What's up with the recent reviews?

[Kim Kardashian]

Was thinking about getting this game tonight but I see the reviews are taking, can anyone fill me in?

[XxZeR0xX]

they ruined the game..bad time to join

[XxZeR0xX]

just released new content..and destroyed the prior content.. only people that are happy are the ones who were awful

[RodHull]

A bunch of manchildren crybabies who didn't follow the years of dev talk about POE2 being designed as slower, more deliberate and more punishing than POE1 are basically chucking their toys out of the pram... that's all

[XxZeR0xX]

Originally posted by RodHull:

A bunch of manchildren crybabies who didn't follow the years of dev talk about POE2 being designed as slower, more deliberate and more punishing than POE1 are basically chucking their toys out of the pram... that's all

sorry you had a ♥♥♥♥ char prior to the patch

[BunnyMann]

Day of release there was some definite driver problems with crashes and performance.
Now it's about the nerfs.
But I'm having a fine time with the new class.

[Naamtar]

Combination of performance issues and poor decisions around the direction of the game.

Not a good time to pick it up, honestly. Easily the worst state it's ever been in. It will get fixed at some point, but it's probably going to be a while.

[RedTrustfactor]

Just isn't fun or rewarding to play. Even longtime players can't stomach this patch.

[Perfection]

They basically made the campaign of the game a lot harder now, for no apparent reason. It's just a slugfest on most characters. Not challenging or difficult just tedious.

[Kim Kardashian]

Well hell.

[Crimson]

Read some of the 0.2 reviews an you'll get an idea. long story short, the game got butchered and the little fun it had, has vanished.

Someone called this game Path of Thedium and it suits it perfectly.

[Null Mara]

Its in early access so you should expect some ridiculous changes. The reason people are upset right now is there was a really big nerf all around which has made a lot of builds (both over-performing and under-performing) too weak where many are struggling to fight white mods (the lowest tear of monster). GGG seems to be in a weird spot of wanting slower and more thoughtful game-play (ie using multiple abilities to combo, slow attack and movement), while the monsters are allowed to be much much faster. Some combos take 5 seconds to complete while it only takes 2 seconds to be completely surrounded by mobs.

This is the way GGG the company tends to develop things, with the pendulum swinging way too far one way then tweaking it to be more in the middle. It will be free to play when it is fully released, which would would the end of this year or a bit past it and the content they are adding will all be in the core game so you don't need to worry about missing out. It will surely be a much better experience by that time, as they have proven before they just need time.

[Jet Uppercut]

The gameplay is great, its everything else about the game that sucks complete ass. Like how there's 3 dedicated buttons to opening the microtransaction shop that you can't unbind, you can only move them to buttons that you hope you don't accidentally bump.

Or how the entire economy of the game is dictated by RMT because so many scrubs keep buying Divs to get Trial Runs from the people doing the RMT botting.

Or the trash game performance and laggy servers that make playing melee characters basically impossible.

Or the just general bad game design decisions that led to every S-Tier build just being Herald spam.

So demotivating to play the game when the focus of the devs is clearly milking as much money out of their players as possible rather than actually making the game good.

[Crimson]

Originally posted by Null Mara:

It will surely be a much better experience by that time, as they have proven before they just need time.

they already had plenty of time and guess what happened ? the 0.2 update. This update really shows the direction this game is taking, and it doesn't look promising. If they don't quickly do something about it there'll be no body there to play the 1.0. it will be a flop like some many games.

[Lu2]

parry frost is op what tf you guys talk about . oh it requires your imput i get it

[Alvin Artichoke]

Originally posted by Kim Kardashian:

Well hell.

nothing changed just a bunch of redditors complaining without actually playing. Fundamentally the same game as when it had overwhelmingly positive reviews