Is POE doing enough to counter the D3 ROS hype?
" Exactly. Besides, Blizz can hype it all they want. The hype is not going to attract anyone that quit and left in disgust. The game has not changed. All they did was add a new class, a new tile set, and bigger numbers. |
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" Target audience and niche player are two different things. D3 is more casual friendly, PoE is super harsh to new players. Chris has said he would eventually like to make the game more "user friendly" but it certainly isn't a priority. So overall there are alot of crossever players, but PoE is limiting their player access, seeming purposely. Blizz would rather get more money and market broadly. I don't know which is more correct. Business wise seems foolish to miss out on customers. Gameplay wise I could care less if a 10yr old can't figure out PoE. "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt." - Abraham Lincoln Last edited by DarthSki44#6905 on Feb 17, 2014, 2:01:23 PM
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RoS will sell 10 mil copies regardless of what GGG do so I doubt they worry too much about competing with it.
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I'm more hyped for PoE than the other game.
I just don't see how D3's new things would make it better. I think Malthael is cool and all but fixing the lore ain't enough for me, I need complexity. Last edited by NorbTheOne#1240 on Feb 17, 2014, 2:01:31 PM
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" Holy shit, because we do not get 3 QQ threads a day (thx that it stopped) about items and items and well most of the time items mixed in with some desync and something else or again items means that the forum is dead? I did not realize this at all. Shit it seems you are right! Ohhh wait a minute... ps: If you miss the QQ fraction visit the hearthstone forum. Guess whats going on there :) pps: I was shoked how userfriendly it already got. You dont even need to search things. A fucking HUGE "!" pops up on minimap so you cant even miss a thing. And thats kind of sad it was interesting to search such things. And for me that is already way to much simplification. Why you should try Harcore http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/209310/page/1 Last edited by tadl#0113 on Feb 17, 2014, 2:07:16 PM
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" I'm more of an arpg genre fan than any particular game so obviously I'll play ros and see how it is and if it good enough it might steal me away but I rEAAAlly doubt it. Something tells me this lil poe mini expansion is going to blow the socks off all our expectations so I really don't think I'll be going anywhere. |
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" I doubt it will sell 10 mil copies. The only ones buying should be those that didn't quit or those that don't have clue and just buy anything that's new, just because it's new. I'll be watching though, because I'm curious as to what the sales numbers will be. |
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" You obviously missed my point. I play Pokemon and Quake 3. Both games still have different target audiences. GGG banning all political discussion shortly after getting acquired by China is a weird coincidence.
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" You won't notice, you will probably notice the opposite at first. PoE will lose some to RoS, Christ, it's losing players to alphas, card games and browsers. But PoE will gain a lot of players from D3 with the loot changes. When you can't buy your BiS gear in D3, when the game is focussed on loot-finding and monster slaying, rather than shopping, when there is no AH or RMAH, when trading will be a side event rather than having the strongest impact on every aspect of the game and progression; expect a lot jumping ship to PoE with its 0 binding, pseudo 3rd party AHs, rampant RMT and trade gated content. Shoppers gotta shop, coming with the lol claim of hardcore aRPG is just the icing for the shoppers. Yes, PoE will be fine, post RoS, for a little while at least. Casually casual. Last edited by TheAnuhart#4741 on Feb 17, 2014, 2:13:31 PM
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" +1 there will be two way migration: gamers will go slay monsters in RoS. traders will flock to PoE i have RoS beta access now and really really cant wait for it to go live. after 6hours getting back to desync is like kick in the back. long time poe players will be shocked when they try RoS about combat fluidity and network performance. this simply cannot be compared to poe at all. however trading in poe goes well with all that legacy stuff sold for dullurs |
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