Baeclast Podcast Featuring Chris Wilson This Weekend

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JoeShmo wrote:

Listening to Chris on design decisions just always makes me so mad. I can just imagine how much more painful playing the game would be if other members of GGG didn't veto him all the time.

The worst part is how utterly arrogant and stubborn he is about what players want; it's right up there with Blizzard / Activation, literally also saying verbatim, that they are the ones that know what players want, and that players actually don't. Just the most condescending dismissive BS. Then he'll throw out a bone like "well ...we'll discuss it" , like they've ever actually changed their mind on stuff players have been wholeheartedly wishing to change for years now.

Then unbelievable comments like "we'd like to improve that in the next few years". What? Or getting uppity about how it costs them half a million dollars a year for servers ...when they were bought out by Tencent for a 100 million, they still sell crazy amounts of MTX, and server maintenance is somewhere less than 5% of their expenses.

Jeeze buddy, please explain to me the hardships of being completely financially taken care of while telling players that getting a good item faster than once every 10,000 attempts is ruining the game. Literally ....hates it that there might be more than 1 player in existence having an amazing tier 1 item outside of standard league.

Even Ziggy had to jump in and question whether the things Chris was saying was actually harmful of the game. And he has meme level jokes about him being a shill for the company.

It's like Ebeneezer Scrooge is running a gaming company.

"What? They want better drop rates? Are there no prisons? Have the union workhouses closed down? Those that have bad luck must go there."

"If they would rather quit, they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population."

Waiting for him to get visited by the Ghost of Diablo Past.


I was really hopeful for a long conversation about how the game was going to improve, fundamental reasons why the game was designed the way it was, what works and doesn't work in hindsight, etc., and instead we got a lot of roadblock statements about how the game can't change because Chris doesn't want it to, the system is how it is because Chris needs it to, and the game will only improve when after years of testing Chris is happy with it.

I could probably get a racist family member to change their view on people before Chris changes anything about his on the game.

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Chameleon wrote:

Chris' stubbornness on outdated ideas about trading, loot, etc make me realize why PoE gets less and less enjoyable each league.

+1

The biggest problem with poe is actually Chris