Why are legacy items here and why the game isn't unbalanced because of that

Why do we have legacy items?

(beside the technical part)

We have them because people who had them (at the time before nerf) invested a lot of their time/currency to acquire one.

Those who invested a lot of their time in the game are the players GGG wants playing their game.
If GGG nerfed all the versions, they would lose their "most devoted" players (a big part of them were supporters), they would lose the trust regarding future play.
People would stop investing a lot of their time/currency into acquiring some items, in fear of nerf, this would diminish the flavour of playing.
People wouldn't support the game as they are now, how game evolved, because of the lack of trust and the presence of "fear".

GGG made a mistake in the beginning, allowing those versions of uniques to exist in the first place.
But, what was done - was done, they moved on, a huge majority of players moved on.

Now, how did they balance the game? Exactly the way they should/had to, in order to not lose their player base and trust.

Others having legacy items doesn't affect your gamplay in PvM at all, it does however, affect the PvP part, which is crappy anyway.

But, GGG should "ban" legacy items from PvP, that way the balance would be complete.

Others having legacy items to farm faster (a miniscule amount) is actually balanced, sure, they'll have more currency/items (probably, on average), but they will also create an inflation, lowering the value of them, and that's the balance.


An issue that we have, is the perception of balance and the envy.

+1 this post

legacy items are nice, since they can't drop anymore they are even more uniques than before, don't ban them.

Good to see someone stating his opinion and guesses as facts, paired with weird use of " " .

Btw. just a question.. why not make a recipe to upgrade the new version into the legacy version, or make legacy items droppable in standard league. You could still ban them from PvP and they would only be in standard league where it doesn't really matter anyway.

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Asphael wrote:

Good to see someone stating his opinion and guesses as facts, paired with weird use of " " .

Btw. just a question.. why not make a recipe to upgrade the new version into the legacy version, or make legacy items droppable in standard league. You could still ban them from PvP and they would only be in standard league where it doesn't really matter anyway.

Good to see someone putting words in someones mouth.

There isn't a single "fact" word in the post.


Why not? Probably because GGG decided they don't want any more of the legacy items in game?

And we have the same old rubbish about standard league... If it doesn't matter, they wouldn't change anything in there.

People claiming that anyone against legacies are only envious is just as stereotypical and wrong as saying that anyone for keeping legacies simply has a bunch and is too greedy and selfish to ever support balancing them.

Tinooooo people aren't going to accept standard is the dump -.-

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Asphael wrote:

Btw. just a question.. why not make a recipe to upgrade the new version into the legacy version, or make legacy items droppable in standard league.

Because GGG promotes playing in the 4-month leagues and having standard drop better items in a item-centric game like PoE would lead to everyone playing in standard and not touching the 4-month leagues.

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iamstryker wrote:

People claiming that anyone against legacies are only envious is just as stereotypical and wrong as saying that anyone for keeping legacies simply has a bunch and is too greedy and selfish to ever support balancing them.

Check this out, the last sentence in the post:

"An issue that we have, is the perception of balance and the envy."

Although I wasn't aiming for both combined, just listing.

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tinko92 wrote:

(beside the technical part)

The technical part is the only believable reason.