Is POE doing enough to counter the D3 ROS hype?

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Xavderion wrote:

'This game is not hardcore at all, so let's make it a lot more easier!'. Not sure if this is funny or sad.

I write 4x paragraphs that you conveniently ignore.


That's Xav for you.

Mario Kart 8 is coming out soon, I don't think they are doing what they need to do to negate its hype.

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Stormquake wrote:

I couldn't give less of a shit about anything Blizzard makes.

Dark Souls II, on the other hand, is going to drag me away from PoE for a good few weeks.

Same, as well as ESO and wasteland 2.

Blizz lost me in wrath. TBC was soo good, then wrath of the casual king knocked me out, and diablo 3 layed in the boot whilst i was down.

Blizz is done, they are only designing games for the weak minded people that have no desire to " think " or learn how to actually game.

Blizz = Wii.Fun for the family .

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skullcrush wrote:

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Stormquake wrote:

I couldn't give less of a shit about anything Blizzard makes.

Dark Souls II, on the other hand, is going to drag me away from PoE for a good few weeks.

Same, as well as ESO and wasteland 2.

Blizz lost me in wrath. TBC was soo good, then wrath of the casual king knocked me out, and diablo 3 layed in the boot whilst i was down.

Blizz is done, they are only designing games for the weak minded people that have no desire to " think " or learn how to actually game.

Blizz = Wii.Fun for the family .

Hilarious bro, blizz are done? Expansions for warcraft, diablo and starcraft on the way, their share prices up 13% in the last week, revenue in the billions for 2013, yeah they're done alright.

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Xavderion wrote:

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symban wrote:

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Xavderion wrote:

It's impossible to balance the game around solo play without making it substantially easier by increasing drop rates and reducing RNG. Even if you do it in a seperate league, people would only play that league because people love to take the path of least resistance. Why would anyone try to make and maintain a group and educate himself about the market when he could achieve the same results with simply solo farming the game? And why would the later be more hardcore than the former (question to TheAnuhart)?

Because the ability to *buy power* is the path of least resistance, compared to building around what you find, and getting excited for every new build enabler you find.

Right now you need a specific item? "WTB XXX Ychaos" -> BAM you get it.. awww man that is SOO hardcore!

Looks like you missed the point. In a nutshell, the SFL guys want to achieve everything farming + grouping + trading gets them by solo farming. That would substantially simplify the game. Now tell me again how hardcore that is.

Farming: I see what you did there, added some extra stuff to make SFL lazy. Smart move *wink* This is completely something you made up. None of the SFL demands ever asked for getting stuff without farming. You somehow distorted drop rates not being based on trading to "not farming". It is not. If anything the lack of ability to *buy power* is 10x more hardcore than trade simulation we have.

Grouping: Amazing! You actually understood what solo does mean! Awesome man *high five* If group play demanded more cautious play, and meant bigger challenge I would say otherwise, but in its current state group in PoE is the easy mode. Only challenge in group play is FPS

Trading: Another 10 points for you! Finally you understood meaning of self found! Trade is a totally different type of game in itself, I would not place its difficulty on ARPG. ARPG is somehow about being able to kill stuff. Amazing right? You know what is hardcore, getting your gear by stuff that is INDEED challenging to kill. Not mindless faceroll for currency collecting.

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skullcrush wrote:

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Stormquake wrote:

I couldn't give less of a shit about anything Blizzard makes.

Dark Souls II, on the other hand, is going to drag me away from PoE for a good few weeks.

Same, as well as ESO and wasteland 2.

Blizz lost me in wrath. TBC was soo good, then wrath of the casual king knocked me out, and diablo 3 layed in the boot whilst i was down.

Blizz is done, they are only designing games for the weak minded people that have no desire to " think " or learn how to actually game.

Blizz = Wii.Fun for the family .

You honestly didn't try the hardmodes with WoTLK when each tier was relevant then. Ulduar hardmodes when tier 8 was current was the hardest fights the game ever had to that point. Alagon was no joke, infact, most guilds outside of the worldfirst guilds only started clearing hardmode Ulduar when Tier 9 came out.

Hardmode ToC 10/25 was no joke either when the tier was current.

Hardmode ICC 10/25 was no joke when the tier was current. Lick King heroic was brutal, most people didn't even make it past hardmode Sindragosa

There is no need or possibility of fighting ROS hype. Let people play it, they'll leave in 1-3 weeks. PoE is a stayer, which people will return to year after year.

I've preordered ESO, but know from past experience when I'm pulled into PoE, which I plan to play for the start of the new challenge leagues, I might end up staying longer than I planned. :D

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CharanJaydemyr wrote:

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Wittgenstein wrote:

Mario Kart 8 is coming out soon, I don't think they are doing what they need to do to negate its hype.

I had no idea. Did they finally manage to make a Mario Kart better than the SNES version? Because that was the tits.

The N64 version was the best. Not to mention golden eye. Ah those were the days. Epic.

It's a long thread, and I haven't read everything, so my apologies if this has already been said.

The best thing PoE can do to fight the RoS hype is not to counter with its own hype, but to let its product speak for itself. Marketing is best used not as a form of competition, but as a method to inform players 1) that it exists, and 2) a little bit about what it is; getting people to try out the game is the most marketing should be hoping for, so no (or very little) marketing should target players who have already played PoE. Regardless of how many players try out RoS, those who have played PoE are going to make comparisons based on the experience itself, not on some ad they saw.

May the best game win.

i honestly thought that there was no hype for diablo 3. im pretty sure most people jumped that ship long ago and got drowned in the amazing glory that is PoE.