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The original was posted on /r/pathofexile by /u/ergotpoisoning on 2023-07-30 08:10:17.

In every Q&A session I have watched so far, the development team have been very careful (not deliberately so, I think this is just a consequence of iterative design) to frame the introduction of gameplay changes in the form, “here is a problem identified within PoE 1, and here is how we have approached a solution”.

However, when quotes from Q&As are pulled and posted here, all of that framing and context gets removed, and the commenters normally just reframe the quote as a direct nerf to the PoE 1 experience and therefore a net negative for the player.

This is really stupid. Please stop. Obviously it’s valid to disagree with design solutions, but it’s not really possible to have the information necessary to reach that conclusion if the context around why a change was made is excised from the discussion.

I’ve played probably 7k+ hours of PoE but it has many, many problems in terms of its design philosophy. I actually find it exciting that these problems have been identified and creative solutions are being sought. Reacting as though every change to the current PoE meta is a nerf by fun-hating devs is incredibly childish, and is not the response the level of care and transparency on show from the devs deserves.