Live Interview with Chris Tomorrow

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Envisionise wrote:

Hi, I'm Chris Wilson from Grinding Gear Games and I am happy to announce a new microtransaction - all the voices in the game are replaced by me.

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return33 wrote:

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sidtherat wrote:

after watching athene interview there is little hope left in me. this isnt the game i decided to support long time ago and is moving fast in the opposite direction - asian MMO

im expecting "...economy...", "... but economy...", "..yes, but what about economy.." and "..figuratively speaking economy.." and "..we think that this is fun.." and finally more of "..economy.."

it seems that this 'economy' stuff isnt working well enough to keep people and attract new ones. holidays over, people have less time to play and the 'growth' after Dec 23rd patch is already gone
http://steamgraph.net/index.php?action=graph&jstime=1&appid=238960&from=1382479200000&to=End+Time

stuff that need attention that probably will be skipped:

- desync (nuff said)
- rmters/jsp at the top of every ladder
- ladders dominated by abusers and shockingly slow reaction to that (freeze mine, CoD snapshot)
- when will Aegis and BoR be nerfed? and in general why it takes ages for obvious balance problems to go away? what was the reasoning for letting searing bond be UTTER CRAP for so long? animate guardian? when will you bring ST in line? etc? it seems that you play another game sometimes (recently more and more often - DoT change amazes me..)
- trading game with slay-the-monsters-while-waiting-for-buyer minigame philosophy
- game being outright hostile to new players .PK at bandits being 'intended' mechanic, obscure game mechanics, desyncing boss at lvl 8 and foremost:
- SCAMMERS prying on noobs. they are the cornerstone of economy. and it seems that nothing is being done to reduce their impact on the all-mighty economy.

and dont tell me game is in ok shape - trade channel populations and number of new uniques on poe.xyz tells more than all announcements. ofc 'it is the small minority that uses these' but you know - you can extrapolate quite accurately and both these demographic are by definition the 'more than casual' players

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I expect to see an interview with more focus on economy than a usuall "Handelsblatt" (german version of wall street journal) interview and not a single word about having fun by killing monsters.

Sad i still have some hundreds MTX points left - couldnt even motivate myself to start the client of this unrewarding asia grin style MMO for weeks.

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- trading game with slay-the-monsters-while-waiting-for-buyer minigame philosophy

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mazul wrote:

7. Can Chris imagine a different type of endgame where trading and partying isnt mandatory to sustain lv74+ maps efficiently compared to now?