Season Two, Event 2: 1 Week Party

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Axebane escreveu:

Died on a loading screen at level 55. Was entering Lunaris Temple level 3. Took forever to load, and when it finally finished I was greeted with a resurrect button.

Why the hell do you place players into the instance when they haven't even loaded it yet? Is it that hard to detect whether the player has finished loading? Doesn't seem like a monumental programming task to me, but I guess it is.

I've been playing PoE for almost a year. I'm one the game's most diehard fans. I've defended it, and defended most of GGG's decisions for all this time. I've praised them for the frequent patches, for listening to feedback, for being involved with the community and especially for not making the game "pay2win".

PoE has the best gameplay of any free2play game I have ever tried, but the ass-backwards technical issues that plague the game are completely unfitting for a game that is supposed to be hardcore and competitive. You place so many enemies and skills into the game that are only avoidable by kiting, which greatly exacerbates the desync issues, that impact performance like hell, then you refuse to compromise on your server/client setup, blame the problems on the laws of physics AND offer little to no graphics/performance options to allow users to tailor the game to their system.

What exactly is the point in creating such deep, challenging and intense gameplay, that requires crazy fast reflexes and hand-eye coordination, when the game engine you wrote can't even handle it? Do you believe that rewarding, intense competition can exist when the biggest factor to whether a player lives or dies is completely out of their control?

At what point in the Beta stage do you plan on getting to work fixing the real issues that the game has, like performance problems, sync issues, loading screen deaths, and other technical problems that hold the game back? You are so hard at work adding new skills, new unique items, new cosmetic options, new monsters, new zones. That stuff is awesome, but why keep pumping out new content if you aren't going to fix and improve the content that has already been in the game for years now?

I'm sorry GGG, I love your game intensely. I have played probably 1,000 hours of it since I joined the Closed Beta. I am a patient person who totally understands that the game is not finished yet, but I'm starting to find it harder and harder to wait for you to do the really tough work, the stuff that is the least fun to code, but is so incredibly important for making the game experience more fun and enjoyable.

I just spent more money on PoE about a week ago, but I'm going to have to take a break for a while. It's just so sad to see such deep and amazing gameplay be overshadowed by that huge cloud of performance and technical problems that keep getting put on the back burner.

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Axebane escreveu:

Died on a loading screen at level 55. Was entering Lunaris Temple level 3. Took forever to load, and when it finally finished I was greeted with a resurrect button.

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juzz escreveu:

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Axebane escreveu:

Died on a loading screen at level 55. Was entering Lunaris Temple level 3. Took forever to load, and when it finally finished I was greeted with a resurrect button.

I call this BS. Since when there are mobs anywhere near temple L3 entrance? You have to go down before any mobs could possibly aggro you.

Unless you pulled them there earlier, exited area to save your ass, and decided to go back in top of hostiles.