Speak with your wallet

Upon reading the responses from the Q&A, I encourage the player base to either support or DO NOT support POE via micro-transactions. If you agree with the answers given and overall want to the game to continue in this direction then please spend real world currency on this game.

BUT if you do not agree, then stop buying shit. If you want improvements to trade and do not agree with the trade manifesto then let your voice be heard by holding onto your wallet. Why should they fix this issue if money keeps rolling in? If you like how map drops are and how purchasing them through the current system then by all means continue to support GGG with your wallet. BUT if you do not like this system, then pleas do not spend your money on it. This is the only way for GGG to hear you.

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minionax wrote:

Upon reading the responses from the Q&A, I encourage the player base to either support or DO NOT support POE via micro-transactions. If you agree with the answers given and overall want to the game to continue in this direction then please spend real world currency on this game.

BUT if you do not agree, then stop buying shit. If you want improvements to trade and do not agree with the trade manifesto then let your voice be heard by holding onto your wallet. Why should they fix this issue if money keeps rolling in? If you like how map drops are and how purchasing them through the current system then by all means continue to support GGG with your wallet. BUT if you do not like this system, then pleas do not spend your money on it. This is the only way for GGG to hear you.

I estimate I've put roughly $10k into this game in the past, give or take. It wasn't a problem for me when I spent money on the game, I didn't regret it then, and I don't regret it now. I was happy to give them my support for years, then I wasn't and I stopped.

They seem to have this idea that Synthesis is where they dropped the ball as far as league problems, but the real problems started with Abyss. All leagues start with their own issues, but in terms of core aspects of the league being broken there's a clear path back to Abyss.

The fact that there were problems with lich spawnrate is still mentioned here and there. What is rarely mentioned anymore is the fact that there were a variety of conditions that made it impossible for Depths to even open. That issue wasn't fully fixed in a meaningful way until after the league ended and went into core. So for a good chunk of the league, the main draw of the league content was simply unavailable a majority of the time.

That kind of thing hasn't really improved much since. Bestiary had broken nets that weren't fully fixed until they were simply removed when Bestiary was re-added 3 leagues later. Delve had runaway carts, broken paths that could require some long sideways delves to get around, paths so long that they couldn't be taken, etc, etc (all of which still happen now, but much less often). Betrayal, the league that actually punished you for completing the convoluted endgame encounter (and still does to a lesser extent), and the league that actually got worse for many players 2 leagues later.

Synthesis had a well known laundry list of issues. It's easy to make Synthesis the scapegoat for some of their dev issues, but it's definitely not the origin of those issues.

I did enjoy Incursion and had no serious qualms with it, and did plan to get supporter packs at least. The Tencent acquisition of a majority stake in GGG ultimately nixed that though. I have very valid personal reasons for being anti-Tencent that have nothing to do with gaming, but that's a topic for another time in another place.

I've already got more MTX and tabs than I'll ever know what to do with. Given the directions GGG has gone in the past two years and Tencent's arrival on the scene, I simply don't find them worthy of my support any longer. They got more than enough from me already. Believe the last thing I bought, and at this point will ever buy, was Manticore supporter.

I still love many aspects of the game, so I will still continue to play it until they decide to do things that just ruin it for me. Or until I just get too bored. Given everything coming from Chris and the Q&A and whatnot, I would not be the least bit surprised to see one or the other happen in the next year or so.

Jokes on you, I've stopped purchasing supporter packs for many leagues now. I will not buy another supporter pack until GGG comes out and say that they will implement a better trading system, at the very least for currency and maps.

It's gonna have to be a really good league for me to buy another pack.

I bought some in past in advance of playing them - on hype - big mistake.

GGG no longer gets benefit of the doubt because so many issues in Gen 3

I agree with the Trade Manifest.

I have played a lot of Synthesis.

I will speak with my wallet.

I will get the 60$ Sunspire Pack today.



I hereby dedicate this purchase to my hope off never ever seeing an auction house in PoE.


Edit: purchase done

I will buy a 60$ supporter pack if the MTX is cool aswell.

Ive stopped supporting as well.

I am so sick of all the bullshit it would probably need poe2 before i start supporting again.

Let alone the fact that by supporting tencent i could be partially responsible for somebody getting tortured or killed in a chinese prison as a result of horrendous social scoring at some point in the future.

No thx.

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plodd wrote:

Let alone the fact that by supporting tencent i could be partially responsible for somebody getting tortured or killed in a chinese prison as a result of horrendous social scoring at some point in the future.

No thx.

I could say a lot about this, but seeing as how I have lived in Taiwan for many years it's quite possibly better for my future that I don't lol.

hang on while i get my wallet out.

Don't get me wrong, POE is still a great game.
But i payed for it in the past and i don't see any reason why i should spend money now for all the bad things that are currently happening.