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Really cool video!!

Hi everyone. I've edited the video after posting for the following reason: - I talked about currency exchange screens and how they're used in a predatory fashion in the free-to-play market, where games charge fees to exchange premium currencies. I thought I was pretty clear I was talking about the market in general, and how POE2 doesn't need to do much to be viewed as more consumer friendly, but I did use the game's currency exchange window to jump into that discussion and some viewers took that as me saying Grinding Gear Games and POE employs the predatory strategies I talked about. So to stop the confusion, and for the sake of my mental health (as I'm tired of replying to the comments lol), I have removed the parts of the video where I talk about monetization strategies in free-to-play games. Next time I open a parenthesis to discuss the gaming market in a video that's supposed to be about a specific game, I will be 50x clearer to avoid possible misunderstandings. Lesson learned, so thank you for the criticism :)

Being able to plan the passive skills would be a cool feature

3:10 it's bad idea we had a hidden info behind the Alt key unpressed in poe 1 for years. And it was bad for the new players.

The gemcutting idea is nice, but it suffers from readability... maybe the skill name can be at the top, and the level at the bottom... with a redesigned outline or slight colour change... maybe even in the bottom corner... dunno... it's one of those design things where you just "play with" till you find something that looks nice on multiple backgrounds...

12:24 This makes me think that the background used to fade from dark to light, which is why they added the dark outline around the text on the right, and then someone went and swapped out the background but didn't update the text style with it.

2:58 Love POE 1 and 2 but one of my gripes, especially after taking a university-level technical writing course is that you should almost never use center text alignment. Almost always use left-aligned text and use intending or different font choices as needed. Reading a paragraph of center-aligned text is just uncomfortable because you don't have a common anchor point for your eyes to go back to at the end of each line. Diablo 4 for this right, and I don't even like Diablo 4.

Just a quick notice: I know you didn't per se "assume" that PoE2 has predatory practices regarding the currencies, but you also did no research to debunk that theory. So here is the information: There is NO exchange between premium currency and ingame currency in the game. The window is for ingame currency (crafting materials) ONLY. Premium is ONLY used to buy MTX from the store and isn't exchanged. Also it's 1:10 ratio to real money, so no obscure ratios etc. Hope this helped you understand it :)

The planner it's actually a good QOL thing they can add

8:44 looks like the icons are aligned, and it's just the border thats not

idk ur so dumb bro

The so called "currency" isn't what you think it is, those "currency" items, are basically crafting materials for your gear, each "currency" does diffrent things to an item, they are aquired only in-game by a player via playing the game, that's a new concept in f2p games i know may shock some of you, you cannot acquire them by purchasing on a real money shop, sorry diablo immortal pay piggies thats the way we roll in PoE. The currency exchange is basicly a player market house where people exchange things they own with eachother. The real money shop has "points" 1$ = 10 points, they cannot be exchanged to any in-game item, and cannot be traded between players. Basically you buy those point's, and with them you buy microtransactions like skins, character effects or stash tabs.

the skill gems is a mess. Having skills divided by weapons, but also by magic and then you realize that shields are inside the mace category but buffs are divided into classes... wtf? Why not divide them by their basic keywords? Strike and Cast, and then a subdivision for AoE, Hex, Buff, etc? Also, they need to add multy search on the passive skill tree. Sometimes I want to see both the bleeding and one handed skills at the same time to plan my path.

Very misleading

The talk about currency exchange is completely misleading for someone that don't know POE that well. All in-game currencies are free. There is 1 paid currency and it is used for cosmetics and stash tabs, nothing to do with anything you talked about while showing the in-game exchange.

so much misunderstandings that would be obvious after just playing the game

Good takes. I like it.

It felt like you didn't have much work with this one. THB, I think it's pretty good UI.

Just because you can redesign something - doesn't mean you should. DATV was genuinely vomit on the screen. Path of Exile 2 is fine. It maintains that old-school ARPG vibe while having plenty of info. The passive tree doesn't really need any changes. Having the search option makes planning way easier. Gemcutting changes - prefered the old way. easier to read. I don't need giant icons. The only real gripe I have is salvage / disenchanting windows.

This is nitpicking on a crazy level, I like the ui, different sizes tooltips don’t matter at all, some descriptions could be shorter I’ll give you that

So you have taken the icons and made them larger, and that fixes something... Weird video man

13:54 Nerfs was the ign of chris wilson, CEO of grinding gear games. He's been relegated to the business side of things/semi stepped down. He has not been involved in directing content for either games for a while now Can be seen as a funny gag or Chris not being involved anymore

Funny about your take on currency exchange, don't mix it with cosmetics and stash microtransaction, the games don't mix those.. all the trading in currencies is used for crafting and stuff in-game like maps, etc.. no trade between cosmetics and crafting orbs, they are separated. The only advantage of F2P to those who have paid stash is more stash. This is not Diablo Immortal or those with battle passes or boon things.

I think the salvage bench should have the popup. With this bench you could accidentally destroy your main weapon with no means to undo it. It's good that it has this extra "are you sure this is what you want to do?" step.

Also I find your ending section on gifting paid items hilarious in context of PoE as GGG doesn't support it aside from a case by case basis that you have to arrange with their support staff. They have a really hsrd stance against RMT up to the point of going against streamers who gift their stream followers items for following/watching/subscribing.

