TA Supporter Packs Achieve Record Sales + 11.5 Million Players

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Hemmingfish wrote:

POE goes pay to play and makes lots of people buy supporter packs and you lot are surprised they sold shitloads of the things?

Neither of these statements is true. =^[.]^=

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Raycheetah wrote:

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Hemmingfish wrote:

POE goes pay to play and makes lots of people buy supporter packs and you lot are surprised they sold shitloads of the things?

Neither of these statements is true. =^[.]^=

Technically pay to play is somewhat true in this case. Note it's pay to play not pay to win.

If buying a Supporter pack constitutes "pay to play," that speaks to the intent of the purchaser. Some Supporters dun even use their Beta Keys. The packs are full of goodies for the value of the money spent. GGG added the Beta Keys because people demanded that kind of access to the Closed Beta. People can always play PoE for free; what they have paid for is access to a test realm. Yes, they "play" whatever the current iteration is of 2.0, but it all goes *POOF* at release, and they keep nothing.

It's a matter of perception, I suppose, like the P2W argument about stash tabs. In a coupla months, it won't even matter, anymore. =^[.]^=

Im not using mine. If you're aching to test a fleeting beta for free or even pay to do it thats on you. We all appreciate your efforts and GGG makes a buck or two I'm sure. Real 2.0 will be absolutely free.

Its a shame otherwise positive news included a huge misrepresentation of the number of players. There has always been a massive difference between accounts made and people actually playing. PoE doesn't have in the same universe as 11.5m players. If it did GGG would screaming about it from the rooftops, and every single game media site would be writing articles about it.

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LoRider149 wrote:

this is a free to play game with the option of donating

GGG is a company that develops a product that it sells to make money. There is no "donating" going on.

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ivqancorp wrote:

Safe to assume that's probably why you aren't running a multi-million dollar company, lol.

Nice troll attempt but you.just.don't.know.

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Raycheetah wrote:

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Hemmingfish wrote:

POE goes pay to play and makes lots of people buy supporter packs and you lot are surprised they sold shitloads of the things?

Neither of these statements is true. =^[.]^=

Weren't you a mod?

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monkuar wrote:

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Raycheetah wrote:

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Hemmingfish wrote:

POE goes pay to play and makes lots of people buy supporter packs and you lot are surprised they sold shitloads of the things?

Neither of these statements is true. =^[.]^=

Weren't you a mod?

Apropos of what? =0[.]o=

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Hemmingfish wrote:

POE goes pay to play and makes lots of people buy supporter packs and you lot are surprised they sold shitloads of the things?

Sorry to break it to you but you don't have to pay anything, not even a dime, to play Path of Exile.
Just hit the Download Now button and start playing.
Have a nice day :>

Am I the only one who's curious about how many packs were sold?

Like 1000 highgate, 3 axiom, stuff like that?