Last Epoch

Last Epoch

Rontemon 8.4.2023 klo 19.38
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I DO NOT want to make new character every season/league
I heard that the LE will follow the footsteps of Leagues/Seasons like PoE.

However, I absolutely DO NOT want to create a new character every season, rush story to end-game every single season with a 'starter farm build', then transfer gear to a 'bossing build'.

Instead, please let me use my old characters in new league either by some sort of 'rebirth' mechanic that adds a small bonus every time you rebirth a character or cosmetic rewards by reaching X amount of rebirths.

Also I'd prefer to have a reason to play non-seasonal/league characters otherwise this is just gonna be PoE all over again. Rush story to end-game every season and do season challenges. Absolutely boring.
Alkuperäinen julkaisija: NippleWizard:
I hope they have seasons but only new characters can be ranked on ladder and the like. I'm the same way and hate poe and diablo3 because thats all they want from you. Give incentives for new characters without invalidating old ones.
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Psycha 10.4.2023 klo 12.42 
I'll be perfectly honest.. If season arent like D3 with FOMO cosmetics and stash space or pets etc then it'll be fine.

Just don't add FOMO crap to seasons. Have fun on the ladder and have fun with new mechs added or whatever but dont screw all of it up for standard players if you're gonna put out FOMO cosmetics that can only ever be obtained by playing the season and completing challenges..
(FOMO =Fear of missing out)
blame it on my ptsd, baby lähetti viestin:
doesn't that completely remove the whole point of a league/new season
It does go completely against the point of it.

The entire point is to start fresh with everyone and give you a chance to level with new people and grow the community. Everything gets merged over after so it's still all productive and rewards the players for being actively involved.

New Leagues/Seasons are a chance for brand new players to join when everyone is leveling again. If not then they are having to play 100 levels of catch up. Which isn't new player friendly.
Just don't play leagues then. As a live service game i think they should do exactly what poe does. It clearly works and it's fun to play. Fresh start for everybody or nothing.
ZAToM 10.4.2023 klo 15.11 
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POE is a completely different game to Lost Ark which is really just an MMO with an Isometric view.

Lost Ark is popular cause the MMO market is starved of good action combat MMOs that aren't horrendously exploitative. And even though its stuffed to the gills with MTXs and pay to win, it is actually a lot more fair than most Asian MMOs.

POE is popular cause it stepped into the void left by D2 becoming old, it was the first big online ARPG after D2, so it just released at the right time, and its quite good. If POE released now it wouldn't have the same base. But same could said for many games.



You say 'top 12' it just means lots of people play them, doesn't mean they are making loads of money. Of course more people play free games than paid ones thats a given no?
PoE became popular because DIII at launch was a dumpsterfire that insulted you when you complained about it. If DIII wasn't so bad back then and the community moderator and the producer didn't go out of their way to inslult the fan base PoE would never have gotten of the ground. I tried PoE back then when it was still in beta and you could buy putting your name on items.
dafuq i never heard of this before
d3 was insulting because it was so DUMBED DOWN for console stuffs (atleast for many d2 players)
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Just don't play leagues then. As a live service game i think they should do exactly what poe does. It clearly works and it's fun to play. Fresh start for everybody or nothing.
Why even make another game if the goal is just to be POE Lite. Hows all those wow clones doing these days? They will not garner an audience if they just clone POE because those players will not leave it to play a cheap clone.
Season to make Numerous characters because respec doesnt exist? Vote No on seasonal. If you want seasonal play Diablo or POE.
Rontemon 10.4.2023 klo 18.49 
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blame it on my ptsd, baby lähetti viestin:
doesn't that completely remove the whole point of a league/new season
New Leagues/Seasons are a chance for brand new players to join when everyone is leveling again. If not then they are having to play 100 levels of catch up. Which isn't new player friendly.

What is there to catch up with? A ladder/ranking board? Being the first few people to find some rare items to exploit/control the trade economy?

It isn't like the game is a PvP focused meta game.

Who cares if there are other players with multiple level 100 characters ahead of me? They are not going to stop me from enjoying the game?
Starting over in the same boring area league for league is why I quit POE. I can stomach it a few times in a new game, but it gets old quick.
NippleWizard lähetti viestin:
poe has destroyed discussion within the genre. people cannot fathom poe did not create it and that games can be successful without being poe.

I don't think I've ever seen anyone say this or suggest it.

PsychaChi lähetti viestin:
I'll be perfectly honest.. If season arent like D3 with FOMO cosmetics and stash space or pets etc then it'll be fine.

Just don't add FOMO crap to seasons. Have fun on the ladder and have fun with new mechs added or whatever but dont screw all of it up for standard players if you're gonna put out FOMO cosmetics that can only ever be obtained by playing the season and completing challenges..
(FOMO =Fear of missing out)

To late for that, its exactly the model they are following. Pets are already planned in the MTX store, and if you think they won't add new MTXs each season you are dreaming.

Wurm65 lähetti viestin:
Starting over in the same boring area league for league is why I quit POE. I can stomach it a few times in a new game, but it gets old quick.

