500k+ to Less than 80k players in just over a month, Impressive.

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kryadan#1199 wrote:

Didnt they make over 15 million dollars for early access sales?

That considered a failure?

considering the PoE1 yearly revenue was between $50-60 millions and they sacrificed basically whole year of PoE1 revenue at this point to push out a game they already spent SEVEN years on ...

if they only made measly $15 mil on this then yes that would be COLOSSAL failure

but no the estimated sales are around 1.5 milion EA packs which at $30 a pop comes around $45mil + some extra sales of supporter packs, stash tabs etc should bring them slightly above theyr normal yearly revenue ... which is STILL bad considering again they spent years putting this together and not 3-4 months per PoE1 league as a dev cycle


meanwhile they lost again 26k from the peak Sunday concurrents in just single week continuing the +-20% loss rate weekly trend they are on ...

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Asghaad#3967 wrote:

considering the PoE1 yearly revenue was between $50-60 millions and they sacrificed basically whole year of PoE1 revenue at this point to push out a game they already spent SEVEN years on ...

Fwiw, the last two years were between $83-84 million (with one less league last year), and the two before that during the height of Covid were $104 million for 2021 and $116 for 2020.

And even if they hadn't delayed the PoE1 league, the yearly Core packs were coming either way.

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ShiyoKozuki#4168 wrote:

The next real patch will come with more $250 supporter packs too!

Oh dear, we're not getting another patch under December? D:

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Lixy#2668 wrote:

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Asghaad#3967 wrote:

considering the PoE1 yearly revenue was between $50-60 millions and they sacrificed basically whole year of PoE1 revenue at this point to push out a game they already spent SEVEN years on ...

Fwiw, the last two years were between $83-84 million (with one less league last year), and the two before that during the height of Covid were $104 million for 2021 and $116 for 2020.

And even if they hadn't delayed the PoE1 league, the yearly Core packs were coming either way.

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ShiyoKozuki#4168 wrote:

The next real patch will come with more $250 supporter packs too!

Oh dear, we're not getting another patch under December? D:

i think your numbers are in NZD whereas info i found was in "converted" to USD

both mean basically the same thing

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Asghaad#3967 wrote:

i think your numbers are in NZD whereas info i found was in "converted" to USD

both mean basically the same thing

Ah apologies, that would make sense.

It is in the top 10 on steam charts, if you're not having fun go outside instead of bitching and not offering a single solution or idea

Considering the game is less than 50% complete I wouldn't start swinging the 8=======D aka D4 is betterer because me mum said so arguments just yet.

Personally I am not that bothered as the current state attracted half a million players. The reason POE 2 dropped many players isn't because it sucks, it doesn't. POE 2 is better than D4 NOW imagine what it is going to look like after 1.0?

IN DEVELOPMENT!!!!

You need to understand the "vision". They gave POE1 a quick boost, and keep trying to improve POE2.

There will be two games, and players will decide which they will play.

I don't think either will be abandoned...they both make Tencent tons of $$$ and is top shelf to anything Blizz "trys" to put out.

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Soulscar1#4896 wrote:

Considering the game is less than 50% complete I wouldn't start swinging the 8=======D aka D4 is betterer because me mum said so arguments just yet.

Personally I am not that bothered as the current state attracted half a million players. The reason POE 2 dropped many players isn't because it sucks, it doesn't. POE 2 is better than D4 NOW imagine what it is going to look like after 1.0?

IN DEVELOPMENT!!!!

except one thing, it doesnt need to "beat" the D4 as that is nonexistant challenge ... it needs to do better than PoE1 ... which it doesnt

and theyr solution to that "problem" was to KILL THE POE1 ...

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MourningBlade#6548 wrote:

You need to understand the "vision". They gave POE1 a quick boost, and keep trying to improve POE2.

There will be two games, and players will decide which they will play.

I don't think either will be abandoned...they both make Tencent tons of $$$ and is top shelf to anything Blizz "trys" to put out.

doesnt work that way ... they ALREADY killed off the PoE1 by breaking the leagues cycle ...

yes it was making them a BANK every quarter year ... and they just threw it into a garbage to push out an ALPHA for a game that will have only fraction of the originals STABLE playerbase ... the PoE1 was GROWING before they killed it while PoE2 "teaser" they released attracted a lot of "one and done" tourists its still yet to be seen how many players will it be able to bring back for seasonal content

meanwhile the year long break in the poE1 league cycle means even after they release the next one a large part of its previous playerbase wont come back - some will, some wont

nothing lasts forever.

everything finds its balance.

anything can be replaced.