What We're Working On

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No flashback yey, good, love delve.

I hope delve goes core, otherwise i can't imagine playing poe anymore.

Happy to hear it, hope the next one gonna be great too.

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Player retention during Delve has been excellent, and due to the infinite nature of the mine

But sorry, that's not the main reason at all from my experience. I have 4 characters on this league. Played A LOT, because i have time right now (20 days on one char, 5 days on another and few hours on the other 2).
Yes, i've spend some night "online" while sleeping for trading, but still, i've spend a lot of time in-game, playing.
Maybe not the best-optimized gameplay, but yet, have done some/a lot of maps, delving a bit too. Haven't see any Reliquary key, found very few bosses and challenges/achievements are still a long way before the 36/40, and so on.
Yes, i've played less and less, and yes after fixes, maybe it's easier to reach theses challenges, and yet we don't have more energy/time to invest when we plays already a lot the first few weeks to keep the pace after the rush.
Season after season (and i'm pretty new on PoE comparing to older players), i have the feeling of everything getting walled behind something else, layer after layer. Diluted with other mechanics and it's getting harder to reach any goal.

I'm not even surprised that many of my friends/contacts stopped pretty early in the league, due to "i don't have enough time for that", it's getting way too time consuming.

Just my 2cents.

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Having said that, we are working on something small that is separate to existing/future leagues and we may be able to talk about it soon.

We back into PVP island soon

excited! :) delve was pretty cool though!

I'm glad you are keeping Delve going for longer. I only have 18 achievements as of now and need more time.

Stocked to see the new expansion

Meh, was looking forward to Flashback. I don't know anyone personally who was weighing delve progression vs playing flashback.
That's too bad.

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Ae_Evo wrote:

Happy to hear it, hope the next one gonna be great too.

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Player retention during Delve has been excellent, and due to the infinite nature of the mine

But sorry, that's not the main reason at all from my experience. I have 4 characters on this league. Played A LOT, because i have time right now (20 days on one char, 5 days on another and few hours on the other 2).

I'm not even surprised that many of my friends/contacts stopped pretty early in the league, due to "i don't have enough time for that", it's getting way too time consuming.

Just my 2cents.

Yeah, my friends list is like half of what it was this time last league. And most were either finding Delve itself too restrictive and boring or they don't have the several hundred hours needed to even try to get anywhere this league.

GGG please don't make the mistakes with the challenges and access next league that you did this time. And can we have the league properly playable before week 5+ this time instead of still in beta and broken as hell?

Oh, and make that damn "reached depths" message optional. 3 people I know quit just because that spam annoyed the hell out of them.