How this game will survive

you cannot compare league of legends with the system introduced for PoE in the FAQ.

The LoL-Shop is a giant surge of money in cause of the fact, that riot-Games is selling game-releated stuff you need to play competitive. Until you unlocked all Heroes and with their Cycles of releasing new heroes which are absolutely unbalanced at start they got a moneymaking-Machine running pretty well.

If the PoE-Ingame-Shop will sell only visual stuff like hats or someting like that i think its not that profitable.
Maybe they will input some kind of skill resets or such, what i expect to be realy usefull stuff i would pay for as well if its not too high in price.

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TYFK wrote:

Im sure going to pay for ingame items to support GGG.

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This!

If you really like the game, you should somehow support GGG.

Hope the support will be okay though.
We will see how the game will develope.. I mean no one of us HAS to pay anything..

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Teaef wrote:

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TYFK wrote:

Im sure going to pay for ingame items to support GGG.

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This!

If you really like the game, you should somehow support GGG.

Hope the support will be okay though.
We will see how the game will develope.. I mean no one of us HAS to pay anything..

QFT. If the game is to my liking, and I will spend a lot of time on it, I am sure to spend dollars on it. To support GGG, and my characters ofcourse, haha!

Cosmetic items are in oddly high demand to be honest.

I know that some first person shooters have completely cosmetic items like hats and character packs sold. Here you can actually see what you bought.

How many hatless people do you see in TF2 nowadays? Or people using the default skin in Killing Floor? Though one thing that accounts for widespread hat usage is that there's a lot of people on Steam.

I wonder. Will this game be on Steam?

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kmansp wrote:

but what if nobody bought any in game items?

Hypothetically: Grinding Gear Games would be forced to close down the game and/or go bankrupt.


It won't happen though, you underestimate group pressure, the need to be unique etc

Look at League of Legends, that game is entirely Free to Play, but has made Riot multiple millions in profit!

sure but path of exile isnt exactly the game that brings in alot of cosmetic people, and with gender lock makes it harder to "sell" the game to that specific group of gamers.

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ziiion wrote:

sure but path of exile isnt exactly the game that brings in alot of cosmetic people, and with gender lock makes it harder to "sell" the game to that specific group of gamers.

expanded stash, is something i atleast is ready to buy.

maybe they have a limited amount of char spot.? and u can pay to increese that.

maybe increese drop chanse potions or more exp or smth

Look at nexon games, they are HUGE!!! and have made their money off crap games like maple story, this game is actually good so I doubt GGG will have much problem paying for this indie game

and never underestimate the greed of rich kids

Also on the nexon topic they just started their open beta for dragon nest which has won a few PvP awards. Its a more action and MMO based game than this and the art style kinda sucks but the gameplay is soooooo fun, Check it out

Some people just buy stuff to support company,an easy way to donate.

look at league of legends im constantly buying skins and other appearance items, and RIOT makes serious money off that