Trendspotting: POE Playerbase almost halved on Steam alone since the release of Awakening
" I'm just the antithesis to guys like you :) You seem to be pretty passive-aggressive about this topic, repeating that same sentence over and over again... GGG banning all political discussion shortly after getting acquired by China is a weird coincidence. Last edited by Xavderion on Aug 27, 2015, 1:23:39 PM
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" That's kind of the point, I reckon the amount of monetary support is not represented by some Steam charts. For example I play over Steam and I play way less than I played a month before. This means less Steam hours from me and also means less players on Steam charts. What it doesn't mean is that I'm completely gone and will never support the game again :) I liked your post though, no bad intentions by cutting it off. GGG banning all political discussion shortly after getting acquired by China is a weird coincidence.
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" I literally just wrote a 1000 word essay on why financial intermediaries (banks, etc.) are necessary in the real world due to asymmetric information. (buyers know more than sellers, or vice versa) In PoE, that would mean an auction house. (NOT a real money one) The more the asymmetric information, the more profitable it will be to simply play the economy and not work or add to the economy, which ultimately harms the society. In real life, they are called speculators In PoE, they are called flippers | |
" :) Thanks! I hope others read it and feel the same way. Yeah I'm not gone for good either, I've just been taking a break and playing other things/doing stuff IRL. Still haunting the forums, though. Clearly. We're all in this leaky boat together, people.
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So, now we are below the values of May, before 2.0.
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" No, not yet, maybe people that are playing the game should worry a little, as economy centric game the low population will have a impact on the trading. But GGG should not yet worry , not until it hits very low levels, and the game is not there yet. But really the speed of how fast people are leaving is somewhat strange I must say. This is the first time ever the drop in player base is this fast. Maybe people expected to much from the expansion (as the jump in player numbers with the expansion was really high). Last edited by miljan on Sep 2, 2015, 6:07:17 PM
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I've been a recurring player in PoE since whatever my date of joining is.
I come, play a while, look at what is new, and then I'm gone. Reasons I can't stay in PoE for long: Game doesn't look polished, and likely wont ever be. Game should run better than it does on my PC (has me thinking the coding is far from polished as well). Plus GGG idea of balance is a joke. Reasons I inevitably come back: Lack of games with good mechanics in the market, specially in MMOs and action games, as much as I search MMOs seem bent on remaining oversimplitic. Maybe the player exodus is due to many recent games that have become available as of late: Skyforge, Aura Kingdom, Echo of Souls, Heroes of the Storm or Dota 2 Reborn, there are also many other fresh titles as well that I can't recall by name or belong to areas that don't much cater to my tastes. Anyway, mostly all new games are again oversimplistic, but people have to play in order to get fed up and start raising torches against oversimplistic gameplay.. had my fill a while ago ^^ GGG should start working on something new, PoE2 or maybe a MMO model called Land of Exile. Dunno. The thing is Lost Ark Online looks promising, same for Lineage Eternal and the Tree of Savior. If any of the 3 don't take the oversimplistic road, I'm sticking to these. There are too many new games comming up and its a fish eat fish sea out there, at some point one has to start dishing out well tought, complex gameplay. This game gonna have so much people in it due to word of mouth alone, that its servers will implode =] "It is a cruel joke that man was born with more intent than Life." Last edited by ramosmichel on Sep 2, 2015, 7:17:46 PM
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D3 season.
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is ded mane close the gades
GGG banning all political discussion shortly after getting acquired by China is a weird coincidence.
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