I had to stop watching today's interview

For me personally it looks like PiE 1 is slowly pushed into maintenance mode with light support and way longer than usual leagues, basically using it as a temporary transition pool till most of remaining PoE1 players move to PoE2 or move on completely and play other H&S ARPG's.

I wouldn't say it was a great interview, the interviewers were pretty rough around the edges, it was more of an informal chat than interview. But JR did great overall, better than with Zizeran.

POE1 is his own game that he made, spent half his life working on. Why are random people on the internet allowed to recognise and laugh at its many glaring flaws but he isn't?

Poe2 is already a much better game than poe1 will ever be. Personally I am glad they are focusing on the game with more potential and more need of attention. Absolutely the right call.

This fantasy of Jonathan as a malicious entity bent on the game's destruction is just silly. It really is.

Let me attempt to assuage your fears (Although I know you probably mostly just WANT to be upset). Jonathan and Mark are making a sequel in order to fix things they don;t like about poe1. This is not mocking. In order to make a game which is in some ways oppositional in this way, you must be able to identify what those things are which you dislike. if you're an uncritical fan, this might sound liek they are "shit-talking" their own game, but what they're really doing is just saying "here are things I wish we hadn't done and which I want to get away from.

This isn't conspiracy, it's just what happens when you are making something new. It is both normal and inevitable. Nothing scary here. Just... relax, okay?

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wizfor#1514 wrote:

Maybe I tuned in at the wrong time but

When I tuned in, Johnathan and the other interviewers were mocking poe1's ability to have builds that are fast.

Johnathan and others were mocking their own game.

I was disgusted and closed the interview.

Still searching for all this "love" i keep getting told they have from shills.

streamers and youtubers keep saying "ggg is one of the best and most loved devs" while i'm here like... they got the most downvoted posts on reddit for years. so much so they had to stop communicating with us out side twitter and forums.

paying for hype and fake love really gets to your head and jonathan pisses me off every time he opens his mouth, sounding like he's the best dev on the planet.

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Orion_3T#9801 wrote:

Poe2 is already a much better game than poe1 will ever be.

you instantly lose all credibility and should be ashamed of yourself

The people interviewing were licking his taint for 90% of the interview and JR still came off as a douche that doesn't know wtf he's talking about. you're living in a some mass psychosis from all the fake hype they pay for from streamers and youtubers. literally seek help

TBF. I'm not a fan of where poe 1 is. But only because they used the game as a testing ground for poe 2 too much and forgot how to undo it. They thought they were going to delete poe 1 and used it as a sandbox for their dog ideas and stealing game genres i hate. 3.14 they started making awful changes. they started paying streamers more and more to hype the game and they got big heads.

they need to revert the game to 3.13. Remove sanctum, expedition, and recombinators

ffs they already turned poe 2 into a joke with reliquary keys and recombinator lolololol. actual troll devs

Except they haven't really fixed much. For the ridiculously slow pace of the campaign the areas are much to boring and repetitive tile sets with no identity like in POE1. Dodge roll actually looks like you are doing a burn out by spinning more than you are moving forward. Then when you exit the roll you freeze like your toon is drunk. Itemization and gear progression is really really bad. Super super casual unfriendly. Was it released and is developing like this with terrible pacing , to still make up for the lack of end game they were so concerned about. Do the maps suck so much because they don't want the 1% to run out of game to play? Kind of stupid if that is the case. Punish your player because you where not able to develop something truly ready for EA in 5+ yrs?

Honestly those 2 came off as Nigel Tufnel (sp?) and David St. Nubbins lacking any sense of humor whatsoever. I would be embarrassed if I worked at GGG or knew them.