Chris Wilson will Speak at the Game Developers Conference 2019

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herflik wrote:

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Takeaway
Attendees will gain understanding of how to design online games for maximum replayability as well as how to foster a community for long-term growth.

But who will teach Chris about it before he give his speech?

POE replayability inside league ends in 1 month - thats short comparing to other MMORPG's and similar generes. They have only 1 league in them which last years before it collapse.

POE game replayability is designed around leagues that give you new content and better rewards comparing to Standard, aka the real long term game mode here, thus forcing you to start from scratch if you want easy money/gear. Often even gear that is way more powerful and never implemented in standard - thus giving you unfair adventage.
If leagues didnt offer that, not many people would play them.
For mmorpg games this is moraly wrong design.

One person spoke something about Warframe. It is true that their developers could learn something from this game. But if it comes to replayability - warframe have one league only and have really big popularity. It is also growing and lasting for years now. It is outshining POE in this regard by miles.

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Aixius wrote:

But you do come back and play, as do many other people. Saying "if leagues didn't offer that, not many people would play them" is meaningless because leagues do offer that and people do play them; it'd be like saying "people wouldn't call you rich if you didn't have all that money!" Yes, technically correct, but not really meaningful.

Leagues are successful and are POE's unique way of both rolling out and testing new content. Standard leagues might be "the real long term game mode" but a huge portion of the playerbase doesn't care about that. The game is perfectly replayable without resorting to crap like raising the level cap 10 levels and other nonsense.

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herflik wrote:

Replayability means your content can be played for long term of time without the need of dirty tricks like POE does it. Like offering you better items that you wont get if you dont try new league and waste your time to do many things all over again just to try 10% of new content.

Also replayability means you can play for long time without any new content update. For POE its usualy 1 month lifetime, there are games that dont update anymore since years and are still played.