People are overreacting

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DarkNRG wrote:

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Xavathos wrote:

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DarkNRG wrote:

I don't Myth, I've walked away from numerous games, products and people in my life over matters of principle. I see no reason to draw arbitrary lines in the sand.

I promise you 100% there is nothing connected to them that I use... except atm this forum to shiv them.

I appreciate the back pat but I'm never really looking for that.


Edit: the more they and companies like them grow the harder it will be for me assuredly. At some point I'm going to be an old man standing on a tiny island playing with sticks. Or a collection saved over nearly 30 odd years of gaming before shit went all f2p and early access when the idea of after market money came from expansions not loot crates or this other shit.

Edit2: Eventually I will tag all my posts with "I survived the bastardization of gaming."

Or did you?

Maybe one day you wake up and realize it was all a dream... a dream published by Tencent, which is your employer. Plot twist!

I don't remember which pill I took, was it red or blue... send halp plz

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ExiledToWraeclast wrote:

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DarkNRG wrote:

I don't Myth, I've walked away from numerous games, products and people in my life over matters of principle. I see no reason to draw arbitrary lines in the sand.

I promise you 100% there is nothing connected to them that I use... except atm this forum to shiv them.

I appreciate the back pat but I'm never really looking for that.


Edit: the more they and companies like them grow the harder it will be for me assuredly. At some point I'm going to be an old man standing on a tiny island playing with sticks. Or a collection saved over nearly 30 odd years of gaming before shit went all f2p and early access when the idea of after market money came from expansions not loot crates or this other shit.

Edit2: Eventually I will tag all my posts with "I survived the bastardization of gaming."

Then kindly sod off and stop making things bad for the rest of us who just want to continue enjoying video games. Spare me the hypocritical virtue signalling and put yourself in the place of the CEO who wants to improve so many things but realizes they can't rely on the support of a bunch of entitled babies who will choose to jump ship and view everything through jade-colored glasses than give *anything* the benefit of the doubt.

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Inaithnir wrote:

1. Tencent buys significant share in GGG
2. People proclaim GGG are sellouts
3. GGG continues working on game as before as detailed in Chris' statement
4. People stop supporting because they don't want to pay megacorp Tencent instead of the actually-not-small-at-all multi-million dollar indie company
5. PoE no longer profitable, GGG required to downsize
6. Content becomes weaker, less frequent
7. People stop playing/supporting even more
8. PoE is shut down/no longer updated
9. Players blame Tencent and claim they were right all along


Sounds like a self-fulfilling prophecy to me.

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DarkNRG wrote:

My last post for the day. Just wants to include the fact that NOT selling to this company avoids everything on that list.

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Inaithnir wrote:

1. Tencent buys significant share in GGG
2. People proclaim GGG are sellouts
3. GGG continues working on game as before, with increased staff, quality and quantity as detailed in Chris' statement
4. People stop supporting because they don't want to pay megacorp Tencent instead of the actually-not-small-at-all multi-million dollar indie company
5. PoE no longer profitable, GGG required to downsize
6. Content becomes weaker, less frequent
7. People stop playing/supporting even more
8. PoE is shut down/no longer updated
9. Players blame Tencent and claim they were right all along


Sounds like a self-fulfilling prophecy to me.

EDIT: clarified line 3

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Inaithnir wrote:

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DarkNRG wrote:

My last post for the day. Just wants to include the fact that NOT selling to this company avoids everything on that list.

Edited line 3 slightly, since you were right as it was written, which was not exactly as I intended.