Let's start a storm? (Russians invading PoE!)

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ventiman wrote:

i dont care anymore from this point on i will play ssf
if i keep playing at all still no statement for the "vocal minority"

cyrilic spam is really annoying (nightmares from lineage2)
they cheat and bot use of ...hud and ...buddy will skyrocket

lets see which sold licence gets shut down next

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Arrowneous wrote:

 My concern on this stems from the fact that US players like myself with easily under 100 ms latency to the W.DC or Dallas realms (typically 45 to 60 ms on a 20 Mb down, 11 Mb up Internet link) often have lots of game stutter and DCs just playing solo. I had half a dozen DCs on the Dallas realm last night and W.DC was worse. So I can only imagine how bad trying to play PoE is in another country with even greater distances and slower ISP speeds. Yikes!

 Is this the tip of the iceberg for GGG and a sign that things aren't as rosy in Wraeclast as we are led to beleive? If Garena can't generate enough mtx sales to stay in business in Russia then what next? GGG just produced a Brazilian version of PoE and is their Internet performance going to be any better than Russia?

 Are the choices that GGG has made in the last couple of years finally coming back to bite themselves financially? GGG should have been concerned years ago with so many new players trying out PoE but, according to Chris in a comment he made in the State of Exile podcast #52, quitting at the first major boss battle "The Warden" if they die. I wonder how many times a newbie will try to kill Brutus before giving up and quitting and never coming back? In that podcast Chris sort of laughed it off and even said that he tried League of Legends for a few minutes and then quit and hasn't played again. Is this a signal that new arpg players are not happy that PoE takes major time to gain rewards and thus quitting or am I as a middle aged PoE player (baby boomer) just clueless about the millennials and what kind of instant gratification they are looking for in their computer entertainment? In this age of near instant information is PoE too old school or is a long term entertainment arpg not fast enough with rewards to satisfy them? I've always said that PoE was too heavy on the starvation theme for an arpg and that "the grind is it's own reward" is costing GGG a lot of players that seek a more rewarding arpg for time played but GGG forges on and doubles down on the grind by nerfing high tier map exp. to make the time grind even longer.

 Has GGG completely lost touch with the realities of what 2016 arpg players want and the closing of Garena Russia the first sign of bigger trouble? Will the next patch inject new life into the endgame leveling grind? We will soon find out come September.