POE 2 is the best game I’ve ever played

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Level 90 is just the starting line.

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So why it has mixed reviews in Steam?

Poe2 was the best RPG played so far.... until 0.2.0 patch!

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Zourouswel#3170 wrote:

So why it has mixed reviews in Steam?

Because it doesnt

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Mashgesture#2912 wrote:

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Zourouswel#3170 wrote:

So why it has mixed reviews in Steam?

Because it doesnt

Pretty lame rating for a the best RPG game so far.... Need at least positive reviews or sooner or later will drop to mixed.

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Albibu#9602 wrote:

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Mashgesture#2912 wrote:

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Zourouswel#3170 wrote:

So why it has mixed reviews in Steam?

Because it doesnt

Pretty lame rating for a the best RPG game so far.... Need at least positive reviews or sooner or later will drop to mixed.

There's a couple specific categories of games where the review standings on Steam are nearly useless and you need to go into the reviews themselves to get an idea of whether you will like a game or not, and that applies to both PoE1 and 2.

In these kinds of games a significant portion of negative reviews read like this: "Devs are dumb, Devs will ruin/erase your character/progress for "no reason", game sucks, design is stupid, content is too hard, do not recommend" - 500hrs at time of review, 1000hrs now, and currently in-game.

This is because some players make the game or gaming their life and anytime something they don't agree with occurs in it, they experience it as a personally directed attack and will lash out accordingly.

You can't rely on review scores for games where 30% of the negative reviews are from addicts lashing out over minor inconveniences, you've gotta go in and read enough actual reviews to understand and get a feel of what people are saying they like and don't like about a game.

I mean to some degree this exists in all review forums. I once read Google reviews for a restaurant while on a trip for work in a small town and nearly all of it's one-star ratings were from employees at a competing restaurant across the street. The one that wasn't, was actually a review FOR the competing restaurant that the reviewer accidently posted to the wrong place because they mentioned a product that was only served at the competitor and even had pictures.

Online reviews and scores can be some of the most unreliable metrics, it's a shame the weight people assign to it. Some of the most memorable games I've ever played growing up I probably would have never been exposed to if I grew up with all my games on Steam just because they likely would have been buried in bad reviews due to not being mass-appeal games.