POE 2 vs Diablo 4

[Darkreaver1980]

Hi there,

How does this compare to Diablo 4? What is different?

I know POE 2 launches as early access but i wonder how much content it has at EA launch vs Diablo 4?

both POE 2 and Diablo 4 have 6 classes but which games has more bosses/missions/monsters?

[Colonel Sanders]

Diablo 4 1,5 years after its release is a joke compared to PoE2 on friday.

In every single aspect.

Unless you are into braindead gameplay, braindead builds and braindead itemization and braindead content, then D4 clearly wins

[Perfos]

I believe poe 2 EA has more content than d4 and d5 combined.

[Fwebbing]

Blizzard's choice to use an expansion to break the game (and force upgrades) had me fall completely out of love with Diablo.

[Stockwerk 13]

TLDR:

Diablo 4 is super good if ur a casual and play 50-100 hours per season

PoE is super good if ur a hardcore nerd and play the game for thousands of hours

PoE2 should be somewhere in the middle, but more close to hardcore nerd than casual

[Darkreaver1980]

Originally posted by Colonel Sanders:

Diablo 4 1,5 years after its release is a joke compared to PoE2 on friday.

In every single aspect.

Why? both games have 6 classes. POE 2 has only 3 campaign acts on launch while diablo 4 had 6. Not sure if each act has more or less areas/missions.

[Stockwerk 13]

Originally posted by Darkreaver1980:

Originally posted by Colonel Sanders:

Diablo 4 1,5 years after its release is a joke compared to PoE2 on friday.

In every single aspect.

Why? both games have 6 classes. POE 2 has only 3 campaign acts on launch while diablo 4 had 6. Not sure if each act has more or less areas/missions.

people just hate on diablo 4 without even playing it or knowing what theyre talking about

imo everyone stating that D4 = joke just has no clue about gaming in general
Diablo 4 is the perfect ARPG... if ur in the target audience: which is casual gamers

i have an absolute blast with D4... for like 50 hours every season.

Just dont expect to grind D4 12+ hours a day like you do with PoE

[Colonel Sanders]

Originally posted by Darkreaver1980:

Originally posted by Colonel Sanders:

Diablo 4 1,5 years after its release is a joke compared to PoE2 on friday.

In every single aspect.

Why? both games have 6 classes. POE 2 has only 3 campaign acts on launch while diablo 4 had 6. Not sure if each act has more or less areas/missions.

Because ARPGs like PoE2 are not about the campaign, they are about the endgame, that is why PoE is not only still popular 11 years after its release, it became more and more popular.

If you are just playing for the campaign then you may not understand it, because you are way too casual to understand it, and therefore you may also believe D4 is good

[Everyone]

Originally posted by Colonel Sanders:

Diablo 4 1,5 years after its release is a joke compared to PoE2 on friday.

In every single aspect.

Unless you are into braindead gameplay, braindead builds and braindead itemization and braindead content, then D4 clearly wins

There is nothing wrong with braindead gameplay. OP isn't even asking for it, just for content.

[Stockwerk 13]

Originally posted by Colonel Sanders:

that is why PoE is not only still popular 11 years after its release, it became more and more popular.

you realize that Diablo 4 is infinitely more popular than PoE, right?

This is BECAUSE it caters to casuals.
This is BECAUSE it has hyper polished, easy accessible 50-100 hour gameplay per season.

This is BECAUSE PoE 2 wants to be casual friendly too and severly reduced its complexity and bloat.

[DaddyBearSharp]

Poe 2 early access will have insanely more content. I think i heard over a 1000 different monsters and over 10 times more content then D4.

Nothing wrong with D4 but after a couple weeks you've seen and done everything and it severely lacks any end game.

[Darkreaver1980]

i had great fun with diablo 4 and even bought the expansion and now i am looking for alternatives.

i did try POE 1, but everything did feel so old compared to diablo 4. So i hope POE 2 will be more up to diablo 4 than POE 1 was

[AFC_HIGHBURY]

Originally posted by Stockwerk 13:

Originally posted by Colonel Sanders:

that is why PoE is not only still popular 11 years after its release, it became more and more popular.

you realize that Diablo 4 is infinitely more popular than PoE, right?

FIFA and cod are pretty popular aswell, that doesn't make them good games.

When people are starved of good games in genres theyll stick to the big franchises.

[Stockwerk 13]

D4 does not need no endgame because 95% of its players do not even reach the endgame.

[Darkreaver1980]

Originally posted by DaddyBearSharp:

Poe 2 early access will have insanely more content. I think i heard over a 1000 different monsters and over 10 times more content then D4.

Nothing wrong with D4 but after a couple weeks you've seen and done everything and it severely lacks any end game.

Google tells me something different.

Diablo 4 has over 80 bosses. POE 2 will only have around 50 bosses at EA launch

[Colonel Sanders]

Originally posted by Stockwerk 13:

Originally posted by Colonel Sanders:

that is why PoE is not only still popular 11 years after its release, it became more and more popular.

you realize that Diablo 4 is infinitely more popular than PoE, right?

Misinformation. sales tell nothing about player retention.

Look up player count estimates on sites like activeplay.io and you will see that D4 currently has around 190k concurrent players while path of exile 1 has around 60k concurrent players right now.

But that is after Diablo just launched a new expansion recently and while PoE1 suffers from the biggest lack of updates it ever faced as it didnt get a real update since 6 months, because of PoE2.

But it is easy to hide behind player numbers of blizzard games as they are not transparent right?
Just make up whatever dream number in your head. laughable