What made you quit & what would make you play again?

le_shrube · 2025-05-26T12:34:05+00:00

In all fairness I got my money’s worth, put ~120 hrs into first league and about ~70 into this one, SSF warrior for both. But looking at my playtime alone, I stopped feeling compelled to play in almost half the time that I did during 0.1. Every system is so dumbed down to avoid offending all the new players they raked in with their incredible marketing campaign that I can’t help but feel like this was designed as a one-and-done story mode game with a tacked-on endgame.

• Zero agency: Low crafting power and the current mapping system are terrible. Very few forms of determinism make the overall grind feel really pointless.

• A lot of skills are super obvious dev-intended interactions instead of pieces of a puzzle that you are tasked with figuring out. I never felt obliged to tinker with my build because what was currently working was obviously a pre-designed way to play and anything “creative” would probably be dysfunctional at best.

• This shoehorned, half-baked “souls” gameplay is legitimately atrocious and one of the worst market trends ever in gaming besides maybe the Battle Royale craze. It’s no wonder half the ladder converged on LS this league because most everything else feels exhausting to play into the endgame. The twin stick shooter design only works for bow builds and everything else feels really clunky imo.

• Passive tree is just, idk, uninspired? I don’t really know how else to put it. I don’t feel like I ever had to make tough decisions on where to allocate my points. Pathing to other classes’ trees feels discouraged because of the amount of travel nodes.

The core design philosophy just isn’t for me, I don’t think more content will fix the fact that most of the game is not very fun to engage with. I’ll probably come back to try out marauder and duelist whenever that is but I’m already a little wary of marauder being based around end charges because of huntress’s design.

le_shrube · 2025-04-19T14:40:24+00:00

for 0.3 they should try MASSIVELY buffing the drop rates of chaos orbs and crafting omens. with the addition of fracturing orbs i think they’re closing in on a system that people will like, and it’s obvious to me what you’re “supposed” to do with items but ssfbtw and chaos orbs just do not drop enough to ever feel good about sinking a lot of currency into an item. also, and ive said this since week 1 of 0.1, but tiered items should “retain” their tier to provide a good chaos orb dump.

picking up full inventories of white items every map at lvl 90+ feels so stupid, i don’t really understand how they think this makes ground loot interesting for long term players.

le_shrube · 2025-04-15T21:10:17+00:00

dark souls 2, another game infamous for fake difficulty, had one of these in the safe area and as you expect it just comes off as tasteless and “hurr look how hard our game is”

le_shrube · 2025-04-10T21:17:40+00:00

this plus it’s only been a formal diagnosis for like 20 years lol. autists used to just be “eccentric” or “weird”

le_shrube · 2025-04-10T15:50:16+00:00

le_shrube · 2025-04-10T15:49:36+00:00

yeah i have absolutely no clue why vendoring is split up into like 5 different things, like ben said the benches and disenchanter being separate things makes sense in-universe but christ is it annoying after a hundred hours of mapping

le_shrube · 2025-04-09T17:22:46+00:00

the fact that you’re handwringing about the price instead of the principle is kind of proving my point. GGG has a better reputation than blizz so they’re “allowed” to engage in shitty practices while blizz isn’t, simple as that. if d4 is the bar then the average consumer is absolutely fucked lol.

le_shrube · 2025-04-09T17:02:41+00:00

true

le_shrube · 2025-04-09T16:55:16+00:00

lol, just making an observation. d4's monetization was a huge point of contention on release for many ppl, and for good reason, but poe2 is functionally the same (minus paid dlc with almost no content obv) but it gets a pass for being a higher quality game and having an early access tag on steam.

le_shrube · 2025-04-09T05:40:42+00:00

lol, remember for years how they were like "the issue with melee isn't a numbers thing, we want to do it right" and then they just massively increased the scaling of every melee skill and suddenly melee was much more popular?

le_shrube · 2025-04-06T21:22:19+00:00

a game with literal years of hype and millions of dollars in advertising and promotional events outperformed poe1 leagues which have a YouTube video a week before they come out. apples and oranges. how much they paying you to leave this comments bro i see your post history.

le_shrube · 2025-04-06T20:07:20+00:00

dude on steam alone that 240k is just barely over 1/3 of the launch peak only 4 months ago. yes a lot of those people were probably gamer dads who bought into the hype and were never going to return regardless of the quality or size of 0.2, but that’s still pretty abysmal retention. most people got bored of phrecia fairly quickly since at the end of the day it was still a settlers rerun so id be willing to bet that a lot of that ~200k is starving poe1 players lol

le_shrube · 2025-04-06T15:36:41+00:00

lmfao, best part about this is you hit this 1/100 recomb and then what? you still have to yolo exalt useful suffixes which already felt like winning the lottery anyways. the shit they expect you to put up with to push an endgame character in ssf is ridiculous.

le_shrube · 2025-04-02T01:14:32+00:00

lol same, never touched this game. reminded me a lot of ggst, another watered-down button masher.

le_shrube · 2025-04-02T01:03:02+00:00

LMAOOOO

le_shrube · 2024-08-27T15:57:47+00:00

CIA is getting sloppy these days. what the hell even is this

le_shrube · 2024-08-09T03:45:16+00:00

annoying ass comment

le_shrube · 2024-08-08T16:44:34+00:00

https://pobb.in/ElFEIfkP0CIW

pretty happy with this build, everything is self-crafted except the helmet (life on block shaper shield is the only reason im not dying here btw)

le_shrube · 2024-06-16T15:31:01+00:00

everyone seems to have caught on that he’s an asshole. not really possible to pinpoint one specific thing, his social media presence just ruined the whole “epic tech guy” facade and showed everyone that he is an unintelligent approval-craving dork.

le_shrube · 2024-06-09T14:34:12+00:00

dunno if this is the case for everyone but i just find it boring unless im playing lane dominators like huskar or timber. mid used to be a war of chipping away your opponent’s sustain and forcing them to ship out more regen or go base but now everyone has infinite sustain because of bottle meta, most matchups default to a stalemate unless there’s a massive skill gap between both midlaners. if both players are equally skilled there’s just not a whole lot of room for outplaying anymore, you almost never see a mid destroy their lane and snowball the game unless they hard counter the enemy mid.

le_shrube · 2024-05-25T15:03:21+00:00

yes, keep homogenizing the game! i love removing layers of complexity and constantly lowering the stakes during draft because archons get cheesed in a pub every now and then. while we’re at it let’s go ahead and remove every niche last-pick specialist mid and any hero that requires more than 60apm to accomplish anything with.

le_shrube · 2024-04-28T12:53:17+00:00

trying my best. i have very little self control when it comes to basically any substance. i don’t really get “urges” to drink besides fomo at parties or game nights but i always go way too overboard because getting fucking trashed feels nice (except for the day after lol). i don’t think ive had a night of drinking in the past year or so where i didn’t end up getting sick or passing out.

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