This has way too much quality and quantity to be a free game

Just like how big and swarthy the cocks of colored men are….
No wonder why white girls love em so much

>>715243202
@grok is this real?

>>715242921 (OP)
stfu Chris, go buy more Black Lotus cards.

>>715242921 (OP)
It's not. You have to pay thousands of dollars to get all the content it's offering.

Pay 2 win gookslop

>>715242921 (OP)
what went wrong ?

>>715243403
chris doesn't even work at ggg anymore

>>715243891
They though PoE 1 was good enough to warrant a sequel.
Odd because they have the internal metrics and should know PoE 1 is artificially inflated by bots and chinks and is some dead game even Chris abandoned.

Diablo won in the end.

>>715244067
poe2 already made back its cost.
note that it has 120k reviews on steam alone

>>715243891
>Promise continued support for poe 1
>Infighting starts within company
>Chris leaves
>Suddenly 2/3 of the team pivots from poe1 to poe2
>Roadmap for poe1 nonexistent

It's literally all poe1 players reviewbombing (Me included).

>>715244850
>poe2 already made back its cost.
Source?

>>715245173
>They give you a league
>Still complain
Enjoy your end of service lmao

>>715242921 (OP)
I wouldn't call it free but it's still pretty good bang for your buck. Anyway ditch this thread, schizos from /vg/ have already arrived.

>>715245513
>They give you a league
>a league
Big whoop. The game is dead.

>>715245675
>A year since last league

>>715243891
>have perfectly functional, well-liked game in poe1
>at first, tease poe2 as a separate 7-act story with better graphics
>"ONE GAME, TWO CAMPAIGNS"
>turns out all the game mechanics will be completely different
>difficulty, scaling, etc. will be fundamentally changed
>ok sure, whatever
>GGG sits on their ass for 3 years
>creative director Erik Oloffson leaves
>that fat gnome fuck Jonathan is in charge of poe2
>the guy who literally only plays aurabots and minion builds
>more stuff gets revealed about poe2
>plays slow as shit, endgame looks like dog piss compared to poe1, no power fantasy to reach
>oh, it's gonna be a different game altogether
>delays
>more delays
>every single reveal just makes it look worse and less fun
>since it's an entirely different game, GGG's resources are split down the fucking middle
>they want poe2 to sell since its their new shit, so they move everyone onto poe2 development
>poe1 is functionally dead
>no one knows what the fuck to do, since maintaining 2 games with a studio this small is virtually impossible
>Chris steps down as director
>the old guard is gone
>poe1 playerbase is tired and alienated
>poe2 playerbase hasnt been given the time and investment to fully form
>instead of having one functional game, GGG now has two on life support
congratulations, you stupid fucking kiwis

>>715242921 (OP)
i opened this game and as soon as i found out it was just clicking on enemies i immediately unistalled

>>715242921 (OP)
You see, you have made an error there. It is not a free game. While you do not pay initially for it, you will pay for stash tabs eventually. However, the price you pay for it is your time, and then your sanity. No, it is not a free game - that is just an illusion.

>>715245173
I want so badly for them to just cut it out entirely, then make it p2p, sell MTXs as cosmetic DLCs, and release a modkit for it. I dont care, price it at 60$ - ill buy it, so long as it comes with a modkit.

>>715246168
>Imagine trying to wrangle that sghetti-code engine

>excited for new league
>make it to maps
>realize how much this shit sucks
>look up poe on youtube for ideas
>bro just blast the same maps hundreds of times

how do people do this?

>>715242921 (OP)
I am playing the current league, ssf. It is shit (because the league mechanic is rare to begin with), and all of the content has been nerfed to shit, so you are forced to use that stupid atlas passive system.

Atleast the skill i like is still going good, so i am kinda happy with that.

>>715246382
Short answer: Autism. I generally just play to maps every league to try out the different mechanics, do a bit of trading, and to see how far I can make it with i random roll character.

If you want to beat endgame you practically have to follow the meta builds.

>>715244057
Wonder if he's trying something new with that PoE-like he's working on, but realistically I only expect more of the same.

>>715246360
I dont even want to wrangle it. I just want PoE builder and Hero Editor stuff. AFAIK, all it needs are a LOT of numbers adjustments.
Being able to make 3D art for uniques that they still did not make any for would be nice.
>Atziri's Step unique boots
>still no 3D art
It has been almost 10 years FFS. And do you know why? Because they want to sell you MTXs and thus those cancerous visual effects that have no place in the game at all.

Only trannys play this game

>>715246517
The thing that stopped them from upgrading the shaders for close to a decade was because they didn't know how to code it in without incurring a massive preformance loss (which ironically they eventually ended up doing anyway and it shot the graphical memory usage by 50+%).

I highly doubt that the stats are coded in a way that would make it easy to release modifieable scripts or plugins.

>changing the layout orientation of zones during the campaign

why?

no one is here for the campaign, and it's already a slog to get through

>>715246641
I mean, how hard can it be to change a stat value on the item? Or adjust 0.001% to 10%?

