Has Charan quit the forum?

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ScrotieMcB wrote:

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vio wrote:

sadly charan is on the wrong trip that most players here are looking for a challenge mastered with skill instead of being able to faceroll the content in no time with just massive time investment.

I have no idea what you're trying to say with the bold part.

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ScrotieMcB wrote:

I think there are a lot of players looking for a challenge mastered with skill. I also think there are a lot of players who enjoy ARPGs for the abnegation aspect of it, just zoning out and not really wanting challenge per se. The only problem, really, is the tendency for forumers of either perspective to take on the false view that the majority of PoE players have the same playstyle preferences as themselves, when I doubt any one playstyle definition could account for even half of PoE's population. Charan has done this in the past, typing certain playstyles as "ideal players" of the game while saying other players aren't the intended audience, but he is by no means alone in doing so; I mean, you're doing it right now, implying a majority where, at the very least, I would not count myself among the membership.

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vio wrote:

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ScrotieMcB wrote:

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vio wrote:

sadly charan is on the wrong trip that most players here are looking for a challenge mastered with skill instead of being able to faceroll the content in no time with just massive time investment.

I have no idea what you're trying to say with the bold part.

delete the "in no time with just massive time investment" please. my mistake, thx for pointing me to it.

what i meant (thx bars) this is all about the "monster x killed me, please nerf". if you hear drop bears you needed the skill to react quickly and move out of the drop zone (before the nerf).

i'm sure after the ascendancy release we will see a revival like "trap x killed me, pls nerf" which will be followed by an adjustment of the speed the traps move and the damage they make.

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ScrotieMcB wrote:

I think there are a lot of players looking for a challenge mastered with skill. I also think there are a lot of players who enjoy ARPGs for the abnegation aspect of it, just zoning out and not really wanting challenge per se. The only problem, really, is the tendency for forumers of either perspective to take on the false view that the majority of PoE players have the same playstyle preferences as themselves, when I doubt any one playstyle definition could account for even half of PoE's population. Charan has done this in the past, typing certain playstyles as "ideal players" of the game while saying other players aren't the intended audience, but he is by no means alone in doing so; I mean, you're doing it right now, implying a majority where, at the very least, I would not count myself among the membership.

you're right, i do. because what brought me here is the developers promise of a hard and deadly, unforgiving island, where everything wants to kill me and often succeeds.

we got that promise fulfilled in closed beta and open beta, after release the vision got obscured a bit and after forsaken masters it was gone from the main game.
endgame moved further and further into maps and current posts prove that many players see the real game as a annoying hinderance to their endgame. which makes me sad.


and of course i only get my impressions from forum users and i mean, there aren't any posts here requesting a buffed damage from some types of monsters/bosses for ages.
there is only a small group of players (me included) who want to move the difficulty back into the main game in stead of the current faceroll=>dang malachai cruel=>faceroll=>maps cycle.

my hopes are that the labyrinth will bring back some of the missing challenges into the main game. and i hope there are enough players left who are up for mandatory challenges.

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Einkil wrote:

I'm going to be honest, cruel malachai ain't even that hard.

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vio wrote:

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Einkil wrote:

I'm going to be honest, cruel malachai ain't even that hard.

it requires substantial positioning skills to not rip your char. first boss i can't figure out how to manage it without my ranger saying her death sentence: "i can't do that right now".

not complaining, just stating: it's the biggest difficulty spike in the game, even for long time players like me.

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CharanJaydemyr wrote:

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NeroNoah wrote:

Hey Charan, it's ok to be dissapointed with the new league and the whole game (I actually like the whole thing, and agree about the lack of direction, though), but making a point with money sounds mildly extorsive (hundred of people have made passive agressive remarks about stopping giving support already, if it's not important, you shouldn't make a point of it).

It is what it is.

And what it ultimately is is impotent. It'd be extortion or blackmail if I said 'I'll not support unless you do this' or 'I'll never support again because you did that'. All I'm doing is pointing out that someone who has supported them at every step, *every step*, can't bring himself to do so this time because things are that far off-course in that person's opinion.

And it's impotent because signature. I should just leave, really. They got their cash. And I'm fully aware of how stupid even that sounds. If you're going to leave, just leave. Right? Sure. But allow me my brief moments of regret. They come not at a slight cost.

And at the very height of my hubris, the very pinnacle of my ego, I'd like to believe that if I were to leave, someone at GGG would care. Someone would go, 'wait, what? All that money, all those posts, all those hours volunteering as a mod, and now he just walks?'...but realistically speaking, they're too damn busy doing precisely what I paid them to do to notice even that: make this game the way they want to.

So I can't complain about that, can I? No. Absolutely not. And I won't.

Still, kinda stings that it all amounts to this. Whimper not a bang and all that.

Well, *whimper*.

Might as well bury my last post in someone else's thread. That's about as humble as I get.

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Poutsos wrote:

Personally, if i was by a huge shot the biggest financial contributor in the game, and my final weapon was not very interesting and rediculously OP if you build around it, i would be very pissed.