3 isn't a dark omen game, it's a mini WoW.

Also POE has many other better features than Diablo 2. If POE wasn't evolving past Diablo 2. Then we would have a D2 talent tree & only be able to use 2 skills at a time. & that's not how it is. So multiplayer elements should be no different. "evolved past d2 like the talent tree is. "

Also half or more went to play WoW afterwards so 8 player multiplayer is outddated no matter if people like the D2 style or not. Outdated. Reason Diablo 3 failed they didn't realize the 8 player multiplayer experience or single player argp is outddated. Does that mean the Diablo 2 theme isn't entertaining? Really try for the best of both worlds. People want Diablo 2 & they want a mmorpg. They want Diablo 2 & they want a mmorpg. So duhh just stay true to the dark omen style unlike Diablo 3 & make everything else multiplayer viable, also unlike diablo 3.

Perhaps a healer class for starters. Then some open story zones. & then some guild hangouts that aren't zoned yet outside for everyone around a better endgame town to see. Town Hosts 100+ people. Then slow down the zoomers. Then broaden the skill tree. Then add hair color customization & body weight customization & new avatar profile party photos displaying these new starter hair colors. Then we good.

Yet for now as I said previously a Ragnarok Online Open Zoned Field is better than all these hideout portal stuff. TBH. For Endgame or any tier of the take.

The wording of that assertive title would be horribly misleading -- if anyone actually believed 'Path of Exile 2' would have any of that. Bigger towns maybe, but that's about it. The rest is...wishful waffle.

Congrats on the clickbait. It didn't get me to read your actual post (the title sort of says it all) but it did score you a view count bump of 1 so...*clapclapclap*

I’m glad Diablo 4 will deliver what you want. Thankfully there are games not doing that so that I can enjoy them as well.

Still pushing the PvP doctrine I see.

Not one of those features is important in making a great ARPG *shrug*.