How do "seasons" work?

[Ruebeus]

All I really want to know is, when a new season starts, is it like Diablo where you have to make a brand new character to participate? Or is the content designed for the characters we have already invested our time into?

[Shogun]

you would restart everything, except things like stash tabs, wings etc, just like diablo, thats the whole point

[Zennith]

Seasons are a fresh start for multiple reasons. Your characters will get moved to "Eternal realm" at the beginning of new seasons so you can keep playing them.

[Nnilsamoth]

Generally Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter.

[Ajvar the Boneless]

Leagues in PoE 1 always revolve around a major new gameplay mechanic and do require you to make new, season-exclusive characters. Once the league ends the characters are sunset into perpetual gameplay with all the others from previous leagues.
So you can still play those characters but you can't use them in any following leagues.

It will probably be that way in PoE2 as well since the formula was immensely popular and successful.

[Diminutive]

As time goes by, usually around 4 months, the sun will shift to different angles providing more or less sunlight causing the average temperature to shift.

PoE seasons are similar, but instead of temperature shifting it's your characters. Your current league characters shifts to standard league where the changes go to die. You will then have a choice to continue with this character on this dead league where chaos orb costs run into the hundreds for even the most basic items, or you make a new character on the new current league. This cycle will repeat it self filling your available character slots till you start deleting some.

[Maidiac]

The game is a long ways from being 1.0 so that ♥♥♥♥ is irrelevant

[Ruebeus]

Originally posted by Maidiac:

The game is a long ways from being 1.0 so that ♥♥♥♥ is irrelevant

No its not. It is a deciding factor on whether or not I want to spend money on the game. Get over yourself.

[Ruebeus]

Originally posted by Ajvar the Boneless:

Leagues in PoE 1 always revolve around a major new gameplay mechanic and do require you to make new, season-exclusive characters. Once the league ends the characters are sunset into perpetual gameplay with all the others from previous leagues.
So you can still play those characters but you can't use them in any following leagues.

It will probably be that way in PoE2 as well since the formula was immensely popular and successful.

Thats unfortunate. I personally think that system is insanely stupid. Guess I wont be playing an ARPG ever again since they all want to use this format.
Thanks for answering at least.

[AlienLover<ß]

I agree, season and starting all over anew and kind of trashing the old character is a stupid concept. Why can't they just add new content to the old game?.

[Ankarin]

Originally posted by Ruebeus:

Originally posted by Ajvar the Boneless:

Leagues in PoE 1 always revolve around a major new gameplay mechanic and do require you to make new, season-exclusive characters. Once the league ends the characters are sunset into perpetual gameplay with all the others from previous leagues.
So you can still play those characters but you can't use them in any following leagues.

It will probably be that way in PoE2 as well since the formula was immensely popular and successful.

Thats unfortunate. I personally think that system is insanely stupid. Guess I wont be playing an ARPG ever again since they all want to use this format.
Thanks for answering at least.

You may think it is entirely stupid, but leagues are what causes POE1 to go from ~3k people playing per day (which most would be on the league and not standard) to over 200k on a new league drop and maintains like 100k concurrent players for approx the first month. 99% of the players want leagues and only play the league, <1% of players even touch standard.

[Caldrin]

It is a good thing.. the characters are still available to play anyway they are just not part of the new league and mechanics.

its good as its a nice fresh start to the economy as well as usually seasons bring with it different drop rates and different ways of getting better gear..

[Cromica]

This is disappointing news, nothing kills a game faster than making the time I put in pointless. Having to start over and play the same boring story over again is a deal breaker.

[Ankarin]

Originally posted by Cromica:

This is disappointing news, nothing kills a game faster than making the time I put in pointless. Having to start over and play the same boring story over again is a deal breaker.

You are in the vast minority, literally in the 1% or less.

[JimmyKaz]

Originally posted by Cromica:

This is disappointing news, nothing kills a game faster than making the time I put in pointless. Having to start over and play the same boring story over again is a deal breaker.

you should just have fun playing standard league. most people love the freash restart every 4 month or so.

[Jaze]

Originally posted by Ankarin:

Originally posted by Cromica:

This is disappointing news, nothing kills a game faster than making the time I put in pointless. Having to start over and play the same boring story over again is a deal breaker.

You are in the vast minority, literally in the 1% or less.

Unfortunately, with the game bringing a HUGE new playerbas3, they're just realising this mechanic and don't like it. It's actually a large chunk of the playerbase that don't like this mechanic, especially now that its such a a grind to get to endgame.