Why is GGG ruining POE for all but top tier league players?

I think I said this earlier on this thread with some few weeks of playing the game that the game was balanced around streamers since they control the meta, the economy and much more that I didnt know from what I read from answers here..

I guess wilson doesnt want to advertise more their game to bigger audiences? sure, I started to play it out of curiosity by myself but it's pretty clear that the game is based around the top tiers or very min-max players or insanely rich players.. not for the majority of the playerbase.. which would explain alot since there's a bunch of QoL changes that the ENTIRE game could use for better and not only for a bunch.

And at this point with reaching a month of playing this game, this game isnt f2p to my eyes it would suit much better as b2p.

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Phantone schrieb:

See you next league!


And for ppl who cries about "hardore mechanics", go play SSF. Ty cya

What does SSF have to do with anything? Nothing. Enjoy your crappy loot with no way of trading though. Personally I don't get it.

Glad to see players enjoying Grim Dawn, there's been quite an influx of new players, a lot from PoE, including some of the streamers.

I bought it last summer,love it, not a shooter wanna-be, no bullet hells, no crashing, trivial bugs that are fixed very quickly, devs communicate a lot. You actually can find good gear, tons of builds, no zoom-zoom, a decent story. One shots are very rare, you can learn from them, haven't ever had a freeze or stutter.

I hope PoE learns something, competition breathing down their neck can hopefully help.

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Hellything schrieb:

Well GGG has done me a huge favour.

I have followed people's advice and started on Grim Dawn. I love it so much I bought all the expansions.

I was horrified when I saw I had spent $825 on Path of Exile - Free game lol - such a false economy.

I spent £50 on Grim Dawn and will have many years of play on it without it costing a bean more.

Win win for me :)

Why did you have to pay 825 to play that game? I just bought the QoL stuff like stash tabs and havent spend more than 40€ for that and thats not even a full price title game so wth did you buy lel

Speaking of content.

I actually played this league till now. Almost every day for few hours, 2 chars, more or less geared, I think about 50-60ex combined, 36 challenges done.

And still:

— not a single Cortex spawn until yesterday. Seriously, why the fuck he spawns SO RARE and SO RNG that people even sell taxi to it for 3-4ex? Whats the fucking reason behind it? I didn't see a single fight just because I prefer to sell it.

— 3 Delve bosses total. At about 280+, doing rotas, spending shitloads of sulphite (not digging deeper, just farming fossils). Another endgame content is absent.

— 1 (one) betrayal boss. I just couldnt spawn more by meeting random events on random maps. I didn't even think about farming it.

— Zero (0) Beast bosses at all with about 350 captured on t16-t15 maps

— Maybe 5-6 temples since they are less random.

Here it is, all leagues content combined. I feel REALLY frustrated about how content is damn blocked by damn RNG or poor mechanics.

I'm not even speaking about crafting recipes, they are literally impossible to get if you are not playing 24/7.

If nothing gonna change in terms of content availability I guess I will skip the next league, it just doesn't feel like worth spending time.

If you have 3 months cycle with this amount of content — you ether make it more available or let people choose what mechanic to play. For now even for VERY dedicated people game has absurd level of complexity.

And speaking of complexity: i'm tired to watch hours of youtube guides just to understand what the hell am I playing now and how it actually works. I still have no idea about betrayal rewards (except breaches, leo slam and vorici white) and how to manage them, I still have no idea why beasts even exist in game (except spider craft). Streamers who are dedicated to deeply understand the league mechanics were started to post some guides 2 weeks after league start and thats just to understand how it works, not to actually make it work with all these bugs and patches.

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raincoast schrieb:

Glad to see players enjoying Grim Dawn, there's been quite an influx of new players, a lot from PoE, including some of the streamers.

I bought it last summer,love it, not a shooter wanna-be, no bullet hells, no crashing, trivial bugs that are fixed very quickly, devs communicate a lot. You actually can find good gear, tons of builds, no zoom-zoom, a decent story. One shots are very rare, you can learn from them, haven't ever had a freeze or stutter.

I hope PoE learns something, competition breathing down their neck can hopefully help.

I agree with this statement!
I moved over to Grim dawn a few weeks ago and enjoyed it so much I too bought both expansions and have made multiple characters and really love it. NO ONE SHOT is awesome, the story is good and and its not a quick race to the end. reminds me of the best of POE a few years ago but with no instability.

when I have gotten on the GD forums I notice the longterm players have noticed an influx of new players like me recently.

I am getting last Epoch when it is released for Beta. End of the month. I only hear good thing about it.

The graphics and animations are rough ( then again you can say the same about PoE), but gameplay and skill trees ( yes plural) looks dope.

Also visiting the official forum, the devs seems down to earth and regularly engage with forumers.

I also have been playing GD a lot and have improved my game. I also like that you can find and farm your own gear, it is a nice change. Agree with the stability and no one shots.

LE is actually having its beta released on schedule; a novel approach for game developers! I have only dabbled now and again in the alpha though I have owed it from the beginning. Just don't care much for alphas. Beta looks like it will be done right, though. It looks more and more promising every time we hear something. Not like some other games in this state (not mentioning any names).