General Discussion - Garena is adding skill tree resets as a micro transaction in 1.1.3. Thoughts? - Forum

" Prodigious wrote: I personally don't like it. Not like I play garena PoE anyway. Some might argue that its okay since its the same as RMT-ing orbs of regrets but meh. I am completely against that, personally. It may hit OoR prices in game, and furthermore, I am glad GGG aren't the ones doing it. Long live the exiles! VI	Posted by ConanTheGamebarian#5995 on Apr 30, 2014, 4:51:19 PM Quote this Post
" DirkAustin wrote: That was then, this is now. People jumped to Steam for some reason and many came back to solo client. There is no evidence for that, though. Steam's overall numbers raise steadily, and there is no advantage to using GGG's client over the Steam version (quite the opposite: auto-patching, no need to enter the password, no confirmation mails, trading cards that can be sold so that MTX get a bit cheaper). I'm not worried about the game. Like I said, it is in the top-25 on Steam. But I don't get why people are so willing to believe things that defy numbers and logic. Numbers are just what they are. I never expected a game like PoE to be able to sustain 80k peaks for very long, and it doesn't have to sustain these numbers to be successful. If it manages 10k peaks daily combined, it's in good enough shape to be called successful.	Posted by Mivo#2486 on Apr 30, 2014, 4:53:14 PM Quote this Post
" hatoblue wrote: " VaultzInex wrote: I think it's more pay for convenience than anything else. Think about it : You go to merc Fellshrines, you kill all rares and collect a set of items, do the chaos recipe and win 1-2 chaos orbs, convert them by trading or at Clarissa with regret orbs. You do it enough time and you get 100% the orbs which are sold. You can, on the other hand, get multiple regret orbs easier in exchange of money, you don't win ANYTHING.. it's just like stash tabs, it helps supporting the staff and it does not give you any real mean to win poe. GG If garena started selling exalteds in their MTX store would you still say that's paying for convenience? Yeah, you can do the chaos recipe and eventually buy an exalt or you can just get the exalt immediately using real money. You can use the chaos recipe to get regrets or save up to get exalteds, so by your argument buying exalts from garena MTX store would still be paying for 'convenience'. Yes. Even if exalts were sold by GGG's shop you would never beat the game, what a RANDOM mod on random garbage items would o anyway? so yeah i am not against selling currencies (For convenience you know..) Good vaal orbs : http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/840813 Bad ones : http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/812199 Why? http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/854397(I got an answer)	Posted by VaultzInex#4933 on Apr 30, 2014, 4:58:43 PM Quote this Post
the april fool joke became a reality IGN ; DENTAGRAM thanks to http://poe.xyz.is/ https://cldly.com/pathofexile/procument/acquisition/poexyz	Posted by DentaGram#2477 on Apr 30, 2014, 5:01:13 PM Quote this Post
This microtransaction won't be making its way to the official GGG servers. It's only on the Garena servers (currently Singapore/Malaysia). The microtransaction cannot be traded - it lives in the mtx stash. The points I'd like to impart are: a) We are willing to allow Garena to experiment with microtransactions that they feel are appropriate for their audience, on their servers. b) This microtransaction isn't something that I would choose to add to our servers, but it's certainly not game-breakingly harmful. c) We have the ability to push back on requested changes. If they wanted to add something really harmful, then we'd disagree. They haven't asked to add anything really harmful. Other companies have asked. d) While we can't talk about the specifics, the licensing deal with Garena has and continues to help the development resources of Path of Exile substantially. Lead Developer. Follow us on: Twitter \| YouTube \| Facebook \| Contact Support if you need help!	Posted by Chris on Apr 30, 2014, 6:08:38 PM Grinding Gear Games Quote this Post
I really like the Weekend Bonuses idea which is a popular feature in online games, it help busy people who can only play during weekend. Tech guy	Posted by Warrax#2850 on Apr 30, 2014, 6:23:57 PM Quote this Post
So much drama What can never be lent or earned? Somewhat, that devours everyone and everything: A tree that rush. A bird that sings. It eat bones and smite the hardest stones. Masticate every sword. Shatters every shrine. It defeat mighty kings and carry mountains on lightly wings. What am i?	Posted by Spysong192#7559 on Apr 30, 2014, 6:25:10 PM Quote this Post
" Chris wrote: b) This microtransaction isn't something that I would choose to add to our servers, but it's certainly not game-breakingly harmful. It clearly pay to win. I could add here many examples related to events and this microtransaction or even in normal leagues... I thought you were definitely against pay to win. It is another server, right. But I do not understand that clearly reject something and then give its approval. That seems to go against their own beliefs... Disillusioned, not because of GARENA, even for the desynchronization and other serious problems. Disillusioned about people who say one thing and then retracts. Bethesda is known for having good ideas and terrible realization of them. GGG is a Bethesda subsidiary or what?	Posted by Actkqk#4579 on Apr 30, 2014, 6:26:55 PM Quote this Post
" Actkqk wrote: " Chris wrote: b) This microtransaction isn't something that I would choose to add to our servers, but it's certainly not game-breakingly harmful. It clearly pay to win. I could add here many examples related to events and this microtransaction or even in normal leagues... I thought you were definitely against pay to win. It is another server, right. But I do not understand that clearly reject something and then give its approval. That seems to go against their own beliefs... Disillusioned, not because of GARENA, even for the desynchronization and other serious problems. Disillusioned about people who say one thing and then retracts. It's pay for convenience. You can get as many regret orbs as you want if you do the chaos recipe as many times as needed. Good vaal orbs : http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/840813 Bad ones : http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/812199 Why? http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/854397(I got an answer)	Posted by VaultzInex#4933 on Apr 30, 2014, 6:29:01 PM Quote this Post
" VaultzInex wrote: " Actkqk wrote: " Chris wrote: b) This microtransaction isn't something that I would choose to add to our servers, but it's certainly not game-breakingly harmful. It clearly pay to win. I could add here many examples related to events and this microtransaction or even in normal leagues... I thought you were definitely against pay to win. It is another server, right. But I do not understand that clearly reject something and then give its approval. That seems to go against their own beliefs... Disillusioned, not because of GARENA, even for the desynchronization and other serious problems. Disillusioned about people who say one thing and then retracts. It's pay for convenience. You can get as many regret orbs as you want if you do the chaos recipe as many times as needed. Yes you can get a Kaoms that way too so buying one in mtx store would be convenience too ? Or Exalts or anything really ? So nothing you can get ingame would be pay2win ? This is the stuff most shitty Free to play games pull. No we are not pay 2 win you get all this stuff if you grind 5000 Hours.	Posted by Kamro#5285 on Apr 30, 2014, 6:31:48 PM Quote this Post