The Amount of Time "Vacationing" is Actually Absurd

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GregoryAdams#7051 wrote:

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Valsacar#0268 wrote:

Yes, you clearly didn't.

Early access, also known as alpha access, alpha founding, paid alpha, or game preview, is a funding model in the video game industry by which consumers can purchase and play a game in the various pre-release development cycles, such as pre-alpha, alpha, and/or beta, while the developer is able to use those funds to continue further development on the game.

My point is that "Early Access" doesn't have a fixed definition. It might include the "alpha" or "beta" states of a game, or any other states. So it is still somewhat misleading, since it doesn't really tell you anything.

For example, claiming that something is made of "natural" ingredients is "technically" also always true, since synthetic ingredients are themselves ultimately made from natural ingredients.
But there are legal and regulatory limits to the definition of the term "natural ingredients" precisely for that reason.

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Jabletron#5466 wrote:

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.

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Timbo Zero#8289 wrote:

Most companies will have 2 days for Xmas and 1 or 2 for new years (personal holiday days might be added of course).
2 weeks is the holiday kids get from school at this time of year, not professionals.
We’ve heard nothing for 11 days ;)