You have alienated your own playerbase

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auspexa#1404 wrote:

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Raycheetah#7060 wrote:

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auspexa#1404 wrote:

we knew poe 2 isn't made for poe 1 audiences, why are you complaining? why the hell would they make 2 games for the same people LOL

Because they got us to pay for it? =9[.]9=

?? how

if you spent 10 minutes to research poe 2 you'd know exactly what to expect from the game. this is exactly what was promised by GGG and I hope they ignore all the feedback on these forums and reddit

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dontango#3737 wrote:

GGG.... A Grinding Gear Game without the gear.
ARPG.... An Action RPG without the action.

That's how it felt to me. But people are taking 3 shifts to defend the current state of the game 24/7, so i did what was suggested to me quite smugly. I uninstalled. I'll follow the boards and patch notes and will give it a second try if major changes are implemented. Once the hype is over and the usual streamers get paid to advertise the next game, we shall see if PoE 2 is what the masses wanted or if it drove them away.

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Raycheetah#7060 wrote:

Supporter packs. At Exilecon 1, Chris outlined a clear vision of PoE 2 as an expansion to PoE, something players of that game (perhaps even yourself included?) looked forward to. I spent prolly a couple thousand USD between then and Exilecon 2, at which event four years later Chris spilled beans it turned out could have been spilled only a year after the initial announcement, that PoE 2 was gonna be a separate game after all. Since then, GGG has definitely missed out on a couple thousand MORE bucks as I went full embargo on any further spending on their "game(s)."

So, yeah, money I spent to contribute to the development of a game I enjoyed (still do, so far) went toward this steaming Deuce. It borders on fraud, frankly, and definitely shattered any trust I had for the devs. ='[.]'=

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just_dont#6539 wrote:

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everygoodnamewastaken#0227 wrote:

Stop thinking of it as an ARPG too I guess.

But it's decidedly an ARPG game. If you played Diablo 1, you'd understand it perfectly.

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auspexa#1404 wrote:

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PatrickFf#1965 wrote:

If they ignore it they will have a small player base. The hype will die down in a week or so then reality will set in.

No they won't, you're the vocal minority and hopefully they will not listen to you. The fact that we've already seen many nerfs but zero buffs kinda proves this

Millions of people quit PoE 1 after opening the passive tree for the first time, did GGG care or change it?

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Raycheetah#7060 wrote:

Since then, GGG has definitely missed out on a couple thousand MORE bucks as I went full embargo on any further spending on their "game(s)."

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PatrickFf#1965 wrote:

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auspexa#1404 wrote:

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PatrickFf#1965 wrote:

If they ignore it they will have a small player base. The hype will die down in a week or so then reality will set in.

No they won't, you're the vocal minority and hopefully they will not listen to you. The fact that we've already seen many nerfs but zero buffs kinda proves this

Millions of people quit PoE 1 after opening the passive tree for the first time, did GGG care or change it?

Its 2024 game development takes a lot of money and you need a big player base for a game like this.

many gamers no longer have time to invest in a game like this. They can keep it the same but it caters to a very small minority, it will fail.

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just_dont#6539 wrote:

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PatrickFf#1965 wrote:

You can love it, but the masses won’t play it as its gear towards a very select type of player from start to finish. Soul’s people won’t play it because they have souls’ games, ARPG players won’t play it because it’s not fast enough

You mean, those 580K of concurrent steam players won't play it?
Sure, okay.