Can we stop pretending that Path of Exile is free to play?

the customer is always right because he pays.

no point in the customer being right if he pays nothing :)
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Turtledove wrote:


Why shouldn't he have to pay for stash tabs in 2020? Do stash tabs become free in 2020 because his shit stopped stinking in 2020?



Why shouldn't GGG invent multiple different types of currencies, splinters and parts every single league and roll them back into the core of the game?

Like, we love paying for new tabs for no sensible reason and we love stashing hundreds of little fragments in them, just so GGG can feed their families which are starving, right?
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Kalitko_83 wrote:
Poe is one of the most expensive games out there atm if you want to play it normally..


"Normally" = using RMT to get shit for broken bug-abusing builds?

PoE costs you like ~15 bucks if you want to play it "normally"...
Last edited by Arandur#1246 on Apr 1, 2020, 9:46:53 AM
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Arandur wrote:
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Kalitko_83 wrote:
Poe is one of the most expensive games out there atm if you want to play it normally..


"Normally" = using RMT to get shit for broken bug-abusing builds?

PoE costs you like ~15 bucks if you want to play it "normally"...


map tab
currency tab
premium tabs


thats over 20 bucks right there and its still not nearly enough imo.

you can play with a minimum amount of tabs but you are handicapping yourself for sure.
69 pages! Can we stop pretending that this question matters?

So how else is GGG to make money if PoE is F2P? If this still bothers you then this isn't the aprg you are looking for. Move along, move along.
"You've got to grind, grind, grind at that grindstone..."
Necessity may be the mother of invention, but poor QoP in PoE is the father of frustration.

The perfect solution to fix Trade Chat:
www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2247070
PoE is not F2P, it's very obvious when you realize how much game diversity and power is dependant on trade and premium stash tabs.

But I want focus on different area. It's not possible to have amazing looking char if you not spend big bucks in this game. In past I don't care , but after years it's getting more and more annoying to me. You will never have great full armour set from league 36 points. And prices for MTX are absurdly high. This is pure corporate greed and catering for whales and oligarchs.
I was hardstuck on lvl 70, cant afford any items from poe trade to my build.

Buy 1 premium tab

Sell items for 10+ex in 2-3 hours.

Instant gear up and lvl up.






Trade behind paywall. Clearly a pay 2 win game if you didnt play this game for 6 years and dont read 1000000 pages on wiki about this game and you cant gear up aka SSF style, because the game is to copmlex for new players.

The only option for me is buy items from poe trade. And i need to pay for stash to make some currency because its never drop for solo players.
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Elua wrote:
PoE is not F2P, it's very obvious when you realize how much game diversity and power is dependant on trade and premium stash tabs.

But I want focus on different area. It's not possible to have amazing looking char if you not spend big bucks in this game. In past I don't care , but after years it's getting more and more annoying to me. You will never have great full armour set from league 36 points. And prices for MTX are absurdly high. This is pure corporate greed and catering for whales and oligarchs.


Cosmetically, I don't give a rat's @ss about how much MTXs are. It's visual only and totally subjective to the player who likes that art.

Now regarding tabs and whatnot.. that's where I think the focus should be on
"Path of Exile's engine is currently modern, lean and fast." - Chris Wilson, September 19th, 2019

"It looks like we broke something with 3.10.0. We don't know what it is yet." - Bex, March 16th, 2020
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Imaginaerum wrote:
my thoughts are you don't need more than 4 tabs because you'll either up-trade currency you have too much of for smaller, more valuable amounts and you are not going to use 99% of the items sitting in your stash tabs ever. If you aren't wearing the item or selling it it doesn't need to be there, and you'll try to sell items for 5 chaos that will sit in the sales tab for years and never be bought. You don't need those tabs to succeed at this game, but they are extremely convenient and I am sure a huge bulk of GGG's money comes into the game because of those tabs so they won't be changing it

It makes you wonder how many times even GGG has considered tipping over the line of free to play and pay to win. How much do those Chinese pay for their pay to win version of PoE? We doom ourselves by paying for this crap


I have 4 tabs just for dump tabs......

You are out of your mind.
Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get me.
If POE weren't pay to win you could earn stash tabs by playing the game
but even then it would be pay to win because you can spend money to get stash tabs faster

They might as well sell XP boost at this point
Need more brains, exile?

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