HALF of playerbase has quit in 1 WEEK

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Artaniz wrote:

PoE isnt hurting at all and 70 k daily players on a monday is pretty good also thats just steam numbers i have 3 people on my steam friends list playing this league that are not using the steam client.

This thread is just outrage bait with no basis in reality and some version of it gets posted every league and its never been true before and it isnt true now.

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angelobiancofaithpride wrote:

158k - peak online at league start
90k - 24h peak online today

~68k players has left already

so let me tell why this is happening:

1. unskippable campaign that nobody gives a s..t about and developers are still making it more obnoxious by increasing monsters hp and damage, this patch it was act 2, i mean i was not playing on meta skill and while doing act 2 i was shaking my had with question: has anyone even playtested this s..t?

2. character animations are ten years old. gender lock. how can developers buffing self-casting skills if character animations are complete garbage and needed to be reworked like 5 years ago? also there is no option to disable screeming of a character when he/she casts something, and this gets old very fast. disabling event voicelines and putting dialogue volume to 0 isn't working

3. heavy reliance on farming/trading for character development, horrible trading experience. unreliable crafting, currency scarcity. why would i "earn currency" in the game if I "earn currency" in Real Life already, and when i came home and want to escape this grim reality, you want me to "earn currency" in your f... videogame? ssf is not playable either because currency is too rare and crafting is too random, this mode should had completely different drop rates

4. 3.15 nerfs to support gems was a disaster that still impacts the game. it made the game very difficult and it was a big hit to build diversity. players want to experiment with builds and make them to endgame without spending 300h per character. the game is directed towards no-lifers/streamers/rmtrs

5. again garbo league mechanic that needs micromanagement: picking up the parts, inventory, recipes, selection, srpeadshits... why the f... player can't just go near it like abyss and it automatically picks random recipes and the fight begins??? no, players need to stand there selecting, while some mobs are wrecking them meanwhile

there is a huge demand for a good ARPG and I don't know why developers are so proud about their peak numbers, it's just 1 day peak, sustain is terrible, and why is this an achivement anyway? what is 270k players if there is a demand for a good arpg among MILLIONS of players

developers need to reconsider their phylosophies because this game will be so dead when diablo 4 comes out

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gageris wrote:

Ah yes, 0 challanges forum hero strikes again!
Well game hoppers comes, playes 20mins and leaves, and honestly - ggg doing good work for not trying to catter for them. PoE has a very strong playerbase who stays and enjoys hard and complex game.
All the casuals can go to other easier games like Lost arc, D3, etc. Once ggg tries to catter casuals (give easy headhunters, nerf bosses etc.) - PoE will die. The more hardcore poe goes - the better it becomes. I just hope we can also get even more trees, passive tree is so good.

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Networm13 wrote:

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gageris wrote:

Ah yes, 0 challanges forum hero strikes again!
Well game hoppers comes, playes 20mins and leaves, and honestly - ggg doing good work for not trying to catter for them. PoE has a very strong playerbase who stays and enjoys hard and complex game.
All the casuals can go to other easier games like Lost arc, D3, etc. Once ggg tries to catter casuals (give easy headhunters, nerf bosses etc.) - PoE will die. The more hardcore poe goes - the better it becomes. I just hope we can also get even more trees, passive tree is so good.

You are correct on that casuals should find other games.

What GGG had done in previous 2 years? They pretended to care about casuals and made the game easier to milk them. Now they changed their mind. They are not consistent in their approach and that's the problem. I wouldn't be surprised if they will make the game easier again once the player numbers become lower than they wanted. And then make it harder again.

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Vendetta wrote:

I have been playing this game for a lot of time, I understand progression , I understand things like that, but league after league gear spikes higher in price and it's even more farming...

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Vendetta wrote:

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Networm13 wrote:

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gageris wrote:

Ah yes, 0 challanges forum hero strikes again!
Well game hoppers comes, playes 20mins and leaves, and honestly - ggg doing good work for not trying to catter for them. PoE has a very strong playerbase who stays and enjoys hard and complex game.
All the casuals can go to other easier games like Lost arc, D3, etc. Once ggg tries to catter casuals (give easy headhunters, nerf bosses etc.) - PoE will die. The more hardcore poe goes - the better it becomes. I just hope we can also get even more trees, passive tree is so good.

You are correct on that casuals should find other games.

What GGG had done in previous 2 years? They pretended to care about casuals and made the game easier to milk them. Now they changed their mind. They are not consistent in their approach and that's the problem. I wouldn't be surprised if they will make the game easier again once the player numbers become lower than they wanted. And then make it harder again.

^ This.


The game isn't hard. It's baloney. If not played correctly it's annoying and unrewarding.

GGG has made the game easy, then they went back to the hard core idea and then they tried to make it a little easier just to revert it again and so on.

They just do anything for player retention and that is it...

I might just get into lost ark for real, because POE just seems an unusual time sink lately ( and it rewards me nothing but questions when I die hit by some goo that I couldn't see in either all the crap loot explosion or the amazing number of not needed pixel clutter.)

Also lately seems that every time I check my gear, I feel like everything that I need to upgrade to be efficient is measured in how much time I need to farm to get there.

Instead of actually playing the game I just try to find a slot that it's decent money to upgrade to get that last 1% hit rating or whatever...

It's really beginning to feel like a math test rather than a game.

I have been playing this game for a lot of time, I understand progression , I understand things like that, but league after league gear spikes higher in price and it's even more farming...

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FrodoFraggins wrote:

Friday and Saturday are the big days so your post is disingenuous. Let's see where POE peaks today before claiming numbers.

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MarloStanfield wrote:

Imagine comparing weekend figures to weekday figures.

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Xyel wrote:

Mid-week numbers have little interpretable meaning - weekend numbers are much better for this, and well, the second weekend has yet to come.

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Vakarlan wrote:

And you are also comparing weekend numbers with weekday numbers.