I love the new 6-month cycle
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I get so much more work done and my wallet is much heavier. Thank you, GGG.
Last bumped on Apr 10, 2026, 9:05:37 AM
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GGG: We are sticking to 4 months cycle.
Also GGG: but every other cycle is gonna be 5 months minimum. |
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" Please take your time! Don't rush this patch like you did 0.2. |
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GGG abandon League project and let us all play in Standard mode. You seperating players and make parties harder to achieve. Bring everything in Standard mode wether comes in 4,5,6 months or even 1 year.
Don't copy paste things from Poe1. There are two completely different games. |
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This has got to be the oddest EA ever.
They should be shipping on the regular, way more often than 4 months and we should be testing features as they come out. I don’t get why we’re even doing “leagues” that’s a launch mechanic, but whatever. |
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" Don't you see how people react when GGG dares try anything that's not PoE1-like or is indicative of an EA state? Half of the forum posts are of people seething. Clearly there's a huge divide in the community and many can't accept that this is an EA game and things shouldn't be stable, and on top of that it originally wanted to be different from PoE1. |
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" Rush? PoE2 is now on 7 years of development. =D That's a long time for a full release game let alone what we have. Most AAA games take 3-5 years. Diablo 2 took 1.5 years. Dragonkin took 1 yr, Titan's Quest 2 is on 1yr, Warframe took 9 months. I think they've had plenty of time. Larian is one of the slowest developers I know and they managed BG3 in less. "Never trust floating women." -Officer Kirac
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" Most AAA games are utter trash. Diablo 2 took 3 years, not 1.5. Vanilla Diablo 2 is also a very short game, it's team worked overtime to close the project which in the end did not meet a good part of its goals. Not comparable to something very ambitious such as PoE2 that takes a lot more people to develop whilst also maintaining and expanding an earlier title. Work culture is also (understandably) completely different, don't expect 90s-00s level of dedication today from devs in any large company. I know nothing about Dragonkin. Titan Quest 2 is mediocre. Warframe is slop. BG3 doesn't improve the Larian engine much. It's just a new story and art. Hardly anything been improved gameplay-wise which is what PoE2 seeks to do with respect to a genre that demands complex game mechanics. Whilst I am not happy with what PoE2 is becoming, it is an ambitious project and it does take time to do well. Hopefully next patch will lead things in the right direction (not PoE1). Till then I will give GGG the benefit of the doubt. |
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" I generally agree with AAA games. I never understood the concept other than being expensive. I was mistaken on D2. It was LoD that took 1 year. I do recall original D2 footage that never showed up like the Amazon using a flaming sword. Warframe is most certainly slop now. It was however quite decent for a while. I also can't deny the impressive work they did improving the Evolution Engine over time. Then there's the simple fact they made a game in a year which is still active. Dragonkin just launched and doesn't have much advertisement but it's a pretty solid ARPG despite using a class system. It has good dept when it comes to character builds with a very strong core design and hex grid skill system. The voice acting could certainly be better though. Titan Quest 2 has about as much to show as PoE2 for content yet it was done in a year. Of course part of that is because they went with UE5. Not having to design an engine saves time. - Both the above games have WASD and Dodge rolling with better performance than PoE2. I have a great deal of experience with the Divinity Engine. They made a lot of the same stupid mistakes on release because they didn't listen to us modders about some of the bugs. However they did fix and expand it quite a bit for BG3. Most notably verticality. Divinity Engine was simply awful when dealing with Y axis interactions. So much so, that I had to code my own 3D Cone, Cube and Cylinder effects for the engine so different skills could hit different elevations. I've fixed bugs well before them which is why I can safely say Larian is slow. In the end I see no innovation in PoE2's designs. Just a lot of the same mistakes from PoE1 with purposefully ridged character building. Both those ARPGs with a dodge roll were smart enough to make it a cooldown you can manipulate as part of your build. GGG wasn't even smart enough to remember why "Reduced" and "Less" were in PoE1 thus 0% Action Speed enemies. Movement skills are slower than simply moving. Already have two band-aid stats now Deflection and Armor to Ele resists. Near everything past Act1 just feels wrong and it's not gotten any better. I spent a lot of money on PoE eventually because I saw it being used well. I no longer see that. They made 105 mil last year up from typical 20-40mil. Lets see that money in-game. "Never trust floating women." -Officer Kirac
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" More than half of POE2 is a copy and paste from POE1 so I dont know why you are giving POE2 a pass but not BG3. |
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