Concerns related to the Russian merge

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Knampfclown wrote:

In global 1

*uses global 1
*complains about its content
ROFL

Update Since the Russian Garena Merge

• I've noticed zero Cyrillic because global is a festering pool of prepubescent vulgarity and worthless chatter any ways, hence I have global turned off. And when I do join global to confirm server issues, I join the regular English channels.
• I've seen no Russian alt artwork for trade since I don't spend exalts on that sort of ridiculous preening in front of guild members or other players in towns, let alone even earn enough to think about attempting that.
• I've spotted no Garena pets since I don't log into Russian gateways, and in fact rarely notice pets at all in town unless they're making horrifically loud pet noises.
• I've been oblivious to any possible changes in poe.trade prices because I play the game, not the market. I play primarily self-found, but am not adverse to trading when I hit a gear wall at end-game, to complete achievements, or to earn challenge points in a league.

That said, feel free to get bent out of shape over things that really don't matter. :-)

And GGG, nice job on making this smooth transition since the summer. I've played games where the server transfers were absolutely horrid, so I know how nasty that could have been.

considering the big media propaganda running 24/7 anti russian propaganda to demonize the poor russians and build them up as the next evil wrongdoers who deserve a joint american beating, the resulting antiphathy in poe from the simple minded who fall for that propaganda is really low.

at least i expected more, that is really speaking for the overall intelligence and tolerance of poe players :-)

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saw one garena pet since the merge and suddenly realized my antipathy towards this thing is not only because it totally doesn't fit into the environment, it's also remembering me on the abomination of a douglas adams movie they did with the last "hitchhiker to the galaxy".

Well
Regarding alt arts - many of them lost a lot of value after merge.
For example : alt art demi helm was worth 1000ex (i bought one at 1000 as well) now they worth 250 and decrasing. Taryn was worth like 1500ex and almost not possible to obtain, now its like 400ex. Reapers pursuit was 350ex now like 100ex, Death's Harp was 100ex now around 20. And many more, but the problem is some players stoped collect alt-arts overall so value of all decrased.

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Kingoko wrote:

They look so nice and its value never go down

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cipher_nemo wrote:

[li]I've seen no Russian alt artwork for trade since I don't spend exalts on that sort of ridiculous preening in front of guild members or other players in towns, let alone even earn enough to think about attempting that.

What's wrong with people sitting in town wearing their alt-arts?

And i knew that, malysia-singapur rip

Pickled milk-caps and vodka for everyone!

Well its better then separate servers and clients.

Many of these items have artificially high value because their supply has diminished due to "unfair" factor of player attrition, owners of the items and even old collectors stop logging into the game and items are lost forever. Unlike a collector IRL where the entire collection will eventually end up back in circulation when their inheritance is auctioned off at estate sales.

I don't see people asking GGG to replace those permanently out of circulation alt art items?

If you are framing your objection as caring about the fairness of the collector economy, then you're being self serving and nothing more. You're also being hypocritical in that you YOU care about YOUR alt items but you don't care about some Russian Collectors alt items. It's incredibly insensitive and selfish to demand they get untradable items, in fact even labeling their items as "russian version" is hugely unfair to them. IRL collecting hobbies; unknown collection hoards can be unearthed or show up at auctions and cause your items to lose value. It happens, it's part of life and part of collecting. You all are benefiting far more from that artificial inflation of lost collections than the harm from an influx of new russian items.

GGG should absolutely NOT tag Russian alt art, unless it's to differentiate one race reward (first place in the Russian Race league) over another (first place international)

Calling for an entire region of players to be treated unfairly in not allowing them to trade their items; because a much smaller "wealthier" subset of pixel collectors is just hypocritical and frankly artificial self serving outrage over something that is just a fact of life in real collecting.

TL;DR: se la vi

TL;DR2 suck it up and deal, the influx is no different from the attrition that made your items more valuable than they should be in a real world collecting market. Whats good for the goose is good for the gander, if you can befit from "unfair" market factors, you can lose out from them as well.