Has POE become P2W?

I got theory that POE since great nerf in 3.15/3.16. In 3.15 they create problem, by nerfing allmost everything. Then in 3.16 they introduce solution. New overpowered uniques, even more than HH. Those items are, extremelly rare, and are perfect to fuel black market of currency selling services. We all know that ultra whales fuel this game, and spend tons of money. And im sure many of them also buy currency. Now why POE would do it, and help black market. We all hear about, EA worker selling, extreamlly rare cards from fifa. So why if current direction of POE develepment is not a mistake? It's 300 iq strategy to goes p2w without officaly going p2w?

No

PoE is a bit of p2w becuz you do need stash tabs in this game

I somewhat doubt there's any collusion between GGG and the real money traders. Might be a rogue employee somewhere or something, but that'd be it.

On the other hand, they don't put excessive effort into smacking down RMTers. But that's less collusion and more don't care enough.

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kaijyuu2 wrote:

I somewhat doubt there's any collusion between GGG and the real money traders. Might be a rogue employee somewhere or something, but that'd be it.

On the other hand, they don't put excessive effort into smacking down RMTers. But that's less collusion and more don't care enough.

GGG has never banned any bots or RMTers. At least they have never advertised it at all like most games do. I have a theory that a good 40% or more of the player base at this point are bots. So yeah GGG needs them for the sake of population numbers, even with the bots its normally under 10k players online outside of a few weeks of a new league 4 times a year.

Every multiplayer game with an economy would be considered "P2W" if you factor in RMT.

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Gravel86 wrote:

GGG has never banned any bots or RMTers.

Wrong.

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Gravel86 wrote:

GGG has never banned any bots or RMTers. At least they have never advertised it at all like most games do. I have a theory that a good 40% or more of the player base at this point are bots. So yeah GGG needs them for the sake of population numbers, even with the bots its normally under 10k players online outside of a few weeks of a new league 4 times a year.

Where on earth do people get this sort of nonsense from?

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RandallPOE wrote:

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Gravel86 wrote:

GGG has never banned any bots or RMTers. At least they have never advertised it at all like most games do. I have a theory that a good 40% or more of the player base at this point are bots. So yeah GGG needs them for the sake of population numbers, even with the bots its normally under 10k players online outside of a few weeks of a new league 4 times a year.

Where on earth do people get this sort of nonsense from?

The reality they want to be true.

So your argument is that because you suck at the game and need broken items to do anything the game become P2W because you cant afford them and need to RMT for them?

Is this supposed to be a joke?

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Aynix wrote:

So your argument is that because you suck at the game and need broken items to do anything the game become P2W because you cant afford them and need to RMT for them?

Is this supposed to be a joke?

You'd be surprised how common this is but welcome to current day gaming.

It's entirely stupid.