3.14 Retention Rates
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Its not the league, its the patch.
But its pointless to argue about it, GGG doesnt listen, they do whatever they want, ever since the Tencent takeover their development totally ignored the community except angry reddit threads. They are not intrested in making a good or fun experience anymore, they just want the money and fake player numbers and retention and some free hype. Next expansion, big teaser, many promises, a zillion changes --> many bugs, shit performance, many promises broken, balance absolutely broken, nerfs nerfs nerfs game more boring than it ever was before while being the most complicated and new player unfriendly than it ever was (for no reason other than being complicated to be complicated). This is how the last patch went, this will repeat again and again. So many of my friends stopped playing because of all the garbage they added in for no reason to overcomplicate the game while absolutely destroying the fun out of the core game mechanic. I mean think about the most efficient way to play this game is to ignore 99% of the loot. In a game that is made by "grinding gear games" the most efficient way to gear is to loot currency items and buy them of the fake auction house... Even D3 is more of a loot based game than POE right now. in D3 you can at least pick up rares to turn them into mats... POE now for a new player is like reading 10 books and doing 3 months of workouts to finally be able to have 1 hour of fun to then find out the game is actually super boring and every balance patch destroys anything you accomplished and that there is no gear progression, you just trade for stuff... I think POE 1 year from now on will be absolutely irrelevant and POE2 will be a big fail. They destroyed absolutely everything that made this game fun back in the day. Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get me.
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" Behold people (especially those who think this has been a fun league), the guy has well explained where the game is at now, and lol, his friends stopped playing, just as my friends did. It is not a coincidence. And it's just this league. `Spent 2 mirrors on my build, but I'm only Level 98.` LOL
`From just quick sweep of your characters, toxic rain, golems .. sure, non meta... sure.` LOL `What are divs?` |
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No one cares about your 1 year old opinions.
Here's a new theory... at least I think it's new. These rates are based on 100% from day one. Maybe leagues following a popular league have more people starting out than plan on spending the whole league because they spent the whole three months playing the last one. So the "100%" should really be scaled by the ending retention of the previous league. That would account for "bad" leagues following "good" ones. Last edited by Shagsbeard#3964 on Jun 13, 2021, 9:24:47 PM
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Heist was a bad league, but it wasnt terrible to the point i would make posts about it, but this league is just awful bad.
Harvest before heist was good. Ritual was good. Delirium was good. `Spent 2 mirrors on my build, but I'm only Level 98.` LOL
`From just quick sweep of your characters, toxic rain, golems .. sure, non meta... sure.` LOL `What are divs?` |
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" Heist was good league. The example of bad league is Synthesis. |
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" I didn't like it, but there were still things for me to play (non-heist). But I know this would be my subjective opinion because I could see how people would like heist itself, but it wasn't for me. HOWEVER...... this league.................... is beyond unacceptable. `Spent 2 mirrors on my build, but I'm only Level 98.` LOL
`From just quick sweep of your characters, toxic rain, golems .. sure, non meta... sure.` LOL `What are divs?` |
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" Why? |
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I’m newb. It took 80 hours from me to understand what makes this game really awesome. So after all - this is my first league. Not newbs friendly - thats right. But mb it’s not so bad cuz game - awesome, and we will have PoE2. I’m sure it has a great future thats the reason why i’ve started to invest money and time into PoE.
Newb
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" Well I don't wanna repeat what I've said multiple times here and there in greater detail. Many reasons. But to keep short, I want to play, not spend time buying supplies too often aka delirium orbs; scarabs; sextants; buying "special" maps. Then we still need to roll(chaos spam) the maps, roll the sextants(also chaos spam) every 4 maps. This is at least so for juiced maps. Then you'd play the map only to find technical troubles of all sorts very often. If you're unable to get back into the map and finish for whatever reason, not only do you waste $, you waste effort also. And if you think my PC is crap, no, there had been too many tech issues just this league. Giving up on this... So, to progress and craft my gear, I did harvest. Just to get a desired rolls, I needed to run harvest over and over hundreds of times. Portal out, cannot roll suffix, reforge; repeat; reforge. Do this for 2 weeks and you get really bored, I couldn't do anymore. The trigger point was when a friend gave me his character since he was just done with the league and I saw in order to improve the build I had to run so many more harvest. No, I'm done. Don't get me wrong, I've made enough currency doing harvest, but it's besides the point. I have no interest in playing harbinger runs, or ritual base runs. These runs aren't very intuitive. At this point, I started wondering, why am I spending so much time gearing a garbage not-fun to play character anyway. `Spent 2 mirrors on my build, but I'm only Level 98.` LOL
`From just quick sweep of your characters, toxic rain, golems .. sure, non meta... sure.` LOL `What are divs?` |
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" The game was better before, pity you didn't get to experience it. `Spent 2 mirrors on my build, but I'm only Level 98.` LOL
`From just quick sweep of your characters, toxic rain, golems .. sure, non meta... sure.` LOL `What are divs?` |
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