Spend $30 this "expansion", no questions asked.
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If you're "hyped" and end up playing 3.26 at least until Sunday June 22nd only good things can happen. People are born with ignorance, they go through experience, make mistakes in the process (some more costly), learn and adapt.
Most here should be familiar about the quote "beating a dead horse". If you have better things you're looking forward to experience with your remaining life and precious time within this industry or otherwise then you would've already forgotten or moved on from PoE or even the gaming industry as a whole, given what it hasn't delivered through over a decade, despite the tools and tech being available. What surprises me the most is GGG willingness to continue delivering PoE leagues completely free to play given the current state or reality. As time goes new supporters will come and old ones will be gone. Anyone who believes or refuses to support the company at this stage in some sort of protest or thinking it'll somehow allow the company to do more for PoE in the upcoming future they're wrong. All of what GGG can do is either hire more and better talent/employees/staff (resources) and that goes from the minor roles all the way to top through time. Companies adjust through time based on statistics to maximize profits for the following year and not for the next decade. It's irrelevant how much $ the company has received in 2023, 2022, 2021, etc. what matters is how much it'll receive this year to be able to do what the following year with those resources. Like I said, it does surprise me 3.26 is already not behind a paywall, like at least $15 and I hope that changes soon, because I still do care and greatly about the future of Path of Exile 1. Last edited by Kopogero#0635 on May 23, 2025, 5:55:09 PM Last bumped on Jun 4, 2025, 10:09:46 AM
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For a person who "cares about PoE" you sure give great advice how to ruin it and pretty much kill it even harder than it was killed by no new content for 300 days.
If you think PoE has ANY chance of competing with Diablo when it wont be free, you are delusional. When people see both games are behing price tag, which one do you think they will pick? And Im not talking about long term PoE players, those will give money to GGG whether game is free or not. Im talking about newcommers. Last edited by Aynix#7757 on May 23, 2025, 6:05:09 PM
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3.26 is right around the corner, but still no sign of Kopogero in a fresh league or race. Maybe the stars haven't aligned. Or maybe even a $15 entry fee and an empty leaderboard wouldn't be enough to tempt the one true visionary of ARPG innovation.
But hey, who needs actual gameplay when you can just rewrite the genre from the sidelines of a game that’s thrived F2P for over a decade? |
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" HAHAHA, you have two argument (well the second is more of an opinion) that a $15 paywall would persuade or prevent/stop a new player to play (try) Diablo over PoE, followed with an opinion that long term PoE players will give money to GGG regardless if game is free or not? Well, how does that work out so far? Wait, how long did Settlers last for? The primary reason 3.26 coming out almost a year after isn't PoE2, but revenue generated from Settlers including some of the past leagues. GGG could've easily pump out PoE1 leagues, while delivering PoE2 and also making PoE3 and PoE4 IF they had the resources to hire / recruit the careers/employees required, it's that simple. New "expansions" / leagues generate revenue, so it's about projected costs versus profits based on past statistics / data. Finally, the new players coming to the market are the youngest audience and that market is already heavily targeted through the endless, generic single player games being pumped with shiny graphics. I've said it before the content in PoE for me is the community, because I play PoE to compete with/against it, which means more players = better competition for me and that doesn't benefit me from any league/expansion paywall, yet I support it because now more than ever this company shows obvious signs of financial restraint. |
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" So what you're saying is that many of us - myself included - have spent thousands of euros on this game in the context of Grinding Gear Games promising that all future content releases would be made available for free, and now you've come along and decided they should go back on their word and prevent us from accessing the next challenge league unless and until we spend even more money? That sounds like a great way of shrinking the playerbase by giving the game's most (financially) generous supporters a feeling of being betrayed and that they can no longer trust the game's developers. Something tells me that that is not in the best interests of PoE 1... While you're casually deciding whether or not the rest of us should be permitted to play 3.26 when it finally does release next month, would you like to estimate how much money you have spent on the game to-date? Given the speech, I'm expecting it to be quite considerable indeed. Imagine the lack of introspection that would be required to spend your spare time telling people they’ve posted in the wrong section of an internet forum, only to then try accusing someone else of brown-nosing.
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The forums wouldn't be the same without the Kopo threads.
Yep, totally over league play.
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hoho Kopo
-Official Forum Dweller-
-I started the hoho movement- -Exploit Early - Exploit Often- -Moderators are absurd and OP- -Heist Enjoyer- |
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Big spender
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Nice try Chris
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" Yeah, and ofc you have plenty of proofs to back this statement? Didnt know you have access to data how much revenue GGG made from Settlers. Considering it was most popular league EVER, combined with "PoE Two supporter packs" released during Settlers, only someone living in delusion could think that Settlers had bad revenue. Last edited by Aynix#7757 on May 24, 2025, 3:40:49 AM
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