PoE will not die. here's why

I will invoke the second law of thermodynamics. It is not a matter will it die but when?

"Oblivion is the fate of all things." - Caius Ballad

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JimmyWoodman wrote:

Poe will not die, but he will evolve.
His path shows that the road taken towards a "hard" game, also due to its complexity, will ensure that by now it has a following given in particular by streamers.
The challenges are more and more bread for their teeth, with a consolidated public following, which by now has produced the "hard core" of this community, also in terms of support.
I believe that Poe will also represent for the future, "the challenge" that every player seeks, it will never be a game where any mass casual player can play, for that, there will be diablo .... in whatever sauce it arrives.

Except the number of streamers has diminished league on league. It's also a poor example, as they can't just stop... or switch games without a huge risk, so nothing to say they actually enjoy it...

What's even more amusing, and really brings home the point. DI already has more viewer hours than PoE total... lol

#28
Diablo Immortal
10,212,408
viewer hours

#29
Path of Exile
10,066,040
viewer hours

This whole 'it's a complex hardcore game' just isn't true anymore, no matter how many times it's said. It's gambling, RNG slot machine, and currency looting simulator.

There is no skill involved, no challenge, it's a simple case of how many hours you can mindlessly farm and roll that RNG on crafts, that's it.

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The views follow pretty much the same stance as the game, drop to nothing after 1 week.
https://www.twitchmetrics.net/g/29307-path-of-exile

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Chalace2 wrote:

...This whole 'it's a complex hardcore game' just isn't true anymore, no matter how many times it's said. It's gambling, RNG slot machine, and currency looting simulator.

There is no skill involved, no challenge, it's a simple case of how many hours you can mindlessly farm and roll that RNG on crafts, that's it...

i couldn't say better, they have the illusion that the game is a five dimensional chess when in fact it's just a huge waste of time with dozens of random mechanics made just to waste more time and if you have enough time to spend here you will inevitably will do everything because there is no difficulty rael, there is no real challenge, everything is artificial and hidden behind the RNG and when builds appear that explain this they go there and nerf, and nerf until only the buids that feed the whales are left

POE is already dead for me and I am at the acceptance stage of grief.

Its necrosis started somewhere after legacy league when they started buffing base game and nerfing base players. The trend never broke since then, always in the direction of player weaker, npcs stronger. Some occasionally "powercreep" as a distraction sprinkled in is packed away neatly at the very endgame does not fool me and does nothing to compensate me for power lost in the early to midgame. Early to midgame is now too boring and frustrating to go through and endgame has been pushed behind too many hours for me to feel its worth the hassle.

I dont care for POE to be challenging or fair or well balanced or has meaningful trading or weight or visions. Only thing I care about is whether it is fun. It is not.

Whether its alive or not for others - not my business anymore.

Will not die since its dead. Loved this game so much since beta. But after forcing me to play boring content hundreds of times and making it even harder lately , jesus, cum on. I have thousands of hours in this game, but honestly theres a severe lack of innovation in many regards, graphics, gameplay and much more.

Looking at Played retention man?


game is already dead / on its last legs.

Every league less people stick around and drop off faster.

I would not like to be the guy in the investor meetings.

Tencent must be hammering them at the moment

as long as casuals like mathil can do all content on any skill for 50ex, game wont die!

PoE will be fine for a long time as long as it get periodic content updates. Will it continue to grow like it has is the closest thing to death it's going to have for a while.

PoE will not die until it kills itself.

It's been around, has loyal players and even with all the issues I have with the game, I still find it fun despite not really getting anywhere end game.

PoE does need some solid competition though, GGG has no need to put forth their best.