The ending of POE ?

Seeing the drop of players online makes me think whats wrong !
Its not the game, its still very good.
But it stands and falls by new players.
New players love the game as long as they gain progress, even if its small steps.
And there we have the problem: SEEING PLAYERS ASKING LARGE AMOUNT OF CURRENCY FOR A MAP.
Talking about 50 chaos to even 1 EX per map.
Dont they know that they are the only ones left in this game with a high amount of currency, and forgot the time they started this game.

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tullepetaon wrote:

Talking about 50 chaos to even 1 EX per map.
Dont they know that they are the only ones left in this game with a high amount of currency, and forgot the time they started this game.

Try to run any red map and see what maps you will get in return.
You will get answer pretty quick assure you.

I am not new, 3870 hours :).
selling maps for 1 fuse till tier 6, 2 fuse for 6, etc

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tullepetaon wrote:

I am not new, 3870 hours :).
selling maps for 1 fuse till tier 6, 2 fuse for 6, etc

But the league realities are new :)

Hard life in Standard League. ^^

I once in a while sell maps when I have loads stashed up... Hectic 15 minutes, but yestoday I did it (Ony listen T14-T16) and puff my stash went up 600 chaos.

Path of Exile became: path of bots, path of pricefixer, path of (botting)whiteknights and path of clusterfuck.

I think some players are going to check back from time to time every new league to see what's new but the days of "consistent playing time" are over.

Poe turned sadly into a complete hoe; you want to finish quick and leave ASAP.

To be honest i didn't even thougt that i would regret my financial support in the past for GGG one day.

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BestUsernameEver wrote:

Path of Exile became: path of bots, path of pricefixer, path of (botting)whiteknights and path of clusterfuck.

I think some players are going to check back from time to time every new league to see what's new but the days of "consistent playing time" are over.

Poe turned sadly into a complete hoe; you want to finish quick and leave ASAP.

To be honest i didn't even thougt that i would regret my financial support in the past for GGG one day.

lol you bought a supporter pack 1 month ago.

The end? Definitely not yet. PoE is highly addictive stuff, I can estimate there is at least 10k “heavy addicts”, who will play, who will play regardless of what will happen. There could be catastrophic league like Bestiary or Shitthesis, lags, developers, unethical behaviours, moneygrabbing, scam attempting (atlas shuffling) and whatever else, it doesn’t matter at all. Addicts will play and proudly gain their 40/40, and will continue playing after that. That’s how mental addiction works.

Moreover, these addicts usually buy every newly released supporter pack, probably at least 60$ one, which means constant income at the level 200k $ monthly from supporters packs only. But there are stash tabs, cosmetics and lootboxes too, so I can estimate absolute minimum monthly income at least at level 300k $. And that is only from PC and only from “international addicts”.

Probably many times more for the Chinese version, in combination with the console version. A money-making machine, with really, but really low operating costs. From my very estimated calculations, it appears that the game brings about USD 12-15 million net per year, what is also indicated by the amount for which it was bought by Tencent.

To recapitulate, the game can only be harmed by massive outflow of heavily addicted players, combined with the appearance on the market of another, equally attractive action shooter with rpg elements. Till that dews can do anything. “New” players are only “cherry on top”, a factor increasing “guaranteed incomes”. Well – prepare for Shitthesis 2.0 :P

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BestUsernameEver wrote:

Path of Exile became: path of bots, path of pricefixer, path of (botting)whiteknights and path of clusterfuck.

So now "whiteknights" are bots as well?
LMAO.

Also I like how this guy Postrach is person who is complaining about league and calling it Shithesis the most while he never even touched it.

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postrach_myszy wrote:

Moreover, these addicts usually buy every newly released supporter pack, probably at least 60$ one, which means constant income at the level 200k $ monthly from supporters packs only. But there are stash tabs, cosmetics and lootboxes too, so I can estimate absolute minimum monthly income at least at level 300k $. And that is only from PC and only from “international addicts”.

Probably many times more for the Chinese version, in combination with the console version. A money-making machine, with really, but really low operating costs. From my very estimated calculations, it appears that the game brings about USD 12-15 million net per year, what is also indicated by the amount for which it was bought by Tencent.

Those numbers are very small considering that PoE is "most popular ARPG game". There are mobile games that hit close to ONE BILLION $ income per year.