A Message to Path of Exile 1 Players

How are you guys not just slopping together some shame league like endless delve or endless ledge or just something stupid and fun?

Dear Grinding Gear Games,

I don't expect my message to be seen, but I write in the hopes that it will be, along with messages from others on this site, reddit, and even youtube.

I am, but a person of a few, a few of us are veterans, a few of us are mid, and a few more are probably new and don't have the courage to leave a message that could be drowned out in the fury of the angry mob.

But, unlike the angry mob that wish to move on by abandoning this game, I would like to move on from the anger of the past month to a league of the past that I never got to experience. I, along with a few, never got to play in the Affliction League, which to this day, I still hear people say is the best league ever.

Now, I don't know if re-implementing Affliction by itself or with Settlers is a labor that would need a full team to make happen, I just know that the assets and codes are probably stored somewhere. I, also, simply just wish that if 3.26 is nowhere near ready and you, GGG, require the time to polish and finish both POE2 and 3.26, please, give us, the players that were angry but chose not to abandon ship or throw Tujen off the starboard side, give us the chance to play a past league that most people fondly remember.

Yours truly,
The most inefficient Exile in the game, or close to it.

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Beavith#5056 wrote:

Hire some more fucking people god damn it.

They can't. Because here in NZ kiwi companies do not like to hire low experienced devs as they don't see them as an asset to train up in the long term due to cost. So they only hire experienced developers, sadly gaming companies and experienced game devs are almost non-existent here.

So they are greedy by not training up their own countrymen and only hire people with experience from overseas, which is very difficult as NZ is the other side of the planet and a huge move. Typical NZ operations, and they always complain that they can never find or keep experienced staff here.

I remember going to a gamejam here in NZ years ago and the organisers laughed when asked if GGG hire students from university or graduates.

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hardmuncle#6661 wrote:

As a 2012 POE player Jonathon don't beat yourselfs up over this. POE1 has shone brightly for a decade its POE2's time to rise, yes the EA isn't perfect but, putting all your resources to getting it right is the best decision its already a much more engaging game combat wise when the balance is right!

POE2 is stunning game and as someone who saw POE1 develop over time I am sure that it will shape up to being better than POE1 eventually.

POE2 is the future and I'm 100% sure that GGG can make this game incredible.

Don't bow to the pressure of the vocal few who want to wind back the clock ten years when there are literally millions of people loving what is already there in POE2 and a community that knows deep down POE2 is the future of GGG and ARPG's in general. I feel really badly how nasty the community is being over another POE1 league right now when its obvious POE2 should be the focus so it fully releases in a much more pleasant and playable state.

100% support your decisions GGG everyone makes mistakes its learning from them that paves the way for true progress.

What a brainless glazing. A game you spent the last 13 years playing gets butchered by a bastard offspring of it that's worse in every single way, and you clap? Vocal few? Have you read the response to this announcement? Is there any way of getting into the padded hugbox you put your mind in at all? PoE 2 is fundamentally broken, years of experience the devs have gotten from PoE 1 squandered. The Vision is dead, and you keep clapping for shiny new product to consume, despite it being a nicely packaged turd.

"I do not think I have been this depressed in a long time. It feels like the passing of a loved one.

I have 15k hours of POE, it is a love letter to its fans and the culmination of such care and joy.

I have 100 hours of poe2 and that was entirely out of love for GGG. It is early access but its vision is not for me. It is not crafted for the fans, instead it feels like we know better than you forced upon us. Even the small changes they have made feel like steps backwards not forwards.

Honestly not releasing something small like an endless delve event or a flashback/legacy league that would require little to no development time feels like a slap in the face. Its literally all we would need to keep our love alive.

I think they believe releasing any content for the better game would delete hype for the new shiny one. I hope they reconsider and give us something even if its tiny. I am not playing poe2 again this year so releasing something small for the real POE is the only way to make me continue supporting their product."

i agree with this 100% GGG word has been broken

People got paid...

The dream is dead!

RIP

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dupie#7991 wrote:

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Beavith#5056 wrote:

Hire some more fucking people god damn it.

They can't. Because here in NZ kiwi companies do not like to hire low experienced devs as they don't see them as an asset to train up in the long term due to cost. So they only hire experienced developers, sadly gaming companies and experienced game devs are almost non-existent here.

So they are greedy by not training up their own countrymen and only hire people with experience from overseas, which is very difficult as NZ is the other side of the planet and a huge move. Typical NZ operations, and they always complain that they can never find or keep experienced staff here.

I remember going to a gamejam here in NZ years ago and the organisers laughed when asked if GGG hire students from university or graduates.

Wow. It's even more lame than I could have imagined.

what happened to poe?

top3 ladder player blatantly account sharing and not banned.´

Constant delays.

Poe2 introducing problems that were fixed years ago in poe1.

just bring back chris.

o7 to all us, true players in PoE 1 and enjoyers of best aRPG. The last nail in the GGG coffin. Rest in peace one of my one of my favorite games, its time to shine for WASD, no craft and "Press space to dash for 0.5 meter" players

Some ppl may call PR BS, but I trust in your words.

Perfection needs time, and POE (1 and 2) is perfection (not all things perfect are flawless)

Keep cooking guys!

(also, looking at the community posts.... Would be nice to re-release some old league)