[Didn't realize I was paying to join late beta...]

I usually try to avoid making gripe posts, but my level of frustration and irritation with PoE is growing at such a rate that I kind of just have to let it out this time.

 

Despite being highly interested in a spiritual successor to the IE games of my halcyon youth, I didn't back the Kickstarter for PoE because I wasn't interested in playing a WIP/beta game. Instead, I bought the game a couple days after its official launch, but nevertheless, it feels like I'm playing a late beta version.

 

When literally not a single day can go by without me reading about or encountering a new major bug, I think it's fair to say that the game has launched in an unacceptable state. Disappearing passive bonuses from double-clicking to equip armor, endlessly stacking attributes from loading a saved game, disappearing focus regeneration from equipping an item designed specifically for the only class in the game which uses focus...

 

These are not bizarre, obscure bugs which only a small portion of the player base is likely to encounter, these are things which virtually every player is likely to encounter in the normal course of completing the game.

 

I'm still enjoying much of what PoE has to offer, but you can rest assured that I won't be making the mistake of paying full price for an Obsidian-developed game any time in the near future.

 

I concur- I started a thread posting my dissatisfaction but, for some reason, it seems to have been removed...despite in being a well written and balanced view on the current state of the game...

 

The game has real potential- it's gorgeous, the music and sounds amazing, there is a rich story (so far) and the mechanics/gameplay are solid. The issue is that.....it's completely bugged to the point that it just isn't worth playing at the minute in its current state.

 

I  would simply shelve the game, for now, and await it being fixed. Once the game breaking bugs are resolved, I think this will be a great game- certainly one worth picking up and playing. Until then...I would just wait. This game needs to work in order to entice other developers to the isometric "IE style" genre. BG1&2 are still my ALL TIME favourite games and I have been longing for a game that captures my imagination to the same extent that BG1&2 did...

[Boo won't miss Bug]

I don't want to moan about a game that aspires to live up to the likes of Baldurs Gate/Baldurs Gate 2 (to date, my favourite games of all time and will probably remain that way for all eternity), but....it is really, really frustrating to have waited so long for a game that compares to BG1/2 on face value, but the bugs ruin the experience completely. 

 

I mean, I know they will patch the game and do so as soon as is reasonable, but it will somewhat tarnish my view on the game regardless. Every day I play the game or search the forums I see new bugs appear which are....game breaking. This compounds my concerns (I am experience several of the bugs listed- currently stuck in Raedrics' Keep) as I feel a "quick fix" simply isn't possible. 

 

In summary....I will shelve the game until the bugs are resolved, which I hope will be sooner rather than later....I just wish they had delayed the release some 1 or 2 months (or however long it required) in order to iron out these bugs...

 

Apologies for the rant, I am just....disappointed.