GGG is making POE for players like mathil

recently mathil posted a vid on his current thoughts of this league and its drops.

one thing he mentioned is that he acknowledges the loot is not as good as before but still "OK".

i really respect mathil for his knowledge and skill in POE but i really feel that he's a good representation of who GGG/chris is really catering to.

the top 1% of the 1%.

mathil is one of the best or one of the most successful poe players. whenever GGG does something, he does get affected but he adapts and deals with it. i would say he's a pinnacle exile and i really respect him for that.

however, the rest of us who are struggling even without the nerfs are hit extra hard. if knowledge, experience and skill were to be said as wealth. it can be seen as him being a billionaire or upper class or even upper middle class citizen. he does not go through the hardships of the many.

i believe GGG wants to make POE into a game for people like him. their method of achieving that is rather tactless, their rush to force players to accept AN mobs and their nerfs is pretty reckless. most of the community dislike the change. Mathil might dislike it? i dont know, but what i do know is he adapts. how he voiced his opinions really shows how disconnected he is from most of us. even with many streamers getting so pissed off that they start quitting the league, his opinion on the loot was that it's acceptable for him. i dont know if he's on copium or he wants to be on ggg's good side, i really dont know.

but what i do know is that it can be seen as a reflection of how GGG wants the playerbase to be.

a few leagues back i remember watching a vid where mathil and zizaran was with chris. zizaran mentioned something to the benefit of "casual gamers", mathil gave a hard pushback with chris agreeing with mathil. i could see how delighted chris was with having mathil share his vision. i could see how frustrated zizarian was trying to argue on behalf of "the casuals" but it really wasnt getting anywhere. mathil's viewpoint was different and appeared to be on team "chris". it was frustrating for me to watch.

personally i've cleared all content except uber pinnacles by myself solo albeit standard league. i would think i m in the top 1% too but i resonate more with zizaran as compared to mathil.

i will not say mathil is wrong with his opinions, but i will say his opinions represent a very small slice of players.

i will not say he is bad or evil or whatever shit. no. i am not shitting on him. this post is not about shitting on him.

my intention is to highlight how GGG/chris is making this game to cater for players like him. the cream of the crop.

stop complaining about POE. git gud or git out.

i hope ggg realizes that when it comes to a pyramid. the ones that git gud are the few at the top

well....even mathil said that the vast majority of the changes this league were bad. He absolutely HATES Archnemesis, and disagrees with basically every single league change they made. He also hates the kalandra mechanic.

The ONLY positive he is saying right now is that the game "isn't as bad as everyone is saying". That isn't exactly a positive lol, it's just a middle ground. Sure, he still has plenty of fun playing but even he said he doesn't understand the majority of the changes GGG made which created a "less fun" environment.

In his latest videos, he hasn't said one single thing positive about any change, other than the harvest life force. But even that was qualified with the need for 4-5x MORE lifeforce for it to actually work and feel good. He went down the full list of changes and each one was either negative or meaningless.

C'mon dude, I don't like the patch/league either but there is no reason to throw shade at Mathil. He is just one of those people who doesn't complain too much about anything, so for him to even make a video like that already shows how much of a problem 3.19 is.

And I absolutely disagree that he is top 1% of the 1%. I've watched him for years and he is a very skilled player, but doesn't care too much about profit/trade. His content is mostly focused on trying off-meta builds.

By the way the top 1% of 1% would be the super juicers or ssfhc players like Steelmage - both those demographics are also unhappy with this patch, and a lot of them quit. So basically GGG fucked up big time and managed to alienate both ends of the spectrum.

Tbh playing this league feels like playing standard some few years ago. Nothing drops, you just grind and grind and grind.

Last 2-3 weeks I started playing again, set up my atlas in standard and was getting pretty good loot. In fact loot even better than what I would get late in a league when I still played.

There are a lot of new things that are pretty cool (a lot of QoL, the atlas passives, the atlas endgame story is finally cool again). The game has again spiked up the BS, where my builds would just randomly explode once per red map to not even corrupted maps, not even t16 maps. But hey, I could play the mechanics I like and I was getting stuff from it. If dying more was the price for it, w/e.

Now I can play the mechanics that I like and get next to nothing out of it. Words cannot express how disappointing that is, to go from "woah this game has actually improved" to "here we go again".

I don't really care about the 1% or the 1% of the 1%, I played this game to have fun. The fun was getting less with each league. Each league releasing absolutely untested, just like this one; look at how many patches are being pushed, each day - it was the same before. When I started playing "just now", it was actually fun again (yes, if your build is OP enough, but at this point this is a given and is not changing). Aaaand now its back to what it was; I'm struggling to put 2 divines together to get my build going. Running out of chisels and vaal orbs, just to progress the atlas. "Fun times".

I actually thought they had made the game better for players like me, for once.

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Frostride wrote:

I actually thought they had made the game better for players like me, for once.

the hardest pill to swallow is realizing we are not the target audience.

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exsea wrote:

the hardest pill to swallow is realizing we are not the target audience.

I know, and thats why I stopped playing. But coming back, the game actually seemed in a good shape even for me.

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Frostride wrote:

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exsea wrote:

the hardest pill to swallow is realizing we are not the target audience.

I know, and thats why I stopped playing. But coming back, the game actually seemed in a good shape even for me.

its really sad that the atlas passive tree and the ability to block content were the best thing (in my opinion) to happen for poe. but getting reminded that the game is not for me is real sad.

still i m playing in kalandra league. i kinda like the league mechanic just that its not rewarding enough