The silence is deafening

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EffKayZA#1861 wrote:

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Alivkos#3986 wrote:

Honestly i doubt people 'defending' GGG are not paid employees.
What's there to defend?
It's funny they also use an excuse to empathize with gigantic corporation's employees..
What's next, should i be sorry for Jeff Bezos being bald or something?

I am not an employee of GGG.
I work in software dev though and I am right now enjoying my holidays.

I merely extend GGG employees the SAME courtesy as I have.
They are human too and they are a SMALL company, not some vast corporate who have the resources to keep multiply teams on standby over the year-end shut-down.
So your attempt to paint them as some kind of megalithic behemoth that is persecuting you by .. (checks) ... going on holiday, is just ridiculous.

I guess you don't understand that the holidays were the best time for a lot of us to play the game and would've been happy to see some updates. Nothing happened. No complaints were addressed. Now that we're back to business as usual, why the fuck would I waste my limited game time on PoE2 when nothing was addressed despite having plenty of time during a period when I could actually play?

GGG lost a lot of trust during this period. If this was a free game, sure whatever I can wait, but right now I really feel scammed. Release a game, address nothing afterwards during a period where players have a lot of free time to spend on gaming. That's scummy no matter how you look at it.

And if you disagree, you should try entering the real world once in a while :)

GGG devs ain't your friends, you bought a game and not an excuse to empathize with other people...
Tencent actually was involved in poe development, not only they have their own version, they provided things like heist league maps. They also own almost every share of GGG. Not involved, right guys.
Kinda not very smart to assume mega corp isn't outsourcing parts of the code to save money either, especially if you claim to be a developer and call GGG a small studio. GGG bragged about expanding the studio with Tencent money for last 3 years.
Also we have truly innovative things in poe2 like expedition, never seen before in arpg.
I also liked breach, what an surge of adrenaline seeing it for the first time ever.

Careful with this posts, ggg brownnoses will crucify you. Game is shit btw

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Valsacar#0268 wrote:

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Alivkos#3986 wrote:

GGG glazers will find any excuse to justify devs not doing anything.
I want to play a good game, i dont care about developers and their families, i dont care if they need a break, i dont care if they have a holiday.
I bought a game which i want to work.
Game is mainly reused assets and it still has exact same issues poe1 had, ffs Alva was called Faustus for 2 weeks, way to ctrl c ctrl v latest poe1 league.
Visual clarity has never been this bad in poe1. Delirium is just unplayable in poe2, but its just one of the many untested features in the game.

Holy @#$%ing entitlement.

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EffKayZA#1861 wrote:

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Alivkos#3986 wrote:

>Small company
>Can't input tencent in google
>Claims to be a dev

Tencent is developing the game?
Tencent has provided working capital.
That's "money" in laymans terms.

In my 30 year long career in Software Dev, I have never ever ever seen a pile of money code or debug any piece of software.

Tencent money is not doing the work.
The work is being done by a small team of developers, who (I again stress) are human and (I again stress) are deserving of HUMAN things like time off.

Their GAME (again I stress) is not mission critical.
Your hurt feelings about their game is not mission critical.

You are not entitled to deny other people their well deserved time off because you have strong feelings about a game.

Give me the pile of money and I will personally train it to debug code.... I wil not disapear with it.. you can be sure of it.

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ampdecay#1924 wrote:

If I did this at my company and release a major piece of software and then just go AFK for a month I would definitely get in trouble.

We have a no release policy during the holidays for a reason :)

But you realize their release was delayed.. twice this year. And in several countries you need to schedule the vacations 1 year ahead? And the employer CANNOT change it without paying huge fines? It is quite possible they were overconfident in the middle year date and allowed almost all team to schedule for christmas.

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Karishin#7986 wrote:

If you don't want to fix and patch a game in a timely manner don't release a paid EA game. They chose the date to release after delaying a month to supposedly fix MTX; which they didn't do.

No, they literally delayed because they ran into issues with the account migration required for PoE2. WTF are you even talking about? They never said anything about it having anything to do with MTX

Regardless of all this, let's just admit that the timing for this situation is awful. A live service in beta testing needs monitoring, especially at the start.
My biggest concern at this stage being about account hacks that were reported. This is the kind of problems that not only affect the game but can lead to major security issues on player's PC, wich is concerning to say the least.

The comments that the Devs deserve their time off, and in fact are probably legally entitled to it given where GGG is based is correct. That being said there are so so many issues with this game that need to be fixed. They probably should have delayed quite a bit more and done a few more closed betas.

To all the people telling me to "go f myself";

I didn't ask for a brand new 100% fair, balanced and tested game.

I asked for GGG to at the very least take the time to make a written statement about the thoughts and plans going forward, to address the 250.000 people that already quit, and the many that are close to quitting it.

Trade is broken, drops are broken, the economy is broken, armor + melee, which they proudly and explicitly said was FIXED before release is completely broken.
Btw, I prefer to play melee. My main reason for buying it was to play warrior melee.
Not some ES cheat hybrid. If I wanted that I'd play sorcerer.

So YES I know it's early access.
YES I know people have holidays over xmas. I live in Norway. We aren't "slaves 52 weeks a year" which some morons claim. But we also respect paying customers not to release a broken product and say absolutely nothing for three weeks.
How many weeks do YOU want GGG to have off? 4? 5? 10?

It would take one person half an hour to write a bit of a response and give us a rough roadmap. And a rough time schedule.

That is called basic respect for paying customers.