I will no longer spend any money in the game #fextralife

I have never been angry or upset at GGG in the 10y or so I've been playing the game.
I don't care about nerfed builds, reddit drama or streamer early access or any of that stuff. I don't really care and I have always trusted in GGGs good judgement.

this is now over. I do not trust GGG any more.

giving fextralife access, then taking the blame for the early review despite them brazenly publishing wiki guides while this is happening is such a corpo move, I can not express my disgust in polite words.

it screams that all they care about is if they reach one more normie while literally taking a dump on all of the gaming communities and content creators these bunch of parasites have leeched from over so many years.

it screams disrespect.

if they get banned from PoE1/2, I'll revert my decision. until that point, I am done.
I spent an ungodly amount of money just to support them, while I barely even play.
lesson learned. can't trust anyone any more.

that console and controller nonsense already seemed strange to me... now it fits perfectly into this "New GGG" picture: corpo and normie bait.

I lived in Korea for a long time: nobody owns consoles there (not literally nobody, obviously). this and China is the places with the least Playstation consoles, because people go to ultra cheap "PC Bangs" to hang out and play.

they're all PC players. yet for whatever reason, the Korea stream had "someone" asking about controller support. total astroturfing.

the numbers from Capcom and other places show console sales are literally and figuratively cratering.
Capcom had only 40% of all sales worldwide on console. ALL consoles together! 40% only! Switch+xbox+Playstaytion4/5.
56% on PC. the remaining % is physical media. Capcom, of all places.

we know that Wukong sold 75%-80% or more on PC. 75-80+%!!!! (official numbers published by them: 3 million concurrent with 2.5 million of that number on steam alone.
that does NOT include EPIC. so if we assume EPIC sold 5-10% Sony's PS5 only got 15-20% of all sales.
this is hilariously bad.

Helldivers had the majority of players on PC.

the top dog from sony that was with them in the recent Japan GGG video LEFT SONY days after the interview.

XBOX has given up making consoles and now claims that "everything is an xbox" in their new campaign.

it just gives relevance to console companies if you port your game to it. I wasn't really happy with it, but I thought maybe they had some sort of plan for whatever...

now I just see it as a method to dilute keyboard and mouse support in the industry further, just as consoles start to die.

the recent Monster Hunter Wilds beta was a wake up call for me: completely unusable keyboard and mouse support, everything onscreen blinking and telling me LOOK HERE LOOK THERE IS A PICKUP!!! like I'm a 5yo.
completely broken and unusable UI, all clearly made for console and controller.

people who play on controller never look up or down, they can't deal with complex inventory systems easily, will ignore genres that need accuracy and all action games have aim bots built in basically.

it leads to a corrosion of a lot of genres, and diminishes gaming as a whole.

my concern is that this fextralife thing is merely the canary in the coal mine: GGG is no longer an ally for gamers.


this is my way to vent my frustration and anger. I don't care about whatever you reply.
I want to say what I said to tell them if they're listening. I hope they change their approach.
we don't need more consolification, especially now when they're going down hard.

console vs PC sales has completely flipped. PC was never as far behind as consoles are now.
countries like China and Korea have almost solely PC gamers. EU doesn't even buy xbox at all. Microsoft stopped advertizing in large parts of EU and xbox consoles aren't even in stores any more.
PS5 sales in EU are not good.

GGG: your thinking is from 2018 with your console strategy. it's the other way round now.

Mountain. Molehill.

I don't understand how this is worse than the paid EA but oh well

Can I get a TL;DR please?

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Johny_Snow#4778 wrote:

I don't understand how this is worse than the paid EA but oh well

Neither are a big deal.

touch grass, im not happy either, fextra is scum, express that, tell GGG your dissapointed and its a breach of that trust they value, but this is like watching a child throw a tantrum on the floor in a supermarket over being told to put the chips back.

relative actions, express the dislike, but quitting and popping off that hard, please, calm yourself a little and get some real perspective lol.

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Johny_Snow#4778 wrote:

I don't understand how this is worse than the paid EA but oh well

to even think thats bad is pretty deluded to be honest.

just to make clear, you buy $30 worth of coins, the price they have always been, and get a key for free, they are asking you to commit 30 to help mitigate EA load and make a little now and gauge player interest, on a game that is free, and you can wait and pay nothing and get the full experience.
Like pull your head out of your entitled little butt cheeks, and take a realistic look at what is presented...

I wish i could spend 300 pts on that EA. I have 440 on my account already and i'm not really interested in visual mtx.

Oh well I guess I'll just hoard them and spend them once those utility MTX are being sold normally in the shop instead of degenerate gambling lootboxes. I nabbed that currency counting ring, now i need the monster counter.

ever since fextralife posted a walkthrough guide with nothing in it about POE2 my life has been ruined. I just post 24/7 on reddit complaining about fextralife because he leaked everything through early access he didn't deserve.

did you see the video he leaked? good lord, I saw all the terrible ungodly footage with my own eyes. he leaked everything. I saw "cruel difficulty" in the top left for a split second. I saw a level 50 character. it ruined what was supposed to be a surprise. I was never expecting to see these things until game day. the surprise is ruined.

I won't be playing POE 2.

goodbye GGG. you messed up this time.

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apexmateria1#2307 wrote:

ever since fextralife posted a walkthrough guide with nothing in it about POE2 my life has been ruined. I just post 24/7 on reddit complaining about fextralife because he leaked everything through early access he didn't deserve.

did you see the video he leaked? good lord, I saw all the terrible ungodly footage with my own eyes. he leaked everything. I saw "cruel difficulty" in the top left for a split second. I saw a level 50 character. it ruined what was supposed to be a surprise. I was never expecting to see these things until game day. the surprise is ruined.

I won't be playing POE 2.

goodbye GGG. you messed up this time.

I know you feel hurt, but why did you watch it? Or am I misinterpreting it and people just shared it with you>

Sucks I guess.