Streamer priority confirmed. PoE is free to play, so play it for free, but Boycott GGG.
" Guess GGG needs these kiddy white knights :) ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ NERF ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ NERF ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ NERF ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ
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Hey, I made it out of the Mud Flats, but got DCed before getting next waypoint. Cool :(
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" And that's the reason why they keep their laziness when it comes to server issues. Because there are enough players that say that everything is fine and GGG is working really hard to give the best FREE TO PLAY experience, and there's no problem with streamer priority. |
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" You're badly missing the point. It's about GGG the company and Chris Wilson the manager and shepherd of that company saying one thing with their mouths and doing a different thing that undermines their public face. The curtain was pulled back on their private face today and people are upset about what they saw. While I don't agree with every hot take you see here and there, I have to say their anger is justified - and I rarely hold that opinion. I generally find outrage mobs to be far too premature and over-reactionary. |
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I had already planned on not playing this league, and I was very vocal about my reasoning surrounding their development direction.
I felt GGG was balancing and catering to elites, and focusing on the experience of the .1% of players. (I wasn't the only one) Of course this turned into a meme in general on reddit and other social media, with the usual crowd talking about how it wasn't the case, and "casuals" ruin the game. My god how the tables have turned. The emperor has no clothes. The absolute, blatant, disregard for the average PoE player. The contempt that this company has displayed towards it's own customers, is a shocking departure from the values they seemingly had as the game was being developed and formed. Perhaps this is who the company has always been. Maybe money has corrupted their value system.... I don't fucking know, but how they have handled themselves today is as low and disgusting as almost anything I've seen from a developer. Literally live, on Twitch, on their verified account, in public, offering special treatment to hand-picked members, with no regard for how that would appear, was totally, and completely, beyond belief. One thing I know for sure is that GGG will NEVER see one more dime from me. I encourage anyone that feels the same, let GGG hear you with your wallet. You don't deserve this kind of contempt from a company. If you enjoy the game, keep playing the game, but again, you don't deserve this level of disrespect. If GGG doesn't value me, let's see how that works when I don't value them. GGG brought this on themselves. It's brutal, sad, and highly disappointing to me. It's frankly hard to believe, but I saw what I saw, and I feel how I feel. "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt."
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I'm not blaming an entire company for probably one or two persons taking a very debatable and so wrong decision during a rush. No one is perfect, it happens.
That being said I would find it absolutely normal given the current state of the league that they cancel the current start and delay it to whenever they are able to fix current issues. The streamers bullshit is not even my principal concern here. The fact that it's another fail start is my concern, it has been like that for YEARS now. I do ask GGG to once for all do whatever it takes to stay out of current bad publishers and gaming studios modern practices where throwing the game in players faces no matter its current state is ok! It is not. Only reason I'm not going further is its still a free to play with a decently ethical business model given the current state of gaming these days. Hf :) Last edited by Heli0nix on Apr 16, 2021, 11:49:04 PM
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How is this not P2W? If you are a streamer of certain renown, you get (knowingly or not) priviledges like these.
How Am I going to belive this starts and ends in a queue privilege? | |
" So before league was even started, we were prompted with new EULA/Legal Docs to agree to before updating the game. Curious if anyone actually took the time to read over it to see what it says....As I wonder if they knew this was going to happen and planned it, to prevent any sorta of P2W legal issues/repercussions. Since they were so openly not caring if people saw this madness right before everyone's eyes. Streamers acting like they didn't know before hand either is a bunch of shit IMO. At least among to the top streamers, some need acting classes. I've already made the decision to boycott POE sadly and any game that Tencent has their hands on. Seems as though China's greed and power control knows no bounds, to where games aren't even safe from it anymore. MSM today is an absolute propaganda joke, the manipulation is astonishing. Complete disregard for integrity, truth and honor. Sad really. | |
" Yeah i am in the same situation. |
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" If I hadn't already purchased the sup pack the moment it was announced, I would not have bought it. |
