25% player dropoff after 1 week, ooh wee

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postrach_myszy wrote:

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Aynix wrote:

The league can be VERY easily "fixed". Make all pieces 3 charges, remove decay from Nexus completly, make pieces to have same drop as maps.
Done. Now even if you just place those pieces and run them w/o caring about anything else, each map gives you 1.2 extra map to clear. This is far more than any league did before.

Oh, really? So hold your beer and wait what these geniuses will come up with. Because I'm more then sure, none of your suggestions will happen. But you will receive load of shiny MTX to purchase instead :P

Yep, I know the changes Im talking about will never happen. Knowing GGG they will make change like "hey, now reward islands spawn with ONE MORE CHEST!" (we also balanced it out so they spawn further away now)

R.I.P.

Do you not have RNG exile?

Every league there is a 25% dropoff after a week, if it was 50% it would look like people care but nope, people just play their builds and ignore nexus crap if they don't like it.

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gentrylix83 wrote:

I just watch the POE trade pages.
And what we've got is much less item offers than in the previous league with a much more inflated prices at this stage.

Jeezus you speak truth here. As someone who doesn't like the sell side of trade and frequently buys/crafts, the lack of gear and especially reasonably priced gear, blows. During Betrayal I had no problem at all.

Which is weird because chaos orbs are cheap AF. Almost 2 weeks and vaals are this damn expensive. Could be because of the new chaos damage craze though, plenty of people can run reflect maps now.

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LowBudget780 wrote:

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Mythreindeer wrote:

Also ex is what? Like 90c right now 2 weeks into league? Even the bots don't seem to care.

And why should they care? Such bot farm consumes a lot of electricity, you have to maintain it too, employ some people wchich will deliver "currency in 10 minutes" - like advertised in countless RMT chat messages. So cost are there, but where is the profit? Who would buy the currency and, above all, why, if the league is so unpopular that nothing can be bought for it anyway? Bots are directly dependent on GGCent effort. Good league means good money for bots and... Tencent. Bad league means bad money, for bot owners too :)

Global 1 is still flooded with RMT bots.

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Aynix wrote:

Global 1 is still flooded with RMT bots.

Sure :) But these are small fishes. The big players deployed the farms on Sunday, two days after the start of the league, but they gave up on Monday, maximum on Tuesday, when it was already known that the new league is a tragedy. You have to understand, it is business, big one and profitable. Why waste resources? Big "bot farms" can be used to farm currency in PoE, while it is really profitable, but in this case they are probably used as usual, to dig bitcoins, other similiar currencies or currencies in different games. They will always come, when bigger money is :)

Global 1 is rife with the bots. This league they are trying repeated spams to fight the usual praise Toucan spam. It is so ridiculous that the chat goes about 20 miles an hour now, it is realistically not even worth having it on anymore, nothing stays long enough to read lol.

And I just don't have the energy for Flashback. I will probably level and endgame 3 characters, maybe 4, this league, and if they do a Flashback I just don't think I have it in me to do another, no matter what cool effects they add.

Maybe it's just fatigue from rushing my latest build through acts so I am a little touchy about the leveling process at the moment......