Love It Or Hate It: Path of Exile
Some free-to-play games are more polarizing than others, with some sides taking the stance of "great, totally non-exploitative implementation" and others thinking "total pay-to-win trash." We'd like to see on what side of the spectrum the gaming public -- and by that, we mean you guys -- think of certain F2P games, and so we've invented something new called Love It Or Hate It?
Every week, we'll present a new F2P game and give you the option of passing judgment on it. Then we'll look back at it the next week and see what people thought. There are no prizes, except for the satisfaction of knowing you clicked on a button and made something happen. Really, what else do you need?
Boy, did you guys have a lot to say about League of Legends! It received a Love It Or Hate It-record 1,155 votes, and tied Smite for the smallest percentage of "meh" votes, at 22.8%.
And it looks like the old girl's still got legs. 53.9% of you gave it a "Love It" vote versus just 23.3% "Hate It"s. If you're keeping track Dota 2 was 47.7% loved while Smite was 69.6% loved. We'll get around to Heroes of the Storm someday, we promise!
For this week, we'll present something a game that, quite honestly, I don't know that I've ever heard a bad thing about. Grinding Gear Games' Path of Exile seems to have great ARPG gameplay and the gosh-darned nicest cash shop around. Who could hate that? Someone, I'm sure...
Tell us what you think of Path of Exile, and leave a comment below to expound upon your views!
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Jason Winter is a veteran gaming journalist, he brings a wide range of experience to MMOBomb, including two years with Beckett Media where he served as the editor of the leading gaming magazine Massive Online Gamer. He has also written professionally for several gaming websites.
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PS: Those who ain't up to date, the new update fixes de-sync issue.. i don't need to tell you what that means.. yeah?
And i hear ot got tons of so very juicy updates ON TOP of that.
a game is like a child, if its born ugly or crippled you cant hate him for that... hate his parents for smoking, drinking and doing drugs
- Crafting system is the most horrible one I have ever seen, and they keep adding more RNG to it
- You have to wait about six months for some of the new content in standart league
- When playing without magic finder in group you find about 8 times less rare items (assuming 400/100)
for the moment PoE is the best F2P aRPG out there. <3 it
Developers take note.
Terrible loot/bag system.
Terrible party system. Feels like a single player Diablo 2 Clone.
Pay to change style of your skill. Also, tons of skills?Not. Just passive.
Forever alone game.
Even the most negative points have been getting addressed, lockstep(no desync), new servers, translation, melee and trade(a bit slower coming)
Even though some people foam at the mouth because the MTX's are fairly expensive, there is a good spread from cheap to expensive, the do daily sales as well AND they have the supporters packs which are even more value for the money.
GGG have just moved into new offices which can hold upto 100 people so it looks like they'll be adding new people to the team soon.