General Discussion - POE2 isn't "Hard." It's unfun. - Forum

" dylan33#3435 wrote: They made the game extremely tedious and frustrating, yet still made the loot complete garbage and unrewarding. That's a very bad combination. This game is gonna be a complete flop, once people start getting to maps and realize how unfun it is, the player count is going to nose dive. I hit level 70 on my character and wanna try something else but cant bring myself to do this awful campaign slog again. I'll come check the game back out during 1.0 official release I guess and hope things dramatically improve. Im not trying to be a hater, I loved PoE1 and it's one of my favorite games of all time. Unfortunately PoE2 is just not it. If you're not trying to be a hater, why do you act like one in every thread? You do realize people can check your recent post history right? The fact is POE2 is a different beast and still being developed, please except the reality of the situation. Tears make streams. Fish live in streams. I like fish. /MonstaMunch Last edited by Powderoff#1246 on Dec 11, 2024, 6:02:25 PM	Posted by Powderoff#1246 on Dec 11, 2024, 6:00:42 PM Quote this Post
I tried 2 characters. I couldn't ascend or get past act 2. I have a career. Time is an issue. I just want to build a character and have fun, but I got my cheeks duffed. feels bad :o( anyone else uninstalling?	Posted by Amphetimaius#4667 on Dec 12, 2024, 9:45:04 AM Quote this Post
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" Amphetimaius#4667 wrote: I tried 2 characters. I couldn't ascend or get past act 2. I have a career. Time is an issue. I just want to build a character and have fun, but I got my cheeks duffed. feels bad :o( anyone else uninstalling? The Cast on nerf sucks. It bricked 2 of my toons. I took a week off. I have no gold. Can i have your gold before you uninstall? I like punishment, ima keep playing.	Posted by Smurfzilla1#1633 on Dec 12, 2024, 9:51:59 AM Quote this Post
" esostaks#6761 wrote: God bless devs that they spared PoE 1 of this fate and split it into two separate games. Otherwise it would be a tragedy seeing one of my favorite games of all time to amount to something like this. Happy for people who like it. I definitely know which one I'm sticking to. It seems that devs have greatly surpassed my every single concern that I had about PoE 2 before EA and even found new ways to surprise me. At this point even D4 seems more fun even though I'm a big critic of that game, and I feel like this is objectively the worst ARPG I've played in my life in terms of fun and enjoyment, and it is extremely lacking in every aspect that makes ARPG genre fun for me. Oh, boy! My thougts, exactly! I totally agree with you. I'm so grateful that Path of Exile has remained untouched by their "vision" of the New Forever Game.	Posted by Natthy#0253 on Dec 12, 2024, 11:14:56 AM Quote this Post
" Smurfzilla1#1633 wrote: The Cast on nerf sucks. It bricked 2 of my toons. I took a week off. I have no gold. Can i have your gold before you uninstall? I like punishment, ima keep playing. That's what you get for calling characters "toons" As soon as you stop doing that, GGG will buff them again	Posted by MarsAstro#7928 on Dec 12, 2024, 11:38:18 AM Quote this Post
I play with mouse and keyboard, even when I have a gaming pad. I found myself not able to continuously play for long period of time as all these key pressing/dodging gives me RSI. The thing I hate most: 1. Monsters respawn after you die, even when you had cleared 99% of it before. 2. Many monster mods/abilities are from POE 1, which is not suitable for POE 2 due to lack of "escape" mechanism, especially large area of attack stuff. 3. The one support gem support limit resticts build freedom. 4. Ascendency utilises the most unpopular mechanics of POE 1 which baffles the mind. I am starting Act 2 but already finding it a chore to play, back to POE 1 I guess. Hope it improves at release. Last edited by R28666#7050 on Dec 14, 2024, 12:43:45 PM	Posted by R28666#7050 on Dec 14, 2024, 12:43:17 PM Quote this Post
I think I died to act 1 boss 20 times. And Act 2 boss took me over 50 tries. I had to play like 6hrs before I could kill act 2 boss. After that I died a couple times until having to do all the acts on next difficulty. I only died a handful of times all the way up to maps. I played a Sorc. The first 2 acts were so difficult I thought I would never get to maps.	Posted by Idle-Race#9384 on Dec 14, 2024, 1:51:11 PM Quote this Post
I am not sure POE2 is 100% sure what kind of game it wants to be. Dying once in Maps, you lose the map? What?!?! In a game with a crap ton of one-tap mechanics, no movement skills, a terrible roll mechanic you can't die at all in a map otherwise you lose the map and your progress getting to that map? WTF is that....On top of that at a certain point you lose what, 15% experience each death? Not sure why but GGG seems to have mixed up difficult with punishing and they can absolutely be exclusive of one another...	Posted by Kevinranders#3209 on Dec 14, 2024, 2:02:23 PM Quote this Post
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