Thank you GGG/Jonathan for pushing for an engaging ARPG

I finished Act 3 yesterday and it honestly felt so much better than before because I likely play the game the way its mostly intended.

During the campaign i like to fully clear the maps to avoid missing anything, plus in endgame maps i have found exalts in even basic chest so I always try to not miss stuff.

The reason i do that is because I enjoy the gameplay, i loved how slow and deadly things are at act 1 and how you very clearly increase in power the high you go, i honestly didnt feel much different from 0.1 other than maybe act 1 was a bit deadlier which is great for me, it makes you feel very engaged early on before you get more skills.

At the end of act 3 i had
Act 3 stats
Played: 1 day 5 hours

I played as a ritualist fire mage, not a fan of hybrid melee builds but the ritualist felt really cool so i really wanted to play that ascendancy.I also never follow a build, i just decide on a general theme and go for it without any idea where the skill points will lead me at the end but I got a good understanding now to make it pretty strong.

The reason gameplay felt absolutely great was because i centered everything around ember fusilage for main damage, which means you get into a tempo of embers>firewall>embers>flammability> embers>firestorm> embers>solar orb and throw detonate dead and bone cages when required.

That kind of gameplay feels so good, you also have to decide what to prioritise, absolutely love this gameplay and cant wait to find more builds like that. In 0.1 i had 3 91 characters, chrono frost orb focus, contagion blood mage and stormcaller arrow deadeye focus. I decided to take a break after that specifically so I can be ready to enjoy 0.2

I am mainly posting this because I know there's a lot of loud people who want to remove all engagement and turn it into a "i press a button and delete the entire screen" game which I would hate, the reason I love poe2 as an ARPG is because it is more methodical and after seeing the interview I am happy to see Jonathan actively support that.

There's no need for 2 poe1s, they should be different games for different crowds.

The humongous and glaring issue very clear after the interview is NEITHER of them give 2 shits about POE 1. They couldnt wish it away fast enough. So now the game that people funded for a decade and had the last 3 or so years of it sucked away and poured into a game that plays nothing like poe 1 while PROMISING all these updates to poe 1 which ultimately never happened.

Not only this but now they are actively breaking POE 1 see recent binding changes to be more in line with POE 2 while at the same time not releasing any content for poe 1 in... checks notes, A YEAR.

Settlers league has been recycled 3 TIMES ! and seems like there is no plans for a new league or anything for POE 1 till the later end of this year AT BEST. To me these 2 guys could not seem more conceited in their approach to both how they think everyone is experiencing the game and poe 1.

Im so absolutely crushed that POE 1 will never get the polish and update it not only deserves but was paid for based on broken promises.

EDIT: Give me an offline client for poe1 id pay AAA price and id happily never return here again. Its like my favorite game is being held for ransom while they actively make it worse until they think im forced to play poe 2.

POE1 is not Jonathan's baby so he couldn't care less about it.

They might as well turn it over to another company to take care of it but that doesn't work in the real world, does it? Jonathan said it in the past that POE1 will not be abandoned just because POE2 is in play but you can take that as a politician's campaign promise to only give you what you want to hear.

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PathSoph#6723 wrote:

POE1 is not Jonathan's baby so he couldn't care less about it.

They might as well turn it over to another company to take care of it but that doesn't work in the real world, does it? Jonathan said it in the past that POE1 will not be abandoned just because POE2 is in play but you can take that as a politician's campaign promise to only give you what you want to hear.

I wish POE 1 got that huge QOL update, the updated engine, the updated mobs, skills, UI you know everything they hyped before they decided to make poe2 and say "oh guyz its impossibro to update poe 1 we have to make this entirely different game."

They just didnt want to keep developing it, its that simple.

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stormyknight#7628 wrote:

The humongous and glaring issue very clear after the interview is NEITHER of them give 2 shits about POE 1. They couldnt wish it away fast enough. So now the game that people funded for a decade and had the last 3 or so years of it sucked away and poured into a game that plays nothing like poe 1 while PROMISING all these updates to poe 1 which ultimately never happened.

Not only this but now they are actively breaking POE 1 see recent binding changes to be more in line with POE 2 while at the same time not releasing any content for poe 1 in... checks notes, A YEAR.

Settlers league has been recycled 3 TIMES ! and seems like there is no plans for a new league or anything for POE 1 till the later end of this year AT BEST. To me these 2 guys could not seem more conceited in their approach to both how they think everyone is experiencing the game and poe 1.

Im so absolutely crushed that POE 1 will never get the polish and update it not only deserves but was paid for based on broken promises.

EDIT: Give me an offline client for poe1 id pay AAA price and id happily never return here again. Its like my favorite game is being held for ransom while they actively make it worse until they think im forced to play poe 2.

Couldn't agree more, sadge

how is that an issue?

Why start this in ...2019?