Steam charts right on this?

yes they lost over 60% of players
lowest numbers in years
my friends list is barren only 2-5 people online at a given time
usually is 15-20+

they fucked up bad

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Shagsbeard wrote:

This game has been dying for over ten years now. There's even a thread somewhere about it. Pretty good record for a dead game.

The game was actually gaining players up through Ritual, and only lost a teeny bit with Heist. League steam chart players (and Steam consisted of 60% of the player base per some older GGG interviews) started out with 150k players and tapered off to about 30k or so after two months at that point, which was more than previously after some growth.

This league's changes to the core game tanked things royally though. It only started with 115k steam players and confirmed by Chris to have 23% less players and it's now plummeted down to 15k players when it hasn't even been two months yet. Oops.

For a more in-depth analysis, you can check out Aldora's post on this page here:

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3148469/page/58

If GGG keeps making the decisions they are making, yep, the game is totally dead. They are now piling poop on poop.

Poe Classic when?

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Teplokot wrote:

Poe Classic when?

That would imply the vanilla before the game got good. No thx.

It's stable around 30k for 2 weeks, it's actually stable, just less whiny people playing.

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fuzzyrat1234 wrote:

Was just checking out PoE on steam charts and from July it had over 116k players and now there's just over 15k playing? Is this game dying?

League is dying. Game isn't dying though.
It's just a bad league. Hopefully next one will be fun and more people will play it like before.

The league isn't bad

the balance/game is bad.

Unless 3.16 does something spectacular nobody will return who left because of 3.15 changes. If 3.16 is underwhelming the game will be dead.

People questioned the integrity of the game after last league.

That cost them around 40-50k players on day one.

The first couple weeks of the league were really bad (i didnt play, only read).

That cost them what seemed like 50k.

Now we are sitting around 20k, I think most people dont wanna make another char for this league.

Chris is most concerned with players who didnt come back.