My last wish and hope is for POE and POE II to be separate games!

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HDTanel wrote:

it just makes so much more business sense to seperate these games and still develop stuff for both!

Business sense? Wouldn't that mean something like twice the work and expenses? Are you implying that splitting the player base would magically produce twice the income?

They will not be separate games purely on the basis that everyone would have to repurchase all mtx/stash tabs.


That aint gonna happen. Unless they unironically want to instantly kill their game.

While the OPs thread is full of more misinformation than, well, the internet, I do agree that the smart thing for GGG to do was to have created an entirely separate game. Wedging themselves into a whole legacy architecture that is obviously not performing well is a very unwise move.

I see some people have argued that this would split the player base but you can also look at it as widening the aperture for different types of players. It's noticeable that GGG's shift since 3.13 has alienated a large group of players so having two types of games for two player groups is not necessarily a bad thing.

As for MTX, that's not an insurmountable obstacle as there are several options that GGG could pursue there. They could gift players a whole bunch of MTX based on what they currently have, just issue them the same amount of points they've already accrued in the first PoE, or a mix of the two.

Anyway, the whole point is moot as it's too late to stop the steam locomotive at this stage of the game. You either hop aboard, lay down on the tracks, or find a more modern form of transport altogether :)

All the art will be updated. I spend supporter money for Path of Exile to make sure the artists update all the art of the current game. So no point in splitting the game any further.

Also Path of Exile will not be deleted. I don't know where you get that info from. All characters, all items and all mtx will be kept. If they wouldn't do this, I would be long gone together with many other players. As an item collector, this would be the worst case scenario. Chris himself said that the closed beta -> open beta transition was the very last whipe. Also the mtx I bought are those I fancy, I don't want any substitute points for other mtx.

A new campaign will be added which means also new endgame maps.

Splitting the playerbase is literally the dumbest thing they can do and make their profits plummet over night.

I was right :D thank god!!

POE league.. 1.5months later POE2 league? I CANT WAIT!!!

Thank you GGG!

you got your wish...

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ARealLifeCaribbeanPirate wrote:

People are only confused if they

A - Don't know how to read

or

B - Believe nonsense they see on Reddit

GGG have been extremely transparent with what PoE2 is going to be, from the moment it was first revealed. It's a new/improved/alternate campaign. Everything else which is "different" about PoE2 is going to be patched into PoE1 along the way.

This comment aged like milk in less than a day.

I don't understand why you would possibly want this.

You are limiting your own choice by not having the ability to play past characters you made in PoE 1. In what universe is having less choice like this more optimal or efficient?

And the people who don't want to bother with making new builds or want to stick with the characters they spent years on in Standard? I guess it's best to just disregard them?

I get it would take more work for them to accomplish this but this seems like such a cop-out.

Absolutely HATE the decoupling of PoE 1 from PoE 2.

What i was waiting for the most were cool new mechanics like roll and new gem system but it looks like now they are exclusive to PoE 2 and wont be coming to PoE 1 at all? If so then not only am I stuck with old outdated systems in PoE 1 but if I want to try new Ascendancies or the new mechanics Ill have to play PoE 2 which looks like Ruthless mode now ...

What I wanted were new mechanics from PoE 2 in PoE 1 not this crap we are getting. I seriously dont understand this decision.

GGG stated that they would have a separated story line but a shared endgame.

Maybe time to hop off this train for good.