Absolutely disapointed -- This game is hard, and not in a fun way.

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Deeppee#4969 wrote:

I can’t remember a single league in PoE 1 over many, many years where I went to sleep on release day.
In PoE 2, I went to sleep after just 2 hours of gameplay.

There are several reasons:
- The character doesn’t respond to controls properly and feels like it has a mind of its own.
- The game lacks any sense of dynamism; it’s incredibly dull and slow.
- Bosses are overly difficult. I don’t want to dodge endlessly; I just want to kill them and move on.
- It’s painfully boring to kill mobs when it takes more than one hit.
- There’s no loot and no rewards at all.

It’s sad to say this, but it’s a failure.

Point 1: Totally fair, this is the biggest thing that needs addressing.

Point 2: Okay, that's kinda fair, I can see how it would feel that way until level 20 or 25 depending on your setup, it's probably something that should be addressed, just to make the first 10-12 levels less gruelling when there are fewer options.

Point 3: Okay now you've lost me. You want it to be impossible to fail? That's been the biggest problem in gaming for the last nearly a decade. There is a reason why Elden Ring, despite its difficulty, was so well received.

Point 4: Once again, this is a D4 brainrot take, not sure what else to call it.

Point 5: It's not PoE1 endgame. There are fewer things dropping, and every single one of them is more useful and impactful than the average relative drop in PoE1. This is a major improvement, you don't want to have piles of garbage that needs to be filtered like every other offering in the genre.

it's POE 2, not Elden Ring
I played Elden Ring 30 min and then deleted
I have played POE 1 5000 hours and I'm going just to wait new league.

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Deeppee#4969 wrote:

it's POE 2, not Elden Ring
I played Elden Ring 30 min and then deleted
I have played POE 1 5000 hours and I'm going just to wait new league.

You're right. It's PoE2, not D4 or PoE1.

I sincerely hope you continue to enjoy PoE1, I know I will.

But I don't want PoE2 to stop doing everything that makes it unique and novel.

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Gogolo30#6034 wrote:

Point 3: Okay now you've lost me. You want it to be impossible to fail? That's been the biggest problem in gaming for the last nearly a decade. There is a reason why Elden Ring, despite its difficulty, was so well received.

Point 4: Once again, this is a D4 brainrot take, not sure what else to call it.

Point 5: It's not PoE1 endgame. There are fewer things dropping, and every single one of them is more useful and impactful than the average relative drop in PoE1. This is a major improvement, you don't want to have piles of garbage that needs to be filtered like every other offering in the genre.

I agree on point 3. Point 4 is not a brainrot take, it's just over the top. It takes like 7-8 coordinated attacks to kill white mobs. That's too much. They're the reason most bosses are hard, because they just spawn crazy amounts of adds to swarm you, body block you, and stun you while the boss is then free to barrage you with attacks. Roll becomes completely useless here because you can't roll through mobs.

Last point; I'm in Act 2, I have dropped ONE rare (which was back at mlvl 11). I'm level 17, but the majority of my gear is under ilvl 10. My wand and shield are ilvl 2 and 4 respectively. The loot drops are almost non-existent, and the few items that do drop end up being 1) flasks (seriously, why do so many flasks drop? this should be the first thing to have been culled when looking at loot tables), 2) not for my build (I see a lot of 2H clubs, bows, xbows, and the like as a spellcaster, still wondering where staves and wands are), or 3) at best, the same as items I'm already running, but usually they're just worse.

I'm not expecting juiced endgame loot. But I also didn't expect to run the same crappy gear through the entire first act of the game, especially considering it's not even that good. Loot needs a major adjustment, and it doesn't necessarily need to be more drops, but something has to change, because there's been almost no progression at all, and that makes the game feel terrible.

I didn't read through this entire thread but I'm in agreement with a lot of the complaints here. Getting utterly deleted by trash mobs and having to roll around for days to get some breathing room is ridiculous.

The 1-shots are tiring. I get things are telegraphed but most of the players here aren't the 1% elitists who have cat-like reflexes. My god GGG.

What a goddamn disappointment.

Hope poe1 gets full love, because i wont play poe2. Just not made for me.

I was honestly pumped to go to sleep last night and not worry about missing the boat on the SC online experience cuz i didn't grind my nuts off trying to avoid an economy that's ruined after 36 hours. I never played POE1 league start til my eyes were bleeding from lack of sleep because i wanted to...it was to avoid the currency hoarding FOMO grind to race to get a mageblood. on the plus side, if you still wanna do that, GGG isn't doing away with poe1 (unlike blizz with overwatch). Pick a lane, enjoy it for what they are, but don't make them the same thing with upscaled graphics. it's not needed. and if you just want random chance of loot explosions, go play a slot machine. it's the easiest boss.

PoE2 commits the worst sin - it's boring.

i bet 90% of people making these post have all passives invested in offense.

I agree completely. Thousands of hours in POE 1. It's as if GGG doesn't understand why people play video games. News flash: it's for FUN. So, you make a game so impossible that even a good player who understands the game dies many times to each boss? Is that fun? People just bash the people like me who complain that they should just be better or play a different game. OK. So GGG loses millions because they can't just make an 'easy' mode so we can learn the game, have fun, get better, and then play normal difficulty? Tons of games have that. Takes little effort to code and implement. Wow, now everyone is happy because we can all play a difficulty level that meets our desires. Not hard. The countless amazing things built into this game that are awesome, all the improvements from POE 1, etc. and I may just go back to Last Epoch and enjoy myself.