4 months is too long for a league and its clear by looking at playercount

https://steamcharts.com/app/238960#6m

17k 24hour peak, this includes standard players

Start of league 178k peak

We are currently on Month 3 and the league is already dead with 90% player loss

Yet there is an entire extra month ( September ) where that will dwindle down even further

Its clear that the decision to move to 4 months ( due to poe2 ) is a huge mistake for POE1

POE2's statistics and players should not be impacting or influencing POE1

POE1 should be getting a new league launch in September, but instead its expected in October

I think alot of players want to see POE1 return back to the 3 month cycle and it would probably convince more POE1 players that POE1 is back on the right track and be more willing to support it financially

The 4 month switch has left us with smaller content and leagues for the past few years, everytime players think about the 4 month cycle we get reminded that its due to the broken promise that POE2 will not affect POE1

This is my feedback

Personally I think 4 months is good, because not everyone wants to play poe 24/7 for the whole league, I believe most people need the break between leagues. 2+ months of doing something else to get the excitement for next league.

I think 4 month is too short. It should be 6 month, so both players can fully enjoy it and devs can prepare some content. Not everyone playing 24/7.

I am only getting started. Lvled my char to 100, completed challenges and now testing different farm strats. Also want to try second char.

And the method of reducing people loss shouldn't be "decrease league time span", but "increase amount of things to do". I.e. people get bored from league, when they reach limit of their chars. I.e. when you have all 21 / awa gems, 6 T1 mod gear, heist enchanted... So adding some things that costs a lot, but can further improve your build can help.

Also have a more difficult, but more rewarding content to use this power. Like possesed exiles + titanic scarab under delirium (though it's not very rewarding now)