Activision Blizzard is a hellhole of a workplace owned by Bobby "Satan" Kotick. They have been sued and settled multiple times for toxic work culture and serious sexual harassment allegations. Blizzard want to charge me $20 to be able to play the game one week early. The game is $70, and can go as expensive as $100 with battlepass. There will be ingame monetization. The game is MMO-lite and basically a grindy slot machine.
All I want is to go for an adventure, go dungeon crawling with my pet wolf frens, and you'd be surprised there is literally not that many games that allow us to do so.
I was very much a “PoE is too complicated” person and wrote it off for years. It is now my favorite game and I can’t see myself playing Diablo because it just seems so shallow in comparison.
It also cops so much from D2 and LoD the first time I played through the campaign it was hitting all those nostalgia buttons. Moreso than D3 ever did.