Feedback after week 1: solid league mechanics & awful game performance

The league idea is pretty solid — nothing super extraordinary, but overall quite good and the dev team’s dynamic and perspectives they shown in recent interviews are encouraging for the future developments of PoE.

BUT — and this is a big BUT:
GGG could drop the craziest league the ARPG community has ever seen right now and to me it would only be secondary.

The game performance on the EU servers is absolutely unacceptable at this point. DCs, lag, rollbacks every single day. What’s the point of the best league idea if I can’t properly play the game in the endgame? No matter which map, no matter which league mechanic. As soon as I try to juice it so I can farm properly and afford the high prices on the market, nothing works anymore.

Most of the time the map is already lagging, and when you enter the Mirage area in the map it often turns into a complete freeze and rubberbanding until you suddenly die.

So leveling my char is basically out of the question as well.

So farming doesn’t work; leveling doesn’t work. At this point — without any notable progress — I’m starting to wonder whether this is just a waste of time. And this isn’t a problem we’ve only had since this league or the last one. This issue has existed for years now. It’s just exhausting at this point.

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