In two weeks PoE will have less STEAM players than at the end of last leagues

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SuperDeathLord wrote:

Lol i just love how these grudges evolves into this whiner vendettas where u post charts and graphs and give 'business advice', as if u really care how well the 'business' does. And as if your advice isnt hilariously one-sided, biased, willingly uninformed, and unreliably useless, cuz its given based on emotion not intellect.

All u want is your stuff to be unnerfed, or drop rates to be improved, or your special little feature to be put in the game, or some grudge against another poster.

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ancalagon3000 wrote:

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SuperDeathLord wrote:

Lol i just love how these grudges evolves into this whiner vendettas where u post charts and graphs and give 'business advice', as if u really care how well the 'business' does. And as if your advice isnt hilariously one-sided, biased, willingly uninformed, and unreliably useless, cuz its given based on emotion not intellect.

All u want is your stuff to be unnerfed, or drop rates to be improved, or your special little feature to be put in the game, or some grudge against another poster.

Game has serious issues and is dying, face it kid.

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ancalagon3000 wrote:

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SuperDeathLord wrote:

Lol i just love how these grudges evolves into this whiner vendettas where u post charts and graphs and give 'business advice', as if u really care how well the 'business' does. And as if your advice isnt hilariously one-sided, biased, willingly uninformed, and unreliably useless, cuz its given based on emotion not intellect.

All u want is your stuff to be unnerfed, or drop rates to be improved, or your special little feature to be put in the game, or some grudge against another poster.

Game has serious issues and is dying, face it kid.

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ancalagon3000 wrote:

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SuperDeathLord wrote:

Lol i just love how these grudges evolves into this whiner vendettas where u post charts and graphs and give 'business advice', as if u really care how well the 'business' does. And as if your advice isnt hilariously one-sided, biased, willingly uninformed, and unreliably useless, cuz its given based on emotion not intellect.

All u want is your stuff to be unnerfed, or drop rates to be improved, or your special little feature to be put in the game, or some grudge against another poster.

Game has serious issues and is dying, face it kid.

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SuperDeathLord wrote:

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ancalagon3000 wrote:

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SuperDeathLord wrote:

Lol i just love how these grudges evolves into this whiner vendettas where u post charts and graphs and give 'business advice', as if u really care how well the 'business' does. And as if your advice isnt hilariously one-sided, biased, willingly uninformed, and unreliably useless, cuz its given based on emotion not intellect.

All u want is your stuff to be unnerfed, or drop rates to be improved, or your special little feature to be put in the game, or some grudge against another poster.

Game has serious issues and is dying, face it kid.

So what? why would I care? If the game dies, I'll play A NEW ONE. DUH.

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CharanJaydemyr wrote:

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Oh no. Answering posts with pinpoint precision.

That's...inexcusable!

...seriously?

Hint: if you want to be taken seriously, open your eyes and see that anyone, anyone you would label as a fanboy here has criticised the game at some point. Some of us very vehemently.

A fan cares about something and is passionate about it, especially if that means pointing out its flaws in the hopes that this might make it better.

A fanboy cannot see that something can even be wrong, or inferior, or anything less than perfect. A fanboy cannot be reasoned with.

Path of Exile's community does not have many fanboys. But it does have fans who aren't willing to admit that's what they still are.

As for those who can't be reasoned with, I'd say we have more people on the other side of the fence there -- trolls and naysayers who have lost all objectivity in their hurt and disappointment.

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Temper wrote:

I guess GGG got the core player base they were looking for and deserved.

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Boondocksaint" wrote:

Fine, lets forget about charts and maybe try and use our eyes and brain.

I have only played invasion last month so i ll only comment on that.

When Invasion started there were 40-50 trade channels active all the time with so many people.
Last 10 days in the morning you have 1 channel poorly active, barely moving and in the evening you have 2-3 channels active but most of them are same people and spam goes something like this:

a) WTS/WTB exalted orb - this will allways be the case
b) WTB Chance orbs - this is one of the signs game is broken, there is no way you get good unique, T1 unique unless you spam thousands of chance orbs
c) WTB Chisels - noone have enough chisels, and every 2-3 lines are chisels, chisels and chisels
d) few people spaming their shit uniques or rare items

So genius, what is your logic here?

I test-ran Invasion just before it was released and didn't make it past level 5. My immediate feedback was 'this is WAY overtuned. You can't release this as it is!'...but they did, and I knew it'd cause massive problems. And it has. Consequently, I've ignored Invasion entirely. It's a fuckup, plain and simple. It wasn't sufficiently tested, it's aimed at a VERY small percentage of the playerbase and quite honestly if Ambush weren't as good as it is, it would have signified SotV's 4 month leagues as a failure to me.

I assume that Invasion's playerbase has plummeted as a result of this. Ignoring the usual drop-off after a month or two of a league (GGG is caught in a cycle of spikes and dips now), Invasion just isn't the sort of league most people are meant to stay in for long. It's insane.

The issue is I would think people are so aggravated by the poor balance of Invasion (or maybe that it's aimed at extremely good/dedicated players and people who think they are that, are cut to find out that maybe they're not) that they're quitting altogether. While I agree that Invasion is very poorly balanced, there are still some very high level survivors. If there weren't, then absolutely the league would be a failure. But there are, so I guess someone's enjoying it and figuring it all out.

I do not think that the drop-off in one temporary league's population is sufficient evidence to declare the game 'dying' or 'dead'. Ambush is thriving, Standard is pretty busy and the races get healthy levels of participation.

I am not sure if you were expecting me to explain why such a drop-off justifies a belief the game is dying. If you were, I don't agree and so don't think I should have to explain that.

All I have done here is attempt to give some perspective on how the population levels of leagues might fluctuate, and to further explain that one league's deliberately sharp drop-off should not be read as the game's demise.