Hardcore Mode players have no place in current online ARPG market

[stepppin]

I played through up to early monolith levels in the hardcore mode as my first experience of the Last Epoch, and I notices a few things, but before anything, I wanted to point out that the so called hardcore mode has no place in current ARPG market.

Most of the famous current content creators of Path of Exile I follow on Twitch (which is more than a dosen) was once a hardcore player as far as I know, also I had literally tons of hardcore friends in my frend list ages ago, and now I have not a single friend who plays hardcore mode anymore since years.

This is my opinion that many people actually love to play hardcore mode if the game could offer a good environment for the mode, especially in early development stage of the game release, and there is enough market size to pay ‘a little bit’ of attention to it for developers to cater those people.

Let me reiterate this. Crrently there is not a single ARPG online game in the market that pays due attention to Hardcore mode. Maybe Last Epoch can be the one if the developers so desire, even though current state of hardcore mode in Last Epoch is not at all optimal even compared to the open beta back then of Path of Exile, since some classes and unique items are way too strong and other classes are way to weak for HC from my experience.

(if anyone know past history of conversation on this topic with devs, Im interested in knowing it)

[BroncoCollider]

@stepppin

Crrently there is not a single ARPG online game in the market that pays due attention to Hardcore mode.

Hardcore mode is niche at best and appeals to orders of magnitude fewer players than softcore. The minimal attention that is paid to it is the attention it’s due.

[Macknum]

Playing intentionaly tanky builds because of playing hardcore isn’t appealing.

Then again there are still a lot of hardcore players out. Look at all the streamers who streamed the D4 Beta and all the people in their chat who say they play hardcore only, There must be hundrets of thousands out there xD.

[Llama8]

@stepppin

due attention to Hardcore mode

What would you like that to be? In my experience, its always been the same level of difficulty.

@stepppin

if the game could offer a good environment for the mode

What does that mean? Stable? Not laggy? Those are desirable for softcore as much as hardcore.

@stepppin

since some classes and unique items are way too strong and other classes are way to weak for HC from my experience.

That’s a balance issue though and I don’t think its either specific or relevant to Hardcore.

[Bakageyama]

Yup I’m with @Llama8 on this one. I don’t particularly know what you’re asking for in order to cater to hardcore players.