I love how reading through this comment thread pretty much follows my internal monologue...
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Path of Exile 2's disastrous new update reveals the core tension at the heart of its design: How do you make a game with meaningful combat when everyone just wants to blast monsters?
Is America a well oiled machine or is it a series of mouse traps and no one really understands why it's still around?
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I was happy when it was going to just be an extension of the base game that made it prettier, smoother, and skyrocketing the already gratuitous content. I was truly looking forward to not having to admit through the same campaign each league for 8 hours. (Guess why I'm not playing Poe 2 0.20...)
Making it a different game was a clear signal that they wanted to follow The Vision that we'd already seen play out with ruthless mode.