State of Early Access Update

As it stands right now, PoE 1 is a far superior game. PoE 2 lacks content, balance, skill variety, build variety, many QoL features existing in PoE 1. It will take YEARS to get anywhere near PoE 1 in quality. By taking development resources from PoE 1 you are only killing your golden goose. The hype around PoE 2 will eventually wear off and all the new players will get fed with its issues. But if you kill PoE 1 you will lose your existing player base.

Keep working on PoE 2 without hurting PoE 1.

Poe2 has been awesome so far, I've had a lot of fun.

That draw card better be the druid tho just sayin

For the love of god, make more frequent balance changes. It's so desperately needed. Why were the whiners allowed to win on this one issue for some reason.


Also the end game doesn't really have a lot of balance problems, core concept problems sure but not really balance.

Like finding all rares? God awful experience.

Not being able to spam the same map? Probably my least favorite idea ever both conceptually and in practice in an ARPG.

It only works in other games because they have generic layouts and the "map" doesn't impact gameplay in any meaningful way.

And I'm not sure it being totally irrelevant what map you load into would be a gameplay improvement, so I don't think going that way is an option.

what an embarrassment of a launch.

The trials still are an issue, they arent fun. Id rather the old lab over 2 of argueably the worst POE1 Mechanics that you copy pasted over. Having honour and ultimatum RNG gatekeep ascendancies is a mistake. The other issues are STILL 1 death in maps being a thing, it just ruins the endgame experience. Its bad enough that you already started to backpedal on it with your bossing, you just need to keep reworking it until everything is on that level. I dont play hardcore mode for a reason and the developers trying to jam it down the players throats with single death maps is insane to me. Lack of some better form of a trading system is a massive issue as well. If you dont want this to just be PoE 1.5 then maybe improve on this point instead of just leaving it in the terrible state its been in. Again one of the worst things from PoE 1 is having to sit there and spam trade requests half the day trying to buy items, but for some reason this mechanic from PoE 1 your team felt was a good idea to copy/paste over exactly as is from PoE 1. I really dont get it.


Just to recap, You claim you dont want this game exactly like PoE 1, so you are being quirky with 1 death in maps, and Darksouls bosses. But then you also are taking some of the worst and least popular parts OF poe 1 and just directly copying them over and just expecting them to be accepted because they were apart of PoE 1 and they were good enough to use there with the trading system, ultimatum, and sanctum. Either stay true to your plan and actually improve things, or just actually give us a better PoE 1. Trying to do both is having horrible results.

Lastly, we dont hate big balance changes with builds. We hate big balance changes with builds AND having an INSANELY EXPENSIVE RESPECCING SYSTEM to change out of builds that you fully beat into the ground and break. If you want this to be a true early access... and you want to test things, then actually give us the ability to change specs and try things out. As it is it takes an astronomically large investment to make a spec and even more to change it from one thing to another. So when you take a sledge hammer to the build YES people are going to be upset. Easy fix? Make the respecs free for the early access. You cant say you want people to try things out, and test things after you change them and then,,, make it borderline impossible for people to actually try them out and test them.

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One of the hardest things about game design is that it only takes a mistake in a single number to make a player have a terrible experience.

going from six portals to a single number of portals definitely accomplished this for a lot of people

More build and something to have more peoples to come back, that sound good!

0 Trust in GGG. I am sure there will be a big update. You guys have done next to nothing to the game since its release. No customer service period. PoE 1 dead and abandoned. Very little communication with your player base.

Game breaking exploits with nothing done. Rewarding the players that exploit and punishing all the players that didn't exploit.

I am checked out. You guys move at a snails pace. Everyone says PoE 2 will be really good in a year. I think it will take you guys a couple years at the pace you are moving at.

You made a game that caters to exploiters, bots, China currency sellers. You don't value real players time.

Devs treated this like a real league not a testing. Everyone is exploiting playing Spark and nobody is playing the weak builds. You are afraid to balance in a test early access league.

The second I realized how over powered my Spark was I rerolled to the weakest class Witch Hunter. Thinking its a testing. But I was just punished and tortured. It ended not being a real testing.

The way PoE 2 was treated was a real league and the first league of PoE 2. Leagues use to last 3 months. Now it feels like you guys are not capable or making any leagues for 6-12 months.

You do not deserve the players you have playing the game. I would bet on PoE 2 failing. Making a second great game after a first is very rare.

Loving some of the feedback in this thread …. Let them
Have it. The rate at which they update POE2, they’ll end up copping the new lack of updates flag on steam 😂 the new feature EA games will be flagged with now. 500k or so peak and now it’s sub 100k last I checked on steam from yesterday & will continue to dwindle the more ggg LAG this beta release