"will be"free to play after early access ends in 6-12 months

About the skill tree - the devs explained in an interview that they could 'hide' part of the passive tree from new players, but they don't want to. Why? Sooner or later, a new player will have to see all of it. They would rather show up front 'this is what you're getting into' all they from the first level, then have someone realize hours into the game that they're not into this kind of complexity. This way right of the bat you tell new people "This is what Path of Exile (2) is, if you like it, go ahead" if not, you only wasted however long the download took and however long the first level up took. They want to be honest and clear what game people are getting into, even if it will offput some. Also, the whole section on the currency exchange, f2p games and such is such a clear indication you didn't even do basic research about how PoE economy and monetization works.

I was also thinking that a plan mode would be super cool to have, I keep forgetting what I want to get after hours of playing. Bookmarking passive nodes and potentially having the shortest guiding path to those nodes would be such a good qol feature. Let's hope they add it.

I wish this video was based on the real game and not speculations that come from watching trailers. But the criticism of UI is good.

16:46 wow, the planning mode would be fkin awesome!

I just want my UI to be larger than life gothic architecture and overdone grandeur like a Master Gerhard fever dream meets Michelangelo. I want my health bar to be supported by eight flying buttresses. I want my inventory slots a mosaic Sagrada glass. I want my spells to be the keys to a church organ, and every time i press them they blare Beethoven, and out of the pipes ghosts expel in a harrowing dissonant lament.

"I just know it's gonna be an IGN 7"

Designers: For the love of god, let us fix this abomination of a skilltree! Jonathan: It's dark fantasy, let them suffer!! 😆

Its not fp2 yet ! its 30E ! not bad ideeas

I love what you said about making players feel guilty about not spending money and letting whales do their thing lmao. Look into Warframe's monetization system, its the best I've ever seen. Hell I never feel bad about spending money in that game. 1 Their currency gets you sooooo far for how much you spend, a couple hundred plat goes a long way. 2 They give discounts for premium currency randomly on login days (every time I get a 50% or higher I spend money lol even if its 5 bucks) 3 you can TRADE premium currency with players, tons of people farm items and character parts and get platinum for free. My brother has made hundreds of plat free to play. 4 pretty much anything you buy is always relevant, no cut content and they are always rebalancing and listening to the player base like no other dev team I've seen

made contrast ratio on gem cutting menu worse

Just a heads up you dont have to mess with cropping and stuff to get the ratio of an image you want. Theres plenty of ai tools now that extend a photo pretty seamlessly, Photoshop's ai generator has cleaned up a lot of stuff super quick for me XD. Also I was playing and was thinking the same in reguard to third person! I would love to play this game in third person. Ik its built for top down but it looks so sick when you zoom in but you cant see anything because of the camera angle and lack of ability to turn it. the animations and models look so cool but I cant really appretiate it becuase its just a mess of colors on my screen. Honestly I'd be happy if there was a horde mode where all the enemies come from the top of the screen (so that they dont have to deal with turning the camera angle, im sure the game isnt' built to handle that) and then they let you angle the camera up more when you zoom in. Man that would be so sick!

U say way to much inaccurate and wrong things, i disagree with your opinion on the ui, but that's subjective, but u also make objectively false statements too ( an example the currency exchange window, there are no place holder there, if you play the game you learn the meaning of stuff there, it's already implemented in poe for the latest league, also your rant about f2p monetization which relates to poe in no way, for people who don't know poe it sounds misleading, the window u show has nothing to do with real money, poe has only 1 real money currency.

Skill tree fog of war would be so good for new players

They don't want to make a "guided" path, because what's good changes over time with addition of new things, with buffs and changes to certain other things. Simply put, if you make a guided skill three, it might not be great compared to other builds. Johnaten Roggers talked about this in his interviews. They would rather have players have all the freedom, included the fear of making a mistake, then push them into a direction that the designers think would be good for new players. They want more player action in their game, not less of it. If you make a mistake, own that mistake, learn from it, improve and move on, in the future try to not to make that mistake but rather use the accumulated knowledge for creation of a unique build. They're fine with players quitting because of the complexity, because they know that the community is always talking very positivly about the game so those players who quit because of the complexity will eventually come back and stay for decades exactly because of that complexity for which they quit earlier. I know this because I and many of my friends have done this exact same thing. We quit because the game was too complex and we couldn't figure it out and then we started learning, either through guides or through making our own mistakes or a mix of both, and now we're long term players who come back for every other, if not every, league that's released.

Great showcase! I think it would be awesome to see you do this for a from software game!

Speaking about UI, I currently really dislike the initial PLAY button on the character screen lol, it's not centered, barely centered under your character if that was the goal, and also distracts from the cool background, they should either just put the button below the character selection tab, or at least actually centered, lol.

cool stuff!

I don't think POE2 allows you to give other players microtransactions because of RMT.

Good ideias for the passive skill tree! The planning mode would be great, cause its so easy to lose yourself in the skills, it would be nice to mark the ones you think will work for the build. And the new players' more "simple" skill tree would help new players a lot!

Nice

I actually like a lot of ideas from this video, will sent it to the developers.

1:52 trust me, wasn’t you who ruined it…

Loreworx, this is my first video I’ve come across from your channel and I always appreciate seeing a fan critiquing the game. It is clear the team hasn’t played the original or was poorly selected to create it. Either way awesome video and you gained a fan

I quite dislike the "smokey" inventory. Not sure why they made it so hazy and dark. Yes its better for playing at night but I also cant see Henry clearly. Which sucks because when I try out an armor this is where I am supposed to see it.