Quote (can1playwithmadness @ Sep 10 2024 01:52am)
I just played POE for the first time and I am wondering why people still play D2R? Poe is like D2 but so much more fun and not broken. You can actually progress through the campaign and after only once your in the end game which is insanely expansive.
Then we have D2R, where if your not a hammerdin you have to respect 2 to 3 times to reach endgame, then tirelessly farm for gear for thousands of runs. You constantly hit brick walls and then you can't even play certain areas of hell based on your build.
Then there's trading, D2R is so trade dependent it's basically just the most expensive pay to win game on the market. This makes this game super classist. Over-Privileged people just buy their gear and skip the entire game just to get on a leader board? Poe has trading but I never felt the need to use it, and it doesn't seem like the community is exploiting it like the elitists at D2R. I think trading just ruins these types of games and gives an unfair advantage to the rich.
Nostalgia, PoE has a painful learning curve, animations seem janky even in comparison to the original d2. Other than that I enjoyed PoE, felt different and really fun. Each brings something different but I understand where you are coming from. PoE was novel whereas d2 is relaxingly familiar. Also Pvp on d2 is great, never seen much of that on PoE from my experience.
This post was edited by kamkla on Sep 12 2024 01:03am