Ruthless became a joke.

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mnieradko#6070 wrote:

If Chris and friends make a new "D2 inspired" ARPG, can they put in a mass item ID feature this time? You know, the feature that D2 has had since its inception in 2001? Perhaps they can also make dropped wearable item not automatically worthless?

Wasn't Ruthless his idea in the first place? I have my doubts that he's going to implement QoL like this in an ARPG he wants to be hard and punishing.

Ruthless still generates player activity to validate its existence. If it didn't, it would already be gone. Maybe in the future; but until then, its the only game type some people play. You'll have to convince those people to stop enjoying it for some kind of groundswell of change.

I would presume it has the smallest population but the longest player retention which probably why it has potential to hold for quite awhile.
Good luck.

Well, I'm only here cause of ruthless SSF. After over 5000 hours in Poe1 I get bored with the normal play, everything has been done over and over so many times.
IMO to play ruthless with trade its cheating, the real challenge comes with finding the right gems/items for you build.
At lvl 83 my build has items like he was lvl 40, and I still love it :)

Its the same thing every league. It happened before Poe 2 and it happens after Poe 2. Tourists get bored of their hamster wheel after a few weeks and come looking for a scapegoat. Since its release in Sanctum league, Ruthless has been an easy target.

Ruthless might go away some day, but it will be because the internal numbers show its not viable for the 2 people that work on it for 30 minutes every couple of months isn't worth it.

Good luck.

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jdp29#1389 wrote:

It didn't look good, at all, especially because no one asked for ruthless and it was promised that Ruthless wouldn't interfere with the base game, but then did.

I can't quite put my finger on it, but I feel like this happened in another GGG effort recently.

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kog1115#0512 wrote:

Ruthless still generates player activity to validate its existence. If it didn't, it would already be gone.

Nah, they only keep it and ( try to ) promote it because it's where they wanna take the game to.

So they keep ruthless around to turn poe 1 into poe 2? Or I guess ya...please walk me thru this logic trail.

I've seen ruthless tourism before, but its gotten more amusing now that poe 2 is out and boring.

It was always a joke kinda.

Same game.

Fewer good things happen at a slower pace.
Wanna play ?

I just got through the acts. I do not know how people do it. It was painful.

Oh well, I'll see how much energy I have to slog through maps.