Is GGG morphing into Blizzard? Blizzard is bought by Microsoft??!

Dear Chris,

Its no secret the player base is in shambles right now and I am very concerned for the future of the game. I am particularly concerned as to the over all direction of the company as we are starting to see GGG repeating many mistakes that Blizzard has committed leading into its current state of free fall. Here are some of the most alarming similarities:

1. Adding unwanted meaningless parasitic game mechanics into the game [Removed by Support]
EG: In WoW there is the awful mobile game that is the mission table. GGG added Expedition despite its literally the least played and hated league in years and its current state is borderline useless and broken.

2. Artificially prolonging "engagement" by reducing accessibility, instead of adding new contents.
EG: Blizzard time gates all their extremely limited content to keep you subscribed and login on every day. GGG nerfs everything to prolong the grind to keep you playing the old contents for longer.

3. Catering and creating exclusive content for streamers and 1 percenters.
EG: In WoW Blizzard literally only put effort in the raid designs for the world first race, whiles adding nothing for everyone else. GGG adding garbage like simulacrum lvl 21 to 30 plus many other BS for streamers, whiles there is nothing for everyone else.

4. Developers wanting to force players to play the game the way "they play".
EG: Blizzard with no flying, refuse to pull the "rip cord" and covenant locks everyone on a weekly CD. GGG making act 1 harder cos this is how "Chris plays", trying to force harvest into a SSF mechanic etc.


Chris thanks again for not reading my input, I pray to the gods of atheism that you would just rectify one of the 4 points above by 3.17 it would be a HUGE step towards the right direction for the bottom 99% of your player base.

Sincerely, Your Biggest Shill,
BSA

I am new to this game, came from Bliz...

I was around here and there... but since Blizz sink I am staying for good here.
I defend POE A LOT. I really think GGG turned poe into the continuation of Diablo franchise.

I thnik a lot of ppl on forum overreact...
but that's not this case here.

To me, you are at least 95% right.

The point 1 is trully like that.
GGG removed scourge mechanics rightfull fast but keep investing in failed projects.
Just acept that failing is a way to progress. You learn from failure... if you admit it.
Don't try fixing a mistake that can't be fixed. That kind of thing sucks and everyone see it.

2- I didn't understood engagiment and acessiblity but.... I saw a lot of nerfs in favor of pure griding. As I said, I'm new to this game, and I could see that... imagine what players from the base understood with that.
Also on 2... it's easy to fix this... Make more steps AHEAD instead of cracking the existing ones. If it's expensive to add steps ahead, dont crack the existing ones, let it be.

I stopped playing Ritual because that sh---- that made streamers login without queue while players had to wait.
SRSLY... THATS A FU-- UP ADVERTISMENT. It backfires fast and strong.
The marketing guy that suggested that should be fired.
I'm gonna explain why... in case you guys already don't know it yet
Some random guy see it on stream. Start trying the game. Fail to login. Later... start playing... but isn't able to reach the streamers content... THE PLAYER LEAVES AND STOP PLAYING THE GAME. And also... when everyone talks about POE, that player gonna say it's bad experience and how it was a waste of time playing it.
So, plz, focus content on player base and not on marketing.
Player base pays bills, marketing attract new people but don't sustain it.
The secound strategy cant interfere on the first (and the marketing guys does that A LOT)

The moment Blizz taught Wow was their game they begin to sink.
The game belong for those who pay for it. And not for those who develop it.
If NO CONTENT EVER BE MADE AGAIN, but ppl keep paying, the game stay alive
If all kind of content is made, but none paying... game dies.

Just showcase Blizz fall. Hope that its death change something in gaming development community.

I really hope they are morphing into Blizzard... maybe even into Blizzard North? that would be the dream.

As long as it's not Activision Blizzard, but thank god u didn't claim that :D

what's a "meaningless game mechanic"?
if you have to play it, it's part of the game's story and it's meaning is to advance in the game.
if you don't have to play it, just ignore it, it's probably there to lure you into wasting time.

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the type of access to rewarding gameplay needs to be limited. there is no multiplayer game out there that gives you free access to the game's treasure chamber.

and how it should be limited from the player pov, is highly dependent on the individual player's skill and playtime.
however devs do it, they choose a certain demographic in their player base. in the best case they do a mixture of all types (time, ingame mechanics, skill).

and of course they design their endgame content for the top 10%, it would be idiotic if they did not challenge them when they play their game.

what most players don't realise is, for all the overpowered gear (chase items) and other power creep they ask for, there will be content that requires you to have this gear, otherwise it wouldn't make sense to have that gear.


