Well done, POE. You bricked it.

To be honest they did say that "in almost all cases this is a buff from before"...everyone must have ended in the "almost" part of the cases :)))))

This is SO like GGG it's hilarious.

Why are they so terrified of the game being fun and rewarding for the average player?

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DamageIncorporated wrote:

This is SO like GGG it's hilarious.

Why are they so terrified of the game being fun and rewarding for the average player?

Because the average player might not spend enough time in the game to consider buying mtx...That's one reason there.

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"in almost all cases this is a nerf from before"

Fixed that for you and for GGG. Communication is important.

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Because the average player might not spend enough time in the game to consider buying mtx

Nothing entices me more to buy MTX than having it shoved in my face every time I log in and grinding my PC to a halt and/or crashing it. If you want me to buy MTX, you can start by optimizing your engine so I don't need year 2030 hardware to play a year 2012 game.

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DamageIncorporated wrote:

This is SO like GGG it's hilarious.

Why are they so terrified of the game being fun and rewarding for the average player?

As much as I like GGG (leagues above other game devs) I hate to see their obsession in balancing their game around the upper 1% of elite no lifing whales.

99.9% of their "buffs" were always nerfs for the average guy, and actual buffs for the "elites"

I gave up trying to understand why; I have theories, but it's not worth wasting my time on that. So I just play until it's not fun anymore, and wait for the next league.

yea that happen to me too lost whole shipment

they really need to tone down the grind for the town stuff seems like you need to play 8 hours a day to get anywhere

Wow, I thought I was just smooth brained when it happened to me.
Huge shipment then came back to collect after notified.

NOTHING!

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Vendetta wrote:

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DamageIncorporated wrote:

This is SO like GGG it's hilarious.

Why are they so terrified of the game being fun and rewarding for the average player?

Because the average player might not spend enough time in the game to consider buying mtx...That's one reason there.

As someone who has spent a not insignificant amount on mtx for this game, It's honestly getting to the point where it's just not fun for me anymore. I can't stand the loot changes pushing everything towards scarabs. I've tried t17's, and I hate it. Those boss fights with those mods are straight garbage. This in an of itself wouldn't be such a problem if they didn't nuke the rewards for literally everything else. Even getting the 4 voidstones feels like a chore now.

Their gameplay loop for the "endgame" feels like they are trying to cultivate a very specific type of player, and I'm not sure if that's me anymore. This game used to be so much more fun and engaging without feeling like most of my time and effort was being completely wasted. Why did they go down this road?

If this core design philosophy carries over into POE2, then I'll just have to write off GGG as yet another developer no longer worth my time.

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Angrybagel wrote:

I've tried t17's, and I hate it. Those boss fights with those mods are straight garbage.

How you dare, it's so high quality content. They put on this probably 3 hours of work.

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BlaqWolf wrote:

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100k - Received a notification of the ship returning but when I went to the shipping screen it was sitting unloaded as if it had never left. No notifications, no messages of mission failure, just... an empty ship ready for cargo.

I had the same junk happen to me twice after the patch, I thought I went senile.