Ruthless Race - Breaking the Echo Chamber

Imagine for a moment that someone does win the event, even with no other player a close second. GGG will have effectively manufactured another World first Diablo hardcore inferno kill. A moment that most ARPG fans hold in high regard, despite being done in D3.

The upside here could be a huge moment, downside if no one wins is one less content creator unique?

Go to any stream and ask what memory they hold in higher regard. Their world first boss kill or a random SSFHC race win. Finally a race where it's not who can run the script the fastest, but where they actually have to adapt and use the tools in PoE to solve build gaps.

To be clear, I'm not saying this will be 2-3 months of pure hype -

But I'm willing to bet the final boss kill will be immeasurably higher for the community, than a 3-hr "race".

I think you are forgetting something in 2 months that will swamp some Ruthless boss kill event that almost every PoE player of note is skipping.

I hope no one wins to send a very direct message to CW & GGG.

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DarthSki44 wrote:

I hope no one wins to send a very direct message to CW & GGG.

This!

Doing something incredibly difficult in an activity almost no one does isn't terribly impressive.

Almost nobody plays ruthless, so almost nobody cares about achievements in it.

My personal theory is that GGG got butthurt that all their content creators swarmed to D4 beta, so this ruthless race is a test of loyalty/punishment/attempt to find new personalities.

I hope someone wins to send a very direct message to DiabloSki44.

The clip of someone winning will be watched a lot. If it's won by someone that streams. The actual getting there will not bring people into the game by people watching it. As it will be the most boring thing to watch.

But I will go with what most people are saying. I don't want anyone to win it so GGG end up with a bit of egg on their face for a change.

If the league was 3 months like it used to be. It wouldn't be happening at all. GGG is hoping to use a winner as promo for Exilecon. I would imagine they have a few deals set up with gaming websites to cover it.

If I was a streamer I would go for it and play off the fact that Ruthless is a horrible game mode. Then milk the clips for more viewers to come and watch the painchamp ride.

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Xyel wrote:

Doing something incredibly difficult in an activity almost no one does isn't terribly impressive.

Almost nobody plays ruthless, so almost nobody cares about achievements in it

Steamcharts says that right now there are over 500,000 players in DOTA 2, not even the top game. By comparison of player base almost nobody plays POE so why care about "achievements" in it.

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R3b00t wrote:

I hope someone wins to send a very direct message to DiabloSki44.

Lol this doesn't work in reverse. No cares about me, or if I get a message sent.

Hell I will be with a few million others smashing up Sanctuary when it's possible some rando on a PoE side project server will attempt to kill an uber with trash gear that took them 60+ days to farm.

Few will remember who killed the Ruthless Uber (if it even happnens), they will most likely remember who killed the pinnacle T5 Boss at Level 100 on HC in D4 as millions watched.

This obsession with Ruthless has to be broken imo, and only a player revolt will have a chance to do that. Hopefully that happens, for the games sake. I have my doubts tho.

hoho

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ZenJelly wrote:

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Xyel wrote:

Doing something incredibly difficult in an activity almost no one does isn't terribly impressive.

Almost nobody plays ruthless, so almost nobody cares about achievements in it

Steamcharts says that right now there are over 500,000 players in DOTA 2, not even the top game. By comparison of player base almost nobody plays POE so why care about "achievements" in it.

Even more than that, the original statement already doesn't stand on its own. Relatively few people played HCSSF, yet for whatever reason we're supposed to pretend like those are 'real' races, and events in other leagues aren't.

In any event this may be 4-dimensional chess. Our familiar crew of speed running badasses will probably want to focus on practicing and running in the qualifiers (being held as early as this month) for the Exilecon ticket, now they don't have to pursue the boss kill event!