Secrets of the Atlas peaks at 178k players, Settlers remains highest peak

And both pale in comparison to new PoE 2 patches. What happened? Is the update that underwhelming or have too many players simply moved onto other games?

Secrets of the Atlas and Mercenaries of Trathus couldn't beat Settlers of Kalguur and it is not even close. The 24h peak of this "expansion" reached its height at 178k players on Steam, a solid 50k less than patch 3.25 which attracted 228k players.

According to GGG themselves the vast majority of players play through Steam which paints a pretty clear picture: PoE 1 is past its prime and they were right to prioritize its successor, Path of Exile 2. Settlers highest peak across all platforms reached as high as 350k players and with 228k of that being on Steam, it is evident that 65% of all players play through Steam with the remaining 35% being split between standalone and console. That means we're looking at an estimate of 62k players between Standalone and console, bumping the total up to ~ 240k. That's a 31% loss across all platforms in just one year.

Mind you, these numbers are openly available and everyone can do the math themselves. The tl;dr is it's not looking good, players are dropping the new patch rapidly and GGG will have to do better in the near future. Recycling memories, adding a few new bosses and gems with reskinned AG npc's on top just isn't cutting it.

GGG needs to do better going forward.

Although I doubt there's a single player willing to back it up on GGG at this moment, the launch day isn't over yet.

A Guinness crappy launch doesn't help the numbers even.

I'm not saying you're wrong, but they blundered the release completely, on all platforms: PC/Mac/PS/Xbox. It seems difficult to determine if release conditions were relatively similar, no? I know your stats refer to PC, but still many PC players are experiencing issues.

I would consider general GGG fatigue (failures to communicate, failure to release, failure to patch, etc.) to be held as somewhat explanatory.

It was never going to beat settlers, they scuffed their release schedule and its the price they pay for doing so really.

Like as a hypothetical if Mercs here had posted better numbers than settlers that would be absolutely huge and could only really be explained by poe2 players filtering over.

As it is its a momentum fail, but if the leagues good and they resume normal service I think it will go back to increasing 10%~ each league like prior (number i made up I don't remember how much).

This league was a hastily-produced product (based on Jonathan's admission that they hadn't done anything for PoE for a long time, and the short time frame since). More time and effort likely went into the promos than into gameplay. I wouldn't expect much from it. ='[.]'=

Look at the trend of PoE1 leading up to Settlers league.

Then realize they killed the momentum of PoE1 when they stopped updating it for almost a full year.

PoE1 players are the ones who keep the lights on at GGG.

Be happy you get to play PoE2 and stop shitting on PoE1.

Edit: and the MASSIVE server problems and crashes arent helping launch numbers either.

So far it seems like it will be a great league. The numbers are not helped by the server instability.

The devs have created an incredibly UNINSPIRED league with very few additions to the endgame.

In essence, almost nothing has changed to make the game more interesting/appealing.

Horrid league = bad numbers.

Currently, after having played PoE for years, I prefer a D2 mod to this boring league.


IS THIS OKAY for me to say, whoever likes to delete my post?? Oh, now I've gone and done it, haven't it? Smh. Ya'll are the most ... ugh, I can't even.

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Marthuk#0788 wrote:

Look at the trend of PoE1 leading up to Settlers league.

Then realize they killed the momentum of PoE1 when they stopped updating it for almost a full year.

PoE1 players are the ones who keep the lights on at GGG.

Be happy you get to play PoE2 and stop shitting on PoE1.

Edit: and the MASSIVE server problems and crashes arent helping launch numbers either.

No one in here is shitting on PoE. I'm looking at raw data and voice my disappointment in GGG. We all want the game to do better. We players deserve better than what we've gotten after a year of nothing.

remember a lot of players cant log in at all especially eu so numbers are not accurate. also steam is a fraction of real numbers