A Message to Path of Exile 1 Players

Massive L. Killing your legacy, popular product with a shiny new product that hasn't shown any potential at being replayable.

You've lost so much goodwill with all the terrible "Turn PoE 1 into PoE 2" patches, and now my favorite game feels dead for good.

Well, I liked it while it lasted. PoE had a good run.

I mean honestly, I feel like POE1 is already pretty content complete to the point of being kinda bloated with features imho... At the end of the day, it makes sense to me to focus the bulk of the team into making sure POE2 thrives and has a strong launch.

I'm not saying you should drop support for POE1, obviously, especially after promising you wouldn't , but it would make sense imho to consider doing some reruns of past leagues with some twists and new items and the like while re- integrating more league features that never made it into the core game. You have years of content to tap into and potentially improve upon, and it seems like a good way to keep the game alive while leaving most of the team available to work on POE2's campaign / endgame / new class / itemisation / seasons / etc.

Cause let's face it , you made a sequel, and it's pretty rare companies keep the same amount of support for the prequel after the sequel is released... That is unless you hire tons of new ppl , train them and have them both competing for the same timeshare in the same playerbase in the same genre...

Chris always said PoE was a game that you can play forever and was going to be developed with that philosophy in mind. I guess that was another lie. PoE 2 will never hit the highs it did in its first few weeks. GGG is chasing fool's gold and swapped out a loyal fanbase for D4 dads who aren't going to grind through the campaign every three months and then grind for hundreds of hours in the endgame while buying MTX every league. This is just terrible management and you just know people's jobs are going to be lost once Tencent expects all of this money from 2 that just isn't there. You won't be getting a dime from me and you can see from my supporter badges that I was happy to support you guys. No mas. You abandoned me and I'll do the same to you.

Yeah...we are going to need you guys to understand that we understand that POE2 is a beta and that we fully expect it to be terrible for a while.

So you can go a head and put the poe team back on poe instead of the poe 2 beta. Because we really don't care about poe 2 lol.

Thanks.

Not really a request btw, more of a directive. Go.

the sad part is that poe 2 already made the leagues much simpler since 2019 when started make the poe 2, if poe 1 could get some campaign changes to be less repetitive and more updates could be way better
and now they want focus on poe 2 cause dont think poe 1 is a good game but well poe 2 made that happens

Not the news I want to hear, but I have enjoyed POE2, and it has been a good break from POE1. Look forward to both getting back.

if y'all still haven't figured it out.. ggg wants poe2 to be polished in consonle.. everything about it leads to console format, they want all that dad gamer's money man.. rip poe 1.. no more supporter packs for me...... i feel sad man, this is where we say our goodbyes.. peace ggg its been fun

Reading a lot of POE1 widows... here my take...

POE 1 is not dead. GGG will find a common ground for now with the community.
(and yes, because of your endless posts crying about)

Just want to show some data about (source: voices in my head)

The POE 1 peak was something like 370 k players online.

POE 2 release was over 1 million.

I'm not talking about money here.
I'm talking about delivering some good game to a broader audience.

I feel sorry for all those D4 players that don't know whats a good arpg are.
POE 2 is not there yet, but will be.
I'm enjoying way more POE 2 from POE 1, and it's gonna be hard go back playing POE1
I will not quit poe1, just I think I might have more fun playing POE 2...

While the game is not being updated...
You can scream on forum (it's fun, I know. I enjoyed a lot with blizzard)
You can watch movies and your netflix thing
You can try to hook up
You can focus on your studies

and last but not least...
You can always touch grass


For ppl saying they paid a lot for a company that isn't making what you guys want...
Well, you support what they are developing
If you don't support it's state, just stop paying

I like their direction, I will keep paying.

I am upset but thats ok being disappointed is part of being a human i guess.

very unfortunate.
the core playerbase really enjoy path 1, it's the game that some of us have oriented our lives around because it's too good to put down. i speak on behalf of many who would appreciate a sustainable future of poe 1 with a team that loves it.

ggg, you have something other games would only dream of having due to poe 1's lifespan of enjoyable gameplay. a skilled and dedicated player base. it would be a shame to let them quit and move on with their lives.

ik it's better to hire in nz, but surely some qualified people who love the game could get visas