3 months in, 12 classes 4 workable builds using 2 skills.

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inspecktadeck#3108 wrote:

The wretched choices made in the production of this game can only be malicious. This level of ineptitude seems highly improbable.

Yup, it is basically why I wrote this post. I figured all the "wrong" in POE was due to some "unknown" factor aka given GGG the benefit of the doubt. POE 2 came up with a promised marketplace etc. I though yay no more "can I buy your helmet pls" 20 times to 20 players hoping someone will answer, but no. We got a currency exchange with more bots manipulating the thing than there are active players on steam. Lol still no marketplace, just the same olde shhhhite but worse.

yeah I can only put it down to malevolence at this point.

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Soulscar1#4896 wrote:

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inspecktadeck#3108 wrote:

The wretched choices made in the production of this game can only be malicious. This level of ineptitude seems highly improbable.

Yup, it is basically why I wrote this post. I figured all the "wrong" in POE was due to some "unknown" factor aka given GGG the benefit of the doubt. POE 2 came up with a promised marketplace etc. I though yay no more "can I buy your helmet pls" 20 times to 20 players hoping someone will answer, but no. We got a currency exchange with more bots manipulating the thing than there are active players on steam. Lol still no marketplace, just the same olde shhhhite but worse.

yeah I can only put it down to malevolence at this point.

They allow the bots because bots hyper inflate the in game currency. This causes people to buy currency from RMT sites. They dont do anything about the RMT because they either run the RMT sites, take a cut from them, or benefit in some financial way by them existing. Perhaps the parent company runs the bot and RMT sites who knows.

Build diversity is shit. Balance the game!

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inspecktadeck#3108 wrote:

The wretched choices made in the production of this game can only be malicious. This level of ineptitude seems highly improbable.

They decided to scale back every single thing imaginable to slow down the game and have us playing longer and longer per league. They even made skill gem levels tradeable..

They have been trying artificially to slow us down for years and years. We complain more and more but they just don't care what we have to say, they have ignored us for about a decade now -- only the last 6 years were seen by me.

Had a good laugh reading some of the replies.

- RMT is banned, I'd say fairly fast. I have sometimes reported and kept track of a RMT account and never seen them login in again. This doesn't mean they can remove all the RMT of the global chat, LE devs made a good thread explaining why. As for 3rd party websites, I don't know, but I find funny the idea of GGG profiting from that.

- All the balance stuff is low priority. This is an Early Access game. The priorities are on finishing the game and fixing bugs, they said they are not going to deploy balance patches outside nerfing extremely overperforming skills.

- This is the absolute best gaming company I've ever seen regarding feedback.

- What you call "convoluted" weapon swap is the absolute best idea they ever had to make you switch weapons, instead of having the second set just to level gems. Huge skill issue here.

- The ascendancy with extra inventory is just a pass to allow you to use the NEXT ascendancy, which is extremely strong and gamechanging. Both games have this situation (bad ascendancy into extremely good ascendancy) but the Titan ascendancy is just the most extreme of them.

- I don't watch streamers but giving that they make money out of playing this game, I'm sure they know what they are gearing and how. Surely you would pull a lot of loot if you played +10 hours a day.

- No life node = good. PoE1 meta revolves around picking HP nodes. Here you don't have that, survive through skill or die. Use a shield maybe? Or build armor. It is not useless (except in the Trial of the Sekhema).

- I don't know what do you mean by "scam", but I admit I'm curious.

Again, they are not going to balance the game until is fully released. This is kinda obvious if you have any experience with early access games, but if you still hope for active balance, you are better off just waiting for the full release.

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inspecktadeck#3108 wrote:

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Soulscar1#4896 wrote:

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inspecktadeck#3108 wrote:

The wretched choices made in the production of this game can only be malicious. This level of ineptitude seems highly improbable.

Yup, it is basically why I wrote this post. I figured all the "wrong" in POE was due to some "unknown" factor aka given GGG the benefit of the doubt. POE 2 came up with a promised marketplace etc. I though yay no more "can I buy your helmet pls" 20 times to 20 players hoping someone will answer, but no. We got a currency exchange with more bots manipulating the thing than there are active players on steam. Lol still no marketplace, just the same olde shhhhite but worse.

yeah I can only put it down to malevolence at this point.

They allow the bots because bots hyper inflate the in game currency. This causes people to buy currency from RMT sites. They dont do anything about the RMT because they either run the RMT sites, take a cut from them, or benefit in some financial way by them existing. Perhaps the parent company runs the bot and RMT sites who knows.

2 days ago when I civily suggested that the parent company might be in control of these 3rd party sites my account got put on probation.
Be careful of getting too close to the truth lol.

It would explain that drop rates and lack of crafting to be honest. No way to play or progress for a large amount of players without rmt. Rather suspicious

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Telgum#2769 wrote:

- All the balance stuff is low priority. This is an Early Access game. The priorities are on finishing the game and fixing bugs, they said they are not going to deploy balance patches outside nerfing extremely overperforming skills.

It wasn't low priority. They stopped and blamed the players for complaining. Them making balance low priority is part of the problem.

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Telgum#2769 wrote:

- This is the absolute best gaming company I've ever seen regarding feedback.

Based on what? Lately their communication has been horrible and when they do respond it's Tone deaf much of the time. They seemingly don't understand the issue with uniques or with towers.

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outlander19900#0213 wrote:

2 days ago when I civily suggested that the parent company might be in control of these 3rd party sites my account got put on probation.
Be careful of getting too close to the truth lol.

It would explain that drop rates and lack of crafting to be honest. No way to play or progress for a large amount of players without rmt. Rather suspicious

They deleted one of my other posts talking about it. I said something to the effect of they are letting it happen so there must be some insensitive. Some wierdo mod deleted my comment talking about "stop promoting rmt" lol

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fouquet#0993 wrote:

It is weird that Jonathan reacted to strongly to people complaining about the early nerfs to some skills and not any other complaint. I think he WAAAAAY over corrected and decided only infrequent huge patches to avoid complaints and this has had a negative cascade effect on the development during this EA.

The obvious play to me would have been to simply be more liberal about handing out character resets and just going ham on changes, nerfs and experimental updates to get maximum data and feedback.

This slow large update approach is wasting valuable testing hours which could improve the game and has soured more people to PoE2 than any nerfs could.

It is mismanagement of priorities on an epic scale and I really hope the studio does some internal soul searching and changes tact.

I really like the PoE1 event and I hope that more 'experimental' updates and events come in the future.

Paragraph 2, 100%. The vast majority of nerf complaints stemmed from characters just being bricked and having no gold to respec. It’s early access, add a free respec all button and let the nerfs/buffs fly. I’m not farming 3hrs on my now broken build just to respec and hopefully not get nerfed again.

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inspecktadeck#3108 wrote:

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outlander19900#0213 wrote:

2 days ago when I civily suggested that the parent company might be in control of these 3rd party sites my account got put on probation.
Be careful of getting too close to the truth lol.

It would explain that drop rates and lack of crafting to be honest. No way to play or progress for a large amount of players without rmt. Rather suspicious

They deleted one of my other posts talking about it. I said something to the effect of they are letting it happen so there must be some insensitive. Some wierdo mod deleted my comment talking about "stop promoting rmt" lol

I dont think these mods are clearly reading and understanding what is being said or implied.

Who knows maybe there are no mods and it's an AI algorithm looking for trigger words lol