I am out. I want to like it so much - but it's just too hard to be fun.

tedious / boring u mean?

I am out probably until full version comes out as well. Not even going to bother to look at all the small patches. I clocked 180h, did all endgame without farming the bugged Arbiter, some of my friends 40-300h. But there isn't much else to be done. Streamers will do streamer content, aka 'races', because they have time and that's their work.

But nobody else that is sane will do it. I am starting to wonder if buying early access was a good idea at all if the game will not change drastically.

But hey, RMTs are happy, so GGG is also happy, so China is happy because they can earn money on their scamming practices that are not prosecuted :)

The game isn't even hard. You either can see the boss animations and press dodge or you can't. I was running a fire pet build with some other spells and I physically couldn't see ANY of the bosses winding up. All my friends said the same thing, we just roll around casting our vulnerability spell inbetween minion spells or whatever left click attack/spell build they are doing.

That playstyle gets boring after less than one session. What am I supposed to do, play 250 more hours so I can get a weapon with +skills? Sit in trade channels for 6 hours trying to get an upgrade? It's BORING.

I had 1000x more fun messing around on Diablo 3 the past 3 months than playing this. That's right, a THIRTEEN year old game has better playability than a 2025 cashgrab devs divorce/mortgage game.

I think that's the worst part about PoE2. Not the poor gameplay, lack of creativity, or complete lack of interesting uniques... it's the fact you can literally feel a divorced dev paying for a mortgage while you play. (I never read replies)