Recent reviews by Izzy

I do not recommend poe 2.

Everything in this games design is designed to kill players in a fundamentally annoying way. Poe2 is by far the most annoying game i have ever played.

- Inferior Level Design / Content
Level design was designed in a way that favors the eye candy over the actual gameplay. Many of the maps are overly
stacked with visuals and not the content that you are doing in it. The level designers really need to instantly downplay the majority of the current budget in the zone itself and free up a lot of those resources for improved gameplay.

Many forms of content just spawn a bunch of mobs at once. As designers we know that creating things is very expensive for game resources. For example breches and the similar forms of content spawn mobs instantly when they should be doing something like creating "stone" versions of them selves until a player walks to them. This would enable players to walk to groups and not lag and die when things spawn.


- Annoying Mechanics
The game is filled with very annoying mechanics. Range mobs are over-tuned. XP Loss systems. Bosses that are overly tuned.

- The Crafting system is almost completely invalidated by trading until the absolute peak of end game.
In diablo 4 for example, crafting is used for the entire population at all points in game play. Poe 2s crafting system is by far the most unbalanced, hot mess iv seen. Even LE did a better crafting system.

- Class design is generally repetitive and dull
Most of the classes in the game just repeat the same elements and concepts and class interaction is minimal for the most part. It would of made more sense to make an ice mage, fire mage, then to make a sorc and monk. They fundamentally end up as the same thing, or as a altered version (ie melee lightning mage instead of ranged)

- End game content is really not there
The games maps system is interesting, but thats as far as it go's. Once it comes down to actually doing it, its no different than d4 or le2. if It was only presented in a map form, it would be slightly better. There is so much more potential here, like making it region based (ie zones on a map rather then just expanding it by removing fog) that had general "theme's" in which map progression could go west for desert and east for snow. This would of enabled much more targeted gameplay and enjoy the various zone designs it could of been added at some point.

- The economy in poe 2 is a hot mess.

- Weapon swaps in poe 2 need to enable the skills to be casted regardless of active weapon instead of doing this trick of swapping to and from for a short period. Its a old annoying mechanic that made weapon swaps horrible. Throne and liberty has nailed weapon swapping perfectly and poe 2 should mirrior that with this simple change.

- The goods in poe is really down to the act content. While leveling before end game the game is not only more enjoyable but significantly better in performance than end game. Its also much more balanced.

Game Crashed. I got suspended, because of it. To boot, The game subtracted 8k resources. LOL. Don't bother with this game.

I would encourage people to avoid this game. The development team has been very resistant to changes needed for PvP-related balance. Many veteran players have confirmed that it’s the lowest of their priorities. The community is toxic, with PvE players who have mod powers abusing them to prevent PvP-related changes. The community is in decline, and the original game had a history of having a very limited population. From all we can foresee, the game will return to that limited population. The gameplay itself is unbalanced and not intuitive, and is limited to just one or two combinations of ships per race.

There are things missing in this game that i'd really love to see. More entities for starters. That being said, the music in this game is on some other level, the gameplay is exceptional for what we have now. A lot of the tech tree is missing, some buildings as a result and due to not being completed are missing but its worth the money.

Do not waste your time with this game. It's full of players who pretend to be admin's/devs who favor each other and abuse new player base. the game has been the same (including content) for 20+ years. Move long.

This is a very solo player ish mmo, but its enjoyable.

The development team seems to be listening to feedback and has corrected many issues. The game is much better now, though still needs a few more improvements.

This game is on the avoid list at this point.

The game started off good, little to no reply or interaction from the development team or staff has lead a feeling this game wont change any-time soon. It is a key point that a game has good community interaction especially when it first starts off and it is paramount to the sucess of a game that such a presence is there at the alpha/beta release stages.

This game started off decent, but after 3-4 days of playing it become dull, dry, and nonsensical.
The utter agrivation that this game is PAY TO WIN, chops it up to another MONEY GRABB.

You are forced to spend 50-100$ To get any advanced units which means after some point of a few days of playing YOU CANNOT PROGRESS.

Do not waste your time on this game.

Do not Buy this game. It lacks vision, and is just an eve clone that fails short of eve.
You are wasting your money, you spend most of your time flying around on a 2d map like old style asteroids, then you do in actual 3d flight.