228k on steam ATM. 6 portal blackmailers FELTED.

Eh? I think 228k is bad. Anything less than 400k this weekend is a disaster for GGG. Ideally they would reach 500k. I just don't see that happening.

Also the initial peak doesn't matter as much as the player retention curve for the coming weeks. If the league dies super fast, it's also bad. We will need to wait at least 3-4 weeks to have a good picture of whether or not 0.2 is successful.

Steam figures yes...

Any one have any idea for the figures from non-Steam, like the PoE2 Client.? Consoles?

I'm making an assumption they'll be less than Steam......?

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auspexa#1404 wrote:

nobody predicted 25k or 50k, the lowest I've seen was around 150k.

and 228k is still low compared to the og peak.

I've seen a lot of people predicting this.

Also people saying 228k isn't a lot it's still a work/school day. Wait until Saturday and that should be the peak.

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thistofu#8644 wrote:

228k just looking at how bad it is. lets see in a week.

+1

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dreamstate42#3955 wrote:

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hboi#6131 wrote:

And it's still a work day. Will probably go up to 300 - 400k over the weekend. The people saying remove 6 portals and xp penalty or else everyone will stop playing the game are absolutely felted.

Stop with your blackmail posts. The people saying there would only be 25-50k playing on new league are delusional.

Keep up the good work GGG. Do not cave to these scrubs and there blackmail posts.

Maybe you should stop playing games all together for a while, if posts from total strangers on the internet for a video game bring out such an ugly side in you.

There's your typical Toxic Internet Gamer™, but this post is a whole new level of pathetic...

Anyone who calls others "toxic" are showing that they themselves are equally as bad as anyone they are complaining about imho. Just food for thought. Throwing rocks at glass houses get you no where. Unless your goal is to look like a hypocritical [Removed by Support]. If that is the goal then mission succeeded.

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hboi#6131 wrote:

And it's still a work day. Will probably go up to 300 - 400k over the weekend. The people saying remove 6 portals and xp penalty or else everyone will stop playing the game are absolutely felted.

Stop with your blackmail posts. The people saying there would only be 25-50k playing on new league are delusional.

Keep up the good work GGG. Do not cave to these scrubs and there blackmail posts.

LOOOL, you say that as if GGG is winning, i played PoE for over 12 years, the game was always growing and hitting record numbers, i've skipped some leagues because of burnout, but came back in the nex one revitalized and played the game a a lot, PoE 2 got nearly 600k peak when it released, it's just the first content patch so noone is burned out of the game yet, and yet it's friday night and the best it can do is 225k players, worse than last PoE leagues, i literally updated, played 1 hour and quit the game, it never happened before, never in 12 years i went to play a league and quit without playing hundreds of hours.

Youre in complete denial if you think PoE 2 is doing good, imagine having a game peaking at 300k and growing every league, to shit on it to work on the number 2 and the number 2 does worse than hte one you had, and in the process you lose all the reputation you had with your loyal fanbase, imagine thinking that's a win.

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hboi#6131 wrote:

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auspexa#1404 wrote:

nobody predicted 25k or 50k, the lowest I've seen was around 150k.

and 228k is still low compared to the og peak.

I've seen a lot of people predicting this.

Also people saying 228k isn't a lot it's still a work/school day. Wait until Saturday and that should be the peak.

Shut the hell up and stop coping, PoE used to release leagues at friday too and would instantly break peak records, it didnt need Saturday for that.

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hboi#6131 wrote:

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auspexa#1404 wrote:

nobody predicted 25k or 50k, the lowest I've seen was around 150k.

and 228k is still low compared to the og peak.

I've seen a lot of people predicting this.

Also people saying 228k isn't a lot it's still a work/school day. Wait until Saturday and that should be the peak.

I think that's cope, 300k is possible but there's no way it'll go higher, and 300k is still far below the 0.1.0 peak

and I don't think it has anything to do with the gameplay changes, there's simply no reason for casuals to come back. almost every casual player I know quit the game after acts and they don't want to run the same campaign again.

personally even I'm not playing 0.2.0 because I don't care about any archetype other than grenades and grenades didn't receive anything except a very small rework. why would I give it another chance when grenade builds in grim dawn are much more satisfying to play?

you know complainers have nothing to talk about when somehow 300k players is a problem.

It will go up a bit during the weekend, but thats the maximum it will go this patch.

I predicted ~200k in another thread. Got it pretty close. With current numbers I would say it will cap at 280k during the weekend, but quickly goes down from there. On original release, people had a lot of classes and stuff to do. They have already done that so once they get huntress and possibly one of the new ascendancies in end game, they will quit.

As in, these numbers dont last as long as the previous ones did.