How Secrets of the Atlas Launch Went

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Djarum0#4971 wrote:

I find it very insulting that there isn't a single word about how the MacOS client is completely non-functional after the update.

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Echothesis#7320 wrote:

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TravisL#2218 wrote:

Months of ddos huh

You see, other than those who has incomplete brain function like the clinical insanes or the retards in a medical definition, people don't do things without benefit, there is always something for you to gain thru an action you chose to do, you might be wrong about what you will get but still there is a logical reason.

Who can benefit from POE being ddos'd? There is no one, the only other game that competes with POE's player count, is POE2, no other game in this genre is even close to be a competitor, and almost all of them running a very different release schedule to POE, around POE to be exact, sabotaging servers here ain't gonna drive players to play diablo like duh, if any game were to receive ddos attack, it should be "the other" games, those games compete with each other.
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You forget what kind of audience poe was attracting all this time, and how GGG were treating their players:)

Poe is grindy, aspirational, but highly volatile, punishing, and unfair environment. People willing to push through all of it are proud, tenacious, spiteful, and capricious. If you ban them for, say, publicly abusing another money printing exploit, it would be a "logical" enough reason to get some revenge.

Then there is GGG who always stands ready to nerf what players discovered (with major collateral damage), but barely get around to buff underperforming skills of fix age-old QoL issues. Don't even mention account investigation department, look into "help and information" here, you'll see a lot of pissed off people waiting 3+ months to get their accounts back.

At the same time there are numerous tech-savvy people here, having access to a DDOS machine isn't so rare as you think. Maybe GGG's karma has finally gotten to them:)

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s0mbr#5965 wrote:

There was massive network shutdown one day before the league’s launch. Something related to Cloudflare afaik (NOT SURE, YOU CAN CORRECT ME IF YOU WANT).
In addition to that people from many regions (China, Russia, probably some ex-CIS states, Iran etc) are having their own “inner” restrictions which affects both abilities to connect to the servers and connection stability.
As for “big streamers” Im pretty sure most of them use paid VPNs which could potentially solve many network-related issues.
Im not defending GGG here but I would like to mention they cant directly control how “the Internet works” especially from New Zealand.
Yes, Im affected by these issues too: couldn’t even launch the game on day 1, was getting disconnections every few minutes on day 2, still having disconnection like every second map, playing in party almost impossible, got some new memory related bug which crashes the game to desktop after recent patch.

Here is couple thoughts on the matter:
1) Make it like it is in POE-2: when you leave from the map via portal or disconnect the portals remains open, you only lose portal(s) if you die and resurrect (so no infinite attempts).
2) Make something about how instances work in the game so disconnections/rollbacks wont kill the instance entirely. Its bad when you lose a divine orb from rollback. Its much worse when you lose all the portals as well (especially on the league start when you don’t have plenty of maps).
3) Make some alternative update servers on different platforms. Like if someone cant connect to primary update server, the client pick next one from the list.
4) Please communicate with us. When you cant even log in in the game on the league start and Support answers with autoreplies they don’t have the resources available to help… this is really disheartening (yes, I do understand they in fact cant help with something and don’t blame them but for many people it probably feels almost offensive). Maybe you should hire some more Support specialists.
Thanks.