This game is too frustrating to be fun.

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Smudgius#2361 เขียน:

As a company, I love GGG. They are in a shockingly tiny minority of game developers who act with integrity and ethics. I genuinely appreciate that.

Path of Exile 2 has so many things going for it - it looks fantastic, it has a great soundscape, the level design is varied and I can tell that a ton of thought went into making environments varied and making you take the terrain into account when fighting. Others are free to disagree - but for me, PoE 2 is the best looking, sounding, and feeling arpg on the market - I found it technically and technologically far more impressive than D4.

I love so many of the ideas that go into PoE2 - the variety and versatility, the willingness to let players break the game, the obvious love the devs have for their game.

All of that is a big part of why I am so incredibly frustrated. Does the game really need to be this hard, this punishing? There are SO MANY 1-shot abilities - yet players are punished for death by loosing both loot AND xp. There are NO defensive builds - by design you cannot go tanky - which feels pretty antithetical to the whole 'play any way you want' element. I understand that there are players that want the game to be brutally unforgiving and ridiculously hard - I don't want to take away from their experience - but can't those players play hardcore, or play non-meta builds that are not as good - and will make their experience all that much more challenging? Can there not be nodes on the atlas that make the game more challenging for them? (I have no issue with those nodes adding more reward - but can we balance the meta around something OTHER than the top 2% of the player base, maybe?)

At some point, this incessant need to make games harder and harder, just ends up feeling like elitism and gatekeeping. Is it really so impossible to find a middle ground where some players can find the extreme challenge they want, while those of us who are middle-aged and developing arthritis can ALSO actually play through the game?

Just something to think about.

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Druidenjoyer#0031 เขียน:

everything about this game is frustrating and tedious. even the simplest things need to be tedious. they want people to fail so bad. they design everything with that in mind. "how can we make sure the player fails and has a bad time"

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Hyperspacing#5593 เขียน:

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Smudgius#2361 เขียน:

As a company, I love GGG. They are in a shockingly tiny minority of game developers who act with integrity and ethics. I genuinely appreciate that.

Path of Exile 2 has so many things going for it - it looks fantastic, it has a great soundscape, the level design is varied and I can tell that a ton of thought went into making environments varied and making you take the terrain into account when fighting. Others are free to disagree - but for me, PoE 2 is the best looking, sounding, and feeling arpg on the market - I found it technically and technologically far more impressive than D4.

I love so many of the ideas that go into PoE2 - the variety and versatility, the willingness to let players break the game, the obvious love the devs have for their game.

All of that is a big part of why I am so incredibly frustrated. Does the game really need to be this hard, this punishing? There are SO MANY 1-shot abilities - yet players are punished for death by loosing both loot AND xp. There are NO defensive builds - by design you cannot go tanky - which feels pretty antithetical to the whole 'play any way you want' element. I understand that there are players that want the game to be brutally unforgiving and ridiculously hard - I don't want to take away from their experience - but can't those players play hardcore, or play non-meta builds that are not as good - and will make their experience all that much more challenging? Can there not be nodes on the atlas that make the game more challenging for them? (I have no issue with those nodes adding more reward - but can we balance the meta around something OTHER than the top 2% of the player base, maybe?)

At some point, this incessant need to make games harder and harder, just ends up feeling like elitism and gatekeeping. Is it really so impossible to find a middle ground where some players can find the extreme challenge they want, while those of us who are middle-aged and developing arthritis can ALSO actually play through the game?

Just something to think about.

Its ok if the game is to hard. It is drawing an entire new fanbase to the game. POE 2 might not be for you broski and that is ok.

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Smudgius#2361 เขียน:

Its ok if the game is to hard. It is drawing an entire new fanbase to the game. POE 2 might not be for you broski and that is ok.

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Smudgius#2361 เขียน:

There are SO MANY 1-shot abilities - yet players are punished for death by loosing both loot AND xp. There are NO defensive builds - by design you cannot go tanky

"

Smudgius#2361 เขียน:

I understand that there are players that want the game to be brutally unforgiving and ridiculously hard - I don't want to take away from their experience - but can't those players play hardcore, or play non-meta builds that are not as good - and will make their experience all that much more challenging?

"

Smudgius#2361 เขียน:

Can there not be nodes on the atlas that make the game more challenging for them? (I have no issue with those nodes adding more reward - but can we balance the meta around something OTHER than the top 2% of the player base, maybe?)

"

Smudgius#2361 เขียน:

At some point, this incessant need to make games harder and harder, just ends up feeling like elitism and gatekeeping. Is it really so impossible to find a middle ground where some players can find the extreme challenge they want, while those of us who are middle-aged and developing arthritis can ALSO actually play through the game?