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semma_car19 wrote:

I am very disappointed with the map really, its nearly impossible to clear it with a uber viable build, i think balance is shit and i feel sorry for the peple who gave their money for their characters for this map cause nobody will play it

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The idea was first conceived during a team discussion about ways to add new community content to the game. It was initially thought that perhaps players could start to create Rogue Exiles for the general game. A concern arose that Rogue Exiles might saturate the game if they were submitted in vast numbers. Creating a map that contained them all in one place was the logical next step. Thus, the Hall of the Grandmasters concept was born. The next step was to work out the logistics of how to make it happen. - Bex_GGG

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mireklefou wrote:

Majority of people complaining about this map, maybe the community in general forgets what was the reason for creating it. From a game developer perspective, If you want people to support your company by purchasing $500 pack, you want to give them something extra and exciting in return, or a reason to purchase it. There has been countless supporter packs available since Closed Beta, enabling to design a unique item and create a monster, but none offered immortalising your character. Not many games allow you to do that. And I think that's pretty sweet. If you involve numbers, you compete in Hall of Grandmasters against 150 players that invested $75,000 into those packs alone. Into GGG. The map itself has very clean simple (yet pretty) design, that leads me to think they didn't want spend too much resources into it, otherwise they would lose money.

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The idea was first conceived during a team discussion about ways to add new community content to the game. It was initially thought that perhaps players could start to create Rogue Exiles for the general game. A concern arose that Rogue Exiles might saturate the game if they were submitted in vast numbers. Creating a map that contained them all in one place was the logical next step. Thus, the Hall of the Grandmasters concept was born. The next step was to work out the logistics of how to make it happen. - Bex_GGG

I mean, people who watched podcasts with Chris, Carl and Rory, and are overall a bit interested, probably realise these things.