POE 2 early access paywall

Seriously? What has the potential to be one of the greatest ARPGs ever released and what will be genre changing for sure and is also FREE... COMPLETELY FREE TO PLAY.. and you're gonna come on here and throw shade about having to drop $30 to play earlier than all.... open your darn wallet and give GGGs some support man...... sheesh.

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cesmode#5569 wrote:

If youre in queue with the rest of us on December 6, you paid to be there.
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Think of it this way... for the longest time in POE1, we had three acts. Then a fourth. Then they removed difficulties and upped it to 10 acts. Free. THAT was free to play. "official" launch or not, the game was live, with leagues, updates, additions, acts being added, systems being tweaked,etc. Launched. Free.

Not anymore. The game won't be free to play until hopefully sometime in 2025 and by then I'd reckon 90% of people that have any interest in POE will have had spent $$ on getting into the EA.

Um... this is wrong. See the Wiki and the corresponding announcements in case you don't believe the Wiki or believe that I misquoted it to make my point.

For the completely free Act IV:

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The Awakening supporter packs are supporter packs that were released one week after the Awakening closed Beta test realm went live. Players who purchased a supporter pack were given a key to access the Beta. The supporter packs could be purchased from April 29, 2015 until November 13, 2015.

http://web.archive.org/web/20150501194000/https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1254765

For the completely free Acts V-X:

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The Fall of Oriath supporter packs are supporter packs that were released at the same time the Fall of Oriath closed Beta test realm went live. Players who purchased a supporter pack were given a key to access the Beta. The supporter packs could be purchased from June 7, 2017 until November 16, 2017.

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1907112

It is true that keys were also given out randomly. I was in both betas and while the lifetime spent amounts were probably lower then, so were my purchases... so that probably wasn't the reason I got in.
For Fall of Oriath it might have been related to my translation project, quite a bit of which seems to have made it into PoE.

But anyway... neither Act IV nor V-X were released free for all at the same time.

And "If youre in queue with the rest of us on December 6, you paid to be there."
is also wrong, since free keys are given out (there's a guy here giving away 2 spare keys a few threads away just now), Not sure if GGG will do it this time around, but at least one person is already doing so.
But that much is true: If you're here playing PoE1 or PoE2EA, SOMEONE has paid for you to be there. Because GGG are a company and their business, besides making PoE, is making money.

To be honest i am really surprised why so many people are angry about what the other do with their money. There is no need to play EA now, just wait and play for free. And if you feel like starting now for that 30$ just do it its YOUR choice...
I play PoE for quite some time and i just buy packs whenever i can afford it and like something inside. Its my choice to do that and money to send to the devs as my thanks for great job. Its so simple.

Vote with your wallet, if you like buy, if not wait till full release:)

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null-wraith#9444 wrote:

If that’s how you feel then just don’t play. Wait until the full release.

What game release? The one that may or may not exist in the future that's supposedly free? Should the new industry meta be to market all games as free but charge you for them? It's honestly ridiculous.

Ridiculous is they charge only 30$. Blizzard or EA having that game would want way more money and would cut some of it content and sells it as DLC.

You are to spoiled.

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ShamelessWhiteknight#7976 wrote:

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null-wraith#9444 wrote:

If that’s how you feel then just don’t play. Wait until the full release.

What game release? The one that may or may not exist in the future that's supposedly free?

Source: trust me bro?

The hype is REAL.

I am not paying them shit, I've already given them enough. Surprised how many people support this crap just cuz "game is good". They'd be right there in the trenches bashing any other AAA game developer who tried this

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Johny_Snow#4778 wrote:

I am not paying them shit, I've already given them enough. Surprised how many people support this crap just cuz "game is good". They'd be right there in the trenches bashing any other AAA game developer who tried this

I mean, I'd rather pay $70 and get all content going forward for free, but that's not going to happen, and even Blizzard didn't do that. Another alternative would be subscription fees which with how long I've played would total up to probably 3x-4x the amount I've spent supporting the game. you could also literally just not pay anything if you don't want. that how f2p works... PoE is one of the least predatory f2p games I've ever played. if you want to see predatory play some Korean or Chinese f2p games and get back to me.

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Johny_Snow#4778 wrote:

I am not paying them shit, I've already given them enough. Surprised how many people support this crap just cuz "game is good". They'd be right there in the trenches bashing any other AAA game developer who tried this

You probably have played poe for thousands of hours..