What drives you to play?

[Tantrumus]

I mean this sincerely. I want to love POE2 but it failed me in.2 after dumping. close to $1k into it during .1

I loved it like a hobby (reference I used in another thread)

At the end I asked myself why am I personally repeating the same loop over and over. New map, destroy/sell all items, new map rinse repeat.

In .1 it didnt feel like a chore. I havent played in 3 weeks and missed the .h patch (not sure if things got better or has it not come yet dono)

Im just curious "What drives you" to repeat this cycle offered to us?

[Supercow ツ]

I know, it's not for everyone, but I usually play HCSSF (taking a break now though). It's way more fun for me to live (and die) with stuff that I found or craft. And I have to handle the obstacles as well, that my gear is way weaker, than the most tradies have on that level. So I have to compensate that with my own skill. I also avoid the absolute broken builds, like LS Deadeye/Amazon.

If you have never tried HC, give it a shot. It's like another game, It's adrenaline and much more dopamine.

[cAipi_rInHa]

Originally posted by Tantrumus:

close to $1k into it during .1

You spent 1000$ on poe 2 ? How ?

[Tantrumus]

Originally posted by cAipi_rInHa:

Originally posted by Tantrumus:

close to $1k into it during .1

You spent 1000$ on poe 2 ? How ?

It was easy. I got all the support packs up to the green guy one in that armor over first couple months. I prob jumped on most stash sales. Made a guild with my kids and wife and a few friends. Bought easily 6 quad stash tabs for guild, guild flask/currency etc.

Guess what nobody has played since but me ... .2 too much for all of em except for the sucker. Me. :(

[Walter das Trevas]

I'm enjoying the difficulty of the bosses and the absence of excessive epic loot, which in my opinion would trivialize the rewards and make the game easy and boring.

[bean]

Originally posted by Tantrumus:

Originally posted by cAipi_rInHa:

You spent 1000$ on poe 2 ? How ?

It was easy. I got all the support packs up to the green guy one in that armor over first couple months. I prob jumped on most stash sales. Made a guild with my kids and wife and a few friends. Bought easily 6 quad stash tabs for guild, guild flask/currency etc.

Guess what nobody has played since but me ... .2 too much for all of em except for the sucker. Me. :(

This always sucks, I don't just mean POE, this happens all the time in mmos. It has happened to me.

You get super into a game and make a guild and spend a bunch of money to create a'home' for you and you friends... 2 months later, something happens where everyone stops playing. Fast forward, you end up with a fully stocked and upgraded guild you use as a personal bank or end up donating the space to some other guild you ended up in.

le sad face

[Nirh]

I don’t want to sound patronizing, but honestly … it’s a game. I play when I feel like it, without analyzing too much my reasons, which anyway are mixed.

Story, art, characters, voice acting are all pretty cool. Loved the difference of attitude between the monk and then witch.

Trying some new skill, maybe seeing a new unique drop.

I like the combat, it’s relaxing, involved enough to distract from life thoughts, but not so complex and challenging to be stressful or require extreme focus.

So I guess the secret to enjoyment for me is to play casually, meaning when I feel like it without the mental burden of chasing some specific goal.
And I don’t watch streamers, because I’m not interested in what they accomplish and don’t want to subconsciously set expectations.

Having well over 1k games on Steam and a huge backlog, why stress and overplay a single one?
You don’t seem to have financial problems, so why not do the same? Put PoE on a rotation with other games to enjoy with your family.

It’s normal for pleasures to get boring -and then disgusting- when overindulging.
This sounds like asking: I’m eating chocolate cake 3 times every day, how can I keep enjoying it like the first time? You can’t.
Even if the game reverted to 0.1 which you liked more, even if it started showering loot and new uniques every day forever, it would still get boring in the end.

[Tantrumus]

Originally posted by bean:

Originally posted by Tantrumus:

It was easy. I got all the support packs up to the green guy one in that armor over first couple months. I prob jumped on most stash sales. Made a guild with my kids and wife and a few friends. Bought easily 6 quad stash tabs for guild, guild flask/currency etc.

Guess what nobody has played since but me ... .2 too much for all of em except for the sucker. Me. :(

This always sucks, I don't just mean POE, this happens all the time in mmos. It has happened to me.

You get super into a game and make a guild and spend a bunch of money to create a'home' for you and you friends... 2 months later, something happens where everyone stops playing. Fast forward, you end up with a fully stocked and upgraded guild you use as a personal bank or end up donating the space to some other guild you ended up in.

le sad face

Yup hoping for best. :(

[Chaos Guard]

I haven't played this garbage for a long time. I advise everyone to do the same.

[Dwane Dibbley]

At this point, trying new ideas. I dont play for days and then i got idea about a build or combo and just go and try it out. What works, what not and how could it be implemented on my other build or combined into new build. Its generaly just waiting for 0.3. So im hanging in other games, just got enhanced stalker for free so gonna rerun it on weekend.

[^7ja^1co]

stopped playing over a month ago - zero incentive to come back

[frostdrgn]

HCSSF, on break since game balance is anti-HC/anti-SSF/anti-nonendgeame

[Natjur]

Their vision for 0,2 kill it for me. Nothing they do now will get me to come back for this session.

And no way I would spend another dollar on this game

[Bambule]

im tired of path of micro stun
its a garbage game with cheapskate copy/paste AI design and well....
just got expedition 33 today and i guess i will scrap poe2 and will never come back.
they failed to deliver anything fun for months. 0.1 was best.

[wajit]

for the fan boizzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz "The Vision"...............lol

[fitzkro]

You gotta take breaks dude. I haven't played since LE and NRFW dropped. Waiting for the next major update.