HUGE Stash tab discounts?

The prices are already stupid high compared to just about every other game that isn't some jap game. So if you're wanting to buy something, you pretty much have to wait for their shit rotation to put it up at the real price. It's a shit system to get you to spend money now, otherwise, you'll be forced to wait months before it ever comes back.

So basically you'll just sit on your money until it's up for the correct still shitty price.

The system is shit and it's even made worse by the fact that you can't even preview this expensive ass shit either.

You can then email support if you don't like something and ask for a refund/swap and if you're lucky you'll get an email saying how they are bending over backward doing a one time refund for you... Jesus just give us an MTX preview already and get rid of this waiting for sales BS.

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Shagsbeard wrote:

GGG makes (or made) their money off stash tabs. Hardly "whales". Truth is, none of us really know. We only suspect. I suspect that most of their money comes from people who put in about $50. You wouldn't see that on the forums. People here are fans. They buy stuff just to show off that they bought stuff. That's what we see. But there's a lot more money behind the stuff you don't get to see.

I thought it actually was whales? I do believe I recall Charan stating that very factually a number of times on the forums but maybe I'm misremembering. Tabs are a one time investment and unless they come up with new specialty tabs I certainly wouldn't buy any more. My next hope is a chaos recipe tab. That'll really give those "stash tabs are p2w" folks something to bitch about!

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Phaeded wrote:

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Shagsbeard wrote:

GGG makes (or made) their money off stash tabs. Hardly "whales".

I thought it actually was whales? I do believe I recall Charan stating that very factually a number of times on the forums but maybe I'm misremembering.

I doubt it's just shit like tabs...there's no recurring reason in most cases to get tabs. I only have 5 Quads because it makes it easier to sort out shit I'm going to use for Alchs, Chaos, and Regal recipes, Uniques to sell and those to keep for builds I want to try (fuck melee...).

For a non-PoE, non-PC, but potentially similar example:
Article:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2014/03/01/why-its-scary-when-0-15-mobile-gamers-bring-in-50-of-the-revenue/
(Take Forbes with a grain of salt at A L L times, as they've had plenty of instances of anti-gamer rhetoric in the past)

Sub-Source:
https://www.swrve.com/company/press/swrve-finds-015-of-mobile-gamers-contribute-50-of-all-in-game-revenue

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...makes me wonder : are all these shitty tiny-MTX recolors preparation for a mobile version of the game?