Garena is adding skill tree resets as a micro transaction in 1.1.3. Thoughts?

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bunnyxian90 wrote:

From Garena POE,

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Passive Skill Point Reset
Dear Exiles,
we felt that Orb of Regrets are not being traded and the introduction of such a microtransaction would not be game breaking harmful.

felt that Orb of Regrets are not being traded
felt that Orb of Regrets are not being traded
felt that Orb of Regrets are not being traded
felt that Orb of Regrets are not being traded



Are they serious? Or the sarcasm has taken into a whole new level?
They really trying to say that players not really into the earning of Regret Orbs to use?

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TheAnuhart wrote:

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peachii wrote:

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Psyborg wrote:

Official post:

http://web.poe.garena.com/garena-page/news_inner/194

For those who do not want to click - Actually very well written and explains why they did it.

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Passive Skill Point Reset
Dear Exiles,

As mentioned in the 1.1.3 patch notes, there is a new Microtransaction item called: Passive Skill Refund (Passive Skill Reset) in the upcoming patch.

The main reason why we have requested GGG to develop this microtransaction item is to allow
Players to try out new builds in Garena Path of Exile but they do not have the time to do so. From the user survey results, it was mentioned that users quit after building their passive skills wrongly.

Here are more details about Passive Skill Refund:
1. Passive Skill Refund is a consumable item which will refund one passive skill when you use it (right click on it).
2. Passive Skill Refund is untradeable. You will receive it in your microtransaction stash tab after you purchase it.

We apologise to the players who feel that we are taking a pay to win approach. We debated greatly over this decision and it was not an easy decision to make. As with the ongoing Real Money Trading problems in the server, we felt that Orb of Regrets are not being traded and the introduction of such a microtransaction would not be game breaking harmful. GGG has reiterated that it will never be added to their server and they will definitely not allow any MicroTransaction that breaks the spirit of Path of Exile.

In other words, yet again, the pyramid economy system shows how it fails at retention.

So, do we make the game less reliant on the flawed pyramid economy?

Like allow regret orbs and crafting orbs and content access to be gained at a reasonable rate from killing monsters rather than shopping?

No, we keep the flawed bad-for-retention model and add another path-of-least-resistance option by way of MTX, lol.

What's next? Crafting is super hard for a casual player, MTX eternal and exalt.
Content access is super hard for a casual player, MTX rolled 78s.

If this isn't yet another blatant shout that the pyramid economy, craft gating, content gating and as cited in this topic.. build gating; is bad for retention, in a model that requires retention to exist as a pyramid economy... then I dunno what is.

It's laughable.

Dump the stupid pyramid economy shopping design, in doing so.. fix retention, gain proper aRPG status and maybe even live up to the claim of a hardcore aRPG.

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Hey guys, we feel that Crown of Eyes is not being traded enough. Everyone is just waiting for them to become legacy and thus not trading them. So we have decided to sell Crown of Eyes for GGG points.

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TheAnuhart wrote:

In other words, yet again, the pyramid economy system shows how it fails at retention.

So, do we make the game less reliant on the flawed pyramid economy?

Like allow regret orbs and crafting orbs and content access to be gained at a reasonable rate from killing monsters rather than shopping?

No, we keep the flawed bad-for-retention model and add another path-of-least-resistance option by way of MTX, lol.

What's next? Crafting is super hard for a casual player, MTX eternal and exalt.
Content access is super hard for a casual player, MTX rolled 78s.

If this isn't yet another blatant shout that the pyramid economy, craft gating, content gating and as cited in this topic.. build gating; is bad for retention, in a model that requires retention to exist as a pyramid economy... then I dunno what is.

It's laughable.

Dump the stupid pyramid economy shopping design, in doing so.. fix retention, gain proper aRPG status and maybe even live up to the claim of a hardcore aRPG.

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Xavderion wrote:

You're reading way too much into Garena's words. TL;DR: We don't give a fuck about p2w as long as it makes us money. That's Garena.

And the game won't get balanced around no trade solo play, no matter how often you repeat the phrase 'pyramid economy'. Not happening bro :3

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Xavderion wrote:

And the game won't get balanced around no trade solo play, no matter how often you repeat the phrase 'pyramid economy'. Not happening bro :3

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TheAnuhart wrote:

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Xavderion wrote:

And the game won't get balanced around no trade solo play, no matter how often you repeat the phrase 'pyramid economy'. Not happening bro :3

Balanced to allow != balanced around.

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THEHORNEDRAT wrote:

You can't help but feel South East Asian Players have the right attitude towards their games.

"Ugh, my time's wasted. Don't play this game"

Unfortunately, here in the West, we have chronic OCD issues and are un/underemployed in our recessive economy, so we stick around and keep getting suckered.