Most negative community I've ever witnessed - why?
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I think it's more helpful if you quote whoever you are being critical of and the moment you do that it becomes a personal talk between 2 people and not a color that is painted over everyone
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Funny part is from 2011 to 2013 it was *easily* the most positive, enthusiastic community I have seen online -- and I used to use Geocities, just to contextualise that.
For a while there we beta supporters honestly thought the god vibes would survive the game going truly free to play. Such naivete. But if trading good will and player encouragement for acrimony and player criticism is the cost of selling a garage venture for almost a hundred million bucks AND to then be allowed to keep working on it (under the completely beign eye of Tencent, of course) then eh, few would not pay that gladly. And another thing: the game was arguably MORE aggressive and contentious in those early days. We had no trade window, no allocated loot and recurring events where the entire point was to kill each other and loot the bodies (cut-throat). Somehow making the game far more passive in a multiplayer sense AND making it infinitely better than it was during beta on every conceivable level resulted in...well, a whole heap of angry, defensive, divisive Exiles. I can't imagine how these fractious fractals would handle desync. If I like a game, it'll either be amazing later or awful forever. There's no in-between. I am Path of Exile's biggest whale. Period. Last edited by Foreverhappychan#4626 on Apr 2, 2023, 10:32:26 AM
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I suggest taking a look at any other subforum here to recognize the difference. I think the negativity is mostly limited to General Discussion.
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" Apply the audience then apply to literally any other medium in the same way :p you know the answers already there is no somehow about it! Hobbyist > Mass Market as a transition always looks like this, I think the only thing unusual about the transition is I'd say PoE largely got better over time not worse. |
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" Oh no's God forbid people express their opinions. What I don't get is why when people do unless everyone is happy, they are just "being negative". What a strawman, even the best players in the world had to admit they basically took out the best masteries and played it off as they kept "the best". You have to make up your own definition of "best" to come up with that conclusion. The Patch is introducing some of the most toxic game play we have ever seen after the removal of support gems they said were being removed for the exact thing this toxic gameplay is encouraging. When they say "minimal nerfs" not a nerf patch, then introduce nerfs that is arguably comparable to 3.15, people are going to complain. The patch notes took 3-4 hours to go through and the majority of them were nerfs or net neutral. Trying to compare a game being developed to a game that's finished is faulty logic. Of course they ripped things apart, that happens in every game where the game is not finished and in development. Also Chris made some very out of touch "Do you not have phones" type of comments. Such as the melee 10% comment (the only reason it's 10% is due to how bad melee is), and the Ruthless event, "Those people won't win anyway". You think people are going to respond positively to that? It really put people in a bad mood for reading the patch notes when he said that. I am happy to see the nerfs to casters in the campaign, it's about time. But I would rather have seen buffs to other archetypes to put them on par with casters. So people are going to upset about it. I think most of what is being "negative" is reasonable when you consider how it could have been handled and what they could instead of chosen to have done. Trying to paint people as negative is just a Saul Alinsky tactic to marginalize those that don't agree with you. Last edited by Valkaneer#5171 on Apr 2, 2023, 12:04:14 PM
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" Very arguably. Are you making your own builds? If not, there won't be a problem, from what I gathered, major build distributors are already working on a new batch and saying most things will work fine with a few tweaks. I don't see anything too bad either, for instance the thing I played this league will barely be affected, and the one I was planning on playing next league probably got stronger, but I'm hardly an authority on modern PoE building. Wish the armchair developers would go back to developing armchairs.
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definitely not the worst ive witnessed. Maybe you generally play games with exceptionally nice communities. If I had to reason why you feel that way, I'd guess its because this game changes more than most. Every few months, changes come, sometimes they suck. people often resist change and view it in a harsh light because of fear that the changes will make them less happy. So every few months there is a new wave of agitated worrying and fretting from a passionate community. If they only released an xpack every other year or something the intensity wouldnt flare up anywhere near as often.
I'm excited this league because every league that the community seems to hate, I love. I loved blight and kalandra for example. Hated farmville grove and hated this last roguelike wannabe league. |
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" The game was in beta back then wasn't it? Is it so hard to believe that people are more tolerant towards a freshly started beta game from a few guys that created it in a garage compared to a game from a multi million dollar company with hundreds of employees and 10 years development time on it's back? Besides, a recurring PVP event isn't anything bad or anti multiplayer by any means. As for horrible Qol, well that's still a thing to a degree where 20 year old D2 was better than POE after 10 years of dev time. Last edited by Baharoth15#0429 on Apr 2, 2023, 1:59:40 PM
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Bruh what do you expect from a game designed for elitists and hardcore gamers.
Second-class poe gamer
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I agree with OP
chances of getting a beta key 0.000001 %
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