Ultimatum Launch: Server Issues and Streamer Priority

"was about as close as you could get to literally setting a big pile of money on fire"

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See those supporter packs? That money you set ablaze is in the form of those being the last ones to be purchased GG GGG.

From the company I had always praised as being the "ethical" option that wanted to just produce the best game possible to giving preferential treatment.

PS MAYBE GIVE SPONSORSHIPS to streamers who actually play your game on a normal basis instead of only offering them the TRASH tier sponsorships to promote your shit ethics on social media.

No one cares to watch someone stumbles through act1 over 20 hours.

Guys, if they are giving streamer priority, they are also giving streamer 'privilege'. In other words, insane loot drops. They do this to attract new gamers who watch these streamers on twitch and youtube, and get them all hyped to play, because they are thinking that they, too, will get those drops - but, in reality, it's a traditional bait and switch.

If anything in life is 'free', YOU are the product. I think GGG and these streamers need to be taught a lesson. GGG needs to be made aware that these streamers, for the most part, are toxic, and are not worth catering to. If they want advertising, they should pay for commercials or whatnot the traditional way. As for the streamers -- streaming is NOT a job; you provide nothing of value, for the most part. Stop acting like you are elite because you're not - not even close.

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kolyaboo wrote:

The launch was handled very poorly technically speaking. But the PR aspect is a disaster unparalleled in the history of the game.

Your bad attitude has effectively lost you a ton of $

Yeowch.

Do i have to try to login every hour or how could i know that i could play now?

Iam try to login every 30 minutes and till now i couldnt create a new char for the new league. The game crashes immediatly.

It's hilarious how this happend on the league you guys chose to name "Ultimatum". From my point of view the entire PoE 1 project was already on probation after the tech issues of 3.13. I hope people won't forget this. I sure won't.

Also i really hope they ask themselves where else you guys used "weighted algos" and favourism ;)

Wait, who would have thought that sucking off streamers would piss off everyone else!

Thanks for writing this...
Still waiting for a real crafting system though...

The part regarding streamers that were paid to play the game getting queue priority does not pass the sniff test.
There is no way you’re paying people who already stream PoE every single day to play and stream the league launch, yet many of those got queue skips.

No more money from me. I cannot support a company that gives underhand rewards to those who promote their business that harm their supporters. The preying on gambling addicts with loot boxes was bad enough, now this..

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cybert2 wrote:

Yeah he got rich and does not care what we think. People will continue to support GGG even when they got caught showing favoritism. This made me realize what a shit company they are. Saying Sorry does not cut it. You should have reset the servers ASAP but now it is to late.

Game is still unplayable for me 3 day after launch

Getting "failed to connect to instance" on every other area

Can't complete lab, Taking 3X the time to move through the acts