People are thinking too short term and it's depressing

It's interesting to me that there are people 3 days in early access and already claiming 'bad game, I'm finished, bye."

In the grand scale of things, this beta is intended to last for 6 months (upwards to a year, if I recall), and POE1 has had a great run of maintaining a playerbase for 10+ years now.

From the devs perspective, I'd imagine the goal is to create the same with POE2.

It's very apparent that GGG has put their hearts into this game and is now revealing their hard work and opening up the future of the game with the COMMUNITY rather than make internal decisions and leave us out of it.

That alone, in my opinion, shows me that they're dedicated and intend for longevity yet again.

Am I happy about everything being shown in POE2 so far? Of course not! I want more orb drops! I wish my crossbow wouldn't make me turn 180 and shoot at a wall instead of an enemy! I want my game to stop crashing (LOL)!

However, I came into this with the mindset of 'things will change as we move forward."

There have been COUNTLESS multiplayer games I've played that took MONTHS UPON MONTHS to address us and make patches to improve the QOL of their playerbase, and we're already being spoiled in the first week with a response and acknowledgement of what needs to be changed moving forward. At the end of the day, the decision to spend $30 to play in an early access unfinished game was yours.

The main point I'm making here is:

If your intention is to play the early access and never touch the game again, you are playing in the early access for the wrong reason. There are plenty of other fully fleshed games to spout criticism to; but in this game, you're actively playing in a beta that is taking the feedback of their player base and attempting to mold it with our and their vision.