RoS sales is a sign that millions are still searching for a better arpg playing experience. .

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Xavderion wrote:

It has everything to do with HC-SC crap. Not sure why you pretend it doesn't.

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tinko92 wrote:

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Xavderion wrote:

It has everything to do with HC-SC crap. Not sure why you pretend it doesn't.

It has to do with a game that has a "legitimate" log-out escape whenever it gets ugly, but classifies itself as a hardcore game.
Nobody mentioned escaping only in HC leagues.

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Xavderion wrote:

every time somebody even mentions the word hardcore, regardless of context

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raics wrote:

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Xavderion wrote:

every time somebody even mentions the word hardcore, regardless of context

I'm still pretty sure it's the undertone, 'hardcore' just sounds so... puissant :)

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No, it has to do with softcorers circlejerking about how hardcore players aren't hardcore because of alt+f4 in order to feel better about themselves playing in softcore. The discussion about this comes up every time somebody even mentions the word hardcore, regardless of context, so you can see how inferior the circlejerkers must feel.

regards, psychology pro

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Frosty_Pheet wrote:

What is hardcore about avoiding any probable death scenario? Just a word to make you feel better than other people, on the internet, on a game... All you do is buy items to pass the gear check anyway, such a challenge!

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Xavderion wrote:

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Frosty_Pheet wrote:

What is hardcore about avoiding any probable death scenario? Just a word to make you feel better than other people, on the internet, on a game... All you do is buy items to pass the gear check anyway, such a challenge!

Bolded part is evidence that this is not about alt+f4. The inferiority complex faction will always come up with new stuff to devalue the achievement of others and feel better about itself.

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Xavderion wrote:

No, it has to do with softcorers circlejerking about how hardcore players aren't hardcore because of alt+f4 in order to feel better about themselves playing in softcore. The discussion about this comes up every time somebody even mentions the word hardcore, regardless of context, so you can see how inferior the circlejerkers must feel.

regards, psychology pro

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So, someone who doesn't use log-out when in danger is a "softcorer"?

Spoiler

Oh, I'm not a famous HC player in this game. A total fail, to be honest.
Though I never altf4, even when I have seconds to react and I know I'll die.
But masses do it. Top streamers do it. High ladder ranks do it. They use instalogout scripts ffs.
Hardcore...my ass.
There must be clear rules, strict and for all.

At first, he was referring to the HC league, but in the end, that "Hardcore...my ass" is about the overall hardcore attitude in the game, because those 3 sorts of players are both on HC and Standard league, and people do it in both leagues.

And that's why, PoE cannot be considered as a hardcore game, no matter what one of GGG staff wrote about time investment and all that crap that can be witnessed even in a casino, let alone other games outside of Flappy Bird shit.
Almost any RTS is millions of times more "hardcore" than PoE, yet none of them claim to be so. But GGG does, because they need those kind of people that would feel hardcore for just playing the game, which is a fucking joke.

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tinko92 wrote:

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Xavderion wrote:

No, it has to do with softcorers circlejerking about how hardcore players aren't hardcore because of alt+f4 in order to feel better about themselves playing in softcore. The discussion about this comes up every time somebody even mentions the word hardcore, regardless of context, so you can see how inferior the circlejerkers must feel.

regards, psychology pro

So, someone who doesn't use log-out when in danger is a "softcorer"?

Spoiler

Oh, I'm not a famous HC player in this game. A total fail, to be honest.
Though I never altf4, even when I have seconds to react and I know I'll die.
But masses do it. Top streamers do it. High ladder ranks do it. They use instalogout scripts ffs.
Hardcore...my ass.
There must be clear rules, strict and for all.

At first, he was referring to the HC league, but in the end, that "Hardcore...my ass" is about the overall hardcore attitude in the game, because those 3 sorts of players are both on HC and Standard league, and people do it in both leagues.

And that's why, PoE cannot be considered as a hardcore game, no matter what one of GGG staff wrote about time investment and all that crap that can be witnessed even in a casino, let alone other games outside of Flappy Bird shit.
Almost any RTS is millions of times more "hardcore" than PoE, yet none of them claim to be so. But GGG does, because they need those kind of people that would feel hardcore for just playing the game, which is a fucking joke.