Streamer priority is as unethical as p2w. Discuss.
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Agree, this is wrong...
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No queue on console folks :D
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" It's not even just the currency advantage. The league is a race feature. It's highly competitive. Even for the 12 challenge andy and the people who level to A4 and quit. When you show preferential treatment to streamers you're opening the door to the dialogue on preferential treatment everywhere in the game. The very thing you wanted to avoid years ago. There's no point to a league if this is going to be the result. Even if sometimes it's not true. If it's true at all it seriously tarnishes the integrity of the game. A reboot of the league is the right move. |
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I wonder if the name "Boilerplate_Apology" is taken?
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" "My response to these is basically the same, so: I'm not disputing that it's not fair. Of course it's not fair. But without even getting into randomness, unfairness in progress through a game like POE (whether you call that progress "economic advantage" or just "they got to maps before I started") is the norm. Yes, in this example, streamers have privilege that other players don't. But players who are sitting there with loads of free time ready to pour into the game should recognise their own privilege over others if they want to talk about level playing fields or whatever. For all sorts of reasons - employment/financial, health related, caring for someone, family requirements etc - loads of people won't get to play on release day at all. Loads of people won't ever have the same amount of time to devote to the game as the heaviest players do. For those people, the complaints being made here ("others have an economic advantage in the game", "others are up to maps and I'm just starting") are just how the game works. We all live in different situations; there is no level playing field, it never existed. A few hours progress is, in the first few hours, a big disparity. But in a few days it's just normal for huge numbers of people, whether it's because they're a few days behind or they got to play at launch but had to take a few more breaks than others. Does that mean the game is trash for them? Of course not. If someone can't enjoy the game unless they're at the absolute apex of the economic pyramid...that's a bit sad. And if they can enjoy the game without being at the top of that pyramid, then there's no problem. |
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" unfortunately that is the reality we are in now. |
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" Interesting. Just woke up to see these accusations, and I don't quite care enough to troll through the material. Got a nice clean source for an old ruler with a slight hangover? Cheers. If I like a game, it'll either be amazing later or awful forever. There's no in-between.
I am Path of Exile's biggest whale. Period. |
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" 100% agree Fuck GGG |
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" Long story short, league launch was shitshow, which isn't exactly new. What was new, was a special server provided to streamers who played without issues while the entire community stared at login screens, disconnected, or were in queue's over 100k "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt." - Abraham Lincoln Last edited by DarthSki44#6905 on Apr 16, 2021, 9:17:06 PM
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I guess it's hard for me to care because I'm not competing with anyone but myself.
That being said, I definitely think this is a bad look for them. Some people definitely care about the equal starting point and it's important that they maintain that integrity. This start definitely reminds me of much older leagues where it was common practice to sit out day 1 because it was always this bad (or worse). Thanks for all the fish!
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