Planning/developers

Quick question before I drink my second beer while working on a PowerPoint for a meeting tomorrow.

GGG have known for years (way before ExileCon 2023) that PoE1 and PoE2 would have to become their own, separate game. Lately, we've heard that there are only two people qualified for the "director" role of both games, and in a very late interview, we've learned that there are only two people qualified for doing game balance on both games (probably the same two?).

So, my question here is simply: What!!? What are you doing down there? What happened to planning, training new talent and looking ahead, becoming a multi-game studio?

Am I the only one finding this a bit strange, naive and very optimistic?

Enjoy your beer.

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superbomb1967#5561 wrote:

Enjoy your beer.

Thanks, babe. Nothing beats a good Pale Ale come summertime.

Cmon, its small indie studio from a garage.

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Aynix#7757 wrote:

Cmon, its small indie studio from a garage.

You're small and from a garage!

(GGG, that was a joke)

How many beers are we up to now?

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Phrazz#3529 wrote:

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Aynix#7757 wrote:

Cmon, its small indie studio from a garage.

You're small and from a garage!

(GGG, that was a joke)

Ooo, I'm tellin' /s

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superbomb1967#5561 wrote:

How many beers are we up to now?

Only 3, still more than developers over at GGG capable of doing balance changes.

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Phrazz#3529 wrote:

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Aynix#7757 wrote:

Cmon, its small indie studio from a garage.

You're small and from a garage!

(GGG, that was a joke)

Im pretty big, wanna test it out tonight?

With all the other crazy things that will get you muted, probation, or banned, there just has to be something about being overtly suggestive.

Stated in jest. Of course.