Why have you stopped playing?

it's complicated between dota2 and me. these days i wonder what's up with mobas, why are they so hot and cold? i don't understand mobas. they are like a totally different kind of being. sure dota loves me and i love dota and the ganks at top lane are AMAZING (no seriously, dota gives the best orgasms i've ever experienced) but inevitably it all boils down to a game with high skill and attention span, and i'll admit, i lack both. the latter from adhd and the former from... adhd.

one day i'm chillin with dota queued up for a match when all of a sudden my friend hits me up. he recently broke up with dota because he said dota was too frustrating, too clingy and stupid. told me he was with a new game, called path of exile. poe for short, cute name. probably was cute in game too. so that night i cuddled dota to bed but sneaked out of the steam library to check up on this sexy new bird. wow was i blown away at first sight, poe was the sexiest piece of code i had ever seen. gorgeous graphics, an air of intrigue with its dark fantasy theme, and curves in all the right anti-aliased places. i mean, i'm a bit of a fetishist - i like games with a semifuturistic theme. bf2142 and i were together for a loooooong time - but this game just hit me, pow, love at first sight.

my first night with poe and i was hooked. i don't know how i lived without poe. poe and i were meant to be together forever.... and i knew it. i just knew it in my heart. with my heart abeating i dialed dota and said it was over, that i was uninstalling dota and that you should have a nice life. and poe and i giggled like little schoolchildren and leap right back to grinding...

fast forward three months. poe is asleep in bed right now, after cuddling in. i go out on the balcony to light a cig while i ponder on these last few months.



i'll just say it outright: i was wrong.

i was stupid, i was dumb, and i wish dota would take me back. because if i thought dota was high-maintenance, hot-and-cold, and irreciprocal, god, i was wrong. dead wrong.

A year ago, after a few months of playing rather religiously, I came to the conclusion that the game doesn't value my time in any way, so I dropped it. A few weeks ago, I picked it up again, and came to the same conclusion much quicker. The arrival of Dark Souls 2 also assisted in ushering me back away. From Software did it again. Always know it was my fault I died, and not an unresponsive game, or a cheap gear-check mechanic.

Titanfall

I fucking love it.

Then next month is Dark Souls 2 and if the stars align just right Star Citzen's Dog Fighting Module will be released soon as well. Its gonna be a while before I come back but that's okay the longer i am gone the more content i have to come back to for my eventual return.

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Psyborg escreveu:

I had 85% fire resist from flask, and 3k hp was gone in about 1.5 seconds...

Broken overtuned damage.

I'm going to take a break from PoE. After another attempt at a self found character and with shit gear, I can't upgrade the shitty gear while I'm running 70-73 maps. Im still wearing gear that I found in the level 50's. The gear you need here is life + resists and it seems that never drops. I only get lowbie uniques in maps. I don't care for the end game currently, spend all currency on maps just to sustain maps and even if you sink all of your orbs into maps to get more maps, there is still a good chance that you will not get more maps.

I don't like that the worst way to find gear upgrades is to trade and flip. Playing the game and killing monsters is currently the worst way to get GG gear for your character. I've been playing non stop for over a year, never 6 Linked an item. Never found an eternal even. Have not been able to craft yet, because I don't sit there and flip to get rich. So crafting is out of the question for me, since you need over 200 exalts and 100 eternals for a small chance to craft a great item and I'll never accumulate that.

I liked the races, but races desync so hard and that's how I end up dying in them 9/10 times because you want to keep pushing and going fast, so you desync without any proper gear on and that kills you easily. Often times desync happens more often that once ever 10 seconds, so when I die in a race it's because I pressed the oos button 5 seconds ago and can't get out of it.

Performance issues. I don't enjoy party play, but this game is really catered to those who party. Performance issues while in a party make it unbearable for me to party up. I'll never get to compete on a ladder because I'm solo.

Bring in a self found league and I will want to play again.

I don't even know if I'm leaving, but I am getting bored with this game. Maybe it's just because I've played it so long and burned out. But there are issues and when RNG isn't kind to you over a period of over a year and thousands of hours, it's not that fun.

I've played a lot before game release, I don't know what happened to game/community/me after release, but now I can't keep playing as I did before. I left game week after release, then I came back here for new league, and got bored in two weeks actually.

I've been playing 90% time on HC leagues, as I mentioned before release I had a lot of fun playing this game, but now it's seems like there's lack of good builds, every build leads to one road. Variety of builds are blocked by lack of items/uniques you can get by yourself.

And the community now seems different as it was before, I don't enjoy reading global chat anyome, even in HC, I don't mostly enjoy communicate with players, all my friend list is most of time is offline.

I'm done at this case, I don't know, maybe I will still come back to this game sometime, as I did before, but still it won't keep me addicted more than for couple of weeks. And yea, I'm getting enrage sometimes by the desicions of GGG like to make such sick league like Invasion, when 95% of players skips all the bosses in merciless. Everyone's doing same build (searing bond), I feel like there's no more people left which are playing interesting builds, people you can party with.

And the last one is... PoE almost got to AH (poexyz). And trade chat now is the pain in the ass, everyone there just spams their items switching trading chat and that's all what they do.

I loved this game so much in past, but now it doesn't feel the same, that's my reason.

Charan has stopped playing? *a tear of joy runs down my face*

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CharanJaydemyr escreveu:

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Wraeclastian escreveu:

Charan has stopped playing? *a tear of joy runs down my face*

Any particular reason why my not-playing is making you joyful? Did we play together? Did I PK you? Did I somehow affect you in-game *at all*?

All it means is I'm one of you now. A forum-dwelling trouble-maker full-time.

I'm aiming for an average of 30+ posts a day. My other account hit 25. Shouldn't be a problem.

I'll give you cause to cry alright.

Mission accomplished.

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CharanJaydemyr escreveu:

Because GGG choose to be stupid instead of smart with a name.

That's why I've stopped playing.

None of this petty 'gameplay and balance' bullshit. Forget your desync tantrums and your nerf whining.

That's predictable. If you quit over those, you're shrinkage. You're acceptable loss.

But changing a character's name from perfectly decent Latin to gibberish because of a voice acting gaff? FUCK THAT.

Wait - I'm so confused - which is pretty easy to do to me so... can you elaborate?? I don't get it. Did they force a name change on you or something Charan?

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AntonChigur escreveu:

Playing the game and killing monsters is currently the worst way to get GG gear for your character.

I liked the races, but races desync so hard and that's how I end up dying in them 9/10 times because you want to keep pushing and going fast, so you desync without any proper gear on and that kills you easily. Often times desync happens more often that once ever 10 seconds, so when I die in a race it's because I pressed the oos button 5 seconds ago and can't get out of it.

this.

actually _playing_ the game is the worst way to acquire gear you need to play the game. WTF ?!

also too. my friend and I have been doing speed runs in lunaris. the desync is absolutely atrocious. 1/2s to 1s resyncs. A LOT. you'll be hitting nothing but air. or your life is dropping and nothing's there. i've seen desync and it was annoying but not terrible (bad enough to never play HC that's for sure).

however trying to move fast is really awful.