Summary of P2W / QoL features from China version of PoE

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I come from China, tencent have made quite some ch toanges to their version of POE to make it more newbie friendly and probably more profitable as well. Below are some of the changes that I know of:

1) The loot pet. This one probably is most famous/infamous one. It's not a one-time purchase, you pay for different tiers of loot pet for 7 days-90 days. Different tiers pet might have different capacity or functionality, I haven't purchased one so I don't know exactly the difference.

2) Free passive refunds before 70. We all know what Poe can be pretty hard if your passive tree is not set up correctly. To attract those non-hardcore players, you can always completely re-do your passive tree before you hit 70.

3) Resurrection token. This is obviously a P2W feature. I doesn't know what does it do exactly but I would assume it either A) let you resurrect without losing exp B) let you resurrect where you died, meaning you don't lose portals. Tencent will give out these tokens during special events like Christmas/holiday.

4) In-game auction house. Not much to say, it's an auction house. just the regular AH you would expect. You do need to pay a small amount for verification purpose.

5) A special servers for those who can't or doesn't want to grind. In these servers you can choose some selected builds and you will be given rare/unique gears during leveling. Not sure how things go in mapping.

6) Player-binded currency. To prevent bots, all the currency you get before mapping (or certain level, forget the details) is binded to your player.

7) I believe there is a in-game passive tree simulator/planner or something similar. You should be able to import certain build and can check the final tree in-game for reference.

8) In this season they have released a battle pass where you need to purchase and gradually get rewards as you progress.

9) Certain mtx you get from box can be sold to other players. Tencent will take their slack of course.

I have only played the tencent version for about 1 hour or so. Let me know which part you're specifically interested and if you think some features can actually be added to the global version

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postrach_myszy wrote:

Imagine, for example, a situation in which all leagues tested by YOU after three months of testing and patching, are implemented in China, as a “new leagues”.