I'm speaking from personal experience so I'm not cementing anything as fact. When I played PoE, there certainly was a pressure for competitive. Maybe not in your face but the people playing it were pushing for that. I'm not saying PoE isn't casual, but in my experience it didn't feel casual enough. D3 was just easier to understand from the get go and it didn't try to put too much all at once like PoE has a small tendency to do. This debate is rather silly because I find both games enjoyable. But it really depends on the kind of game you want to play. I don't put D3 and PoE in the same vein all the time because my personal experiences with both games was different enough to form the opinion.
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