Please, respect our time when doing such drastic balance changes

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Arghamakkon#0311 wrote:

Please explain to me how someone who plays the campaign for 40 hours, disappears for three years, replays the campaign with a new class, repeat, brings the most income?

1000 players each bringing $10 one time generate a lot more income that 1 player slowly buying packs and spending whopping $5000 eventually.

100,000 players each bringing $10 one time beat a handful of packs-enjoyers so hard it's not even funny.

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Arghamakkon#0311 wrote:

This isn't Elden Ring, this is a free game.

It's not free right now if you haven't noticed.
And I'm pretty sure that given the apparent success, GGG will find more similar ways of selling something in the guise of special one-time purchase.

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Arghamakkon#0311 wrote:

Wolcen, Lords of the fallen had 130k peak when POE had ~110k.
Last Epoch still has a higher peak player count than POE, on release.

Yep. And Wolcen's reviews immediately plummeted so hard it wasn't even recoverable (that is, if they'd tried to recover which they didn't). So players were enticed by smooth graphics and VFX but immediately found out that the game is shit.
That's in comparison with PoE2 having 84% positive reviews right now and growing.

Flop Epoch attracted tons of players during its years-long EA stage, all those players launched 1.0... only to find it pretty shitty. See Wolcen's story for what happened next.

just play melee...its so awful that it will never get nerfed

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Lyutsifer665#1671 wrote:

just play melee...its so awful that it will never get nerfed

Perfect Strike was nerfed like in the first days.

+1, Passive Skill Respects should be free.

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Gogolo30#6034 wrote:

How about you roll a new character. They don't need everyone just playing around in maps trying to copy the most recent thing they saw on YouTube.

Being allergic to campaign is a PoE1 symptom. Let's not have it develop in PoE2 as well.

because wer having fun and your upset?