4 months cycle development is not working

Some people need to realise that "I don't like the current league" or "I don't like the direction PoE is going right now" does not equate "the devs don't care about the game anymore"

People have been complaining about the vision and meme'ing about Vision tm for years and that was way before PoE2 was on the horizon.

Same people have been dooming PoE and yet here we are. Still kicking. Thriving.

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ArtCrusade#4438 wrote:

Some people need to realise that "I don't like the current league" or "I don't like the direction PoE is going right now" does not equate "the devs don't care about the game anymore"

"Don't [necessarily] equate..."

I still like PoE. I am still playing it. Still enjoying it. But do I feel their passion for the game in the patches? Does it feel to me like they have a plan going forward? Have we really seen an endgame rework making the game better since freakin' "War For The Atlas"?

I also play FC25 from time to time - and somewhat enjoy it with friends (and some drinks), but you will never catch me sitting here praising EA just because I happen to like one of their games. Sure, it's the best football game on the market, but I don't think there's much passion to it between all the $. You know what? "EA could still be worse".

Yea let's ignore all the good stuff the devs are putting into PoE1 and base our perception of the game's success on Steam on PLAYER PEAKS. I'm sorry Baumi, but I will never tire of explaining as many times as necessary how irrelevant of a statistic that is. You are not the first, you are not the last, but you are the latest person to use that stat as if it means anything when you discuss a franchise's overall success.

By that stupid metric Necropolis was a better league than Affliction because the player peak on Friday says so.

The disingenuousness..

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BaumisMagicalWorld#0673 wrote:

3 month cycle turned into 4 months into 1 year into maintenance mode and back into 4 months.

And the change from a 3 to 4 month cycle has been one of the best changes not just for players but also for the devs since they had a lot of more time to push out better leagues. What we have now shows that less time results in somewhat rushed patches. The current league is good but imagine if they had full 4 months time for that, not just 2. But if we give them 4 month people will start to complain about longer leagues, even if it means that the patch quality would be a lot better.

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ArtCrusade#4438 wrote:

This thread is a true testament that some people will never be pleased and use any fault they can find and point at as an excuse to be judgemental like this.

Pretty much this. Even with the game being back in it's cycle people find things to complain about.

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Phrazz#3529 wrote:

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ArtCrusade#4438 wrote:

Some people need to realise that "I don't like the current league" or "I don't like the direction PoE is going right now" does not equate "the devs don't care about the game anymore"

"Don't [necessarily] equate..."

I still like PoE. I am still playing it. Still enjoying it. But do I feel their passion for the game in the patches? Does it feel to me like they have a plan going forward? Have we really seen an endgame rework making the game better since freakin' "War For The Atlas"?

I also play FC25 from time to time - and somewhat enjoy it with friends (and some drinks), but you will never catch me sitting here praising EA just because I happen to like one of their games. Sure, it's the best football game on the market, but I don't think there's much passion to it between all the $. You know what? "EA could still be worse".

That's fine dude. I quit many games that I felt like they just weren't for me anymore, or where I had the feeling that it wasn't made for people like me. Invest your time into games that you resonate with

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MrWonderful99#4612 wrote:

Wow, I was hoping that people would be wanting the old cycle of 3 months in Path of Exile 1 since 4 months is a bit too long for me. But I understand why GGG went the extra month. Another 2 months? Crazy talk.

people wanted more content updates more game development, nobody wanted to play more often into a half baked leagues with underdeveloped and lazy put together content, with lacking endgame and no real viable atlas farming strats

everyone i Know is unsatisfied with 3.27 league and while some people quit earlier than usual, others did not even play, and others thought of skipping 3.28 already, because they see that the game is not getting the deserved quality updates

certainly worked before PoE2 development got into the picture.

Might just be the year of bad choices by game devs lul I see lots of other games making questionable choices mostly in the name of changing stuff just to change it. It may come down to what company makes the least bad choices in the gaming world lul.

I have to agree with some of the posts.

For me, personally, this was not an enjoyable league. I equate it to Synthesis, which I quit after the first weekend.

I played this one as I like getting all my challenges.

The league felt unpolished; by that, I mean removing Breach to add Breach was not particularly original.

The new PoE2 trailer - Druid, I almost fell asleep, the movement was so slow. I am not talking about zoom zoom, but just watching the walkthrough was painful—my personal opinion.

The new PoE2 trailer - League felt like Synthesis.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNJ_d_TnMdM

I think the cycles between PoE & PoE2 are hurting the creation of good content. To be honest, I think both games are hurting as you are splitting resources.

As Albert Einstein so eloquently said,

Any man who can drive a car safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.

Please stop driving your PoE2 car & start kissing PoE.

Thanks!

Poe1 has always had a horrible community, who can't stand to play the game for 3 days before whining about when the next league will come. Is it any wonder they're moving on from it and looking for something new.