What Happened with Purposeful Harbinger
stop being a presence on reddit it's getting ridiculous.
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As someone who farmed for the first 2 weeks on my flicker character building a monster who could full clear everything and then liquidating that character merely HOURS before the announcement of this I am destroyed. All that wasted currency I can never get back now just wasted because of a communication error? This is ridiculous. Planned on doing 40/40 this league for the first time and it's just not gonna happen now cause of this ruining of my personal economy.
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While it suck's that a nerf came midway through league, the community shouldn't be so shocked given the nature of the build. That's part of the fun with the game, the PoE community essentially helps to shape the game, playing broken OP builds for (mostly an entire) league until the broken part receives constraint.
GGG, don't be so hard on yourselves!!! The PoE community can be harsh and overly critical. If I was playing a game and found a hack for unlimited ammo, I would have to assume that the exploit would be fixed. In fact, if that example company didn't fix that issue I would loose faith in their QA and ongoing support. Love you guys, stay healthy! | |
Did you really just fkn blame Coronavirus? I was mildly irritated before, but now your credibility has become a joke.
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April Fools' Day
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This is why u need to test your game,
don't let the player be the tester and the QA every league rip my 100ex FIX SG SERVER
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Let me iterate by saying that I understand both sides of the argument, but nerfing the mechanics around purposeful harbinger mid league is a horrible call. Is it a busted mechanic, yes it is without a doubt beyond busted. But the problem lies in the fact that despite the questioning from the community, you still said that it would not be nerfed in this league.
I have been playing this game for 7 years now, easily thousands of hours if not much more. When you have played as long as I have and I know there are others in this camp, little matters. You have crushed all the content many times over. The ONE thing that keeps you going is chasing that new high, becoming as busted as possible, tanking everything, while leaving absolute carnage in your wake. You live for it and plan around it. You are so committed to it that you don’t mind spending an additional couple hundred of hours at minimum, the GRIND. For you to give us the green light to chase this new high “purposeful harbinger” and then change your mind mid league, it is very disappointing. It is very disappointing because you gave us GGG’s word and because it invalidates all the time and investment spent on “purposeful harbinger” mechanics this league. To invest all that time into it and then find out “Eh we changed our minds” really sucks. Some of you might make the argument it was too busted. But does it really matter? It would have only been for one league. And on top of that most of the fan base per league falls off halfway to ⅔ way through the league. So what harm would there have been in just letting people enjoy it? In terms of community and economic balance, there won't be as much of a community in a couple weeks. Some of you argue that at least GGG is better than most companies. It is because they are better that they must be held to a higher standard. When playing games from other companies you can expect to get screwed. If you keep playing them it's your fault for sticking around. That is not the case with GGG. GGG is a superior company, so their word should mean more. You should feel hurt when something like this happens. Reliability and innovation is what separates them from the rest. THIS should not happen. This all would not be so bad if something was done to compensate for the changes OR if you told us that the mechanics were taking a physical toll on the servers. BEX I still love POE. I hope you understand my points. I still intend on playing POE 2. But as far as this league and possibly the next are concerned, I am done. I am only writing something this long because I am very passionate about POE. | |
Old players could remember that stuff with Temporal Chains + Curse Effect + Atziri's Axe = Permafreezed mobs
Was fixed day after Ghudda showcasing it. And you should know - comments from people after this showcase was like: What have you done, duude you just broke my OP build by posting it!!!111, or: "Ty" for killing fun, you ****! People just never changes... They starting abuse things without any doubts, hiding these abuses, and even blame people who are really have some, even litte amount of honor and dignity... You... yes you... little abuser, you just dont deserve that apologiez from GGG. Think first, before you do something... that's good skill and usefull habit. Also, you play games by your decision, no one push you to do so and spend your time. If you think you just spends your time for nothing and that's GGG fault - think again please, use your brain as it intended - for thinking and realize... how things works in this world. Main answer - you made decision, take some responsibility for your actions. You decide to test this broken build? Just dont say you did it ocasionally, without realizing that's is completely works not as intended. Like really... everbody knows... So stop complaining, and in future - make right decisions or take responsibility. That's it, simple as that. | |
" To be honest, this would be one of the times where, for some of us with a keener eye, it actually generates more faith. From my observation, it's not really a flaw if GGG wavers from what they said. What can be an issue is being utterly inflexible in the face of new evidence. " Personally, I'd caution against a promise that you can't really be certain you will always be able to keep. To be honest, this should've brought up the discussion of whether you should even continue such a promise, or recognize that, in light of this sort of circumstance, perhaps a new paradigm is in order going forward. " Hopefully this was more than just a superficial discussion. There's a lot of things at work here, and even from the outside, I know there's three critical questions that absolutely need to be addressed if the company is to have any realistic hope of improving upon the situation that led to this:
Rufalius, hybrid Aura/Arc/Mana Guardian | Hemorae, TS Raider | Wuru, Ele Hit Wand Trickster
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" This. This right here is the only thing you guys should have done. If you guys had come out with all of the justification in making this mid-league fix, without having previously announced it was safe, the (deserved) outrage would be far less. You gave people the green light. Even if the build was (it was) incredibly broken, you gave people the green light. At that point, if you discover anything else wrong with it, you push the fix to the next league. I had no intention of ever playing the build. This didn't affect my league or my investments at all. This blunder though has without a doubt reduced my willingness to continue throwing money at you guys, and I imagine a lot of other people share that feeling as well. Not only will this reduce the amount of money that people give to your company, it most certainly will reduce the amount of time people spend theorycrafting builds and finding new and interesting ways to make items interact with systems. This will bring fewer people back for future leagues. This decision will hurt future retention and will overall harm PoE's longevity. That is a SAD thing. I'll always love you guys and your work but this is a major OOF. tl/dr: Green light was given. Should have pushed to next league. RIP your wallets. The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men.
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