A Message to Path of Exile 1 Players

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Sold out and left alone ... :(

Disgraceful conduct GGG. Sold out to Tencent, transitioning into Blizzard.

Also, so much for 'PoE 1 won't be effected by PoE 2'. How do you prioritise a game in beta, that is quite frankly a dumpster fire, while failing to maintain your guaranteed cash cow? Who is making these decisions? The fall off is going to be Overwatch 2 levels of legendary.

Oh well, when it starts hurting the bank balance maybe some much needed organisational changes will be made.

Now what I feared has happened. POE is dead and I don't like POE 2 at all. So I won't spend a cent more on both. I also hate being lied to. POE WILL NOT SUFFER FROM POE2!!!!

Having reflected on this for a bit, it seems that Jonathan is just out of his depth.
In early interviews he did not even know what was going on with PoE1. He wanted his new shiny thing (I assume so did a lot of designers and managers in GGG).
It was supposed to bring the "VISION" alive.
They had tried to push it on PoE, but backlash made them abandon that plan.
So now we have PoE2 and its alpha state.

Sorry, Jonathan, but the statement is company speak 101. Announce a massive disaster - after the fact. People had been expecting this since ruthless mode and PoE2 EA was announced.
And they were laughed at.

To GGG it might be the economically sensible thing to do, but for players like myself, who love PoE1, it is a slap in the face.

We were told PoE1 development would not be affected in am major way - but it has been for years.
GGG expected PoE2 such a massive success, that people would just forget about PoE1. And like a lot of similar cases (Harvest, AN, trade), people just do not agree.

Back when Settlers was announced, I had the distinct feeling that this was going to be the LAST PoE1 league. (Just the tone of the "bridging the story gap to PoE2 and Kingsmarch").
And now it turns out that they just lied about the work on 3.26. They said that it could have launched end of 2024, but timing was not right ... But PRE-production had not even started and all PoE1 devs are seemingly part of PoE2 team now.
Even the fact that microtransactions are supposed to be compatible with PoE2 now appears to an attempt to soften the blow of PoE1 being abandoned.

Seriously, awesome way to betray trust. I trusted those statements ...

Any for the video: Is Jonathan now also Game Director of PoE1? Thought that was Marc's job?

Strategy seems clear:

1. Build up hype for PoE2 0.2.0
2. Promise to fix EVERYTHING EVER
3. Announce the announcement of an announcement for the future of PoE1 some time later
4. Admit that now PoE1 does not seem to be worth the effort anymore with PoE2 being such a massive success
5. Keep Standard and HC going
6. the end.


And all the excuses about what the next Jesus patch will solve...

You SPLIT the player base, and just ignored us. Even the snide remarks: "PoE1 players often do not like PoE2" - like we are some backward degenerate unwanted remnant of the past.
But GGG seems to be happy with that.

Don't want to ramble on - I just feel incredibly let down.

Well, GGG in the end has to look for the benefits, I guess that the community that they have won with POE1 all these years is no longer important as long as there is money in their pockets.

I understand GGG as a company, but I as a user WANT to look after my own interests, and these are to be able to play POE1 in conditions, to have their leagues, and this is not happening.

Knowing this, I wish GGG the most absolute failure with POE2, so that they return to POE1 and stop being so ungrateful with the users who have given them their moral and economic support, there are people who have spent thousands of euros/dollars/eurodollars?/etc in you, for POE1 alone, and this is the way to thank them, great, well done GGG (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞

I am in disbelief with this news, really disappointing, every day I am further and further away from POE.

Unfortunately GGG made a mistake and a big mistake, that is in my opinion.

Unfortunately see you soon POE 1/2...

new poe1 player (as of like two days ago) that doesn't play poe2 here making my first post to say that this is pretty disappointing. i like the faster gameplay of poe1 and was hoping i'd be joining a game that would continue to be decently well supported, hopefully this is a one time thing

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Arakki#6986 wrote:

Admitting to your mismanagement of the situation is the only positive thing in this, kudos for that.

When's the learning from these years oopsies coming into play?

That's the fun part. Never.

Dead franchise