I find it hilarious and pathetic that’s all it takes for “content creators” to bait thousands of views for their videos.
Seldom is anything actually broken and actually overpowered or actually insane. There are always 1-2 things that are outliers and fit the bill for aforementioned exaggerated adjectives. Cool story, right?
I just find it interesting. These are the words you guys need to read in a video to click it. As if you’re discovering a valuable secret that gives you the leg up in a non-competitive game. You guys are really that easy to entice? On a different note, I wonder what this gaming community would be like without YT videos swaying people in different directions. Like… what would D4 actually play like if people didn’t have a compulsion be influenced by YT video creators?
I really wonder. I bet it’d be more enjoyable for sure. On the other hand, if you’re someone that just can’t live with yourself unless you take advantage of what’s overpowered (relative to your own created build), that’s pretty toxic for yourself and others. Not to mention, it’s the antithesis of what the game designers intended, “Play your own way”. But you can’t seem to do that, can you?
Whether it’s because the D4 devs made a lot of items & skills not as strong as certain meta interactions or whether it’s the myriad of ugly YT dudes making videos with those sweet seductive words I mentioned, players are sadly influenced to not actually play their own way.
I exhort you all to stop consuming clickbait content, take a little time to think for yourself what items and skills you’d like to use, and try to actually play the game your way.
OR NOT, that’s cool too! Being a sheep is totally cool, bro. Good luck to you all.
Gaming communities are basically insufferable at this point. I don’t know what it’s going to look like 10 years from now but it’s not going to be pretty.
Everytime I try and create a homebrew build it sucks so bad I lose interest in the game.
So I do two things. Admit maybe I’m not that great at making my own builds, and I go learn from guides on mobalytics or maxroll. I don’t watch YT videos on D4.
Nothing wrong from learning from others.
I bought a smoker a couple weeks ago and I read a guide on how to smoke a pork butt. I followed that guide and it was one of the best things I’ve ever made food-wise.
According to your logic I should just wing it and spend hundreds of hours and 10 pork butts (and hundreds of dollars) before I finally figure things out for myself.
Mark Rosewater (MTG dev) covered this. Its called the Spike personality. Players that want power and to win over other considerations. Is it really something that is toxic?? Players wanting to be the best in itself is not Toxic. What is toxic is Bliz not fixing these skills and bugs. The game needs balance. Players striving to be the best is to be expected.
It’s all on the person who falls into the clickbait. And youtube for showing videos with those key words more often. You get different video when you use a search engine instead of doing it on youtube. Funny how that works.
Rather curious where you received this knowledge from. I would say the majority of the time people click on any youtube video is because it interests them in some fashion. Whether that be through the title, a well known content creator they’ve been watching for years, or a fancy thumbnail that just catches the eye.
You seem rather passionate about this particular topic though, when it seems to have no relevance in your life other then to dive deeper into the phenomena that is youtube watching in general. Perhaps you may want to focus on what you’re doing, rather then worry about what other people are doing and judging them according to your own criteria, or not, I’m not your manager. Good luck to you either way sport.
Right. I think you missed the memo. That’s the target audience of this game. That’s what left. All the people that wanted to play their way have already left and never coming back. Why? Because they CAN’T play their way in this dogpile of poo game.
Everyone’s waiting until November for POE2 at this point.
OP, I imagine having 10 (30 hr, level 100) characters wouldnt be a thing, 1 or 2 (300 hour, level 100) characters would be more of a thing if YT didnt have an impact.
It’s all about efficiency IMO. If you spend 50-100 hours per season trying to brainstorm unicorn builds on your own and you find that fun, great! But if I spend 1 hour following a guide and end up 10x stronger than you, who really ended up in a better place?
This is not a college degree for me. I’m not looking to study or theorycraft anything in a video game. I want to blast and have fun. Whatever gets me to the point of blasting most quickly and efficiently is what I’m down for.
If you think that’s “being a sheep”, more power to you. I hope you enjoy that struggle bus ride while I’m out there destroying demons.
It’s ok to make builds based off of the streamers an Maxroll, Icey Viens. Quicker and most of the thinking has been done for you. I have found errors in both sites, but for the most part they’re pretty solid.
This season (5), I did my own builds, guess what they were pretty close to identical from what’s on-line. The planners had a few items better than what I did, and a couple places had a mistake or two.
I don’t know why some criticize folks for using them…
