Path of Exile - What is Blizzard Even Trying To Do Right Now? from luckypants's blog

Even to people who dont enjoy the league, the game is always good to start on a fresh economy. The problem is that experienced players take 1 day to reach level 90, they play, they kill shaper, guardians whatever, and then thats it. The new league brought new stuff to do, but it is deeply buried between layers of RNG, and most players dont want to grind for weeks until they can experience the new content, because it just gets boring. The mechanics of the league are not very good as well, but Im sure GGG will improve them as they did with Harbinger. The in-game currency is available at the professional online gaming house. The interested gamers can buy exalted orbs from those professional online gaming houses in the most affordable cost.

You usually get some lower rewards, that you can use for a chance of bigger rewards. Here you just have a really low chance to have a chance of getting something good. It isn't rewarding enough, and I've done my fair share of beastcrafting. But as a new player, you can still focus on the others 10+ mechanics that were added to the core game while we have been experiencing them for a while now: lab, masters, maps, atziri, shaper/guardians, elder, breach, abyss, harbingers now, beyond/double beyond, crafting items etc etc. It's an amazing game if you starting out. The challenge ggg has is to keep old players coming back, because new players will always come in and be amazed with all the content. Keeping the old ones for more than 2 weeks, well thats a challenge.

As a veteran player, i can confirm that this game is gorgeous, that playing this league is a ton of fun for me, i'm getting excited for my encounter with uber elder while farming peacefully with my headhunter...

The "RNG layers" has become a struggle instead of a game (my guild currently focus on farming elder, we have seen no T13+ elder, no watcher's eye, and encountered already 5 buggy encounters on 20-ish encounters, then if we beat that, enjoy your 1/2500 to get the watcher's eye you dream of). When you are more likely to encounter bugs than good drops, that's worrying ...

GGG seems to be blind to the fact we want to experience the FIGHTS this league has to offer while not even caring about the actual rewards. Most of us in here have a deep love for this game and don't play much of the other games. We DO also love GGG but are getting worried by precedent points.