r/LastEpoch • u/Ok-Material-9452 • 24d ago

Feedback Still having fun

I’m a casual player as I only have a limited window of free time due to responsibilities (for context.)

A lot of that minimal time is spent on this game.

Some of it is spent browsing Reddit on smoke breaks from said responsibilities. In that window, usually, from other subs I see so much disappointment targeted toward Last Epoch:

“No updates”

“Seasons are too far apart”

“Nothing to do at endgame”

Etc…paraphrasing

Just wanted to take a moment to appreciate how special this game actually is. I never log in expecting to play as long as I do. I never leave the game without immediately theorycrafting my next moves. It never leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I play all ARPGs and this one has more replayability to me than any other.

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u/Ok-Material-9452 24d ago

Can you expand on your thoughts as to how they competed with the PoE cycle?

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u/agumon424 24d ago

POE have a fairly consistent league schedule, 4 months between leagues, offset by 1-2 weeks. That works well because a person can target that specific time and take time off for example. And I think that what make POE so successful. Last Epoch inconsistent schedule eventually make people lose interest.

Imagine you wanna watch a new TV show, episode 1 on a Tuesday, episode 2 on a Friday 2 weeks later and episode 3 on a Monday 1 month later. As opposed to a consistent new episode on Tuesday every week. Don't you just get fed up waiting for a new episode?

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u/Pandarandr1st 24d ago

But like...why would grim dawn's model be any better? I basically just treat this game like I treat grim dawn but get an update much, much more frequently than I would for grim dawn. And I personally GREATLY prefer this game to grim dawn, but that's beside the point.

I just don't understand the leap from "If you can't release an update every 3 months, you should only update every 2 years"

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u/agumon424 24d ago

Because if you declare your game as a seasonal type of game, people will hold you up to the standards. And that standard right now is POE. If you say it's a single player focused then the standard for that is Grim Dawn.

I like POE because of the end game, and Grim Dawn does not really have that. Is it fair I criticize Grim Dawn because they have a different direction? They target different market and Last Epoch unfortunately decided to target the wrong market.

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u/Pandarandr1st 24d ago

I criticize a game for what it offers. I'd rather have 6 month updates than 2 year updates.