A Message to Path of Exile 1 Players

People on here are Ungrateful and Greedy, all i see is WHAT ABOUT ME, like GGG hasnt done so much for the community, Thousands of hours count less amount of content and they try to create something they are passionate about, and all people care about is them them them, The gaming community HAS always been toxic but this, this is just pure Ignorance.

You've seen 20k people jump at the chance for a currency and market reset in a private league. With countless more who missed out, and would have wanted to join.

I hope you realize what could have been done to make the people who love PoE 1 happy, and it really wouldn't have been hard.

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atalanta1111#5859 wrote:

Though, I do understand why, from a business perspective and from the absurdity of how many people were seemingly dedicated to never playing any ARPG not named Diablo regardless of all else, a need was felt to do something with PoE to make what the industry media would regard as a "new game" and thus in theory get press hype going and get some fraction of the Blizzard Zombies to give it a try.

This is not what happened. Don't blame any players. The decisions dominating PoE2 have been to stretch play time metrics to an insane amount and on every corner of the game to make progression stressful. This would shift earnings from mtx to rmt.

while this is super disappointing, it's realistic.

what is super disappointing and not realistic is the fact that poe2 is still freezing my laptop (and MANY others) since day one, which is the nr1 bug and it's STILL NOT FIXED

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tragic_nate#2420 wrote:

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This is really unfortunate. I feel like PoE2 has broken my love for PoE. Maybe it is time to move on.

so move on ? lol people these days complain about anything that doesnt go their way lol

At least everyone know when POE 1 "3.26" will be released ...

-A while- After POE 2 "0.2.0" (we are at "0.1.1b" atm) loool

;-D

/e Must add that POE1 is a safe working game model since more than a decade, it would be unwise to let it rot for too long. After such announcement it is clear that Last Epoch and Grim Dawn little teams will be fully motivated for their releases in the next few months.

Unacceptable.

Cool, thanks for the update, not like I play poe1 at all. come on everyone switch to poe2 stop update for poe1 and focus on poe2 ........ kidding guys don't hurt me.

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vio#1992 wrote:

chris chose a safe salary for his employees for the years to come and some safety for the company when those idiots on reddit pitchforked his companies' suppport down to a minimum again

There have been multiple riots against Chris' ruthless vision, which STILL is not what customers want. I never think it's a good idea to blame customers for voting with their wallets. It's the only vote they have.

Second, his decision to sell the brand worsened the situation for both employees and the games as we all can witness now. He took the money and escaped. The whole mess was a management issue from the beginning, but people have always been blind on that eye and kept glorifying him.

Thanks for the transparancy. I think nobody with a background in software development is suprised that we didn't get a POE 1 league at the promised date.

You had to take away resources for the development of poe 2 (6 dec), you knew you had to support poe 2 afterwards. So that must have been hectic and hard work. Then come the holidays where you get to spend time with friends & family, so that takes up the end of december & the beginning of january. And guess what is waiting for you when you get back, that's right, more support for poe 2.

That being said, from what I'm reading into the video, this could have been managed alot better.

I've got the feeling you have the same product owner for both poe 1 & poe 2. You should seperate the two so that each PO can defend the interests of their product. It would still be making compromises on both ends, but at the very least as a company you'd be true to some of the values that make you such a great company:
* Being transparant and communicate early and often
* Having a reputation of being trustworthy (promising a league every 3-4 months and delivering on that promise consistently)

Right now you have the following:
* Late communication
* On the date that you would announce the new poe 1 league, you announce that you haven't started the development of it and you don't have a new date for us yet

Look, nobody would blame you for having a delayed and a minimalistic league. Given the circumstances I'd say its only normal, you have a game that hits record numbers of players, ofcourse you will support it. You only get one chance at a good first impression. The bigger problem is that in doing so you neglected some of the values that we love about you.

Keep that in mind going forward, and make sure that you have a seperate PO for each product. That would certainly prevent some of the avoidable, and frankly predictable, mistakes.

Please don't read my message as negative, it is not intended in that way.