I cant recommend this game to new players even if i have more than 1000 hours into it, and i will explain why.

Creating a new character in this game without a written guide is impossible for a new player, and there is not prefixed characters to choose from either. The gap between a correct made character and a wrong one is huge. A new player will certainly end up with a wrong made character, which means it wont be possible for him to reach to the end game.

Gearing is another problem in the game. Gear is directly linked with skills that you need to play. For example if you are a mage and cast fireballs, you need to attach the fireball skill on a piece of your gear, your helmet for example, and spend currency to do so, most of the times a lot of currency. That discourages the player from changing gear in the game, because they have to spend their play time and currency to attach the fireball on their helmet, every time they change it..
So if you are looking for an arpg that you kill minions, loot gear and frequently update your gear, PoE is not for you.

Talking about loots, most of the loots are useless, and by most i mean 99,99% of the loots are useless. Actually they are so useless that you NEED to install a third party loot filter so that you wont see these loots anymore.
Yeap, there is no in game loot filter, or any server based loot filtering. They just drop hundreds of useless loots on the floor for no reason. Actually the only reason for so many loots on the floor is to slow down our PC, because why not.

And speaking of performance you ll need a very good PC and a very good internet connection to play this game. As it seems the developers do not believe in "simple is better", they just throw things in the game ignoring the performance cost and the game becomes unplayable in mid end PCs. The graphic performance for example, you ll need a graphic card that can handle a screen with most of the times more than 100 minions dying at the same time from a single right mouse click..

Talking about gameplay. If you finally have the correct character, with correct passive tree, correct gear, correct gem links on your gear, the gameplay is something like this: Run with left click---> Right click all screen die --> keep left clicking to run to next screen.

P.S There is no reason to group up with other people in this game. So if you are a group of friends and want to play something muliplayer to have fun, this is not the game for you. The only reason to group up with others is to have the better +50% loots per player in group, which is a horrible reason to group up anyway.

PS 2. Did i mention that the game is not free? The game is literally unplayable without currency stash tab, map stash tab, and premium stash tab to sell items. All these cost 20-30 euros, depends if they are on sale.

If you are a new player keep that in mind, dont fall for "free game"