It's like GGG doesn't want higher twitch viewership and relevance during an upcoming holiday season.

We're all playing someone else's game, while Chris Wilson alongside Johnathan and others probably did the same once, except their career paths/choices also aligned with the gaming industry and probably end up enjoying the process of developing their game equally or more, especially with a potential to be highly rewarding.

We can criticize the game/company like we've done it through a decade and despite how much we want to get this or that, we'll always get what's available on the menu. Those who criticize GGG still display interest/care toward their product and whenever there's some news like lately, for some (including me) it has a lot to do with being the only/last game that I see myself playing/supporting.

In an ideal world we would forget about PoE within few years at most thanks to superior games/competition or at worst keep PoE in our rotation, because it did fit well with its F2P monetizing model with minimum access and that's how GGG experienced growth/success in its initial stage, by being aware of its limit as well as its competition at the time.

There's tens of thousands who have the skill set (careers) to develop a game exactly like PoE1 or PoE2, but given what the industry hasn't delivered through the decade makes the lead game developer position/role (person in charge of "cooking" a game I would also participate and support), well they would have to match my own gaming resume and intellect.

Star Citizen is the latest example why the industry is being held more accountable, while the market accumulates gaming exp the importance is more about who/what we're supporting rather than how much. I can understand and relate better with those who're in my place, because now and for a while we've NEEDED PoE to be our main game able to retain/maintain our interest, while the rest have failed.

Ladder resets and competition is one concept that fits well for an "online" ARPG, where PoE has the advantage due to abundance of single player games. The latest November 7th league reset isn't prestigious in anyway or offers/promotes incentives to look forward to participate/compete or follow during the next 2+ months and that'll also hurt the established PoE streamers.

Example, over 99% here don't know or care that the "best" players during the Settlers league based on its official ladder that they intend to reset are currently Sigmar in HC SSF and TooLegitToQuit in HC SSF Ruthless when it comes to Delve.

At this point I'm not surprised or expecting GGG to be the exception, the company that will continue to separate from the rest and maintain dominance or relevance years from now, which is why I advise most to have similar expectations.

The November 7th event can and should be at least more appealing and rewarding like others have already expressed and then Johnathan would feel more sincere with his apology. A failure leads to success of others and based on what I've been reading from the most vocal minority or majority I do want and hope a bright future for GGG, but it will be earned based on performance and not fondness or sympathy.

Still pushing the same ladder based narrative, keep up the good work.

...does this guy ever write a post that isn't bizarrely fixated on the idea of some sort of alien hypercompetitive ladder mode as Literally The Solution For All Gaming Forever?

Are we sure this isn't an A.I. account?

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1453R wrote:

Are we sure this isn't an A.I. account?

No lol, definitely bizarre whatever the case

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1453R wrote:

...does this guy ever write a post that isn't bizarrely fixated on the idea of some sort of alien hypercompetitive ladder mode as Literally The Solution For All Gaming Forever?

No!

in before this gets deleted (not because of the narritive through)

The holiday season and twitch viewership will be carried solely by PoE2 early access, which is over a month from now and given the fact there's been zero info related to rankings/ladders (any type of competitive) endgame, including what's on the PoE2 website or not, it's highly likely PoE2 will be exact copy of what PoE1 has been for too long, except with better graphics.

The latest November 7th event for PoE1 further indicates GGG disconnect when it comes to catering to my market, providing and promoting any incentives to retain my interest. Example, the least they could've done, the simplest thing is announced:

GGG will send/provide exclusive MTX rewards to the top three who'll reach level 100 in each class, as well as the top ten based on the Delve in HC SSF when the league is over.

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1453R wrote:

...does this guy ever write a post that isn't bizarrely fixated on the idea of some sort of alien hypercompetitive ladder mode as Literally The Solution For All Gaming Forever?

Are we sure this isn't an A.I. account?

I checked out his post history. His first post over 4 years ago was a 15 paragraph mess of nothingness, and every post for the next 4 years are basically mini rants about GGGs financials and release cycles and topics related to both. There's no evidence that this person, or bot, actually plays the game. The only thing they actually talk about gameplay wise are mentioning how the community reacts to each league, but no real personal opinion on them, or when they talk about the value of currency (sus). No discussion ever about specific builds, skills, or strats - literally nothing with detail. It looks like a bot that reads specific threads like development manifestos or GGG announcements and creates new threads generated from the reactions in the comments.

There is no competition in POE and nobody cares about delve.
POE2 early access > poe1

What's interesting is how threads like these, that always devolve into ad hominem attacks - which is literally against their Code of Conduct - never get nipped in the bud right away and are allowed to stay up with none of the offending posts removed, yet they are super quick to delete your posts when you reply to a year old thread. What y'all are doing is technically bullying. And Support is allowing it.