Ultimatum Launch: Server Issues and Streamer Priority

I just want to thank you for how you guys have stayed on this issue throughout. I'm sure you're having a seriously rough time working through trying to find and patch the problem, over the last 12 hours, and I just want you folks to know that I appreciate your efforts greatly.

"arranging for big streamers to showcase Path of Exile to their audiences, for money. We had arranged to pay for two hours of streaming, and we ran right into a login queue that would take two hours to clear. This was about as close as you could get to literally setting a big pile of money on fire."

I thought that streamers were supposed to notify viewers when they are being paid to stream AKA sponsored? Also, it's pretty shady that you did this on launch day, did you not have the prior experience that every single PoE launch has an insane amount of issues?!

This just went to prove that (if there was any doubt left) streamers are your favorite players by far. Even if streamers don't have any positive drop rate/crafting twinking from your side, good f-ing luck in proving it now that you took a huge dump on the entire community with this shady queue cheat.

People are not going to believe the "sorry we did this, we won't do it every again, we promise" BS excuse, Chris.

I dont mind if Streamers can bypass que but can only play SSF and cant migrate.

good luck, bros

I'm sorry, but why would you pay full-time POE streamers to play POE? Wouldn't they have been streaming the league start anyway?

Plus they didn't advertise that it was a paid promotional stream....

Not buying this reason for the queue skipping quite frankly.

Level playing field? #restarttheleague

Reset the league

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We will instead make sure the queue works much better so that it's a fast process for everyone and is always a fair playing field.

Doesn't need to be fast, just need to be fair.
A queue is a queue, people skipping leave a salty taste

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Sorry but while this is a nice post with good information this is not good enough. Your outage process is flawed, you should have taken the servers down from the get-go, and for the love of god please have beta servers before a release.

:C