PoE already shrinking/dead?

Typical graph of a p2p game http://www.steamgraph.net/index.php?action=graph&appid=42690&from=0
Typical graph of a bad f2p game http://www.steamgraph.net/index.php?action=graph&appid=17080&from=0
Typical graph of a valve game http://www.steamgraph.net/index.php?action=graph&appid=570&from=0

Let's hope that poe will transition from the tribes ascend graph to the dota2 graph :D.

edit: links are broken :s

Maybe the devs can say something about changes of the playercount since the OB started. Without official values you can discuss endless...

I´m sure that a lot of "testers" left the OB since it started, the important amount of players will be the old and new core-gamers, which supports the game, and who did it in the CB.

Talk about exaggerated title.

The game is not near dead, I would say it quite alive. Obviously a lot of players came for the launch and left after, but that happens with any game. This is the game that I've been recommending to all my friends, and so far everyone has loved it.

I'm just waiting for new micro stuff so I can throw more money at GGG.

This is probably the best ARPG that I've played and I can see myself playing it for years.

All the noobs that cried about loot have moved on...thank god.

This game won't be dead for a long time.



But, there seems to be less D3/WOW carebares lately. Which is a GREAT thing.



Less crying about the BIG 3's.


Full Respec, Auction House and Instanced Loot.





....I hope those baby's all left :D

Seeing the number of people currently in the game and on this forum whining about the game having too much grind, being too gear and luck dependent, disliking how much they have to repeat and kill things and not being able to understand anything at all about the skill tree and begging for full respecs because they werent knowledgable enough to plan ahead, or realize that these kinds of games are all about trial and error if you are new, its absolutely no surprise that loads of newbs to this genre that have normally had their hands held through simplified easy RPGs wont like PoE and will leave because to them its a bad game.

Yet everything that these people would rather have PoE become is the kind of game that I and the current fans would hate, and would leave over if such changes happened.

You cant please everyone, and this game was never intended to be casual friendly or anything like non ARPGs such as WoW.

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Odoakar wrote:

I'm just waiting for new micro stuff so I can throw more money at GGG.

This is probably the best ARPG that I've played and I can see myself playing it for years.

Same here... 1115 points are waiting for new stuff! :-)))

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Vooodu wrote:

This game won't be dead for a long time.



But, there seems to be less D3/WOW carebares lately. Which is a GREAT thing.



Less crying about the BIG 3's.


Full Respec, Auction House and Instanced Loot.





....I hope those baby's all left :D

I'd still prefer having instanced loot, but can do without full respecs or auction houses now that I understand the game a lot better.

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Elynole wrote:

I assume this game will go the way of EVE Online. Initial presentation brings a flood, a good amount leave, a medium-sized population stays and is very loyal. Trickles of new players who decide to get past the learning curve stays.

If that's true it's sad. D3 sold millions, so there is a vast audience for ARPGs. This game is better than D3, and should/coould have easily been massive. I know I'll get flamed but imo it's the lack of simple quality of life things like loot/respec optionss that will/are holding it back. If GGG want that small hardcore player base, fair enough, their call. Seems crazy to me to shoot much lower than you could.

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Vooodu wrote:

But, there seems to be less D3/WOW carebares lately. Which is a GREAT thing.

Funny, the immaturity in your post leads me to believe there are some still here to stay.

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Full Respec,

This was just a result of people not having reached the end game (merciless). At endgame you are given so many free respec points you can tweak to your hearts desire, it was just out of the grasp of too many people still fresh in the game.

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Auction House

The players have already invented one in the form of POE market, and the devs are implementing things like forum trading.... sounds like they got what they wanted?

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and Instanced Loot.

FFA loot is an archaic dated design aspect that only ever came about due to technical limitation, the number of parties with "NO NINJA" "NINJA = KICK" and the general lack of public parties anymore should be a clear indicator that this is still very much an issue with a large portion of the community.

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....I hope those baby's all left :D

I wish you would, yes.