WORST release in POE History.

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Rawkfist86 wrote:

Never play on patch day, kiddos. ;)

Yup, rookie mistake.

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Astasia wrote:

I love their twitter feed claiming it's the most successful launch ever, that we get to read on the front page every single time the server crashes.

this...

Because of this i wrote this thread.

This game overall is an amazing game. But its not with out its flaws just like almost every game before it and every game after it.

I would love to see the statistics for players for this expansion. So far i think this is hands down the best league they have ever done and truly think this needs to stay in the game.

With 2 or 3 exceptions I dont think its worth the effort to even ascend. I am just not feeling much of the new class skill trees.

Never seen the "best" "worse" argument... it's the same as every other launch.

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spawn10459 wrote:

GGG,
This update needed more testing. Clearly.
From what i have been able to play, it may be your best league but my god you guys need to work on server stability.

This is always gonna happen as long as they give Alpha passes to streamers that only want to grind from bottom to top and do silly stuff to get attention to their stream instead of giving passes people that really have the ability and the will to test the Alpha and find the issues

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Sexcalibure wrote:

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spawn10459 wrote:

GGG,
This update needed more testing. Clearly.
From what i have been able to play, it may be your best league but my god you guys need to work on server stability.

This is always gonna happen as long as they give Alpha passes to streamers that only want to grind from bottom to top and do silly stuff to get attention to their stream instead of giving passes people that really have the ability and the will to test the Alpha and find the issues

You're not usually this eager to look ignorant. Alpha isn't about testing server stability. We're mostly there to catch shit like game crashing bugs and incorrectly implemented elements. As much as I did not approve of all the attention seeking tourists on alpha lately, this isn't their fault.

And by successful Chris meant purely in terms of numbers. I get the feeling most of you got that but are just enjoying being facetious.

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Sexcalibure wrote:

This is always gonna happen as long as they give Alpha passes to streamers that only want to grind from bottom to top and do silly stuff

To be fair though, depending on exactly what you mean by "silly stuff", that could be a very good way of testing things out.

Grinding through everything normally will give them some feedback on the overall progression and balance(whether or not they actually TAKE all of that feedback is a different question sometimes...). If by "silly" stuff", you mean something like testing unusual builds or combinations of skills, they may very well find bugs or something which is completely broken that GGG might have never thought of testing on their own.

So while it shouldn't be the only way they test things, it may very well be ONE way to get useful information. And most of the more "normal" testing methods are probably done internally.