So much overthinking in the forums and online...

The game went from mostly positive to mostly negative in one patch. That *should* have been an obvious cue to revert the patch immediately.

You should revert the patch and try a new strategy. The "Vision" is a flop. (Mainly because Souls games don't have 500 monsters per map and GGG is trying to fit a square peg in a round hole here but I digress..)

Just revert the "balance" changes and keep Huntress.

The longer you keep trying to duct tape this Frankenstein of a game into some crude resemblance of something worth putting effort into, the longer these forums will look the same, steam charts will look the same, streamers will still be living in masochistic hell etc.. in case you missed it earlier SOULS DIFFICULTY DOES NOT WORK IN A GAME ALREADY DESIGNED WITH THIS MANY MONSTERS, SCREEN WIDE EXPLOSIONS DO!

If you said " Ok we listened to you all, we're reverting the patch but keeping huntress and the additional content. We will be making balance changes at a much slower pace in order to monitor the community's feedback " you would literally get ALL of the players back in ONE DAY.

How is it so hard to realize you screwed up so bad that you need to revert changes and try a new and fresh angle at growing the game?

No one in the community cares how much time and money went into this horrible patch, just revert it. Save what's good (the huntress and skill gems) and move forward. Let us play with the stuff first and THEN decide what needs to be balanced. Idk how you figured you could add 100 support gems and simultaneously "balance" the game..

You're going to be duct taping this game up for years at this point.

Players were gravitating towards builds that blow up the screen because that's what is enjoyable in this format. You slapped their hands and said "Nope, don't do it your way. You're going to do it MY way. " and received a well deserved FU from the community. Still you are trying to force feed us this game. Your only supporters are the 1% no lifers that WILL find a way to get through the content and streamers who depend on you for livelihood. Pretty much the rest of the community thinks this game is trash right now. I've explained above how to fix it. The longer you bumble around, the worse it will get.

Tell that to the 200k players logged in right now and still playing who don't bother with the time to review or complain on the forums and actually just play the game. Just cause the ones that complain and review bomb are loud doesn't mean people aren't enjoying the game.

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PassageOfExile#0480 wrote:

Tell that to the 200k players logged in right now and still playing who don't bother with the time to review or complain on the forums and actually just play the game. Just cause the ones that complain and review bomb are loud doesn't mean people aren't enjoying the game.

Give 2 weeks check player retention numbers and let the democracy decide.

Honestly i think it wont be any good. Cuz its "leagues" now not single player first time playthrough anymore. What we see before wont cut to be "good" this time.

Game already lost like 40k players in 1 week. Think what will happen when "all" ppls reach t15s and last epoch hits.

They'll find out soon enough.

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ImMobile2010#0431 wrote:

The game went from mostly positive to mostly negative in one patch. That *should* have been an obvious cue to revert the patch immediately.

A full 2/3rds of the reviews are from accounts with 0 hours played in 0.2; it's obviously a brigade by diehard PoE1 fans upset by the change in the studios priorities announced during 0.1.

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They'll find out soon enough.

Unless your opinions aren't nearly as important or popular as you think they are because the people and content creators you surround yourself with don't actually represent as large a portion of the overall player population as all of you seem to assume.

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diebreath#7585 wrote:

Game already lost like 40k players in 1 week.

Why do literally none of you understand how this works? Changes in active player count do not directly correlate to changes in total active player population; not everyone plays the game every day and most people are going to play more often at the start of a league to try things out. Just because the daily count dips doesn't mean the game is "losing" player like this is such an absolutely simple concept in player activity metrics and you all get it 100% wrong 100% of the time.

Also, just like, what are you even talking about? The game peaked at 203k today. It was absolutely not peaking at 240k last weekend.

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Kerchunk#7797 wrote:

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ImMobile2010#0431 wrote:

The game went from mostly positive to mostly negative in one patch. That *should* have been an obvious cue to revert the patch immediately.

A full 2/3rds of the reviews are from accounts with 0 hours played in 0.2; it's obviously a brigade by diehard PoE1 fans upset by the change in the studios priorities announced during 0.1.

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They'll find out soon enough.

Unless your opinions aren't nearly as important or popular as you think they are because the people and content creators you surround yourself with don't actually represent as large a portion of the overall player population as all of you seem to assume.

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diebreath#7585 wrote:

Game already lost like 40k players in 1 week.

Why do literally none of you understand how this works? Changes in active player count do not directly correlate to changes in total active player population; not everyone plays the game every day and most people are going to play more often at the start of a league to try things out. Just because the daily count dips doesn't mean the game is "losing" player like this is such an absolutely simple concept in player activity metrics and you all get it 100% wrong 100% of the time.

Also, just like, what are you even talking about? The game peaked at 203k today. It was absolutely not peaking at 240k last weekend.

+1

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PassageOfExile#0480 wrote:

Tell that to the 200k players logged in right now and still playing who don't bother with the time to review or complain on the forums and actually just play the game. Just cause the ones that complain and review bomb are loud doesn't mean people aren't enjoying the game.

Pretty much this.


Also hell no OP.

Grim broken thank god its gone. Along with archmage gutted, so many sorc players not knowing what to do now, without something broken, is actually hilarious to me.

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ImMobile2010#0431 wrote:

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If you said " Ok we listened to you all, we're reverting the patch but keeping huntress and the additional content. We will be making balance changes at a much slower pace in order to monitor the community's feedback " you would literally get ALL of the players back in ONE DAY.

The game is still practically the same and I have no idea what you're talking about.

Whats unbalanced to such a degree thats made you feel this way? Any specifics?

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PassageOfExile#0480 wrote:

Tell that to the 200k players logged in

buT buT buT sTeAm ChaRT

Dawn of the Hunt is the worst season GGG ever done lmao
THREE TIMES LESS PLAYERS THAN 0.1
70% Negative Reviews since the 0.2 release
Even 1000+ hours no-lifers bashed on Steam this travesty of a game

They already have all those players and your money right? Steam alone had what a 500k peak? What are the Epic and console charts?
No matter what they do good or bad...they won the lottery already.