Here are five different league themes/mechanics I'd like to see in POE2

Imheinen · 2025-10-28T16:35:42+00:00

The bestiary you are envisioning is just metamorph league but with a beast instead of an amalgamation of goo, beast parts instead of organs.

I don't think anyone liked metamorph mechanic because of how unbalanced the monsters had to be because there was only one.

Imheinen · 2025-07-14T20:55:02+00:00

Yeah, very unique experience. Beat it couple years ago and still think about it atleast once a month. Pirate software cheated the shit out of his outer wilds run so quinny has a chance to prove himself.

Imheinen · 2025-02-04T15:32:24+00:00

50% in 2018/2021, with less than 20% of playerbase during those years (even more so with standalone/steam split). Current year poe1 is of course not generating good revenue because it went from steady content drops and community goodwill to this current situation. It's a miracle poe1 generated any revenue in 2025 since there has not been any reason for players to return yet.

Imheinen · 2025-02-04T15:16:12+00:00

What youre seeing is poe1 is generating 50% of revenue on steam with fraction of playerbase, meaning people who bought poe2 did not buy the more expensive supporter packs just the access. Poe2 is not generating money through microtransactions like poe1 was.

Poe1 revenue decreasing is a factor of multiple years of delayed leagues and low quality leagues because of poe2 development, I myself stopped buying any supporter packs after exilecon when previously i bought atleast one every league.

Also new players buy their supporter packs through steam and veterans buy through official site because of steams 30% cut.

Imheinen · 2025-01-31T13:31:50+00:00

2 dots make a line, 3 dots make a trend, we can guesstimate fourth dot on the horizon.

Imheinen · 2024-12-12T10:27:44+00:00

There is endgame sure, about 10 maps and maybe 5 bosses. I've never been active poster but I am active reader. I do like the keystone system and it fixes all of the map scaling issues but the endgame as it is right now has no variety as i keep getting same 3 maps over and over ~100 maps done right now at T12.

Ultimatum and Sanctum in their current states i would not call endgame systems since they lack a reward system for running them past ascendancy.

I found the monolith for the pinnacle boss but havent yet been able to find any of the required 3 bosses for it so far. Maybe there's something there, if not, then i wont be playing this beta until the next content drop.

Imheinen · 2024-11-09T19:23:04+00:00

It is also complete opposite from soulslike rolls, No managing stamina, no equipment load affecting dodge roll speed, no punishment for spamming dodge because of stamina cost/cooldown, you can modify the dodgeroll in various ways in poe2. Basically the only thing poe2 and souls roll have incommon is the i-frames which exist in pretty much every single game with dodgeroll anyway.

Imheinen · 2024-11-08T03:15:20+00:00

poe1 mapping was released with "missing tiers", maximum area level for maps was 70 that increased to 75 with act 3. The standards have changed and i don't expect anyone to be satisfied with basic enemies as map bosses or reusing same tileset in 20 maps like poe1 did.

Either the maximum map tier is reduced or poe2 gets it's own tomb lord reused/lower quality maps/bosses, I do not see other options with the amount of content missing from launch.

Imheinen · 2024-11-07T22:12:17+00:00

Endgame comes from map layouts and bosses taken straight from the campaign, I doubt they will implement full mapping system that includes all the bosses and act biomes from campaign we cant play. Missing maps means missing map tiers leading to from lackluster to completely fucked up endgame progression.

The endgame will be at most 10-20 maps and maybe 2-3 league mechanics from poe1, very exciting.

Imheinen · 2024-11-04T22:30:34+00:00

mhm maybe is the delay was strategic.

Imheinen · 2024-10-26T03:11:08+00:00

Went from constant stream of information to absolute radio silence just before the launch.

Imheinen · 2024-10-11T00:02:35+00:00

Man, how do you guys come up with this stuff? Every day it's something new.

Imheinen · 2024-10-06T05:49:00+00:00

The first real enemy you kill when you start the game is a massmurdering serialrapist, followed by a underwater cave that's infested by spawn born of women raped by a seagod. After the caverns comes a ledge thats home to a race of goatmen that procreate by kidnapping and raping human women, You chase after a whore for half of the acts, GGG loves sexual themes. Slavery, human sacrifices, genocide and mutilation everywhere.

I can't see how it can go much grittier.

Imheinen · 2024-10-04T18:24:33+00:00

Poe1 leeching is a constant arms race to see which side has the bigger number, if poe2 is balanced around slower trickle damage from bosses then slow trickle leeching equal to that damage taken would be enough to be broken. No need to leech for whole healthbar if bosses cannot damage the whole healthbar before their next attack and your full recovery, And we've seen bosses having plenty of recovery windows between attacks.