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of course do developers "force" players to play their game in a certain way.

if you design a game you try it to be different from other games on the market. "designing it" means you create challenges and give your player demographic some tools to solve the challenges.

if the selection of tools makes you feel "forced", they're either not balanced or there is no choice.

so what's your worry again?

Bashing Expedition league is fucking weird. You clearly didn't play it because you were on the hate-train at the time.
It turned out to be one of the best leagues (particularly fun crafting): Great rewards, great boss fights, uber boss, crafting, etc.

Seriously, stop reading Reddit and form your own opinions instead. Echoing Reddit, as though anyone haven't seen those opinions, is useless. You don't come much closer to the definition of a sheep than this. Am I jumping to conclusions? No, because you're overlapping on too many areas here.

Honestly, why the fuck are you still playing this game? I hope you're dealing with some addiction, because that's about the only valid excuse to give a shit. Most of us just like playing the game because of its complexity. There are plenty of other good ARPGs out there, but they're obviously less shallow than a game that gets this much love.

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Adding unwanted meaningless parasitic game mechanics into the game

BTW, if you're going to say something this broad, you really should give an example. This game has tons of mechanics and largely everything adds to the game, especially in an SSF environment (which you obviously aren't playing because sheep play SC trade).

Good talk.

Precisely.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bxvWcp36HU

The utter destruction of GGGs fanbase.

Only similarities i see are flavor of the month builds. There arent as many builds in poe now, its like d3. You can play the other builds (Im doing a chicken in d3) but there is no way it can compare to fire monk.

Sure you may have to play a style you dont really like, but thats the way things are now.

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Chadwixx wrote:

Sure you may have to play a style you dont really like, but thats the way things are now.

That means PoE is a failure IMO, its been running counter narrative to what they were trying to sell me for the last 5 or so leagues... Maybe more and i somehow managed to get by just fine until my og methods got deleted by new mechanics(scourge) and others.

bunch of excuses as to why they have no forum presence, their feelings?, what about our feelings? door swings both ways and im not keen on being a whipping boy anymore... I don't get payed to play the game.. I pay GGG when im enjoying the game to further enhance that experience.

No forum presence = don't care about what we say here.

you can take a neutral approach and have a forum presence.

but nothing just screams, we dont care.

is bex doing this all by herself? hire her some assistants, ill send you money if ur broke GGG..

After blizzard sold their souls and went downhill i came here to your game and found a place where i could again be creative but your game is no longer feeling like a game, its a fulltime job and i cant afford to work it unpaid AND give you my money from my actual job.

you are failing this city GGG

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Expedition rocks, uber endgame we need more, nerfs were bad but necessary, act1 is more fun now.

if you want to play a more streamlined game where you play little and not great and get to do everything, go to D3 or find other games. Poe is not it.

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DeathfulDan wrote:

Expedition rocks, uber endgame we need more, nerfs were bad but necessary, act1 is more fun now.

if you want to play a more streamlined game where you play little and not great and get to do everything, go to D3 or find other games. Poe is not it.

First of all i dont mean any offense by what im about to say.

This game is dying for a large percentage of people, it was not this bad before, Saying expanding the endgame will help in any way is wrong and only shows the lack of knowledge available behind some of these opinions.

we do not need more 1% mechanics we need to shift that to the 99% or this game is ****ed.. Do you know what happens to games that only streamers play? they rotate out and they are gone with the occasional flurry on an update here and there with DEPRECIATING GAINS.

No players, No need for Streamers, No Viewers... No money.

To make things worse people are so LOCKED into place by builds provided FOR THEM that when they complete those builds they literally come on these forums complaining there's not enough builds available??????????????????? IN AN RPG SANDBOX...

why even try.. I seriously love this game and i want every type of player to feel engaged and rewarded and if instead of the two or three types of player groups, elite, moderate, casual can come together and show some collective support we're all going to be getting kicked in the teeth unless you're the 1% that literally will never be hurt by just about anything they do to the game.

It shouldnt be about easy mode, or hard mode, or hardcore, or standard it should be about the WHOLE THING... No side, One mission.. to make POE better for everyone.