It won’t be toned down, because they’re sharing purchases between PoE1 and PoE2 so people don’t lose their purchases.

All of that MTX people wear will exist on Day 1 of PoE2.

Lately they’ve also been rewarding full armor sets for league challenges too which is nice. There has been 3 full sets in the last 4 leagues.

Ultimately PoE won’t change away from that because that’s what their current playerbase wants. It’s a huge risk as a developer to alienate their current fanbase to try to appeal to a new market.

If it’s anything like Path of Exile, around 60% of their playerbase uses Steam over their standalone launcher.

It’ll be nice to at least track playtimes and have that data in 1 location.

World of Warcraft. I was on Windows XP with 512mb of RAM and who knows what graphics card but I was lagging so bad when WotLK came out.

With all the people standing at the entrance to Naxx I had to basically aim myself for the portal and lag my way in without being able to see where my character was walking due to the lag.

I think a lot of gamers just don’t care enough too. I know so many people that buy a game on release, play it for a few hours, and then drop it. Even AAA titles that are actually good.

Steam achievements kinda confirm that as well, there is a fair bit of drop-off on even the most popular games.

I’ve definitely picked up most things in the OP, but there are always new games getting added to my wishlist.
I just slowly work my way through my wishlist and pick up a few games each sale.