PoE2 Early Access Buzzkill

I think I initially was going to try it out but I think I'll wait for a full release and be surprised by everything instead of already knowing the whole game prior.

are people not gonna get bored with spamming 3 acts in already first week? how long EA gonna be playable? i cant imagine people spamming 3 acts for 200-300 hours

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Volcomstone21 wrote:

I was certainly looking forward to this early access until the latest update;

- Confirmed only 3 acts and 6 classes (no Druid or Huntress) starting in Early access
- Mark can finish 3 acts within 5 hours
- Flask system rework
- Act 3 brings a corruption mechanic to the game

I'm still excited to check them game out, just slightly bummed to learn there is arguably half the game still being held back.

FAR less then half the game to play. Remember, originally it was a single ascendancy per playable class when they said we could play 10/12.

So this beta will have 3/6 acts that'll be pretty quick after our first time through.

6/12 classes, and that means at most 6/36 ascendancies.

Nearly zero end game.

What happened to the idea of having poe2 be more full of content then other arpgs when it's playable? Because right now D4's early access had more content.

I'm warnin yall, letting them slide on this early access BS only means it'll take longer to full release. They'll get most of the money early because it's pay to play poe2 for the next year or two, and they can trickle in base content every couple of months.

We're so hungry for PoE2 that players are going to be burning themselves out on this tiny amount of content, then consuming every update immediately. Hell I won't be surprised if there's a large amount of apathy when PoE2 finally releases, since we'll all have seen most of it over and over again. Sure they'll keep the last act non playable which is cool, but what, are they going to keep endgame a secret as well? Or will we be playing a non complete game for the next couple years that doesn't even have and endgame?

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Bleu42 wrote:

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I'm warnin yall, letting them slide on this early access BS only means it'll take longer to full release.
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As opposed to what, precisely? Rioting like mad on the forums for five solid weeks? What would that change? I fail to see what effective action the community could take to alter the events in question. They're not going to release half-baked content they're not satisfied with just because some folks on the forum are upset they're not getting the entire game for free right away.

One can accept the delays and the limitations of the EA period with whatever grace one will, or one can vote with their wallet and not pay for EA, either at all or until they deem the EA worth supporting. Those are the options.

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Bleu42 wrote:

We're so hungry for PoE2 that players are going to be burning themselves out on this tiny amount of content, then consuming every update immediately. Hell I won't be surprised if there's a large amount of apathy when PoE2 finally releases, since we'll all have seen most of it over and over again. Sure they'll keep the last act non playable which is cool, but what, are they going to keep endgame a secret as well? Or will we be playing a non complete game for the next couple years that doesn't even have and endgame?

Reminder: "Endgame" in Path of Exile is either farming the exact same ultrajuiced Uber boss literally on repeat forever, or farming the exact same ultrajuiced, hyper-narrow maps-adjacent content on repeat forever. If a player can call running five-emblem legion encounters and LITERALLY NOTHING but running five-emblem Legion encounters 'endgame', then regular mapping will work out just fine. Presuming, of course, that the weird low-level endgame-analogue they're working on is basically leveled-down maps, which is likely the easiest solution to throw out until the rest of the game kicks in.

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1453R wrote:

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Bleu42 wrote:

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I'm warnin yall, letting them slide on this early access BS only means it'll take longer to full release.
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As opposed to what, precisely? Rioting like mad on the forums for five solid weeks? What would that change? I fail to see what effective action the community could take to alter the events in question. They're not going to release half-baked content they're not satisfied with just because some folks on the forum are upset they're not getting the entire game for free right away.

One can accept the delays and the limitations of the EA period with whatever grace one will, or one can vote with their wallet and not pay for EA, either at all or until they deem the EA worth supporting. Those are the options.

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Bleu42 wrote:

We're so hungry for PoE2 that players are going to be burning themselves out on this tiny amount of content, then consuming every update immediately. Hell I won't be surprised if there's a large amount of apathy when PoE2 finally releases, since we'll all have seen most of it over and over again. Sure they'll keep the last act non playable which is cool, but what, are they going to keep endgame a secret as well? Or will we be playing a non complete game for the next couple years that doesn't even have and endgame?

Reminder: "Endgame" in Path of Exile is either farming the exact same ultrajuiced Uber boss literally on repeat forever, or farming the exact same ultrajuiced, hyper-narrow maps-adjacent content on repeat forever. If a player can call running five-emblem legion encounters and LITERALLY NOTHING but running five-emblem Legion encounters 'endgame', then regular mapping will work out just fine. Presuming, of course, that the weird low-level endgame-analogue they're working on is basically leveled-down maps, which is likely the easiest solution to throw out until the rest of the game kicks in.

Why do you view everything only in extremes? I never said anyone should "riot like mad", but I do think they should voice their displeasure with the current events.

Endgame is... endgame dude. You're in the endgame when you've completed the campaign, and in poe1 this means you're running maps and working on different mechanics while doing so. I'm confused on what your point was with this last part. I stated there would be almost no end game in EA, if any at all. And as far as I can tell right now, I'm correct.

Anyway, in my own personal opinion that no one else needs to share, I think this entire beta / EA is a mistake. We've waited 5 years only to have the renamed beta contain very little content. And that's after multiple delays. This beta, that's now an EA, has already confused players who aren't hyper focused on PoE. I've seen multiple people post thinking the full release is right around the corner (D4 had 'early access', and it was the entire game a couple days early). We also have the issue of GGG essentially lying to us that PoE2 won't affect PoE1's leagues, and now we're looking at a 7 month league, meanwhile PoE2's content is so little it HAS to be years away from an actual launch.

I'm sure everything will end up fine, but I'm getting worried about how GGG is handling everything.

dudes be forgetting EA does not mean u get to play the complete game. lol

thats like going to hooters expecting a strip dance.

Early Access isn't the game being released, it's literally a beta where you are limit testing and bug finding. Stop having stupid unrealistic expectations and you will be less disappointed.

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safarr wrote:

Early Access isn't the game being released, it's literally a beta where you are limit testing and bug finding. Stop having stupid unrealistic expectations and you will be less disappointed.

I wish I could upvote this 100 times

well at the same time it s 30 euros, so having expectations is the minimum.

what s the date for the free 2 play release ?

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SerialF wrote:

well at the same time it s 30 euros, so having expectations is the minimum.

what s the date for the free 2 play release ?

They haven't given one. The Early Access is loosely planned for six to twelve months, but the devs have confirmed the timeline is "the EA will run for as long as it needs to".