From what we've seen so far, do you feel you're going to stay with PoE1 or move to PoE2?

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AboveAverage#2434 wrote:

I think anyone who finds enjoyment in POE1 is a casual/flavor of the month Andy who never really enjoyed POE2 and all it's intricacies.

Anyone who's put a ton of time into both end-games can see how vapid POE1 currently is.

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auspexa#1404 wrote:

so far poe 2 doesn't seem to offer anything that could attract me. I'd rather play grim dawn or last epoch than this sleep fest

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BaumisMagicalWorld wrote:

I was commenting on what I was seeing in a video that was shared, and somehow that got spun into "everything is shit blah blah".

To be fair, your stance for most of this thread has been that Path of Exile 2 is a mistake, and that GGG are dooming their company by not building what is essentially an exact clone of PoE1 with a refreshed coat of paint. Your core assertion, as best I can tell, is that GGG is courting disaster by not making PoE2 for the exact same target audience that currently enjoys PoE1, ne?

If so, then yes. I propose that doing so - making PoE2 run and play and function exactly and precisely the same way as PoE1 - would be the worst mistake Grinding Gear could make. I cannot figure out why nobody ever seems to get it when they hear that Grinding Gear has already made that game. There are no new sales to be made. No new players to be found. No room for growth, no room to develop new skills or abilities or talents. All such a course could possibly allow is cannibalizing the existing playerbase to no actual boon or benefit whatsoever. They wo0uld've spent seven-plus years, millions of dollars, and hundreds of thousands of man-hours to simply say "we made the same exact thing you already have! Wanna start over just because?"

That way lies madness and ruination. Far better for the new game to be exactly that - a new game.

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Perq#4049 wrote:

After years of hoping that GGG will change something about PoE1 to bring back some of the old gameplay they simply made a new game for us - yay!

This is absolutely way better than PoE1 for me, but I can tell that for many people it may be too much. It is way harder, complex and strategic game than the current state of the first.