Play Path of Exile 2 for Free on August 29 - September 1 PDT

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its_sovren#3450 wrote:

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Andromansis#4714 wrote:

I think having it set up so that the seasonal supporter packs do not grant beta keys, even and especially during the free weekend access, is a mistake, I think its going to blow up your support queue, and I think its such an easily foreseeable problem that I am legitimately surprised they let it get to this stage without addressing that.

Even besides the obvious implications for the support team, its such a low hanging fruit for marketing that if it was any lower it would be subterranean. That is on top of the psychological implications that its going to look like you're trying to nickel and dime players trying to give you money for supporter packs, and since there are 5 separate lines of supporter pack I can guarantee enough players are going to get told to "Just buy a supporter pack so you can keep playing" and then buy the one they want instead of the singular supporter pack line that gives it to them.

Im pretty sure that if u dont own POE2 key, then u cant buy any supporter pack. Not on the POE2 website at least.

As long as they have the same thing implemented in the game, then its fine.

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Antarious#5648 wrote:

Just for kicks I made a new account using my email as opposed to Steam. The "new" account with no key can still see the support packs in the shop on the web page. The four current "support" packs and then of course you can scroll down to early access packs. In fact on the web page when you hover over shop and click "buy packs" the current 4 support packs are the first thing you see.

Maybe they include early access, but they certainly don't list it. I don't feel like spending 30 bucks to find out because I don't need another account.

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smackblith#5392 wrote:

I have to assume you're confident in this, because it's a huge risk to do a free weekend the same weekend you're releasing the patch. You are banking on being able to handle a huge influx of players. If you fail, free players won't buy and people that bought will feel cheated.

Frankly, as someone who has paid to play early access, I'm gonna be pissed if things are not working because a bunch of free players are clogging the servers. And if something else goes wrong unrelated to the free weekend, players now have this low-hanging fruit to blame.

If you're this confident about it working, why not build hype over the first week and do a free weekend the weekend after? If this is a stress test, it's a huge risk. Either way, it doesn't seem well thought-out.

Please reconsider.

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Antarious#5648 wrote:

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its_sovren#3450 wrote:

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Andromansis#4714 wrote:

I think having it set up so that the seasonal supporter packs do not grant beta keys, even and especially during the free weekend access, is a mistake, I think its going to blow up your support queue, and I think its such an easily foreseeable problem that I am legitimately surprised they let it get to this stage without addressing that.

Even besides the obvious implications for the support team, its such a low hanging fruit for marketing that if it was any lower it would be subterranean. That is on top of the psychological implications that its going to look like you're trying to nickel and dime players trying to give you money for supporter packs, and since there are 5 separate lines of supporter pack I can guarantee enough players are going to get told to "Just buy a supporter pack so you can keep playing" and then buy the one they want instead of the singular supporter pack line that gives it to them.

Im pretty sure that if u dont own POE2 key, then u cant buy any supporter pack. Not on the POE2 website at least.

As long as they have the same thing implemented in the game, then its fine.

Just for kicks I made a new account using my email as opposed to Steam. The "new" account with no key can still see the support packs in the shop on the web page. The four current "support" packs and then of course you can scroll down to early access packs. In fact on the web page when you hover over shop and click "buy packs" the current 4 support packs are the first thing you see.

Maybe they include early access, but they certainly don't list it. I don't feel like spending 30 bucks to find out because I don't need another account.

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its_sovren#3450 wrote:

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Antarious#5648 wrote:

Just for kicks I made a new account using my email as opposed to Steam. The "new" account with no key can still see the support packs in the shop on the web page. The four current "support" packs and then of course you can scroll down to early access packs. In fact on the web page when you hover over shop and click "buy packs" the current 4 support packs are the first thing you see.

Maybe they include early access, but they certainly don't list it. I don't feel like spending 30 bucks to find out because I don't need another account.

R u talking about poe2 website?

I just checked again on the account without a PC key and i cant buy any supporter pack. Only the one with the key inside. Everything else is just blocked.

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Antarious#5648 wrote:

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its_sovren#3450 wrote:

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Antarious#5648 wrote:

Just for kicks I made a new account using my email as opposed to Steam. The "new" account with no key can still see the support packs in the shop on the web page. The four current "support" packs and then of course you can scroll down to early access packs. In fact on the web page when you hover over shop and click "buy packs" the current 4 support packs are the first thing you see.

Maybe they include early access, but they certainly don't list it. I don't feel like spending 30 bucks to find out because I don't need another account.

R u talking about poe2 website?

I just checked again on the account without a PC key and i cant buy any supporter pack. Only the one with the key inside. Everything else is just blocked.

Yes the POE2 website. This morning on the new keyless account I went all the way to where it asked me to pick billing. Just now when I saw your reply I logged on that account and now all the support packs have the price button showing up grey. Again... that was not the case earlier today when I first did this.

Hopefully they are blocked in game as well for the weekend free session.