Christmas is nearly here and WTF ?

Why do you care about snowflakes? Celebrate in real life.

PoE1 is currently not the main objective of the company for obvious and good reasons.
To summarize it with Mark Roberts' words, "Deal with it"

continue donating $30 to a billion dollar corp until player morale improves.

chris nowhere to be seen. looks like they dipped and are probably playing MTG lol

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Phrazz#3529 wrote:

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Spurilious#4012 wrote:

I suppose this is what happens when a large gamming company takes over a smaller one, its all just about the money. Shame.

No, this is what happens when gaming companies make a sequel. We knew this would happen, no matter how much they said otherwise. It's only natural. Their main focus now is (of course) PoE 2, just as D3 isn't Blizzard's focus. While PoE 1 will still be updated with leagues, I wouldn't expect grand things going forward, at least not until PoE 2 is fully released. We cal all see that PoE 2 needs a lot of work, even though it's fun.

Normally they don't do sequels to live service games that are succesful
So this is not exactly "normal circumstances"
I don't think diablo 3 had big playerbase and made a lot of money on MTX when diablo 4 released
PoE 1 was still very succesful and probably will be going forward if they develop good leagues for it
They have also designed PoE 2 to be very different
They have cross MTX compatibily
I think they've said they will time leagues so that players can do both games leagues
This way they could also have an excuse to do double league supporter packs
And both PoE 1 and PoE 2 playerbase would be able to use both PoE 1 and PoE 2 league supporter packs
So even PoE 2 players that only plays PoE 2 would spend money on PoE 1

I think they will keep supporting PoE 1, because I still think there's huge demand for it
It would have been a different scenario if PoE 2 was a complete replacement for PoE 1, but it seems like that's exactly what it isn't

It would seem sily to just kill of PoE 1
I don't think that would make much sense
They will probably focus on it much less than PoE 2 though

But they could also just keep the servers running, without updating the game a lot

We will see what happens

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Spurilious#4012 wrote:

I have to say I am a bit disgusted with how you have decided to treat the POE1 players at the end of this year, with all the trust and support they have given you over the years making it possible for to to create your new game POE2 you have done nothing to celebrate this Christmas with you loyal player base. No snow flakes no snowmen no special events NOTHING. I suppose this is what happens when a large gamming company takes over a smaller one, its all just about the money. Shame.

"ho ho ho merry Christmas"

Isn't keeping politics, religion and other real world events out of the fantasy-power-fantasy a thing?

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scrollo#4884 wrote:

Isn't keeping politics, religion and other real world events out of the fantasy-power-fantasy a thing?

I agree, but I'm not the one who gave out free "mystery boxes" around Christmas years ago, GGG did that.

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scrollo#4884 wrote:

Isn't keeping politics, religion and other real world events out of the fantasy-power-fantasy a thing?

Pretty fun in many MMOs I think
But it would feel very out of place if there was suddenly christmas decorations in PoE cities

It is strange that we're not seeing the usual annual Christmas MTX sale. It's not like it would be hard for someone at GGG to implement, even if the sales run on some sort of automated schedule. ='[.]'=

Really? You're hurt that much? lol