A Message to Path of Exile 1 Players

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Hilranger#2453 wrote:

so many people foretold about this scenario and now it begins. I'm sure it will start up again, but keep in mind, we didn't get any guidance at all of when these milestones are targeted for in the future (poe2-2.0, etc, etc, etc). No future at all. I miss Chris, as it all seems to have gone wayward when Jonathan took over the person in front person.

bummer news to be sure

agreed

I suggest people to cut their expectations regarding anything poe 1 related. That version of the game is now on maintenance mode. Unless they hire another 30 devs to work on it what exactly do you expect a handful of devs to accomplish with it.

Kind of expected this tbh.

add all the leagues as core.. :D

Of course, it's very sad news, I'll still wait for the next league 3.26

Being quite new to Path of Exile I am fortunate that I have plenty of undiscovered content to keep me engaged while the developers do their best to get their team restructured, so that they can prevent fires instead of putting them out. Given the free to play structure of the franchise it's clear to me that their decision to shift all focus to PoE 2 is a decision made for the people that play it, and not made with some type of money grubbing mentality. The team is human and that's awesome, lol. Sometimes it's difficult to predict exactly how the cookie will crumble. I know a lot of the PoE diehards are not pleased, but I believe the dev team is dedicated and our patience will be rewarded with their gratitude. Thanks GGG.

not cool

It's really unfortunate but not at all surprising. It should have come much sooner though as most thought we were about to get the announcement of the announcement for 3.26 end of Jan. So much of GGGs future rides on POE 1 continuing to be the best ARPG on the market; sure POE 2 will eventually become great, but they're so different that you can't abandon what made you successful/great to begin with. But its important that we realize that's NOT what's happening here, simply poor planning and management. I have faith that the two can indeed exist with 3-4 month leagues simultaneously in the end, but this was handled so so poorly after so much warning and fear this might be the outcome.

OK thank you

Let me add to the chorus: This is damn disappointing.

POE2 story mode is very good. I look forward to both new zones and character types, but the end game is boring and souls-like (which I hate) and I don't expect that souls-like design philosophy to change. This means it will never be what I want. A mixture of POE2 mechanics and POE philosophy is what I want in the end game for POE2: A boss in every map, Waystones to determine tier, 6 portals and 5 deaths on softcore, no requirement to locate and kill every super unique in the map, better map design, balanced characters that cannot one-shot bosses.

POE has a decent story mode and a very good end game. Don't take this away from me.

I love the leagues in POE and come back time and again for the new mechanics. If the souls-like philosophy isn't removed from POE2, I won't be participating in leagues there. I will treat it more like an RPG with a set story line. I'll play it through with various character types and then be done with it. POE will keep me coming back for the leagues (assuming they don't abandon it entirely).