I've gotten plenty of Chaos orbs, but maybe that's because I actually play the game.
Yes, the same thing diablo fanboys said for d3 drop rates on release, and that you dont need to use AH, just to play the game and that drop rates are ok. Good thing that most people know that was not the case with d3, as same as most people know it for PoE. There is a reason why they call the game path of trade and why so many people want a self found league and game balanced around the player it self and not economy.
Yeah, I honestly don't give a shit about 'the economy', I just want to play the game on my own and actually be able to progress without having to farm for a thousand hours to get quasi-decent endgame gear. I already gave them $40 for supporter packs back in beta, but I'd pay that much again if that would get me a single-player version with increased drop rates that doesn't need to connect to their servers (thereby solving the desync problem, which really has no damn business existing if I'm the only person in the game).
Same. While I understand the always online thing as the game is f2p (but i would also love a offline mode, but at least here they have a valid excuse), i do not understand their focus on trading and economy for all players, the ones that like that and the ones that hate it. The game has league system and until i see a self found league where they do not make crappy drops because they are to scared that economy will get to big inflation i will not be touching it again.
I mean think of it, you play through normal, cruel and get to merc. dif. , and lets say how many chaos orb will you get till then, playing the whole game two times? 2, 3, maybe 4 if you are lucky..lol. And with that 4 orbs you cant do anything on your items and are best used to spam the chat and buy a item (good with new expansion at least you can actually put one mod on one item
). Its horrible design for self found players, or better said its not designed and balanced at all for them.
And not even talking about the wall you hit with end of merc. and mapping. And bad risk vs reword for something like killing bosses. God help us, if we would get some reword for killing hard map bosses, we would break the economy, we cannot have that in the game.