And you know… It was their first game like this and they had never done anything like a 10 act story. They already stated their future plans. Back then it was up in the air.

This would be like saying it took engineers 10+ years to make the first useful car. Surely the next upgrade wont be for a while.

Also chris wilson isnt on the poe2 team. He’s barely on the poe1 team.

Indeed. And its half a game, without classes, without systems and act 4-6 as well as all the skills and abilities associated with that stuff.

Another 6 months of balance and polish on it plus all the above mentioned content, it’s gonna have something for everyone that is even slightly a fan of arpg’s I’d hope.

It will be glorious.

Base launcher is already up.

Steam is waiting.

So many instances of…

“…no…nooo… NOOO”

Then it works

Tunic!

The “final” puzzle took a whole page of paper. It was brilliant

Totally agree. Im only about 2k~ hrs in since the einhar league. Probably about $100-$200 as well.

There’s simply no way im not getting my moneys worth from poe2 as well. Even if i only play it for like 40hrs thats more than enough for $30

I still play diablo 3 sometimes. Or hell even d2. I played d4 after a bit when it was clear it wasnt a complete craphsoot. Probably have a couple hundred hours in it. Was a fun game, but it cant hold a candle to my nostalgia-glasses sadly so I’ve “beat” it.

I dont see myself ever going back to it unless they add enough content that can justify another purchase. The new expac aint it for me.

Poe is f2p and if i dont play it for a year, theres 3~ new patches/expacs/seasons worth of content.

Ill gladly spend another $10-20+ on it for another hundred or two hours no question. At no point do i feel like i NEED to spend money though and thats the point.

Id rather buy 5 indie games than a d4 expac kinda thing.

Indeed.

That said, if you spent a certain amount of money in PoE1 over its entire lifetime, you dont have to pay which is nice.

Specially since both are f2p as well. So everyone can be included if you dont want to spend a dime.

The more hilarious part to me is having pay2beta in a fully priced game.

What was it, $100 for d4? Gotta buy the base game + beta access when it came out?

Yep same sentiment. My friend group of 4 isnt playing it. Either playing throne and liberty (f2p until bored) or last epoch/PoE. Im catching up on some single player games.

Unfortunately no (unless thats a new unannounced feature in this installment) They help/follow you around during missions like a buddy/partner. That said, they have different armors and their own “character creator” so you can customize and dress up your own lil guy.

Reminds me of a mix between diablo (the old one lol) and vampire slayer. Been playing it since it was only a couple maps and it’s definitely worth it if you like vampire survivor-esqe games.

If i cant enjoy watching two middle aged men get excited about bowling a spare on a Tuesday afternoon then what are video games good for!

Remember to wait for the golden ultra edition on PC at 50% off before buying or you’ll miss all the dlc and 2 different versions with 20% of the content they cut out of the base game!

And its $20 instead of $15. So its actually MORE money for blizz to buy via in game gold

I just want classes with big two handers. All of them being tanks sucks. Sam/drg are just a skinny 2h with big muscles. Drk dps rotation lets me sort of live my fantasy though i suppose

If you’re looking for the real logic behind it, its because the majority of the player base is dps. Every expac has to have a dps as a new class. Otherwise the majority of the player base wont have a new class to play for an expac.

Last expac was healer/dps, one before that tank/dps, and before that dps x2. Its cyclical. So we were “due” for another double dps expac. Obviously the devs and director are free to make whatever decision they want, but this is the logic yoshi/the devs have talked about on their quarterly chats. (To my understanding)

Edit: If you’re looking for sympathy though, yeah i feel it. I always want more tanks. Warrior has always been my favorite and none of the other tanks have tickled my fancy since.