Everyone is going back to PoE 2 now.

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Glowie_Zigger#5018 wrote:

has anyone ever figured out the ratio of people playing on steam vs standalone? I have no idea why you would use steam and have extra processes running if you don't have to. This was a common complaint with LE, being forced to play steam.

majority of poe 2 using steam because they have all their games in 1 place.

id say its probably the case for poe 1 aswell but in poe 1 probably more % of players using standalone compared to poe 2 because many of us started to play before steam was popular .. and many of us are dedicated poe 1 players who dont play many games..

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Glowie_Zigger#5018 wrote:

has anyone ever figured out the ratio of people playing on steam vs standalone? I have no idea why you would use steam and have extra processes running if you don't have to. This was a common complaint with LE, being forced to play steam.

We have a comment about it from Chris, but that's about PoE1.
With PoE2, we got a couple of new ppl who are not aware why the standalone client is the better choice. So it's probably 50/50 now.

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Kage#1250 wrote:

Other items dont get sold unless you reduce the price by 60-70% of it's value.

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By definition the market sets the value of an item, not some arbitrary number in your head on what you think it should be work.

If the items doesn’t sell at the price you list it, and you have to reduce it, the real problem is you didn’t know the value of the item when you first listed it.

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saashaa#5518 wrote:

Most of players will return when they make game as normie as possible and casual friendly as casuals are the highest amount of players and hard games - can't earn that much player base. Hard games inspired by souls likes will never be a mainstream - and to get the player base and change it from mainstream casual arpg player that just want to explode everything to enjoy the souls- inspired combat - they need to make manifesto about the future of the game

So if they want to stick to casuals and normies to earn money im out.

You say this while LE, Diablo 4 which are the most casual ARPG out right now with some popularity sits at fewer numbers than POE 2 with a bad patch out.

Any thoughts on how this patch will affect economy?

Will prices increase because it seems currency drops more often?
Will prices decrease as items drop improved?
Will prices stay the same? (excess currency will go into craft, plus no point to ask more for items since everyone is geared)

Have you seen similar things in POE1?

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NoyAvargel#6918 wrote:

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Glowie_Zigger#5018 wrote:

has anyone ever figured out the ratio of people playing on steam vs standalone? I have no idea why you would use steam and have extra processes running if you don't have to. This was a common complaint with LE, being forced to play steam.

majority of poe 2 using steam because they have all their games in 1 place.

id say its probably the case for poe 1 aswell but in poe 1 probably more % of players using standalone compared to poe 2 because many of us started to play before steam was popular .. and many of us are dedicated poe 1 players who dont play many games..

Having all your games in one place is also true if it’s on your PC, without Steam. Only GGG have the actual numbers but every PC player I know (which isn’t a huge number by any means) play standalone.
You obviously don’t.

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purplefag#7661 wrote:

Any thoughts on how this patch will affect economy?

Will prices increase because it seems currency drops more often?
Will prices decrease as items drop improved?
Will prices stay the same? (excess currency will go into craft, plus no point to ask more for items since everyone is geared)

Have you seen similar things in POE1?

So far Divines have increased in exalt cost, I suspect as time passes this will settle down to near to pre G patch levels or close to (as divines in PoE1 tend to inflate with time anyhow, but they also have more use in PoE1, in PoE2 they do little more than act as an exalt investment).

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JakkerONAIR#4902 wrote:

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Glowie_Zigger#5018 wrote:

has anyone ever figured out the ratio of people playing on steam vs standalone? I have no idea why you would use steam and have extra processes running if you don't have to. This was a common complaint with LE, being forced to play steam.

We have a comment about it from Chris, but that's about PoE1.
With PoE2, we got a couple of new ppl who are not aware why the standalone client is the better choice. So it's probably 50/50 now.

Seems reasonable, personally I would not install Steam unless it was for a Steam only game and I was actively playing it (otherwise it would be uninstalled).

Nothing is changed.

The game still has vision, the game still too slow.

No, not everyone is coming back to POE2. Before the 0.2g patch active player count was approximately 60K. After patch the 60K went to about 66K. Give it a day or so for the influx of loot testing players to quit again, player count will fall again.

POE1 private league launch had about the same effect. Before lauch was about 5.5K active players. Now it's 10.5K players.

Which of POE1 or POE2 will lose the influx of 5K players faster, POE2.

Edit... and keep in mind, POE2 influx numbers are pretty much all inclusive Steam Numbers. POE1 steam numbers are far lower than actual. POE1 numbers DO NOT include China nor Standalone game clients. POE2, includes China and their are far more POE2 steam users than POE1 steam users. In other words, POE1 private league launch most likely beat the 0.2g patch influx.