A Message to Path of Exile 1 Players

d3 new season tomorrow boys, i know thats its worst then poe1, but atleast its something...

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CoopSterner#0617 wrote:

Why is the POE2 game director delivering POE1 news?

LOL. Very good question.

Damn I will add some positive comments to this thread hehe

Not an easy decision but probably the right one, keep up the good work!

... no words to say about that.

this i a lie to all users... Poe2 affect not poe1...

Next step to ruin it.

Next is POE 2 is in a bad state...
so we have no game at all.

No roadmap nothing. Keep us in darkness..

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ReikaShikari#4239 wrote:

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Random_Npc123#1139 wrote:

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rastaqki#6957 wrote:

It's so funny to see grown men crying over a video game.

You spend money on the game. And you played the game. You probably got one of the best deals in the gaming industry when looking at how much you spent and how many hours you played. You paid for the present, not the future.

It's evident that 99% of people here have no clue how software development works. It's basically impossible to do precise timelines for new projects. You can't predict all the shit that will go wrong and all the shit that is much harder to implement than expected.

And anyone talking about how PoE 2 is dying is a moron. Concurrent player numbers after two months in PoE 2 are similar to the best day 1 peak in PoE 1. Get fucking real people.

You are not important because you spent money. Over a million other people also spent money, and they spent it on PoE 2, not PoE 1.

But the most funny thing is that all these crybabies will be back with money in their mouths as soon as the new PoE 1 league comes up. No matter what they said before.


I wish developers smooth sailing from now on so we can have a constant flow of new content for either of the games. Please don't listen to idiots who have nothing else in their lives besides playing the same game for 12 years.

Finally someone with common sense

Well, PoE2 is brand new, so it’s kind of expected. Also, you have to take into account that the drop percentage (actually PoE2 is going down a bit faster % vs Settlers) in players is similar to what PoE1 experience in this amount of time ( For instance. And how many of those players will be returning to PoE2 in the coming months? Additionally, how many are staying on PoE2 because of the lack of content in PoE1?

PoE2 should NOT have been released for another year imo

Why do you lie? What's the point? Or you can't do basic math.

PoE 1 Settlers:
Day 1 - 230k
Day 56 - 32k
In 8 weeks, it drops to 13.9% of players from day 1.

PoE 2:
Day 1 - 579k
Day 56 - 169k
In 8 weeks, it drops to 29.2% of players from day 1.

Yeah, i knew this would happen.. PoE2 is NOT for me in its current iteration, which is why i just bought Grim Dawn..

Which also means GGG just lost a paying customer....

You cannot realistically expect GGG to perform miracles. In context, POE 1 has less than 8000 peak players on the weekend while POE 2 has 170k on weekdays.

If you owned a company and 95% of your customers are buying your new product, you put ALL your resources into your new product. What you don't do is allow your new product to fail because +-5% of your customers are nostalgic about "the good old days".

People saying "I told you so" is like saying it is going to rain in England in January. It should have gone without saying, POE 2 is POE 1 2.0 so in essence it is the same game. Additionally you get to carry over ALL your POE stash tabs and even cosmetics eventually. This has never happened in the history of gaming as far as I know.

The developers are being honest and giving you realistic expectations which is rarer than rocking horse shyte in 2025. They didn't blame the players and call them bigots for XYZ.

Honestly for a beta POE 2 isn't in a bad state. The performance issues are strange as identical hardware are having no issues and serious issues respectively, even using the same drivers ext. Low end PCs sometimes have no issues while high end PCs are having issues.

The crashing issues are a mystery, I have done a bit of testing and personally think the one issue lies in outdated bios (or motherboard hardware) as it is the only hardware variable that can cause both bottlenecking and RAM errors which cause crash to windows, data corruption and PC reboot.

Alternatively but more common than many think, when people build their own PC, like upgrade their ram or GPU they accidentally grease the gold plated connectors (gold fingers). This is why professionally built PC's are made in antistatic environments. This skin oil/grease increases the resistance of one or more of the connections to the motherboard and as RAM (for example) uses extremely low voltages any change in resistance can cause all the afore mentioned crash issues, especially crash to windows and hard crash.

These crashes are far more prevalent in high intensity CPU operations as heat induced into said gold plated connectors increases the connectors resistance even further causing system instability. This will eventually decrease the signaling below the data detection/correction threshold and make 1's into 0's causing errors beyond the PC ability to correct for it. It is the opposite of thermal runaway in semi-conductors.

This will effect two identical PC's with identical drivers and windows in the exact way described in the forums.

What I am saying is GGG cannot account for the subjective randomness of personally built PC's. Building a custom PC isn't as easy as plugging in the bits and installing and OS & drivers. More factors are involved.

Keep the good stuff going GGG guys!
We will wait, and it will be damn worthy!

*tinfoil hat on*

Tencent pushed for early access being a thing and charging for it, get that money.

*tinfoil hat off*

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PLEASE JUST MAKE ANOTHER EVENT LEAGUE
OR JUST AN ECONOMY RESET WITH BALANCE CHANGES (to switch up the Ice Nova and Lightning Strike meta a bit lol)
I DON'T WANT ANYTHING MORE THAN THAT