After over 6,000 hours played, I can say that the game is essentially a 10/10. However, it’s starting to show its age, and the performance — or rather the engine — leaves something to be desired at times. That’s why I’d rate it a 9/10, even though it’s really a 10/10 at its core. In my opinion, it’s still the best ARPG out there.

Reasons I quit. 1. Needs all of the PC features. No party finder (lonely) and buy/sell doesn't have enough filters (major issue). They should offer mods other than loot filter. No battle Royale either. 2. Crafting, maps, builds, delves, and the weird mini games are incredibly confusing for new players especially if on console. 3. Too easy to "brick" your character. Propper socketing is a nightmare. Respec too expensive. Console economy too expensive with low active player base & currency/item farmers. Unable to trade for build dependent items at reasonable prices (unlike PC). 4. Too easy to get one shotted by random mobs and not know why. 5. Video build guides entirely for PC and not console. 6. Not new player friendly. Even after 350 hours I kept feeling lost. Otherwise the game is AMAZING! Game deserves 9.5/10 on PC. 7/10 on console. I hope POE 2 fixes these issues otherwise it may have very few console players long-term.

This is absolutely one of the funnest games you will ever encounter while leveling to the cap. Then all of the sudden it does some bipolar turn and leaves you disgusted. A Diablo style clone with all the dark flavor people wanted in Diablo 3, with a giant pool of weapons and armor and the most vast skill tree I have ever seen in a game. Lag is somewhat of an issue it seems some days but I only encountered it a couple of times before a router reset had me seamlessly weaving in and out of combat. The glaringly bad problem with this game is the end game. I am not sure what they were doing but it just didn’t grab me. Diablo had that ok, you’re 70 now, let’s go get some gear whereas this was, ok you’re 70 now and have good gear, let’s turn the difficulty up 10,000% on maps and then make it almost impossible without days and days of currency farming to respec skills. I just didn’t get it. All I ever did was start another character and get it to 70 before realizing that’s as far as it went and was done. Not terrible, but doesn’t get the cherry quite on top with its horrid end game.