0.4.0c Hotfix 13

Hmmm, so you WANT people to quit playing your game, then?? Because that's what this does. Talk about being completely out of touch! MY biggest beef with the temple concept was NOT the fact that people were basically printing divines.

The "printing divines" thing was the incentive for me to push through the actual BS of the temple because if I could just get through the BS, there was a juicy reward awaiting me. NOT anymore after this!! That incentive goes away with this nerf and there's no reason for me to even bother with the temple (or even the league for that matter).

What was my actual beef with the temple you may be asking?? The fact that it took so darn long to set anything up that could actually make you meaningful currency!!

As of the typing of this post, I'm STILL trying to get mine set up and I can tell you, NOW, with this nerf, I won't even bother. There's no reason to.

I saw Youtubers with video's talking about how it took them 30 hours to get a temple set up to actually farm decent currency!!

That's literally WEEKS of normal, average gamer time but you don't actually care about the avarage player do you??

And to think, I had actually figured out a build that could effectively run things this league and then you go and pull the ladder up behind all those who milked divines at the beginning of this league.

This league is basically over now..... Lets see what else I can find to play.

Great job GGG .....

At this point just remove the temple from the game entirely.

Well then, how do we assess this folks?

Lets keep it real-people aint taking this well. Not in the slightest.

I think above all, the carelessness to not even update tooltips like everyone just reads forum posts and updates all the time and is supposed to know this is insane. Not even putting it lightly.

Its decisions such as these that really make me wonder if these players are more than beta testers to you.

You should NOT have supporter packs, or allow refunds!

Johnanthan, you coded this LOL How does it feel to now have coded and hotfixed the most infamous league in PoE history? You continue to be a full meme.

I feel so bad for long time players. And casuals. You are so tone deaf, and those dumb interviews and hype streams are empty as f now. Fake as F devs saying you wont nerf mid league and you lie, and this has cascading effects because it was your fault in not testing the game properly, and you try to fix and bandaid in a way that screws over all players.

Ive been a player in open beta in both games. First time I have considered never playing this game again. Your decision to do this, AND NOT EVEN UPDATE TOOLTIPS, shows this is only a business to you, and while you try to save face for the holten exploit, you do it in the worst way.

This was lengthy but I dont have any more words to describe the disappointment.

I trusted the systems you designed and invested an absurd amount of time into this game.
After this patch, it’s obvious that trust was misplaced.

Everything I worked toward is now worthless.
Not weaker. Not less efficient. Invalidated.

This doesn’t feel like balance.
It feels like players were misled, played, and then abandoned once our time was already spent.

That’s not on the players. That’s on you.

F this dude 90+H setting up a god damn temple after missing out on holten. Yea dude I'll try next league. this is fucked up GGG.

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horned-nurse96#9885 wrote:

Well then, how do we assess this folks?

Lets keep it real-people aint taking this well. Not in the slightest.

I think above all, the carelessness to not even update tooltips like everyone just reads forum posts and updates all the time and is supposed to know this is insane. Not even putting it lightly.

Its decisions such as these that really make me wonder if these players are more than beta testers to you.

You should NOT have supporter packs, or allow refunds!

Johnanthan, you coded this LOL How does it feel to now have coded and hotfixed the most infamous league in PoE history? You continue to be a full meme.

I feel so bad for long time players. And casuals. You are so tone deaf, and those dumb interviews and hype streams are empty as f now. Fake as F devs saying you wont nerf mid league and you lie, and this has cascading effects because it was your fault in not testing the game properly, and you try to fix and bandaid in a way that screws over all players.

Ive been a player in open beta in both games. First time I have considered never playing this game again. Your decision to do this, AND NOT EVEN UPDATE TOOLTIPS, shows this is only a business to you, and while you try to save face for the holten exploit, you do it in the worst way.

This was lengthy but I dont have any more words to describe the disappointment.

he coded it but admittedly doesnt play the endgame...

You have gatekept "progress" in the league mechanic. Some players who played longer or got luckier, objectively have an advantage that is now unobtainable. GGG chose to have a privileged class of players, who have a permanent "Temple drops 2000% increased loot" buff. I cannot fathom a single upside to this change, unless GGG enjoys metaphorically pissing on people who invested the past weeks investing what time they did have into chasing something that was "removed from the game, but only for those people." GGs, I guess. It was fun having an endgame, its a shame that you deleted it

So far, this is the best league mechanism in both PoE1 and PoE2 within many years. This is actually coming from those exploits other than GGG's original idea. However, the way they deal with the issue is super stupid. It is better to balance those professional farmers/gamers and normal players. Every single move they have made is to kill the fun for normal players.

Well, I am done with this. Good luck, guys!

This won't happen again. We are so sorry for people's loss of time, currency and faith. Online games are supposed to be a place where you can enjoy yourself and be distracted from the woes of the real world and in this instance we have failed to provide that for some people. That really sucks. Since the announcement, we have had many discussions about what went wrong for us internally and how we can do better going forward. We are so sorry.

I typically don't post, but this was pretty bad GGG.

Multiple days and hours outside of work on my temple down the drain. I can't play like streamers so I knew this might take me a few weeks but I was ok with that. Now its just a bunch of wasted time for those of us who used what hours we could spare, but didn't have enough to take advantage of the higher end temples yet.

Now there is 0 way to catch up the the inflated prices. Rich are rich, rest of us are left for a tedious grind for mediocre items at best, or to just call it a season which feels terrible.

In the end this hurt your average player base way more then the top end player, which is why this fix was so poor.