>>715245867
The new league started like a month ago and its fine

>>715246814
If i could mod it, i would simply make an endless ledge to lvl 60, and then an optional to 100 for those who dont give a shit about maps.

>>715245173
PoE 1 doesn't even need big leagues really. It just needs balance patches and a couple of new skills and uniques every 4 months or so. I could play the game forever.

>>715246860
it's incredibly bare bones

>>715246382
You get 100 maps and 100 sets of map buff items and run the maps.
Takes 3 or 4 hours.

>>715246903
You just don't know how to use it because you wish you were playing a different game entirely. PoE is about making showcase builds worth multiple mirrors, not dicking around with passive trees and raw drop random crafting. If you're not going to engage in the community to at least understand what others are doing to be more successful than you then the game is literally not for you. Go play D2 or titan quest or something

>>715246842
It depends on how they wrote it, if they made the variable private or public, if they are inheriting from any specific libraries, if the code is under a specific liscence, if they are using specific interfaces etc etc etc.

It's not always about changing the value of variable a, because variable b, c, d, or e can derive their own values from a, and by changing the value of a you have now changed the values of b, c, d, and e (this is an example of bad coding but it is something that can happen).

>>715242921 (OP)
>havent played in years
>start new character
>make it to the first zone past tutorial
>bombarded with confusing systems and different kinds of currency
>wtf.exe
>uninstall
Too much bloat

>>715243403
never understood people complaining about lack of stash tabs. i wasnt a hardcore map player but the tabs given are plenty

PoE1 players only want to play PoE1 at mach 5 and not have to think about anything gameplay related, they also want to either search up other players builds or use the same 1-2 builds every league for the rest of eternity. They don't want to play the game, they want to invalidate it for a month every 3-4 months. It's also "free" which in itself causes a lot of problems with the community.

GGG realized that PoE1 has gone too far in the wrong direction and trying to steer it back is impossible without a hard reset, PoE1 is also a fairly old (and ugly) game that is bloated with too many mechanics and concepts that most of the playerbase hate, until you take it away from them.

>>715247453
fuck off with your reddit spacing

>>715247525
Can you explain to the class what reddit spacing is since you seem to be an expert on all things reddit?

Current league rewards look good in PoE 2, guess thats the only purpose of poop1 these days.

>>715247614
nta but paragraphing is gay.

>>715247525
>Zoomer sees text more than a single line in length using formatting to break up the points being made
>Has a complete mental breakdown

This is your brain on path of exile.

Why do poe players hate gameplay so much?

>>715247729
POE gameplay is subpar, you are here for gambling and getting bigger numbers.

>>715247453
Do not generalise. Playing even at mach 1 can give me a headache. I like a slower, methodical approach. And i like a variety of builds - not everything needs to be meta/uber to beat the game. However, that happens because devs are retards, and top 1% of players are ADHD addicts - a lethal combination.

>ugly
Nah, it looks OK. Nothing special. I however miss some of the old effects - new graphics stuff they added or changed looks atrocious though, like chilled ground effect or frost nova.

>>715247729
Because it is rigged to be shit, and to be as unpleasant to deal with as possible. Also, because all of PoE's gameplay can be summarised by one word - gambling.

>>715242921 (OP)
Does it? Was pretty mid when I played. Definitely not up to the standards of the predecessor in design. Nebermind the complete lack of new systems and content . Feels like more of a remaster than a new game

>>715247831
PoE1 is a truly ugly game, always has been, everything from the settings to the items to the spell effects. I won't even get into what the MTX does to the games visuals, partly because it's optional.

PoE2 looks great, at least it has that going for it.

Is this that game without it's own built-in automatic trading system? Yeah, I dropped this shit real quick. I don't want to have to wait to get ahold of whoever has what gear/mats I need to trade for to continue my build, that's just stupid. Other games have their own built-in auction house where you can list and request sale of any item in the game while you're away and autobuy/autosell passively.

>>715247949
PoE1 makes me appreciate PoE2
PoE2 makes me want to play PoE1

>>715247453
Poe1 has much more gameplay than 2. 2 is a fucking joke. It has no difficulty whatsoever

>>715247048
>PoE is about making showcase builds worth multiple mirrors
>poe is about RMT
true

All poe2 needs to surpass poe1 is either 6 portals or axing on death effects and a non dogshit ascension mechanic.

>>715248589
Not disagreeing but if you don't know how to farm a mirror yourself by now then you don't know how to play the game

>>715250032
4k hours of SSF and I still havent managed to farm one, true
>b-but trade league
trade league prices entirely revolve around RMT and botting

>>715250109
I get a mageblood within a month every single league on HCSSF. I don't go for mirrors as they are useless in SSF, but I'd imagine I could do the same.
Skill issue.
actually I cannot for the life of me get a fucking doriyanis this patch kek, might need to ancient orb or gwennen farm hard for it

>>715250654
>mageblood
Metaslave
>hcssf
tryhard cuckold
>kek
autistic retard
>skill issue
Your whole life is a skill issue