I really dont want to ragebait but its gonna sound like it

[Schiggy]

Last Epoch has lower player count than PoE2 right now and it really shows how delusional this Community is.

The update just came out and everybody is praising it like a godsent but it still fell of harder than this game that seemingly got the worst patch ever

So explain me why did you come back ?
Is it because the whole foundation of this game is so much superior than any ARPG that everything else feels like mid tier games ?

[Retrowave]

I didn't come back, lols.. i said i would initially though i mean i have over 650hrs at least but i literally burnt myself out as i played it from live and spent everyday on it so yeah, got to a point where i was totally burned out.. i had every build and every class and in the end was just messing around.

I was going to come back since the patch before this recent as introduced the new class etc.. but honestly i looked at it and thought.. its the same thing as my monk really.. who dominates literally everything anyways so whats the point in going back for the sake of a new class.. and then the recent patch came out and that sorta cemented it as the changelog seems to be kinda massive so i kinda already know that my previous characters are more than likely kinda screwed and are going to require multiple respecs.. which i cant be asked with honestly, would take too long of a time.. maybe when they fix the patch currently and there's less issues overall i will.. but then again there's so many games out now that ive been downloading recently.. i may not ever come back, eh i mean never say never, i suppose i will in the future but as it stands now there's just so many good games released and yeah as for Last Epoch i played that on release too.. so totally get it.

Also we have a new expansion being released soon for Grim Dawn as well.. and that game is endlessly massive as is.. so will only get better. =)

[Hugemoron]

streamers were paid to hype LE, they deny it

[Nico]

When just looking at the PoE2 player count graph it doesn't look like there was a temporary time when some players were gone, so no idea what you're talking about. It has been a steady decline since the league start, just as during every PoE league.

[Midra, Lord of Frenzied Flame]

LE players are like illegal aliens.

They come to POE2 and spam global chat about "LE so much better" and how "POE2 is the worst".

[ExplorerNMS]

I'm still playing Last Epoch.
And, I'm currently playing the new 'V Rising' patch.
Then, I'm going to start on 'No Rest for the Wicked.'

If my insomnia starts up again, I re-install PE2.

[Haziza]

Because Path of Exile 2 is a fantastic game even though it's in early access. This is the first game that will replace Diablo 2 for me.

[maltex]

I tried PoE2 after playing Last Epoch and I have to say PoE2 just feels so much worse then LE right now. Bad perfomance, server issues, no loot, no content and ♥♥♥♥♥♥ updates that only ruin the game. I don`t really even wanna play this after LE lol

[GIRL OF DARKNESS]

im playing d4 rn

[Firmament]

I'm playing Dead By Daylight

[Malecite]

Originally posted by Nico:

When just looking at the PoE2 player count graph it doesn't look like there was a temporary time when some players were gone, so no idea what you're talking about. It has been a steady decline since the league start, just as during every PoE league.

The Sunday prior to the LE launch had 200K people online.

The Sunday following the LE launch saw the player base decline by half, almost 100,000 people left.

That's a pretty precipitous drop, and within 2 days of it launching we lost around 40k people.

I would say thays pretty significant. But correlation isn't causation so maybe the season is so bad that 100K people just quit in a week out of frustration.

[Something]

Is this game still not working without fragging computers for people with rtx 4070 ti supers and ryzen 7 7800x3d's on windows 11 without having to do weird affinity bs?

[GcTBo]

NRFTW released a big update. People jump from game to game and others will do with numbers what they want to make them believe what they want you to believe.

[Annad]

I tried LE.. it felt like a mobile game to me honestly.. but am not gonna refund or anything am sure the game will look much better in a year or 2 who knows

[The Devil]

Originally posted by Haziza:

Because Path of Exile 2 is a fantastic game even though it's in early access. This is the first game that will replace Diablo 2 for me.

Agreed, it isn't perfect but the fact that devs are making tweaks based on feedback is a good trend.

[GL - MB]

Last Epoch feels better to me than POE2. LE has it's one-shots like POE2. The difference is LE is more of a traditional Diablo2-like arpg, where as POE2 is Souls-like. Having Souls-like elements is what makes it Souls-like (for anyone who wants to argue that's not the case), and I'm not into that kind of game. I like the feeling of having power depending on the map level, and I love loot pinatas. I don't care who or how many like either game more. I've gotten my money's worth for POE2. I prefer PO1, D2, (even Wolcen) & LE because I don't like feeling punished for playing. If the devs cared about increasing their players, they would give the game a mode for being more arpg, & a mode for being the Souls-like vision that Jon wants. With mode-choice, more people would enjoy the game for either reason. It is what it is. I hope it becomes less Souls-like, or at least offers that option at some point. If not, no big. There's other games to play for people like me. For now, PO2 is no longer one of them and that's OK.