Ultimatum from Russian community, forum backlash, streamers are quitting

Russian community of Path of Exile is deeply concerned with the recent changes (3.14 and 3.15) and the direction that the game has taken, the game has become a tedious chore with slow unsatisfying gameplay, limited build diversity, unrewarding base atlas experience

There are dozens of threads on our russian forums with negative feedback

Main thread is 37 pages long with mostly negative feedback
https://ru.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3148972

Expedition manifesto is 88 pages long with total negative feedback
https://ru.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3147158

Harvest crafting manifesto is 110+ pages long with total negative feedback
https://ru.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3069712

and tons of negative reviews on game's steam page

Many notable players are leaving the game right now, including streamers

First streamer has released a video named "PoE has lost my favourite game status" where he rants about 3.15 being a total trainwreck and complete lack of balance. He deletes PoE from his steam library on stream and the video got 100k views in like a week

https://youtu.be/gkfOSdHRvfU?t=1409

Second streamer has released a 45min video named "Whats wrong with PoE (2021)" where he rants about atlas progression, loot system, trade, rng, flasks

https://youtu.be/cwLT_ZerA90

and this video was released even before the new patch, now he did two streams, he started as absolution guardian (!) and it was a complete disaster, and on the second stream he said he's done with the game and will drop the league and the game immidiately

These streamers had ~100k subscribers each, just on youtube.

The magnitude of 3.14 and 3.15 failures is huge, we've lost everyting: crafting system, endgame activities, most of our characters power and speed, tons of builds including those we've been working on in standard

Russian community put tons of money in supporter packs for the last 5 years (when the game was fast-paced arpg), because we loved that game state, it is completely unethical to change the game so drastically that its not even the same game anymore, who will return the money we spent on one game but now we are forced to play completely different game? And there is no any options for those who liked previous state of the game to play it.

Most of our community is completely pissed that our feedback is getting ignored by developers, so lets put this straight: we DEMAND THE ROLLBACK OF ALL 3.14 AND 3.15 CHANGES in the next patch, or else we gonna BOYCOTT THE GAME completely!

See ya.

Silencing me won't change a thing.

Wow

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Johny_Snow wrote:

Your deleted post

That's a bit over the top, dude. Get your shit together.

Nothing of value will be lost. Both of you will come back anyway since there is nothing else you want to play and you know that.

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Phrazz wrote:

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Johny_Snow wrote:

Your deleted post

That's a bit over the top, dude. Get your shit together.

Sorry, I had to deal with this deleted thing for years. My first reaction is to write something like this.

I have never experienced such ignorance of a (still existing) company towards its customers so far. GGG is apparently immune to constructive suggestions from many posters in forums and this is coming to a quick end. Once again a good example that a detached alienated top management can eliminate a whole company (including many employees) in a relatively short time.

Strategy of GGG: "Close eyes and ears and shower the remaining players with MTX".

its actually quite funny how these 'hardcore' players are so toxic and ignorant of whats happening, while people from all over the world are telling GGG stuff is wrong with the game, get a grip of reality, cos it really is
when in reality it isn't fine 'but' ill just leave something else for you to ponder over, when everyone who HAS played the league and actually are done with playing it due to frustration, its just going to be you and the bots, then cos bots aren't selling anything its just going to be you, then the game dies because only you are playing it cos you have been so damn toxic, just like some streamers, that you have pushed everyone else away and you cant sustain the game cos you have no job and they arent selling any MTX.

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