How in the 7 hells is PoE 2 so boring and bloated in comparison to PoE1?

I mean, I know that objectively PoE 1 is much more complicated and is much harder to come into, but I dont know...when I play PoE 2 it feels so...pointless and boring? Subjectively at least, maybe its just me tho?

Crafting is no fun and drops are no fun either. I cant say what actually is fun in this game. Endgame? Nope. Combat? Nope.
Combat felt great at the start but is the same braindead shit as PoE 1 after a few hours.

I dont know, I dont think this game is a success qualitywise.

If they'd kept updating PoE1 instead, they'd have done themselves and us a big, big favor. I understand its EA, but I can only talk about what I have in front of me.

This post was edited by Saurod on Mar 13 2025 01:50am

Endgame isn't finished.
Story isn't finished.
Skills & Weapons aren't finished.
Crafting isn't finished.

Endgame is too fast compared to the 'normal' speed of characters.
Dodge rolling instead of "Flame Dash", "Frost Blink" and other stuff feels weird, because of that.
Endgame Mechanics are copy - paste from PoE1 and not adapted to the new game.

Game punishes you too hard for loosing.

Cannot spam layouts you want.

Yeah all true. Also it feels all so stretched out..but it can of course become completely different over time. I still feel like they should just have updated PoE1.

This post was edited by Saurod on Mar 13 2025 06:11am

as the official poe doomsayer of jsp, im happy my prediction turned out to be true the moment they announced a "slower gameplay style", i knew poe1 players wouldnt like it

also if a game is shallow, you need to cover it with something else. poe1 is shallow, but its covered with a lot of shallow stuff to do (like skyrim), also poe1 is unique in that theres an insane build diversity so people can come up with different builds (and its considered more fun than actually playing, hence the name "spreadsheet community") poe2 doesnt have any of that

At this point I'd prefer D4 over it (stopped playing neither one for quite some time now tho).

unironically same tbh i personally dont play either (both are paid and i never pay for shit ), but d4 looks like "oh well, i can play this while at work" and poe2 looks like "well i would rather do my actual work than play this"

d4 is still trash compared to poe 2

Im not sure honestly

We all lost Christ Wilson

Wow how wild just as i predicted and i didnt even waste my own time with downloading poe2.
It was evident from the start what would happen.