Brief quest given by a season NPC to start season loop
Reputation reward board
Instanced season dungeon activity
How is this different from all other seasons???
Every season has followed the same damn pattern. Where are the seasonal themes changing our overworld in a permanent manner or altering them in a different ways?
Why is it always instanced?
Why is always a meaningless questline?
Why is it always a reputation board?
Just insert same same but different meme already when presenting a season.
This is so damn cheap, so damn minimal viable product.
Shake it up dammit. I’m tired of the same pattern being used over and over and over again ad nauseum.
Can you guys actually start doing something creative with seasons where every season impacts our world?
That whole developer update is a joke. They manage to spend the first 10 minutes talking about what they are going to talk about. Then they start presenting 99 new systems how to aquire the very same loot.
This whole “Excel guys showing numbers flair” is so cringe. PoE devs grab a controller and are excited to show off their stuff. No “awesome” new numbers bs.
Because when they do something even slightly different, people throw a fit and stop playing.
They’re gun shy after the past few times this happened. So they stick with the things people like: helltide events, prestige system, temp boosters, etc.
Few times it happened?
S4 and 5 had nothing.
S3 was a flop at launch but the improvements done made it better (some people still disliked the minion but that just comes down to taste)
S2 vampiric powers were well received.
S1 was a flop.
So why keeping nothing when S2 was a success.
To be fair though, adding new seasonal power just after a complete stat rework probably would make balancing harder for S7 so i get why they dont risk it this time…
I really hope they find their rythm now that they have remade the whole game…
Yep. Season 1 and season 3 had significant player drops after people disliked the core mechanics. That’s a few times.
They saw what worked for season 2 (the vampire helltides) and have been repeating that ever season. They also saw people like the earn reputation and get free stuff from NPC, so they kept that.
This is the first time I just quit the dev update stream. This whole thing feels like an internal dev meeting. First round they talk to each other instead of the viewers which felt VERY strange, as if they need to explain their concepts to each other. Then all those number sheets and walls of text. WTF is this?
With an expansion coming out I did not expect much from Season 6 and I may not play it at all unless there are Seasonal Battle Pass or Rewards that I really want (doubt it). With that being said… the Seasonal questlines have always been short and it has been more about making money off of Battle Pass than anything else… go figure.
So I wouldn’t mind fewer seasons if that meant more seasonal content and/or intriguing questlines!
isnt it sad to say no one expected seasonal content in a seasonal full price live service game? we didnt expect because of how this dev team is but it should 100% be there
