The Amount of Time "Vacationing" is Actually Absurd

Don't release your "early access" game right before the holidays then disappear claiming its holiday season. This is the biggest period in your company's history and you're leaving the part time bug fix guys to run your business. Where are you?

Your game has a tremendous amount of backlash right now.

Your streamers are going to get tired of falsely telling people this game is 95% good. Their financial gain is going to run its course. Some are beginning to let their feelings fester now.

Your biggest defenders are going to reach their honeymoon phase as well. The more casual audience is going to reach this map system and throw in the towel. This is happening now.

Your 'GiT GuD'ers and "ItS aN eArLy AcCeSs'ers are sounding more and more like the boy who cried wolf every day. I was one of them for a few days myself.

But now, there's simply no way you took the 10+ years of experience you gained from PoE and channeled it into PoE2, with us in mind. You just didn't. This game is bad, and right now the last thing you ought to be doing is claiming vacation time.

Every core staff member should be in office. Updates should be presented. Want to have a conversation with anyone? Doesn't seem like it. Where are your interviews with members of the community?

GGG, it's been 11 days since your last announcement and if you intend to make it another 11, things will get really, really loud. I'm telling you, your streamers and influencers aren't far from letting it rip. Either they get tired of this game or their audience disappears because it got tired of this game.

Don't forget, you have pulled an Overwatch and let PoE1 stagnate at the same time. Weren't there only like 12 people working on PoE1, and you still had to skip a league?

This is an overarching statement on the game. There are so many specific problems that take too long to write out, and many build upon one another. Meaning your game is flawed from the ground up, there are no hotfixes for most of this.

For example, your intentional large map design is coupled with punishing choke points, PoE1 fast enemies, terrain which obscures vision, an aggressive amount of on death effects, etc. There is no patch for this. This is the fundamental design of your game, and it is wrong and bad. There is no reason you should be on vacation and not working right now to redesign this entirely. Unless you think this is good, in which case you better reallocate your resources back to PoE1 pretty soon because you aren't going to retain a player base here. You have a lot of yes men in the fanbase and they aren't going to steer you in the right direction. You need to rewrite every single map and replace the existing ones with better ones. Every. Single. One.

That's just one example of multiple issues creating a systemic flaw in the game.

I would hope you intend to open a dialogue pretty soon. For your sake. Man, these public figures aren't going to maintain a composure forever. And when they turn, or if their audience leaves them, they are going to turn on you. Maybe they already know things we don't but, considering your "vacation" I'm not so sure they do.

"How dare you go on winter holidays, you selfish game developers, don't you know we are paying customers! Do you think anyone else in the world goes on vacation when people have given them money???"

This reads like a dystopian satire but it's actually real. Crazy work.

PREACH BROTHA

Go play something else for a week bro

When did you say the Christmas ghosts were coming to visit you?

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Gogolo30#6034 wrote:

"How dare you go on winter holidays, you selfish game developers, don't you know we are paying customers! Do you think anyone else in the world goes on vacation when people have given them money???"

This reads like a dystopian satire but it's actually real. Crazy work.

GGG is in NZ, its summer. People need to admit they should have pushed the release until after the holidays. It also takes 1 person maybe an hour out of their day to give some sort of update.

While i dont agree with a lot of things here. It is odd that its framed this way.
Most companies take 24th-25th off and are back to work the 26th.

I don't know if I've ever worked for a company that allowed you to take vacation 2 weeks within a major holiday either. Maybe we're just slave drivers in America.

That being said a few weeks off for them, while it may suck for us, is not the end of the world.

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Karishin#7986 wrote:

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Gogolo30#6034 wrote:

"How dare you go on winter holidays, you selfish game developers, don't you know we are paying customers! Do you think anyone else in the world goes on vacation when people have given them money???"

This reads like a dystopian satire but it's actually real. Crazy work.

GGG is in NZ, its summer. People need to admit they should have pushed the release until after the holidays.

like i said, these yes men are not going to steer GGG in the right direction. they don't have a single clue.

What the fuck have I just skimmed through. There is too many people in the world.

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Gogolo30#6034 wrote:

"How dare you go on winter holidays, you selfish game developers, don't you know we are paying customers! Do you think anyone else in the world goes on vacation when people have given them money???"

This reads like a dystopian satire but it's actually real. Crazy work.

I mean, from a business standpoint, it is weird that you'd close shop for the holidays with an unstable product out there.

It's certainly your right to do that, but it is kind of strange. In my opinion, it would have made much more sense to either wait with the release until after the holiday season, or to just stay and work, and then take time off later.

This is a completely normal reality of business. I've worked through holidays many times, as I'm sure have many others. Many people are quite open to this. Especially if you don't have family. You get paid more, and then you just take the time off some other time.