A Message to Path of Exile 1 Players

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Soulscar1#4896 wrote:

POE 2 has been in beta for 2 months (over Christmas & new year) and SHOCK HORROR!!!! It has issues.

I have read lots of posts on this thread and POE 1 and blizzard fans are making compelling arguments including but not limited to,

1) Waaaah!!!

2) Whaaaah!!!

3) Whaaaarh!!!

4) Blizzard be betterer and have better servers with a 10000 employees and 400 x the budget waaaah!

5) POE 1 isn't a priority because of POE 2 whaaaah!

6) I don't like standard.....Waaaah!


While I understand these compelling and detailed arguments regarding the development of a new IP with limited staff and resources I looked everywhere and simply couldn't find a fk. I looked everywhere, even under my bed and in the cat litter tray, nope couldn't find it.

I give GGG a hard time on the forums but man this "broken promise", one which was impossible to predict in any context was simply a "we will try our best" statement. Was it a lie? You cannot preempt these promises so no. It was a statement of intent not a guarantee of deliverance.

D4 was stone dead 2 months after release, d3 with better graphics and less content isn't innovative, it is derivative. A $30 "cash grab"? You spend more on 2 big mac meals or a pack of cigerettes. Cash grab? are you serious? Ooof my sarcasm circuit breaker just flipped I am going have to reset it.

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Gorinnosho#0638 wrote:

uninstalling everything. putting it all behind me. path of exile and GGG are both in the past now. i stopped giving them money years ago because it was very clear what they were doing. now they've just admitted it in the most PR fashion. they didn't give a crap

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Soulscar1#4896 wrote:

POE 2 has been in beta for 2 months (over Christmas & new year) and SHOCK HORROR!!!! It has issues.

I have read lots of posts on this thread and POE 1 and blizzard fans are making compelling arguments including but not limited to,

1) Waaaah!!!

2) Whaaaah!!!

3) Whaaaarh!!!

4) Blizzard be betterer and have better servers with a 10000 employees and 400 x the budget waaaah!

5) POE 1 isn't a priority because of POE 2 whaaaah!

6) I don't like standard.....Waaaah!


While I understand these compelling and detailed arguments regarding the development of a new IP with limited staff and resources I looked everywhere and simply couldn't find a fk. I looked everywhere, even under my bed and in the cat litter tray, nope couldn't find it.

I give GGG a hard time on the forums but man this "broken promise", one which was impossible to predict in any context was simply a "we will try our best" statement. Was it a lie? You cannot preempt these promises so no. It was a statement of intent not a guarantee of deliverance.

D4 was stone dead 2 months after release, d3 with better graphics and less content isn't innovative, it is derivative. A $30 "cash grab"? You spend more on 2 big mac meals or a pack of cigerettes. Cash grab? are you serious? Ooof my sarcasm circuit breaker just flipped I am going have to reset it.

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Vladimori#5755 wrote:

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IrishRoyal#4223 wrote:

+1 respect

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IRMajestic#4038 wrote:

Capitalism rears its ugly head once again. Best case, this is incompetence; worst case, it's deceit. Either way, you just traded a decade of goodwill for some short-term gains.

Do you seriously expect people to keep buying supporter packs when the illusion that they’re supporting Path of Exile 1 has been shattered? No one cares about MTX for its own sake—they’re not buying a fancy cloak or some dumb pet. They’re buying into the future of a game they love. They're casting a vote for what they want to see thrive. And now you’ve made it clear that their votes no longer count.

I gave PoE2 a fair shake (~400hours), played it a ton and mostly enjoyed it. But i had to work for my enjoyment, trying many classes, playing both trade and SSF - things I usually don't do. That degenerative pull chasing wealth and power was never there. Usually, I'd be extremely hyped for the next league. But the promise of 0.2.0 isn’t sparking anything. I simply don't believe you will be able to add enough depth to make it interesting in the near-term.

In time I have no doubt that PoE2 will become a great game, maybe even a generational one. But it is so far behind right now that it will take years to reach that point. Why cannibalize your own business in the meantime? Why burn the foundation that made PoE2 even possible?

This is a massive misstep, which I'm sure you know. But it's important that you understand that we know too. What you are doing is extremely transparent, and not in the good way that we're used to. You knew all this before launching PoE2, and chose to withhold it from your loyal community, so that it wouldn't affect sales.

Right now, GGG is heading down the well-trodden path of greedy game companies toward irrelevance, prioritizing short-term profits over healthy relations with its long cultivated community. What the hell happened? You used to be so good at this?