Is POE doing enough to counter the D3 ROS hype?
" Don't underestimate the number of people who get kicked in the groin, whine a bit, then ask if they may have another, expecting that the outcome will be any different. You see that with WoW. People have been whining about how the game has gotten worse since TBC, but every time a new expansion comes out, they buy it, hoping that the experience will be better. When it turns out to be just the same or worse, they shed tears for another two years, and then the cycle repeats. It's rare that people really walk away from companies that still benefit from the reputation that they earned twenty years ago when they actually produced quality games. In case of D3, there are probably plenty of us who spent $60, felt ripped off, and now spend another $30, hoping that by doing so they finally get their $60 worth of value. If I wasn't so thoroughly done with Blizzard (or rather: Activision), I'd probably do the same thing ... and then regret $90 instead of $60. :) (Well, I did pay for the CE, so it was quite a bit more.) | |
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ladder + self found + not-unreasonable difficulty
#1 is in the air #2 is confirmed #3 is T6 which should be hard except apparently absurd amounts of mob HP but we'll see and of course tears of softcore players finding out that DPS doesn't give LL and how they're supposed to survive in this cruel game... | |
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The only RoS hype I have seen has been in the PoE forums...
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I do not know if there is some kind of a hype, but I am quite sure ROS will not sell that well compared to vanilla D3. They messed up too much for the community to buy the game right at start(even though some ppl will always buy it). I fully agree with the fact that ROS and PoE are two different games and most gamers on PoE are actually tired of D3 in general and therefore are now part of the PoE community. I personally have no reason to go back to D3 , because it would be one major step backwards IMO. Playing now PoE, reading the reviews from D3 beta, I am sure that I will miss a lot of features if I would go back to D3. Even though I am fan of D3, for me there is really no turning back to D3,since I started to play PoE 1,5 month ago. With all respect to D3, but gameplaywise PoE is much better than D3/RoS :)
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" So what, some people who don't know better will waste their money, play ROS and come back 1 or 2 weeks later when the harsh reality kicks them once more. If someone finds D3 actually interesting after more than 2 weeks, I'd say what they want and expect from an aRPG is so drastically different from PoE that they wouldn't have stayed in PoE anyway. The only thing I find mildly annoying is that, again, there will be enough suckers to shove more money in Activision (I refuse to call that company Blizzard) and Robert Kotick's hungry maw. But, well. Refer to my signature. You have to be realistic about these things. Logen Ninefingers Last edited by Bars#2689 on Feb 18, 2014, 8:00:24 AM
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You guys are kidding yourselves if you don't think RoS will hurt PoE, at least initially
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" I'd say 1-2 weeks max. Seriously, you need maxed boredom and stupidity resists to play D3 and it still deals chaos damage over time :3 You have to be realistic about these things.
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" I don't understand, I mean, PoE isn't D3's competitor. We're a niche game with a niche audience. D3 is AAA. Less than 10% of people will stop playing PoE to play D3 for like 2 weeks, at most. My Keystone Ideas: http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/744282
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" I dont Need boredom to Play D3. D3 was a lot of fun, especially prenerf Inferno (at least for me..) I simply will Play both as I get burned out pretty fast when playing one single game the whole time. |
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" #1 is in the air = mostly it will never come although its has been announced (just like PvP) #2 is not self found, it's more like everything drops like candies and they didn't do shit about how bad the itemization is (itemization =/= drop rates), so they just give Sam very powerful items, high drop rates and ez as fuck crafting to cover it up instead of fixing this shit. #3 "not unreasonable difficulty" = hands in pants facerolling farming BS IGN : @Morgoth
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