Not a game for the '20s

Hello everyone and GGG people.

Premise: I've been playing PoE1 and PoE2 for a bit more than a year, now. I am not a veteran but I'm not a complete n00b, either.

That being said, let's move to my criticism to the current state of PoE2.

- Death XP penalty. It makes no sense. Get rid of it. No one likes it, no one wants it, it just drives people away, especially if you mix this with...

- Death by unknown one-shots. This is really ridiculous. It's not a matter of skills or map modifiers, sometimes (often times) you just die out of the blue, most of the times without a clue of what's happened to you. Add a damn death summary, at least and stop saying "it's hard to implement". It's not. I work in IT, I have some programming experience. It's not hard to implement, you just refuse to do so for reasons knonw only to you.

- Loot drop rates. What's the point of killing tons of mobs, killing map's bosses if the loot sucks 99.9% of the time? RNG is fun, to an extent. Having a full RNG system is a dumb, dumb choice.

- Trading. No one likes going to an external website and then pray that the seller is available and not mapping. No one likes wasting their time in a trade for which the seller raises the price during the trading process. No one likes to be scammed with a slightly different item than the one posted for sale. Implement an auction house. Not in the future: NOW.

- Keyboard + Controller Integration. This is even more ridiculous than the one-shots. It's 2025, it's not 1999. We DEMAND to have a full integration of mouse/keyb and controller. Not in the future: NOW

- Maps. No one is having fun with those huge maps. No one thinks waypoints are a solution. And, if you had to add them, something was wrong in the first place. Besides this, maps are not clear. Often times you need to check your minimap to understand why you can't go somewhere. And as you do so, you risk to be killed. Furthermore: the elevation in some maps makes it hard/impossible to understand what's going on.

Crafting. Basically, there is no crafting in the game. Either improve it or get rid of it altogether. Also: how are we supposed to do the little crafting we are allowed to do when the drop rates of orbs is so ridiculous?

Optimization. My framerate drops to 20 even with a GeForce4070 at 2k. Also: moving from 4k to 2k doesn't seem to affect performances. They always suck. Networking is terrible. Optimize the netcode and get a grip: in one of the interviews you guys gave, you seemed to not even be aware the "Predictive Mode" hasn't been implemented, yet. And this was more than 2 months ago.


I wish I could say "I love the game but...". Truth is that most of the times I just rage quit because it's basically unplayable. I understand this is an Early Access and this is the reason why I am bothering to waste my time leaving my feedback. PoE1 is a great game, I know you can make PoE2 great, too. But you are not on the right path. Not at all.