Radio silence = Crunch time

I'm on hopium and I'm pretty sure the hype will be through the roof in the wake of the announcement.

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1453R wrote:

I dunno, Bold. At this point I'm honestly starting to doubt we're getting the November 15th drop after all. We're closing in on twenty days without word one from the team, and the next best thing to only two weeks before their alleged drop date. There's no way a company wouldn't be dropping teasers and charging the hype engine at this stage if they actually meant to be releasing the game on the given date.

I think we're past the point where they can gain much of a hype boost with a mere teaser. Maybe if we were a few months out, we'd be getting teased more, but we're at about that point where people want some actual steak, not just the small of cooking meat, so the fact that they're forgoing teasers in the run-up to the announcement stream itself is about what I was expecting. The announcement stream needs to happen about a week before the Nov. 15th launch, and the announcement of e the stream details normally hits about a week before the stream proper, which would Halloween -- still a few days away. If GGG get all the way to the weekend without any news, I'll start getting nervous, but I won't start worrying until Saturday.

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Draegnarrr wrote:

The reason they are getting stick right now is they are being silent for basically no reason (outwardly, internally i'm sure there is one), which is never a good sign.

I don't actually care if they delay the next league until next year even though i'd prefer december - however I'd like to have a vague idea of whats going on because they are producing an exciting piece of entertainment i want to engage with.

They usually communicate fairly reliably and on this one I expected a "we are gonna aim for this wee might get pushed back to the following week" for the reveal and something similar for the beta. They aren't usually shy about just saying how it is and that's all i'd like :D

True, but they've never launched anything as big as PoE2 before, or as ambitious, and they've also never set a release date as far in advance as they did this time, so I'm not surprised that they're doing things a little differently. If it takes the rest of the week for them to feel like they've got a solid handle on what will and won't be ready for the start of early access in two weeks, then I'd rather they take the time and then give us a status update.

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1453R wrote:

That's kinda my thing, yeah. GGG being this absolutely dead silent is weird. Sure, they get memed on for Announcing the Announcement, but at least when they do that we know what's up. The dead void of utter silence is kinna unnerving from a company that's normally this talkative.

It is odd, yes. I'm still not going to start worrying until Saturday,

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Buissonix wrote:

I'm on hopium and I'm pretty sure the hype will be through the roof in the wake of the announcement.

Me, too; I get less excited about Xmas than I am about PoE2.

I expect an update on the reveal and then the BIG reveal. Two more announcements about a week apart.

Well, that was totally wrong.... :(

RiP November plans.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2zus8ux73s

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Sadaukar wrote:

RiP November plans.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2zus8ux73s

no news about new poe league either...i guess its safe to say it wont be until next year.

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Lyutsifer665 wrote:

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Sadaukar wrote:

RiP November plans.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2zus8ux73s

no news about new poe league either...i guess its safe to say it wont be until next year.

Well, shit.

OK. OK. This is OK. I've still got my Steam backlog to keep me warm.

Lol. I had a gut feeling this was going to happen. It would be strange for the game to not be delayed at this point. Although, PoE 1 being delayed an additional 3-4 months is quite the move.

Honestly, I think if PoE 2 doesnt meet expectations and causes further delays to PoE 1 I think a lot of the PoE 1 fans will be highly disappointed and possibly nope out after years of medium/bad leagues with Settlers of Kalguur being the only exception (so far).

Good Luck to GGG and hopefully they can skyrocket and keep players high once PoE 2 hits.

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Sadaukar wrote:

RiP November plans.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2zus8ux73s

bummer.

Lol at kalguur being the only decent poe league "in years".

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moerutora wrote:

Lol. I had a gut feeling this was going to happen. It would be strange for the game to not be delayed at this point. Although, PoE 1 being delayed an additional 3-4 months is quite the move.

Honestly, I think if PoE 2 doesnt meet expectations and causes further delays to PoE 1 I think a lot of the PoE 1 fans will be highly disappointed and possibly nope out after years of medium/bad leagues with Settlers of Kalguur being the only exception (so far).

Good Luck to GGG and hopefully they can skyrocket and keep players high once PoE 2 hits.

Lots of people were speculating about the game itself not being ready, for sure, but I do think it's noteworthy that it's not the game part of PoE2 that causing the delay - it's account database migration issues. It's the damn mtx! I don't think anyone saw that coming.

They did promise that all our mtx would carry over, though, and delaying the EA launch by three weeks to keep that promise is a pretty pro-consumer move, even if it is torture. Oh, well.

39 more sleeps...

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ladish wrote:

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Sadaukar wrote:

RiP November plans.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2zus8ux73s

bummer.

Lol at kalguur being the only decent poe league "in years".

What other leagues have been decent since PoE 2 has taken priority?

The only ones I can think of would be ToTA or Sanctum (I dont like Sanctum). Personally, Affliction and Necropolis have been the worst leagues since I started playing playing since Harbinger.