Get rid of 1 Week Races

It would be cool to have long and short races but each race could have various play time per day restrictions.

So a 1 month race with 2hr 4hr 8hr 16hr or 24hr per day restriction on play time per day for the character in that particular race.

This way people with a life could actually get involved and tailor what they enter based on the spare time they have.

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Imo people shouldn't ask to remove races, instead ask for alternatives and suggest formats that suit you better.

That's about it.

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And especially with private leagues starting up at some point, I'm sure everyone will be able to find a race/event format that suits them.

It heavily depends on the price of the league and if a league can paid by a group of players.

This thread is just ridicoulus. There are companies that profit off of way more hazardous things than video game binging. TOBACCO companies for example, harvest hundreds of thousands of lives every year. Yet, people still smoke cigarettes. Complaining about a video game that encourages sleep deprivation is just pathetic in comparison.

You sound like my family telling me to not smoke weed because DRUGS ARE BAD MMKAY. Yes, I know it is bad for my lungs, but I like it and it's my choice to take that risk. Get the fuck off. Just like the competitors in 1 week races, they know it isn't healthy staying up that much but they love to do it and so they will. Just because you suck and can't keep up with that pace doesn't mean they shouldn't be able to.

Sorry if I'm sounding harsh, but what you are suggesting is ridicoulus. I'm sure a race league that better suits your gaming-style will eventually come around.

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Nasabot wrote:

I think the best idea is to make races hourbased.
Something like this: 100 hour race and the players have 1 month time.(~3h/day)

In my opinion racing should not be about who can sleep the less but who plays >the most efficient way<

Then people would make several characters and farm maps/items with and feed their main character with these.

The way I see it is everyone should play whatever race suits them...Dont compete in a 1 week race if you cannot dedicate the time you play..Or just go for a persoanl best each time, its what I do...

You dont ask a sprinter to compete in a marathon race, or a drag racer to go run a indy car race or say in a job, have someone go work on a LM2500 engine when they are only skilled with Computers...

Just do what you can do period...Chris and GGG are trying to please the masses with all the different types of races...If you noticed, each race the main price is always the same....So practice at the 1-3 hours races...In the end this is a game and you shouldnt expect it to please everyone...Not many games out there even have races like this and are Free 2 Play for that matter...What GGG has done and plans to do in the future is amazing for something free.

Just because YOU can't compete doesn't mean they shouldn't have that race you entitled idiot.

Well i believe some of the posters here are dumb enough to ignore the fact that these no sleep intense races bad for your health. I respect whoever won and race them but they re not smart at this case.

You cant compare with sprinter or marathon runners or people who good at what they doing those activities actually is good for your health(for mostly) and yet people complains about 50 hours of work per week but they can easily spend double for a game which ends up in-game 50 bucks and item. It doesnt matter how much you liked what you are doing if u doing that in reckless intensity thats not for fun i believe.

GGG should not encourage these kinda races which will result death for lack sleep. D3 and aasian mmo's has enough bad publicity about this i dont think company like GGG need this.

For last telling grown up dudes to this is bad for your health is retarded as telling them dont smoke or drink too much cause its the players call and they already should know its bad for you.

I haven't read every comment, I have gone through quite an amount.

So far what it seems like is that people are just complaining to complain. You guys are acting like this is there first day on this earth and they don't know the risks. People who play long hours usually know the risks its THEIR choice to do what they are doing. You are pretty much asking PoE to hold their hand and act like a mother, which will not happen.

The fact is people should be able to spend their time anyway they want to adding restrictive hours to your game play, wouldn't make it "healthier" it would make people pissed off, and may even drive off other players (new or old)

I guess you guys are the type of people that say people shouldn't play any type of aggressive sports either, I mean people can get seriously hurt or possibly even die. *rolls eyes*

Why does everybody mention the risk of dying by staying awake? You DONT die because you (willingly) stay awake for some days because you will simply fall asleep before it gets that far. The much bigger risk is to die from dehydration, which is easy to handle with o bottle of water.


And btw. there are people dying at triathlons quite frequently. Do you want to prohibit swimming, bicycling and jogging?

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jaankoo wrote:

Why does everybody mention the risk of dying by staying awake? You DONT die because you (willingly) stay awake for some days because you will simply fall asleep before it gets that far. The much bigger risk is to die from dehydration, which is easy to handle with o bottle of water.


And btw. there are people dying at triathlons quite frequently. Do you want to prohibit swimming, bicycling and jogging?

No playing for 70 hours at a time is a death sentence. You can't survive. Its not like soldiers constantly stay up for 3-4 days at a time.