Streamer priority confirmed. PoE is free to play, so play it for free, but Boycott GGG.

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Foreverhappychan wrote:

I had a nice long rant typed, but it doesn't matter who I am or what I've done. If you know, you know. If you don't, you've still been screwed over all the same by this event. You've still been treated with utter contempt by a company you supported.

ICYMI:

https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/msboji/ggg_letting_streamers_skip_queue_is_messed_up/ -- and if you don't want to bother with that, here's the money shot: several clips of the most popula streamers being messaged by GGG to relog to bypass an extremely long log-in queue. And doing just that.

If being openly shown that streamers get preferential access to a new league isn't your breaking point to stop supporting PoE, if 'reset the league' would be enough for you, then I seriously question what it'd take.

GGG has openly shown they 100% choose profits over people, which for a free to play game shouldn't even be possible. YOU are GGG's profits.

It's time to remind them of that. One person can't make a difference. I, more than many, know this. That's why I'm saying it to all of you.

Don't take this as just 'GGG being GGG' and 'of course they give streamers first dibs'. Don't see this as the price you pay to play 'the best ARPG around'. Surely being treated like a lower priority for what should be a fair start for all is too high a price to pay. Because it's not just that they did this; it's that they knew you'd see them doing it via streams and didn't care that you'd see it. They're assuming you'll just get over it, forget about it once you're back to playing. Like the good little PoE junkies you are.

I can only conclude that is exactly what they think of you. How helpless and stupid they think you are.

Exiles: Boycott GGG. It claims to be a free to play game. So play it for free. See how that turns out for them while they're coddling their toxic, parasitic mouthpieces.

GGG have shown you who they are now. Show them that it's unacceptable.

Boycott GGG.

TLDR: 8-9 years ago I spent upwards of $25,000 supporting a fucking video game thinking I would get some sort of say in the direction of the game and I would be special but I didn't and I'm still incredibly bitter and butthurt about it and will never let it go.

Yup, no more packs for me.

Thankfully the new armors look kinda meh so I didn't get a pack this time round.

just downvote the game on steam, this is is the only way you can punish them. when enough people do that and the rating goes down to mostly negative they will start to care. or call the valve head office to change the rating manually ...

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Foreverhappychan wrote:

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I had a nice long rant typed, but it doesn't matter who I am or what I've done. If you know, you know. If you don't, you've still been screwed over all the same by this event. You've still been treated with utter contempt by a company you supported.

ICYMI:

https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/msboji/ggg_letting_streamers_skip_queue_is_messed_up/ -- and if you don't want to bother with that, here's the money shot: several clips of the most popula streamers being messaged by GGG to relog to bypass an extremely long log-in queue. And doing just that.

If being openly shown that streamers get preferential access to a new league isn't your breaking point to stop supporting PoE, if 'reset the league' would be enough for you, then I seriously question what it'd take.

GGG has openly shown they 100% choose profits over people, which for a free to play game shouldn't even be possible. YOU are GGG's profits.

It's time to remind them of that. One person can't make a difference. I, more than many, know this. That's why I'm saying it to all of you.

Don't take this as just 'GGG being GGG' and 'of course they give streamers first dibs'. Don't see this as the price you pay to play 'the best ARPG around'. Surely being treated like a lower priority for what should be a fair start for all is too high a price to pay. Because it's not just that they did this; it's that they knew you'd see them doing it via streams and didn't care that you'd see it. They're assuming you'll just get over it, forget about it once you're back to playing. Like the good little PoE junkies you are.

I can only conclude that is exactly what they think of you. How helpless and stupid they think you are.

Exiles: Boycott GGG. It claims to be a free to play game. So play it for free. See how that turns out for them while they're coddling their toxic, parasitic mouthpieces.

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GGG have shown you who they are now. Show them that it's unacceptable.

Boycott GGG.

I'm doing this for years now.
Got all my relevant stash tabs and dont see any point pumping in more $$ unless the game feels spectacularly different in regards of QoL, monster/boss design and server/client performance.

Since i dont see that changing any time soon i will keep it this way.



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Bleu42 wrote:

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I usually can't stand the boycott supporter packs over a nerf riots we get, but this is very different.

Yea I'm going to play, but you can bet your ass no more packs from me for a long time.

If I'm part of the unwashed masses, then I guess I'll act like it.

Edit; By 'this' I'm talking specifically about the overt streamer prio, to the point they even got messaged in twitch how to bypass the queue. Not the server problems, that sucks and I feel for them there.

Edit 2; Man it's fun watching everyone, even streamers, get DC'd every five minutes, but take a wild guess who sits in a 15k queue after and who doesn't.

Makes it even more fun after this priority thingy.

It shows the root of the problem ,since years,which are their servers at league launch.

I guess ther inital intention was to honeycoat it with special treatment and servers (to get high twitch counts of a good running game) but even thet is apparently not enough to keep this bubble alive.

Funny times indeed and a nice GGG post incoming the next few days. Maybe even a rollback after explaining their usualy things.

I fully agree with the opinions previously expressed by exiles. If they manipulate the input queue, what other things are they manipulating in favor of the streamers? For my part, the supported packs are over and I'm going to stop following the streamers that I follow

Cry babies. This has been the worst launch yet.. Some may not have the professional experience to be able to articulate issues and report them back accurately or have the connection or Rig.

Do you honestly want to spend hours online rebooting????

Think about it... You are on Tech support.. If you perform this job IRL it sucks.. Now you want to complain b/c someone else has to do it?? No, I'm not in Tech support.


STFU!!

I see streamers are regarded as collateral damage.

I don't know if they are collateral damage. I'm just saying GGG can't have 20k peeps spamming their forums with issues. So they most likely focused in a a select few (and it would suck to be one of them). I come here to play not figure out other companies issues. With that said I applaud everyone involved in getting the game back up and running...

Let me just point out that I didn't call for this sort of action once, not once, in all this time. Not even when GGG sold out to Tencent. That was just business, and it was good business. My stance was, somewhat echoing what I was told, 'keep supporting if you love this game because that's how to ensure it remains GGG's baby and not Tencent's cash grab' -- and when they said nothing would change, I mostly believed it.

But even with GGG's explanation now up, their expression of regret, their attempt at solidarity with 'we're not happy either', it's clear that money motivated this, entirely. They paid for popular streamers to pimp their new league, knowing full-well that their servers don't exactly have a great track record on launch day, and then panicked when there were, gasp, server issues.

Of course they let them in. They had to.

It's rare that one can see a correct course in these situations, but there was one here: don't fucking pay for advertising via streamers when you already have streamers doing it for free, and don't do it promising X hours of gameplay time on launch day when you've never...ever had a smooth launch day.

So instead of 'literally setting a big pile of money on fire', they did exactly what I said they did, what others have said: they chose profits over people. Of course they did. They're a business.

I don't believe, even now, that this has been going on before. That there has been streamer RNG or server priority all this time. I think GGG painted themselves into a really bad corner this time. I also believe they won't do it again.

And this doesn't in any way, shape or form give me reason to recant my original call to action. It's a free to play game. Play it for free. You are, you now know, a 'literal pile of money' in their eyes. They will choose that pile of money over you. If not in the same way again, in some other way. This was, I hope, proof of that.

That is all.