You realise there is a big button that says 'standard league' right?
You can play it with the same character forever, the only downside being sometimes your build will get changed as the seasonal changes take hold, but in such circumstances you get a free respec anyway so its no biggie really.
Agree with OP. Last Epoch can get some points into karma if will not copy paste current ARPG cancer and will allow using existed characters in seasons. Because, otherwise, in 99% non-seasonal characters are dust gatherers, or some people just will not go into seasons after some point.
Rhingeim lähetti viestin:
Agree with OP. Last Epoch can get some points into karma if will not copy paste current ARPG cancer and will allow using existed characters in seasons. Because, otherwise, in 99% non-seasonal characters are dust gatherers, or some people just will not go into seasons after some point.
Why would you want to continue playing on a character that is max level and has good items?

It seems like you people want an mmmorpg, not an arpg. Stop trying to change the entire genre just because you dont understand it
Viimeisin muokkaaja on niaerniopawrjnko; 10.4.2023 klo 23.33
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Agree with OP. Last Epoch can get some points into karma if will not copy paste current ARPG cancer and will allow using existed characters in seasons. Because, otherwise, in 99% non-seasonal characters are dust gatherers, or some people just will not go into seasons after some point.
Why would you want to continue playing on a character that is max level and has good items?

It seems like you people want an mmmorpg, not an arpg. Stop trying to change the entire genre just because you dont understand it

Yeah OR they just could not play leagues. The whole point of leagues is fresh start after all.
Ayk- 11.4.2023 klo 3.23 
It is still a fresh restart with every character in terms of progression, monolith progression is not shared. The only difference is your other characters will have fancy uniques to level up with.
Unless this MoF system is reworked to be account-bound, similar to PoE's Atlas system, it is gonna burn out people, people will likely play 1 character per cycle/season.
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Its like saying FIFA is doing a banger job and the Soccer WC model is as good is can be because ppl watch the most soccer when the games are on.

Those numbers follow the design of the game, which is at most a validation of the monetization model.
Oh, he is not wrong at saying that my opinion is irrelevant. Is like saying that the "Twilight" books are bad. Does not matter that you point why they are bad, people like them.

I still think PoE system is underwhelming, but people obviously don't care for QoL options, so whatever. Anyway, that one is free. I see more of an issue with a pay to play game like this.

Correct. I merely wanted to point out that those linked statistics arent necessarily proof for a great game and people enjoying the model but that the model works for them. The whole season grind system works for many games since it has been adapted from the monetization schemes that mobile releases have developed.

It doesnt mean that its a good model for enthusiasts and fans of a genre that like to go deep and would enjoy some innonvation in their favorite genres now and then. If anyhing its more antithesis to progress and innovation since it skews player behaviour towards a hamster wheel while at the same time making it easier to longterm produce product with small iterations or tweaks on the general formula.

For this genre in particular, for me honestly its difficult to even imagine how a "long-term" concept would look like. Obviously i enjoy the grind and playing with builds but im ok being done with the game once i ran through the difficulties 2 or three times, or even finish the game once.

I LOVED the respeccing during the Diablo IV beta and didnt mind the casual approach to the build options. If i get a solid 30-50 hours of entertainment out of a game thats plenty fine for me.

Ive never really got the whole season approach in any genre as its pretty clear to me that its a very profit-oriented innovation-lazy design to simplify content production.

Id rather run through a game with friends until its "fun-dry" and then move on to the next. Which can obviously come with the difficulty that you need a group of people that sync up with each other.

Hope that makes sense.
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Agree with OP. Last Epoch can get some points into karma if will not copy paste current ARPG cancer and will allow using existed characters in seasons. Because, otherwise, in 99% non-seasonal characters are dust gatherers, or some people just will not go into seasons after some point.
Why would you want to continue playing on a character that is max level and has good items?

It seems like you people want an mmmorpg, not an arpg. Stop trying to change the entire genre just because you dont understand it

Because I don't need the same character which just done something different due to league mechanics. And "but you can create another class" doesn't work for me, because I like only few types of classes.

If league add some new mechanic, I'm fine with playing with it with my max level geared char to get some new items and do some stuff for cosmetics.

About not understanding - probably you don't understand it. PoE as example of seasons is bloated with stuff, literally ruining gameplay on standard due to standard being a dumpster where all seasonal characters, gear, currency dropped after season. And PoE steam charts doesn't show whether people like creating new character or not for each league, because they don't have this choice.

Games that truly on pair with D2 doesn't have seasons. Grim Dawn, Titan Quest. But seasons are good to players retention, which was always a problem with ARPG, where without wipes there will be discrepancy between old timers and newcomers. Leaderboards is not everyone's cup of tea. And I saw mentions that a lot of players in PoE doesn't finish league challenges, dropping game after some playing.

If I would need to create a new toon for each new season - I would rather skip the game and will not spare money on cosmetics and other stuff. If I would be able to use my existed toon for new stuff, without leaderboards and wipes - I will keep an eye on new leagues and shop updates.
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