PoE reddit hits a new low

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666lol666 wrote:

A simple "Had to kick 40% of our users because they sucked ass" thread in the newssection would be enough. ;)

No game, including PoE can survive a 40% kick of users. Fully half to 2/3 of those would never come back, so you are asking for a permanent loss of 1/3 of the player base.

GGG wouldn't survive it. The player base it dangerously small for this game already IMHO.

I doubt they can survive losing 10% of the player base, let alone 40%.

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jaredh wrote:

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666lol666 wrote:

A simple "Had to kick 40% of our users because they sucked ass" thread in the newssection would be enough. ;)

No game, including PoE can survive a 40% kick of users. Fully half to 2/3 of those would never come back, so you are asking for a permanent loss of 1/3 of the player base.

GGG wouldn't survive it. The player base it dangerously small for this game already IMHO.

I doubt they can survive losing 10% of the player base, let alone 40%.

Wrong.

GGG will very much survive without even 80% of its western playerbase. They must just make sure they don't touch the Taiwan servers.

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mazul wrote:

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jaredh wrote:

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666lol666 wrote:

A simple "Had to kick 40% of our users because they sucked ass" thread in the newssection would be enough. ;)

No game, including PoE can survive a 40% kick of users. Fully half to 2/3 of those would never come back, so you are asking for a permanent loss of 1/3 of the player base.

GGG wouldn't survive it. The player base it dangerously small for this game already IMHO.

I doubt they can survive losing 10% of the player base, let alone 40%.

Wrong.

GGG will very much survive without even 80% of its western playerbase. They must just make sure they don't touch the Taiwan servers.

some time ago i used to watch asian poe streams(they had alot of interesting and sick builds) one thing i noticed with like 4 out of 5 streams was they used tools to highlite "important" drops.

so if they dont touch the asian market guess where all the people that get banned on western servers will go to?

Im probably not that affected by cheaters since I dont race, but its still annoying knowing that people break the rules in a game you love, so I am patiently waiting to see "Banned" under peoples names in near future, hope they had fun wasting their time on all those chars and items just to have them thrown into the void. Hope they bought supporter packs too.

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Esto wrote:

some time ago i used to watch asian poe streams(they had alot of interesting and sick builds) one thing i noticed with like 4 out of 5 streams was they used tools to highlite "important" drops.

so if they dont touch the asian market guess where all the people that get banned on western servers will go to?

As long as those people are not in the Western servers and GGG keeps making bank, it is all nice and dandy :).

GGG must either ban everyone using the HUDs and multihack tools, or release an offline version of the game. The argument for online-only becomes tremendously weak if they can't provide an even playing field.

Alternatives:
a. Characters on accounts flagged for cheating permanently forfeit access to act 4.
b. Characters on accounts not flagged for cheating receive 1 mirror every 200 hours of active gameplay. Flagged accounts can never receive a mirror or a mirrored item, not even from trading. Existing mirrors and mirrored items on flagged accounts are removed. Additionally, characters on flagged accounts are permanently unable to enter races or competitive events.

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mazul wrote:

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Esto wrote:

some time ago i used to watch asian poe streams(they had alot of interesting and sick builds) one thing i noticed with like 4 out of 5 streams was they used tools to highlite "important" drops.

so if they dont touch the asian market guess where all the people that get banned on western servers will go to?

As long as those people are not in the Western servers and GGG keeps making bank, it is all nice and dandy :).

so item highlighting is not ok but couple of the "bigger" poe streamers using and advertising 1 button auto logout scripts is ok ?

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Esto wrote:

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mazul wrote:

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Esto wrote:

some time ago i used to watch asian poe streams(they had alot of interesting and sick builds) one thing i noticed with like 4 out of 5 streams was they used tools to highlite "important" drops.

so if they dont touch the asian market guess where all the people that get banned on western servers will go to?

As long as those people are not in the Western servers and GGG keeps making bank, it is all nice and dandy :).

so item highlighting is not ok but couple of the "bigger" poe streamers using and advertising 1 button auto logout scripts is ok ?

One must assume that GGG has balanced the economy around those streamers, but the damage the highlighting would cause if it became more widespread is likely not something GGG has balanced around yet.


The economy is the no1 priority.

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Vhlad wrote:

GGG must either ban everyone using the HUDs and multihack tools, or release an offline version of the game. The argument for online-only becomes tremendously weak if they can't provide an even playing field.

They must not do anything, they do whatever they want and you will have to abide by it. All online games has cheating in them, its just how the world works. There are cheaters everywhere, in all aspects of life, you cant catch them all, sadly.

While cheats ruin races, you wont be affected by it much in the normal leagues, you probably would never notice it, but I find it annoying just knowing there are cheaters breaking the rules, so I hope to see some banwaves in the near future. However I know they wont get everyone. Online or offline wouldnt make any difference in this matter because the cheaters wont hurt you.