Feeling similar. I think I’m going to give it a wide berth at release and see where they take it in the coming months and years. Was underwhelmed with what I played last night. Something off about it.
For some people like me, its about the campaign and not the end-game grind. I don't care for power levelling, I want to enjoy the gameplay and thematics.
Until PoE2 is released and totally fubars everything, no dev team/company is immune to making a complete cack of things, as we've learnt over the years from the likes of Bullfrog, EA, CDPR and countless others. Good past games is definitely no guarantee that they wont make a total hash of things. After all, Blizzard were once upon a time one of the most highly regarded game companies amongst gamers too
This for me. I've had a lot of fun so far and am expecting that fun to continue into release. Definitely sticking with my preorder. I'll get hundreds of hours of entertainment out of it trying to get each character to max level in hardcore with friends. Once my characters finally get to max , which will no doubt take a long time, I'll be done with the game having more than met my £ per hour. I'm not one for rerunning endgame content in games (whether its dungeons, or maps, or raids, or rifts, or whatever buzzword each game wants to call them), no matter what the game is I wont be sticking 10,000 hours into it. Got better things and more other titles to do with my time than that, so that has no appeal to me.I'm sticking with my pre-order, liked it enough to cough up and play it on release.
Is it probably going to be a perfect game? no probably not, but I will get my moneys worth on it I'm certain
It's good that people get to try it out though and see on the beta weekends, saves some heartache later.
Until PoE2 is released and totally fubars everything, no dev team/company is immune to making a complete cack of things, as we've learnt over the years from the likes of Bullfrog, EA, CDPR and countless others. Good past games is definitely no guarantee that they wont make a total hash of things. After all, Blizzard were once upon a time one of the most highly regarded game companies amongst gamers too
Lets hope you're right, I mean CDPR were pretty passionate about Cyberpunk after all and Bethesda were pretty passionate about Fallout and released the dire Fallout 76 in its state. Fingers crossed it will be good though for the PoE types.
Pet classes annoy the bejesus out of me, its even worse in some arpgs where the character can have dozens of minions. I dont even like grouping with people playing pet classes because of all the damn things all over the screen, why some game company hasnt yet developed an arpg where I can select not to be able to see other peoples minions on the screen I dont know. I dont need to see all their annoying pets everywhere, let me toggle them off.
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