'Loot boxes' in PoE have nothing to do with ingame loot, or functional ingame features. There's a new expansion coming out next week, I'd suggest those curious about the game to wait until then and give it a try.

I kind prefer it was a traditional system, selling the game and then the expansions.Īnyway, I'd now definitely say Path of Exile > Gim Dawn > Titan Quest. Everything is ridiculously expensive, and they now even added loot boxes. On the other hand, while their monetization model isn't 'pay to win', it's clearly focused on the die-hard 'whales'. This solves what I felt was a lack of 'high level' character building - before you would just spent skills on that huge tree until you ran out. Once you finish a super-hard & fun labyrinth without dying, you can select a prestige class and unlock a small skill tree of cool skills. They also added stuff like prestige classes. Demons invade and you cross the city again - but now everything is burning, destroyed or corrupted. There's a real cool part in Act 5 where you travel across a Roman-like city, all made of marble and with a heavy religious motif - crusaders, paladins, priests, huge statues, stained glass, etc. Well, since then they released several expansions, added A SHIT TON of new systems and the story is now up to 10 Acts! Moreover, they are WAAAAY better.

At that time the game had only 4 Acts, and none of them are really interesting. My impressions before came from playing back in 2015, when the Awakening expansion had came out. I went back to PoE this week and damn, I need to revise this statement.

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