Where's Chris???

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exsea#1724 wrote:

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kyobusa#3514 wrote:

The community attacked and bombarded him and Bex with death/sa threats and chased them away.

i'm not one of those people.

but i remember when the whole divine/exalt orb switch happened, chris's response was in absolute glee telling us how we should have just diversified our investments.

if theres any one time in POE's history that i feel i should get fucking pissed off at is this one particular time.

was i pissed with GGG's insistence on adding in AN? yes but i could reason that it was to simplify the monster mods. execution was horrible. but theres some good intent behind it.

was i pissed with GGG splitting POE1 and 2? fuck yes i was pissed. it was a broken promise. but with john/ggg revealing to players that they were forced to do it in order to fix melee i kinda understood. if ggg led up with this before the last exilecon i think i still would have been disappointed but i would understand and accept rather than just being outraged. the intention still is to give players a better experience.

one can say that exalt/divine switch was good for the game. you know what? i CAN agree to it. but the problem is the way chris responded had ZERO TACT. there was ZERO CARE. and it really showed "its not my problem". while players on STD had a huge lot of their investment crash.

fucking hell.

there definitely are arguments for chris. "hes not wrong" and "its a video game, you shouldnt get too invested".

to which i would say, if i m not invested i wont play nor spend any money on the game.

as for hes not wrong. if you're talking IRL investments thats true. you should never put all your eggs in one basket. theres conspiracy theories that markets are controlled by certain people, while other analysis would reveal that the market is based on trends. but in POE's case. this switch was a direct market manipulation done by GGG.

and yeah some people will also say "oh why so butthurt, some other currencies also raise in value, its all a gamble".

having something taken away always hurts to those that value the item. if you were poor had a handful of exalts but had a huge number of divines lying around of course you would be ecstatic. but on the flipside some players had hundreds or thousands of exalts that practically lost 90% of its value.

players who are PASSIONATE about the game, who spent tons of time playing. in fact i would say STD players are the most passionate among the entire POE playerbase. they play regardless of whether or not there is any fancy gimick or even a fancy challenge reward.

they play the game for the longest time and just for chris to say something so non chalantly.

damn man chris. i would have respected you a great deal more had you not made that "joke".

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Chris is still the Managing Director of GGG. I think he just wanted less responsibilities and switched with Jonathan as a face of PoE2. Nothing wrong with that.

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666lol666#3140 wrote:

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exsea#1724 wrote:

was i pissed with GGG splitting POE1 and 2? fuck yes i was pissed.

I still am. ^^

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TempestMind#6309 wrote:

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Chris is still the Managing Director of GGG. I think he just wanted less responsibilities and switched with Jonathan as a face of PoE2. Nothing wrong with that.

On reddit there's a few threads with unconfirmed comments from GGG insiders that Chris has retired and hasn't been at the office for years. If true, I just wish they let the community give him an affectionate and well earned goodbye. If not true I hope he returns to the spotlight in some capacity because nothing adds more hype (for me at least) than his introductions and interviews.

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ampdecay#1924 wrote:

Seems weird to not have him involved at all.

I guess Jonathan and Mark are the face of GGG now?

I will miss "Hi, I'm Chris Wilson from Grinding Gear Games"

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Naviachi#3440 wrote:

Why are people mad at GGG for splitting PoE1 and 2?