Why is it always 1 week events?

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Zrevnur wrote:

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trixxar wrote:

Not sure if they use the same hardware so they would have to triple the resources necessary to run 3 at a time?

Hardware resource costs should have no stake for such decisions - they should not be significant.

You try running 30 minecraft servers open to different countries on your PC and let me know how that affects this statement.

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Northern_Ronin wrote:

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Zrevnur wrote:

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trixxar wrote:

Not sure if they use the same hardware so they would have to triple the resources necessary to run 3 at a time?

Hardware resource costs should have no stake for such decisions - they should not be significant.

You try running 30 minecraft servers open to different countries on your PC and let me know how that affects this statement.

Whats your point? If you have no understanding of how such things are done in the contemporary IT world maybe try read up on virtual machines, cloud computing, automatic scaling etc. There are various providers for such things like Amazon, Microsoft, etc. And even if they do their own things their own ways this kind of technology is standard now. All they need/ed is to hire one person who has experience & understanding of such things and they can do it themselves. Likely they have done that long ago - see private leagues being easy and (I think) automatic now.

The relevant point here is the (most likely false) implication that somehow it matters if a player plays in league X vs league Y. If they have somewhat competent people/setup this wont matter. And both leagues would run on the same servers with the same executables.

Because its "event". It needs to be short or people will get used to it and start to see it as new "base game".

AFAIK they use dynamic scaling within a specified threshold for servers guys it costs them no more or less to run 3 in parallel unless player count is significantly higher than expected. This is also how private leagues work and why they work so nicely.

However I think they want a little bit of fomo and the early rush for events and they are primarily there for the die hard fans and last stoics playing the league to have a hurrah before the next one.

Also this ones here to test 50% xp loss I think.

edit: Also as stated above they can't let it feel normal, much of their design is about the correct level of frog boiling and if players get used to crazy specifics they skip the next league (and associated MTX). I realise that sounds asinine but if you just take sentinel league as an example that absolutely blasted and was significantly more fun than league in its neighbourhood to some players.

It isn't that unbelievable to see a player doing Sentinel as a mini league then skipping Goat of the Boat league (name guess).

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Baharoth15 wrote:

This game isn't designed for people with a life. Never was, never will.

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1 week because typically it’s a no show.

krangled doesnt even need a week...3 days would be enough

shame there is no delve or heist this time. those were fun just because there was no campaign

Probably because PoE is designed primarily for those on disablity checks playing PoE 10 hours a day and spending money they dont have on supporter packs

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Baharoth15 wrote:

This game isn't designed for people with a life. Never was, never will.

Yes and no. I mean the game is vastly different than early days POE and powercreep and meta play has forcibly mitigated or trivialized a lot of GGG's philosophy's and distorted GGG's design intentions to the point where the game is almost a complete joke in trade SC using any meta strats. But its not even close to being balanced or "scoped" for people who have any sort of life or don't use those meta strats. (those who prefer to play games over following other peoples solutions).

Problem is this is not static, naturally over time a lot of POE's players go from people with no lives to people who do have lives. People graduate collage and accumulate responsibilities and commitments.

So then the question becomes: does GGG just shrug and tell them to take their disposable income elsewhere? Or do they adapt over time?

Over the years I would say there's been quite a lot of both. So its not very accurate to say "never" in this regard.

Anyway 7 day events seem a little tone deaf IMO. But if you're a meta follower its more than enough... the people complaining are people like me; I want to play the event but I might have 8 or 10 hours total in a week to do so. Just enough time to do a few white maps on day 7 before I take my kids back to their mothers house for the school week.

Take my money elsewhere I guess... HC classic WoW looks fun, doesn't restart every 3 months unless I die, and wont be gutted by balance changes aimed at making Grimro and CuteDog play 3 or 4 more days per league.

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Baharoth15 wrote:

This game isn't designed for people with a life. Never was, never will.

This is 100% wrong. There has never been a league where I couldn't play at my own pace even with RL responsibilities and work. I personally play around a month give or take a week depending on how the league is. And outside of the super 1% of mirror tier items.. I can accomplish whatever goal I set out to do.

Asking me to forgo everything else in life just to play PoE at every available moment is honestly just trash. People wonder why most of the time people just go after the free box with these events. These events are what... once or twice a year at best. This is not asking much for a company that has grown so much over the years to figure something out.

If each event was 3 weeks long and ran at the same time. How would this hurt any elite player who giga rushes the game in 24 hours. You'd still be able to play the way you play while others could enjoy the same content but over the course of a couple weeks.

It's just odd to me but judging by the responses in this thread... I guess I am the minority.