As an avid PoE1 player who has 8h (act3) so far in the second game: gameplay feels more skill based (enemy/boss attack patterns, synergistic skills, more active defences/survivability) while in original you can faceroll most of the acts and endgame with enough knowledge (vendor recipes, “face tankable” content, automateable defences/damage, simple investable survivability). This might be why people are comparing it to soulslike.

Also the pacing is a lot slower which might add to the feeling of og Diablo/Diablo 2. Of course the progression will be faster after meta is found, but people still theorize that getting to endgame takes more time in PoE2.

Article and Riot’s official documents refer to penalising toxic (flaming teammates/other people) behaviour during content creation with Riot’ IPs. A negative review isn’t toxic inherently

2025 seems to be what they are sticking with. One of the consolde devs slipped up and talked about november for closed? beta