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Jonathan Rogers believes the biggest problem with Path of Exile isn’t its overwhelming complexity—it’s the fact that the game feels old.

After 13 years of systems, mechanics, and content stacked on top of each other, many new players feel like they’ve already “missed the train.” That’s where Path of Exile 2 comes in: a fresh starting point designed to keep the depth fans love while making the experience easier to jump into.

But can PoE2 balance accessibility and hardcore complexity without losing what made the original special?

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Source: https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/path-of-exiles-overwhelming-complexity-isnt-the-real-reason-new-players-pass-on-it-director-believes-i-think-that-poe-1s-being-such-an-old-game-is-in-itself-the-accessibility-problem/

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00:00Path of Exile's overwhelming complexity isn't the real reason new players pass on it,
00:04Director believes. And I gotta say, I have to agree with the man because that's not the main
00:09issue why people don't play it. I would even argue that outdated visuals and animations
00:14aren't problem as well. The problem lies in the fact that the game can be very exhausting.
00:20For example, every single time you make a new character you need to slog through the campaign
00:24again and again. Maps are way too large, and sometimes loot and rewards often don't feel
00:30satisfying. On top of that, you have difficulty spikes and one-shots, which are completely asinine.
00:36And finally, the biggest criticism would be that the game that is the second one is in early access,
00:41and I feel it got launched too early, which then resulted in even more frustration, particularly
00:48when they were changing things that Path of Exile 1 didn't have, but then we ended up playing it being
00:53some kind of a test guinea pigs. And pretty much that suffered my experience to the point that
00:58I don't even want to engage with the newest patch that's going to launch really soon. Who knows,
01:04maybe they will fix things when Patch 1.0 finally launches, but at the present moment, I really,
01:11really don't want to mess with Path of Exile 2 because I simply don't want to be a QA tester.
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