The Socially Awkward Gamer, the Unspoken Problems with PoE.

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ApolloRoad wrote:

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Sneakypaw wrote:

Still waiting for the 'unspoken' part.

Nothing you adress here wasn't already talked about in various threads.

50% (yeah, i got that number out of my ass) is false/subjective.

Good read though.

So I averaging from level 18 gems.
Enduring Cry at 18 gives 34 charges at level 5 it gives 17. That's a 50% loss.
Molten Shell gives 943 armour at 18 and 294 at level 7. That's 68% loss.
Immortal Call gives 0.57 seconds at 18 and 0.42 seconds at level 3. ~26% loss.
It varies depending on skill. I still use Enduring Cry and Molten Shell but I trigger Immortal Call manually now since I find the Endurance Charges more useful.

The 50% = 50% of the whole post.

1. GGG, for a small team, has excellent communications.
2. Stinkfinger hates GGG but continually posts on its forums to troll other players (ignore him) anyone who disagrees with him is a "blindfanboyz lawlz omg N00B!"
3. GGG posts VERY lengthy explanations on subjects... the dev manifesto, post on desync, post on why they chose the currency system they did. That doesn't help, because most gamers (like the player mentioned in 2) don't actually *read* anything, they simply *react*.

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Miszou wrote:

Barely a day goes by when Chris doesn't post some kind of announcement.
http://www.pathofexile.com/news/archive

Not only that, but they do interact with players in other threads when necessary. For example:
http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/610307/page/9#p5350801

I'm guessing they just don't want to get mired down in CwDT rage threads written by some over-priveleged asshat whining about their first-world problems, when they've got an actual game to work on.

I suppose "blind fanboy" and "raging hater" are two side of the same coin, but please try to use actual facts in your arguments. You are entitled to your own opinions, but you are not entitled to your own facts.

blah blah blah

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Miszou wrote:

Barely a day goes by when Chris doesn't post some kind of announcement.
http://www.pathofexile.com/news/archive

Not only that, but they do interact with players in other threads when necessary. For example:
http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/610307/page/9#p5350801

I'm guessing they just don't want to get mired down in CwDT rage threads written by some over-priveleged asshat whining about their first-world problems, when they've got an actual game to work on.

I suppose "blind fanboy" and "raging hater" are two side of the same coin, but please try to use actual facts in your arguments. You are entitled to your own opinions, but you are not entitled to your own facts.

This brings up another problem they have, they want to patch every 2 weeks. They tunneled visioned on their do to list to rush these deadlines. As you posted, Chris posted about the Bug's bug and the problem with the Grace aura. Bugs they happen when the rush through things, they need to slow down and fix existing problems before rushing out new things.

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Wittgenstein wrote:

1. GGG, for a small team, has excellent communications.
2. Stinkfinger hates GGG but continually posts on its forums to troll other players (ignore him) anyone who disagrees with him is a "blindfanboyz lawlz omg N00B!"
3. GGG posts VERY lengthy explanations on subjects... the dev manifesto, post on desync, post on why they chose the currency system they did. That doesn't help, because most gamers (like the player mentioned in 2) don't actually *read* anything, they simply *react*.

Exactly, GGG team is small and the Alpha test group can't be that big. The sample size of GGG/Alphas isn't enough to represent the current population of Exiles. Thus more and more bugs are getting through, not enough testing is being done.

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ApolloRoad wrote:

This brings up another problem they have, they want to patch every 2 weeks. They tunneled visioned on their do to list to rush these deadlines. As you posted, Chris posted about the Bug's bug and the problem with the Grace aura. Bugs they happen when the rush through things, they need to slow down and fix existing problems before rushing out new things.

You have companies like Blizzard who take forever to update or change anything. Then you have GGG who changes things every 2 weeks or so. I know which one I prefer.

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ApolloRoad wrote:

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Miszou wrote:

Barely a day goes by when Chris doesn't post some kind of announcement.
http://www.pathofexile.com/news/archive

Not only that, but they do interact with players in other threads when necessary. For example:
http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/610307/page/9#p5350801

I'm guessing they just don't want to get mired down in CwDT rage threads written by some over-priveleged asshat whining about their first-world problems, when they've got an actual game to work on.

I suppose "blind fanboy" and "raging hater" are two side of the same coin, but please try to use actual facts in your arguments. You are entitled to your own opinions, but you are not entitled to your own facts.

This brings up another problem they have, they want to patch every 2 weeks. They tunneled visioned on their do to list to rush these deadlines. As you posted, Chris posted about the Bug's bug and the problem with the Grace aura. Bugs they happen when the rush through things, they need to slow down and fix existing problems before rushing out new things.

It's been like that forever man... Don't you remember their OB "self imposed" deadline.

And then the Cyclone fiasco...

Yes GGG has some communication problems when it comes to game changes.

They are also the best ever as far as small interactions with community.

They also let the forum pretty much trash them, which is unheard of.

I was very annoyed with 1.0 as it destroyed my sporker. Very annoyed with the unique drop changes as those items already exist by the hundreds and thousands in the parent leagues. I was annoyed with 1.1 as well, but map boss drops got heavily upped, and all it really changed for me was I have to self cast enduring cry on occasion and lost ~1500 armor after buffs, so not really that big of deal, even if I think it was a silly way to balance it. Purity.. I lost +1 max resistance, don't really care. I can handle all of these things.

If something ELSE I use gets nerfed next patch, I will RAGE as I have never before.

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majesw wrote:

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ApolloRoad wrote:

This brings up another problem they have, they want to patch every 2 weeks. They tunneled visioned on their do to list to rush these deadlines. As you posted, Chris posted about the Bug's bug and the problem with the Grace aura. Bugs they happen when the rush through things, they need to slow down and fix existing problems before rushing out new things.

You have companies like Blizzard who take forever to update or change anything. Then you have GGG who changes things every 2 weeks or so. I know which one I prefer.

Which one? Which one????

Tell us?

Seriously tell us?

We have no clue?

Which one????

Which one???

@OP... stopped reading at "Communication".... GGG has the best communication and support of any company that have I dealt with in the last decade, barring maybe DevExpress, a company that is in a completely different industry.

GGG should NEVER CHANGE ANYTHING
Whenever they DO change anything they should tell us MONTHS IN ADVANCE
They should listen to WHATEVER WE SAY because its OUR GAME
GGG shouldn't EVER POST ANYTHING ANYWHERE BESIDES THESE FORUMS
Anyone who disagrees with me is WRONG
If GGG ever changes ANYTHING that I DONT LIKE that means THEY DIDNT TEST IT

- sincerely,

Stinkfinger.

ps. just in case you didn't know desync is a serious issue.