Fextralife was GGG's first big L

This is a whole lot of drama about nothing. Unless you run a build guide website / channel that will now be behind Fextralife on launch, it doesn't affect you whatsoever.

"Strike 1". lol

"But it doesn't matter *whinge* *whinge*"

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BigJoe1981#4119 wrote:

If you do not want to be exposed to information that could spoil POE2 for you, then do not look up information that can spoil POE2 for you. Do not blame GGG because you like drama and got yourself drug into the middle of something that has no real meaning.

If you want to be competitive, you look up all the available information beforehand. If you want to be a late scrub, go ahead and play it blind. Anyone who cares even a little bit will go and analyze Fextralife's content.

Has PoE1 taught you dumbasses nothing? Now there's already two types of people when the early access starts: those who looked up information beforehand and those who didn't.


GGG LIED about wanting people to go in blind. They knew what they were getting into with Fextralife. GGG knew this would happen.

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Anonymous1749704#5648 wrote:

"But it doesn't matter *whinge* *whinge*"

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BigJoe1981#4119 wrote:

If you do not want to be exposed to information that could spoil POE2 for you, then do not look up information that can spoil POE2 for you. Do not blame GGG because you like drama and got yourself drug into the middle of something that has no real meaning.

If you want to be competitive, you look up all the available information beforehand. If you want to be a late scrub, go ahead and play it blind. Anyone who cares even a little bit will go and analyze Fextralife's content.

Has PoE1 taught you dumbasses nothing? Now there's already two types of people when the early access starts: those who looked up information beforehand and those who didn't.


GGG LIED about wanting people to go in blind. They knew what they were getting into with Fextralife. GGG knew this would happen.

If this is the case then why are people not making forum posts, videos and everything else pissed that POE2DB has a website that you can see all the skill/support and spirit gem information along with all the ascendancies, etc. How about the skill trees that are out there that you can path and see notables. How about the skill gem website where you can make links and figure out your build? How about streamers who have posted Youtube videos with Act 1 and 2 maps with layouts, boss names etc?

These would all be considered guides, would they not?

The only reason people are mad it is because it is Fextralife, what was released has nothing to do with it.

GGG never said they wanted people to go in blind. They just wanted to limit the information the player base has, but in the age of the internet that will never happen. No matter how many safety precautions they had in place, NDAs etc.

If you as the player wanted to go in blind, but they made the choice to go out and seek information (was suppose to be released or not), they have nobody to blame but themself.

If players do not like Fextralife or what they did, they would not give them free PR and send more people to their site. With all the content creaters posting vidoes and everyone posting on Reddit and the forums all everyone is doing is sending more people to that site and increasing their reach.

What are people being competitive about? The game is in Early Access with only half the game. If this was a full launch with leaderboards etc it would be one thing. Even if you are the first person to reach 100, or the first person to kill the pinnacle boss there will be an * next to it because there will probably be balance issues, skill interaction issues, etc that will play a role in those leaders.

Fextralife is run by a scammer, they definitely do not deserve any form of early access or even anything for free

Their first big L is having the audacity to charge a hundred bucks for an armor skin, 20 bucks for a sword, etc. You even have to pay more than a blizzard game to unlock the QoL features you'd expect in an ARPG (stashes, tabs, stat trackers). Then I'd say doubling their prices for third world countries follows close behind.

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yodasdad#2505 wrote:

Their first big L is having the audacity to charge a hundred bucks for an armor skin, 20 bucks for a sword, etc. You even have to pay more than a blizzard game to unlock the QoL features you'd expect in an ARPG (stashes, tabs, stat trackers). Then I'd say doubling their prices for third world countries follows close behind.

Lets take a game from the other publisher. One game has a pay to play model that is around $180 a year. That same publisher just sold a quality of life item for $90.

That same publisher sold a game a couple years ago for $70-$100 (with different cosmetics, etc) and then just sold an Expansion that wasnt very big for another $40-$90.

GGG QoL tabs did not come all at once, it was over time so yes it would cost a higher one time fee if you were to join a game that has been out for over a decade if you wanted to buy everything. But remember if you buy a pack you get an equal amount of cosmetic store currency that can be used to buy those QoL items. You would not have to spend twice. Not to mention they never charged for new content. It was all included in the $0 cost of the game

So please do not compare these two game publishers

Fextralife? Really?

At least they got rid of streamer priorty queues for years now. Let them suffer like anybody else in the queue