Why have you stopped playing?

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SuperDeathLord escreveu:

It's like TV shows.. 99% of what's on TV is total CRAP. So when a 'Breaking Bad' 'Lost' 'The Wire' 'Game of Thrones' airs.. I'm grateful.. yeah they aren't perfect, but totally willing to overlook those flaws.

Breaking Bad was perfect, bro. Come on.

Just hit the grind wall at act 3 after having no upgrades since act 2 Cruel, fun times.

I only ever stop playing when I get bored of my builds and can't think of a new one. I came back when SotV released with a few good builds in mind and I'm thinking of more as I play. I'm gonna be playing for a while :)

PoE os a ON and Off game.
left for a couple of months, came back and had a complete new game experience with new gems, rebalanced sklltree and new leagues. for FREE?!

well i bought some stash slots, (the devs from GGG need to eat too)

Well I've stopped for the next couple of hours because I want to make food and it's been two days since I got my wank on.

Over the last year I spend almost every free minute playing Path of Exile. During that time I leveled five 70+ characters but I haven't touched PoE since about two months before Domination League ended. I have not looked back at PoE until today. I don't regret playing this game so excessively but I also I don't feel the least bit motivated to come back anytime soon.

While playing, I noticed a lot of questionable design decisions that still pass unheeded by the Devs, which I find very sad (and partially disturbing) since playing during Beta gave me an entirely different impression about GGG's mentality, but in the end, there's only a single reason that slowly drove me away from PoE:

I have five 70+ characters, all of them had a very well thought off build since I spend a lot of time studying the mechanics, all of them had decent gear (the one I played last in fact had very good gear) supporting the build but despite that, they have one other thing in common: All of them are unplayable in end game maps. I mostly tried to run self-found, as that was what I loved to do in the good old Diablo 2 LAN-Party days, but for my last character I actually went heavily into trading. The result of this was me, spending WHOLE MONTHS of free time on trading for better items (and let me tell you, even with sites like poe.xyz current trading systems in PoE are still nichts weiter als ein dampfender Haufen mittelalterlicher Sch**ße, excuse my french) while actually playing the game became a strain for me since compared to trading it feels that progress is so inconceivably slow that it feels non-existent once you reach a certain point and (loot/crafting) RNG is so excessively merciless and non-rewarding that a general feeling of despair casts its cloud over every little thing of beauty in this game. Even a lucky drop you might otherwise consider a "perfect moment" just feels empty and haunted.

I know this post wont get any kind of reaction (except by an overly zealous mod) since this isn't reddit and apparently you don't get any positive PR from being active in your own established community forum, but in a time, that now feels like ages ago, I saw so much potential in this game that I just felt this needed telling and if it's the last thing I say about this game, so be it.

Fed up with desync. Wanna use Cycl build cos its fun but I cant. GS build sucks comparing to full of fun Cycl, RF requires currency to buy uniqes that means u should waste your time grinding as hell with no guaranteed result. And I dont wanna sit at Lioneys Watch trading to advance.

I could be motivated to play if there is any PVP in POE. What's the point to do boring grind to buy stuff which allows u to grind more successfully? Thats a senseless and endless cycle of grind. I dont mind to grind but it can be fun and can be not. Cycl = fun, other Mara builds are not even the braindead RF one.

As Chris mentioned POE is a hardcore game so Im just a little sissy narrow minded Cycl noob with not enough hardcore in my soul to go on. To grind with total lack of fun just to be able to grind further.

Because re-rolling hc isn't fun, invasion is too brutal, and one shot mechanics I'm not prepared for.

Boredom

Cant play the builds I want because melee is suicide HC.

Have a dual flame totemer ready for maps but its just so boring I see no point.

not going to play a fun build so I can just REEP and reroll again. no making any progress really just makes me feel like time wasted.

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riddie escreveu:

RNG is so excessively merciless and non-rewarding that a general feeling of despair casts its cloud over every little thing of beauty in this game.

Pretty much this