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Yeah there's 244k people playing on steam alone on a Monday afternoon school/work day almost 2 months after launch. The game isn't falling off a cliff this forum is delusional.
You are the one delusional.
Good games in the ARPG genre are few and far between. Hyped new games in the genre often have a good amount of sales and players the first few weeks or months. Even D3 that´s considered a massive fail, had HUGE amount of copies sold and HUGE playerbase early on.
Even the games that end up completely dying and losing 95++% of the playerbase within the first year, often go through this high amount of copies sold and high early player numbers process.
Now if POE2 will manage to keep big enough playerbase to continue as the #1 ARPG, time will tell. I think will if they remove this Ruthless mindset and add the current state of the game as Ruthless as a game mode and give players a real Softcore option if they gonna keep a big playerbase in the long run.
But to act like nothing wrong with the game due to either many copies sold or high player numbers in the weeks/months after release, are delusional.
Sometimes...the silent treatment is best for some...just my 2 cents...lol.
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Posted bychobo999#2010on Jan 18, 2025, 10:44:06 PM
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First half of your post you are describing how well you know issues GGG doesn't know. Couldn't spend more time so have no idea what another half about, wouldn't surprise if you don't mention any issues at all there.
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Posted bySuchka_777#4336on Jan 18, 2025, 10:56:04 PM
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4. The game is made for who? Personally I do not think Grinding Gear dare to answer this question because it will lead to mass exodus once they reveal their true target audiences.
It's made for POE 1 players with some minor adjustments to maybe attract some new players to stop in occasionally.
Porting over all the MTX cosmetics and stash tabs is to make the shutdown of poe 1 more palatable to all the long time players when it inevitably happens.
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Posted byBootyTwerk#7842on Jan 18, 2025, 10:58:36 PM
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4. The game is made for who? Personally I do not think Grinding Gear dare to answer this question because it will lead to mass exodus once they reveal their true target audiences.
It's made for POE 1 players with some minor adjustments to maybe attract some new players to stop in occasionally.
Porting over all the MTX cosmetics and stash tabs is to make the shutdown of poe 1 more palatable to all the long time players when it inevitably happens.
Yet the game is split into two group - the campaign which appeal to certain group and the endgame which appeal to Path of Exile 1 players.
They need to sort this out.
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Posted byDutchMilk#4689on Jan 18, 2025, 11:16:20 PM
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4. The game is made for who? Personally I do not think Grinding Gear dare to answer this question because it will lead to mass exodus once they reveal their true target audiences.
It's made for POE 1 players with some minor adjustments to maybe attract some new players to stop in occasionally.
Porting over all the MTX cosmetics and stash tabs is to make the shutdown of poe 1 more palatable to all the long time players when it inevitably happens.
Yet the game is split into two group - the campaign which appeal to certain group and the endgame which appeal to Path of Exile 1 players.
They need to sort this out.
Well it certainly won't be adjusting the end game to attract more of the campaign group. The game is fundamentally designed with so many mechanics to insta-kill you, either you build an ultra giga full screen insta wipe blaster or you hit a wall and move on to another game.
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Posted byBootyTwerk#7842on Jan 18, 2025, 11:32:10 PM
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4. The game is made for who? Personally I do not think Grinding Gear dare to answer this question because it will lead to mass exodus once they reveal their true target audiences.
It's made for POE 1 players with some minor adjustments to maybe attract some new players to stop in occasionally.
Porting over all the MTX cosmetics and stash tabs is to make the shutdown of poe 1 more palatable to all the long time players when it inevitably happens.
Except at this rate it will be PoE 2 not PoE 1 that gets shut down. You see PoE 1 has ALWAYS brought in a profit. PoE 2 has a LOT to prove. In fact it has EVERYTHING to prove because Tencent will shut it down if not. PoE 1 isnt going ANYWHERE. it's the only proven success in GGG's games. You think Blizzard would shut down WoW because they made another game. No not ever.
PoE 1, 12 years of profits and success.
PoE 2, EA that has no proven history to retain players league per league.
PoE 1 is the best. PoE 2 is something. Last edited by HeroEvermore#0498 on Jan 18, 2025, 11:43:10 PM
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Posted byHeroEvermore#0498on Jan 18, 2025, 11:37:12 PM
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They need to sort this out.[/quote]
Well it certainly won't be adjusting the end game to attract more of the campaign group. The game is fundamentally designed with so many mechanics to insta-kill you, either you build an ultra giga full screen insta wipe blaster or you hit a wall and move on to another game. [/quote]
To believe the most uncertain element of the game is certain without evidence, is unhealthy.
The developers can risk it and hold on to stupidity or they get wise and pivot. When so much money is on the table, the latter is much likely.
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Posted byDutchMilk#4689on Jan 18, 2025, 11:43:29 PM
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bro is probably running 40% fire res and complaining about one death per map like the majority of the users on this forum
or he wants a 'chill' game where he can brain off and get dopamine from drops. This forum is a dumpster fire and the poe1 community is such crap.
If you go on the poe2 subreddit you have nothing but positivity but this..
Here comes the straw man and ad hominem fallacies. How appropriate from someone otherwise contributing nothing to a debate. Reddit is a highly moderated and controlled forum with memes and item sharing. You viewing "top" or hot posts will present an echo chamber. However, if you delve or read further, there are a plethora of feedback posts, many of which are redirected by the community to this forum, or sit awaiting moderator approval for days on end, which has already been discussed on the subreddit as well. Your argument is actually invalid.
For the record, although it really lends nothing to this discussion, and seems to be yet another attempt by you to derail my argument, I have 90% armour with an additional 18% phys reduction, 75% evasion, 75% block, and 80% all resists, will have 84% AR when I get my jewels finished. Yes I do still die in 1 hit, all the time, which is really not my complaint either.
Additionally, in order to shut down your personal attacks, I am all for one death per map, although I believe the changes to pinnacle content are warranted, and there needs to be some changed to team play or co-op.
Are you standing in every single mechanic known to man all at once? its literally not possible to die with that many defensive layers unless you do 0 damage and are auto attacking everything with no links in auto attack while being blindfolded with your hands tied behind your back.
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Posted byezpzzombiezeee#2548on Jan 18, 2025, 11:50:23 PM
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^ fake news.
PoE 1 is the best. PoE 2 is something.
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Posted byHeroEvermore#0498on Jan 18, 2025, 11:53:30 PM
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Regarding to shutting down one of games (since PoE 2 made for PoE 1 players after all), even though PoE 2 has nice things like graphical updates, overall PoE 1 lovers don't like PoE 2, and noone else will like endgame like this. So, to be honest I don't really see the reason for PoE 2 to exist. I'm pretty sure after everyone will figure out that endgame will never change, playercount will start to go down and never come back.
Last edited by Suchka_777#4336 on Jan 19, 2025, 12:00:41 AM
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Posted bySuchka_777#4336on Jan 18, 2025, 11:58:38 PM
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