Announcing Private Leagues

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Koheleth wrote:

Well since I don't watch streamers, don't want to pay to play a free game, this does not apply to my demographic.


That being said, I love PoE and this is growth for the game...albeit in a weird fashion. Please don't go too far down the catering to streamers road as you will alienate a portion of the player base that enjoys playing more than watching someone else play.


Are these sperate servers or will a 'streamer' server cause lag on the regular servers as people try to play the game? How does that work since we all still experience lag from the GGG servers?

also rip São Paulo

So what if a streamer opens a private league to subscribers - doesn't GGG consider that RMT?

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Mastodonic wrote:

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dbnerd wrote:

If you're concerned about a lack of trading, then again, play the regular league.

You missed the point entirely. You won't be trading on the regular leagues because there will be no one on them.
Have a look at the numbers yourself as they stand today

https://poeapp.com/#/stats

In the last 48 hours, there was a peak figure of 8 people across the game trading in HC. Eight! In the last hour only 3 traders.
In Standard there was a peak of 1000 people trading
Delve HC, 540 people trading. Peak. 230 off-peak

That is not a lot of people. Actually that's an understatement, that is fuck all people to interact with. Now add pay-to-play leagues and siphon even more numbers out of those leagues.

Grats, every official league is now effectively SSF or you're paying to play. If GGG could actually attract new players it might be a different story but they have failed to increased concurrent players for the past 8 leagues now. Player numbers have been stuck at 85k peak at start of league and down to 35k a month later.

How many people do you think will pay for a harder game with worse trade?

It will be hardly noticeable. The regular leagues will do just fine imho.

Awesome! I hope that will create lots of race tournaments

Hello GGG,

first of all, as one of the community, I appreciate the fact that the game is free. That you can't buy benefits, that currency can't be created by bots, and that you can earn anything.

Through these changes, you (GGG) split the community, friends who may have played together for years, must decide in the future whether they want to play a pay to play or not. In some cases this means exactly the opposite. One goes into Pay to Play Leauge and the other stays with the free game. It separates friends - it doesn't connect them!

It would be nice if you would distance yourself from the pay story!

You don't lack money, as you said yourself, the coffers are full, so that even in the future the game and development should be secured. If the income should decrease and you wanted to try to boost it again, ask your community what they would like to see. Instead of allowing long friendships or guilds to break apart.

The fact that you can make the eyes heavier and other obstacles - which resemble the "Ironman" modes are welcome opportunities for us old hands.

However, not everyone will be willing to pay this price ($ and/or broken friendships). Some may even turn their backs on you forever.

For me it is a heavy blow to the pit of the stomach from your side (GGG). I was always under the assumption: you would do it differently and still be able to earn money with it - Other: always leave it for free. But now I see myself facing a 2nd class game: Those who are willing to pay and those who don't want to (or can't: pupils, students, unemployed, etc.).

I wonder if you are really acting in the sense of your community (the big mass) or if it is less of a wish.

Wouldn't it be possible to create "Ironman" modes for everyone?

Wouldn't it be a better way for them to support you by rewarding you with more jewelry - for example, with other hideouts layouts or a currency belt, so that the little inventory doesn't have to be filled with currency? Or with finally an upgrade for the Premiumstashtabs to Quadstashtabs. I think with these options you would get more money than with the 2nd class game.

Greetings, a Community Member (hopefully from the masses)

Who wants this? what a waste of effort.

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Mastodonic wrote:

You missed the point entirely. You won't be trading on the regular leagues because there will be no one on them..

Literally no one is going to play non-private leagues, damn.

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Mastodonic wrote:

In the last 48 hours, there was a peak figure of 8 people across the game trading in HC. Eight! In the last hour only 3 traders.
In Standard there was a peak of 1000 people trading
Delve HC, 540 people trading. Peak. 230 off-peak

These are stats 3-4 weeks before a new league starts, of course they are low.

The most surprising thing for me about this announcement is the quality of a lot of these complaints/negative posts. Criticism is great, but holy crap, some of this stuff is embarrassingly bad.

-Morbeis

First d3 mobile now this shit.