Intentions vs Reality. Possible outcome of the EA.

Intentions:

The intention of the EA of PoE2 is to test things and make adjustments so that the "Release" is as smooth as it can be.

Reality:

This EA phase is treated like a ready game and no amount of words and intentions will change that for many of us who enjoy PoE.

Because of the extremely high HYPE "Log in" this early access attracted a lot more people than game testing usually has. How many game testers there are for game as a baseline ? 2k? 5k? 10k?

This game test is not mandatory but was advertised and expected. It arrived with so much content that no matter the intentions IT FEELS like a ready game with issues for most. If we had 20% of what we have now and with issues, bugs, then people would not FEEL like they are playing a ready game and would not invest so much of their time in it.

IMHO:

GGG Had the best intentions and did their absolute best to not disappoint they players and they delivered on it in the first 2 acts. Because of that they overshot the "this is for testing" and landed in the "this is the game" section for many gamers. I would argue that that is one of the main reasons for so much frustration from the players side.

Because of the scale/amount of the game to test, the testers feel like players.

Possible outcome:

The possible outcome is that people will drop the "EA PoE2" as if it was a ready release PoE2 and will not look at it again.

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Kodavor#1200 wrote:

Intentions:



IMHO:

GGG Had the best intentions and did their absolute best to not disappoint they players and they delivered on it in the first 2 acts. Because of that they overshot the "this is for testing" and landed in the "this is the game" section for many gamers. I would argue that that is one of the main reasons for so much frustration from the players side.

Because of the scale/amount of the game to test, the testers feel like players.

What about the third act? That the best in my opinion, its just visualy amazing and how i imagined a 2024 version of the Kurast jungle would look, and how Vessel of Hatred should have looked.

How many hours does it take for an average "Player", not a game tester to get to act 3? Can they get past the Dreadnaught ?(it was made more easy now)

Game testers will go into the EA game of choice and test it probing for bugs and exploits. How many of the hundreds of thousands of people that jumped on this EA PoE2 consider themselves Game testers ?