An Update from Chris

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nickwch wrote:

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xPiranha wrote:

Lol you guys really buying into this hand fed nonsense? Smh.

Chris be like "Thats right monkeys eat the food".

I dont normally read or reply to a post from someone who doesn't even have a single supporter title. But you are special. Kiddo, if you dont have any point to make, you have the choice to remain silent instead of letting others know how dumb (obviously an understatement here) you truly are.

Thats right bud stretch your epeen as far as it can go.

The post reads like someone that wants both their cake and to eat it. I VERY strongly agree with the work ethic decision, a tired employee is a bad employee. Great.


BUT

You cannot maintain the hectic pace while not working too much OT. Something has got to give here. The state of the game now tells you all you need to know.


Slow down or hire more people to share the workload. Clearly the way it is now is not working.

chris and team, you have my respect

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BigBadWolf1776 wrote:

Reuse old content. Still waiting for Delve-2

Lol, what kind of feedback is this? You've been waiting 5 months for a "sequel" to a league that just finished? If they ever decide to do a follow-up league I doubt it will be one from only a few months before...

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xPiranha wrote:

Lol you guys really buying into this hand fed nonsense? Smh.

Chris be like "Thats right monkeys eat the food".

What a cute lil monkey! Judging by the size of its skull, I'm sure its brain is bigger than yours and that it's at least 10 times more intelligent than you! <3

thanks for not letting synthesis go core, it was the first league in the last year that i quit 2 weeks in, so for me it was worse then bestiary :P

I feel obliged to login and give a thumb-up to Chris for maintaining Work/Life balance for GGG developers.
That paragraph alone, and the philosophy behind it, is well worth the bucks I've tossed for this free game.

There's no need to repeat myself about how disappointing Synthesis has been.
But I do believe that more timely and frequent communications to the community, instead of admitting the mistakes after two months into the league, will be very much appreciated.
Looking forward to 3.7 and 4.0, as well as how well GGG has learned from Synthesis.

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eralduspr wrote:

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xPiranha wrote:

Lol you guys really buying into this hand fed nonsense? Smh.

Chris be like "Thats right monkeys eat the food".

What a cute lil monkey! Judging by the size of its skull, I'm sure its brain is bigger than yours and that it's at least 10 times more intelligent than you! <3

Love you guys and this Game. Thanks for all the hard work.
Thank you much for addressing the questions and such.

It's posts / focus like this that let me know I will interesting in keeping playing (even if 1 league is an off for me due to personally not liking the mechanics, etc) but I know the next league may hold something awesome that I want to try out!

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Aim_Deep wrote:

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Releasing a "Hype" league, that ends up being what Synthesis is, is going to have a significant, negative, lasting, effect on the health of the player base.

Really? I still get hyped every league and hated most Gen 3 except Delve and Abysss

Game ebbs and flows between good and bad leagues (anyone remember talisman it was like original synthesis 5tabs of useless ammy to make more useless ammys). Core is still solid tho . Except all the bloat from bad leagues lol.

Who knows they may drop another Breach next. I'm Hyped.

Yes. Really. As a professional in marketing analytics, yes. The negative effects of Synthesis will ripple for quite a while, far longer than the effects of a less than hype, but stable "flashback" type of legacy league's downside would have lasted.

You can see it in the publicly available data, and when you start compounding the data from search engine based algorithms surrounding negative public opinion about the game. At no point in the past 12 months has the negative public opinion on the game been as high as it is right now, and in the past 3 leagues, no league had player loss at the levels that Synthesis did, at the rate that Synthesis did.

Ebbs and flows are one thing, but negative public opinion is not a normal part of ebb and flow. This is going to sting.

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Invictus26 wrote:

The shitposters have a bad habit of forgetting that the entire point of Leagues is to toss out some zany idea and see how well it works. Some of them do, some of them don't, and the GGG team grows more skilled either way.

Zany Idea =/= poorly executed content.

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Invictus26 wrote:

It's also pretty obvious that the people who dislike being the League beta testers are newer players who don't understand their role when they decide to start a new League. Ignore them, I say.

LOL NO. Im Open Beta era, and being a beta tester for league content is NOT how leagues were ever marketed to the playerbase.

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Invictus26 wrote:

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shoju wrote:

DO NOT DO THAT. THAT'S A TERRIBLE BUSINESS MODEL. STOP TREATING PEOPLE WHO PLAY STANDARD LIKE WE ARE JUST SOME SORT OF BOTTOM FEEDING FODDER THAT CAN BE IGNORED, AND WILL JUST LIVE WITH WHATEVER IT IS THAT YOU GIVE US

That's because you are. PoE has always been centered around its Leagues, and likewise those who still play Standard consistantly are a fairly minor portion of the player base.

No. We're not.
No, it hasn't
And no, we're not a fairly minor portion of the playerbase. If you played standard, you'd be well aware of that. instead, you're what plenty of poeple in standard refer to as tourists. When you show up in standard, we shut off chat channels, and wait out the next few days, content to play the game without having to deal with you, and your BS, not based in fact, views of our league.

Honestly? I hope they go through with the idea that Synthesis will last until the new league, that way we don't have to deal with you in Standard.