The community is taking the delay really well. Surprisingly well.

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Bleu42 wrote:

This is why I've been criticizing the name change from beta to EA. Because of exactly this; players who aren't paying attention will think it's a nearly complete game, just like D4's early access.

Yes yes I know, the definition of EA has shifted to essentially mean "we'll charge you full price now including mtx even though it's no where near done, and we'll maybe update it from time to time". But there's still a lot of players who view early access as just getting the full game earlier.

And that's what I'm afraid of with PoE2. They've had FIVE years from announcement, and unless it was a giant joke that I fell for, the devs have said the EA will have a grand total of 3 acts, 10 ascendancies and next to zero end game. How much longer do yall think it'l take to flesh out 4 more acts, 26 more ascendancies and endgame?

And now that we're essentially all excited to star citizen the crap out of PoE2, pay to play and full purchase mtx in poe1, they've got no incentive to NOT drag it out. So yea, unless they were joking on what's complete, I wouldn't be surprised if Poe2 isn't 2+ years out.

+1, i dont think we'll get to the point of star citizen tho.

as for why its taking so long, i ll simp for GGG abit and try and defend them on this. POE2 was meant to be additional content for POE1. most of everything they needed was already in POE1. all they needed to do is add new stuff and that was it. that was the original plan.

somewhere along the line maybe 1-2 years in ? we dont know. GGG realized that it was impossible to fix melee without rebalancing the entire POE1 game. it was so much work that the logical conclusion was to simply make an entirely new game. hence POE2 suffered a huge setback in the form of the devs going back to the drawing board. everything needed to be remade with melee balance in mind.

as for the starting EA being 3 acts and 10 ascendencies. i m of the opinion that they actually have much more already made but they dont want to release early. EA is just a teaser to maintain player interest.

but in anycase i m not surprised if the FULL game needs to be delayed 1-2 years later. what theyre doing is just simply too ambitious and has many ways it can fail in catastrophic ways. GGG really needs to put extra work to prevent that.

personally i would see that its justified for GGG to take POE servers down for 2-3 days for mtx/account migration. they need to test thoroughly. downtime is bad but hundred k players complaining/claiming they lost something due to the migration is waaaaaaaaaay worse

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kyobusa wrote:

Personally I love hearing people plan/take vacation days for stuff like this and then cry and mope when it doesn't work out.

schadenfreude. i m lying if i say i dont get a kick out of it too

Where is topic starter? He created the thread based on very small sample size among forum minority and claimed it's "poe community". Now we clearly see how deeply wrong he was.

Community in general "can't wait <x>", where x is anything from the developer. Cantwaiters can't accept possible but neccessary delays in release dates, they plan their life around the game (not vice versa) and blame developer because their expectations differ from what they've seen.

Same story again, again, again and again. Nothing changed for the past 30+ years.

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People who are fine with it aren't going to post, they are playing other shit.

Like i'm 90% fine with it, but the 10% is why i was still lurking to see what the story was gonna be with the next league now i just need to decide if I want to do a fresh start settlers or not.

Which is a little tempting, but also might just ride it out until the next league now and forget about it as they finally gave us some dates :p

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Baharoth15 wrote:

Personally i don't give a damn about POE2. They can delay it for another decade as far as i am concerned. But i am probably an exception with that kind of thinking.

Hardly. Personally I've stopped the $$ since China Corp took over. Anyone well versed in business knew where this would go. Just milk it for free until it drops.

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DiabloImmoral wrote:

I thought it was an open beta and not the soft release of the full game so I didn't think anything of it.

its weird that many people put so much into this release as tho its the fullgame, even planning vacation days for it.

Personally I love hearing people plan/take vacation days for stuff like this and then cry and mope when it doesn't work out.

Well a lot of people have no family and therefore no other more relevant things to center their vacations day around. I did set my end of year leave to coincide with the game, because I hate living my house in hot summer ( soth hemisphere here)

the damage controll working really suprisingly well


tencent, chinese corpo doing good job

PoE 2 gets delayed. Nothing further is said or given. PoE 2 awaiters who've been waiting for their game for half a decade:
"Man, that sucks. But they've got rock solid reasoning, and it's only three weeks. All right. Really sucks for the guys stuck with 'wrong' PTO, but that's game development for ya."

PoE1 3.26 gets delayed. PoE1 3.25-point-two is offered up as a filler instead, with enhanced Necropolis mapping/zoning. PoE1 diehards who've been playing their game for an entire decade and can go and play it literally right this instant:
-Evil Chinaland conspiracies.
-PoE2 bashing
-"NOT ONE PENNY MORE"
-"GGG LIED"

Really kinda shows the two faces of the community, eh?

Just last week I was thinking to myself that I would be just fine with a re-do of settlers understanding (as I do now) how to work the town perfectly. Well we get that and a small kicker of choosing a small bonus so I'm good assuming that I get the itch to play which I really am up in the air ATM.

well why would you say anything negative, what would be the use. we know they re working, so much so they make one of the worst event since i played.

so what s the point. and it s not like they have time for any community input.

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1453R wrote:

PoE 2 gets delayed. Nothing further is said or given. PoE 2 awaiters who've been waiting for their game for half a decade:
"Man, that sucks. But they've got rock solid reasoning, and it's only three weeks. All right. Really sucks for the guys stuck with 'wrong' PTO, but that's game development for ya."

PoE1 3.26 gets delayed. PoE1 3.25-point-two is offered up as a filler instead, with enhanced Necropolis mapping/zoning. PoE1 diehards who've been playing their game for an entire decade and can go and play it literally right this instant:
-Evil Chinaland conspiracies.
-PoE2 bashing
-"NOT ONE PENNY MORE"
-"GGG LIED"

Really kinda shows the two faces of the community, eh?

Well, they've made assurances to the PoE1 community about this exact sort of thing which is in direct conflict with how they're actually handling it. So yeah man, they lied to a community as you say that's supported them for a decade so they can even be in the position to develop PoE2.

So yeah people are pissed and they should be. What GGG did here is essentially bad business.