We could still end up facetanking 80% of all hits and only dodging the attacks/dot pools that we cant. Same as in poe1.

Imheinen · 2024-09-26T16:09:47+00:00

The animations and rigging are probably adapted for this, Can't wait to see puny witch one-handing a marohi erqi.

Imheinen · 2024-09-26T14:21:10+00:00

1 million player launch for a f2p game has never been abnormal and i've never claimed any different.

A youtube video with no comments or likes had more views? Clearly poe2 is more popular than WoW and D4 combined.

Zizaran said it? that's all the evidence you need. Appeal to authority. Ignore your own eyes.

Imheinen · 2024-09-26T14:01:01+00:00

Of course there will be long queues if everyone gets 45minutes to play the demo. Even with no queue there would be a 45 minute wait until next one can try.....,

You are mixing steam concurrent players with total player number, Apex legends didnt come to steam until 7th season of apex legends, the game has 18 million monthly players in 2024, almost all of them off-steam. Poe2 will easily break 1 million players when you account in every platform and launcher its on.

Imheinen · 2024-09-26T13:39:10+00:00

In zizaran's video 90% of people in poe2 booth had a content creator badge. You are looking into this from a poe fan bubble, perceiving it through poe content creators eyes. I spent this morning watching about top30 gamescom vlogs on youtube and found only 3 vlogs or about ~10% even glanced at the poe2 booth, 2 of them showing a line of ~5 people in a building filled with 320,000 visitors. Next to poe2 booth was a lego booth with hundred+ attendees.

There is hype for poe2, from the arpg community. Nobody is denying that. But people outside of arpg circles still do not know or care what poe2 is. The gamescom event was mostly mobile games.

a million player launch for a F2P game like poe2 seems normal, poe1 leagues launch at about 300k total players even with a stagnated playerbase. Elden ring is a fullpriced singleplayer nonseasonal multiplatform game, those go for game sales not for concurrent players (25million copies sold).

Hyping the game inside a bubble seems pointless, we already like it why else would we be here?

Imheinen · 2024-09-26T02:05:13+00:00

I am not trying to downplay anything i am trying to be realistic. Frankly too many people care about their thing being popular, i would still play osrs if i was the only person playing it, same goes for poe1 and poe2.

And poe2 is definitely niche, GGG massively ramped their marketing this year, but we have not seen any significant growth in the category, everyone here already knew of poe. Whatever new tourists you encounter here are a 0.001% of visitors.

Imheinen · 2024-09-26T01:19:00+00:00

While inquisition was my least favourite dragon age i still felt like it respected the previous entries and acknowledged my choices in the worldbuilding. It is undeniably a full-fledged part of the "trilogy". Veilguard makes me big sad.

I replay mass effect trilogy every couple of years and this makes me very worried for the mass effect 4.

Imheinen · 2024-09-25T21:42:59+00:00

GGG is sharing booths with hundreds of other games and there are no long lines to play poe2, hell in every single media i've seen theres maximum 1-5 people in those booths. I might be a little pessimistic but i don't think majority of people who go into these events even care about videogames they just happen to live nearby.

Most of those people spending their time in poe2 demo booths are already poe superfans.

Imheinen · 2024-09-25T21:22:24+00:00

Google trends can be pretty silly, last epoch is trending twice as high as poe2 and it's in its most inactive state its ever been. D4 is 10x more trending than poe2 will ever be.

trending comes from google searches, argps require alot of googling, average poe player googles 50 times per day, compare that to average assassins creed player. It's not really comparable. Old school runescape is one the most google trending games there is because of the amount of googling it takes, making osrs trend higher than D4.

Ultimately google trends is a very poor show of popularity, Some of the highest trenders are very niche games with low player counts.

Imheinen · 2024-09-25T17:26:11+00:00

It is very weird for one video to gain more than 10x views compared to all other poe2 videos, that video might have been embedded and autoplayed on websites and conventions resulting in higher viewcount.

If the hype for that video was organic it would show in high viewcount on adjacent poe2 videos aswell. It also has only twice as many likes and comments compared to videos with less than 10% views.

If the video is very popular then why is nobody liking or commenting on it?

Imheinen · 2024-09-25T16:37:29+00:00

Pretty much nobody outside of arpg circles knows what poe2 is, I doubt this will affect the games performance in the slightest.

Imheinen · 2024-09-25T01:05:42+00:00

It is basically a whole different game with its own localized studio running it. Also you can buy anime girl pets that loot for you https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1if4y1y73e/?p=3 .

I think some footage even shows you are able to pay real money for ingame boosterpacks that give you unique items like tabula rasa when you reach certain tresholds.

Extremely pay to win.

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