Improvements to Item Drops

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PhoebePOE wrote:

Almost everyone seems to be missing the fact that GGG (Tencent) has had Path of Exile Mobile on the roadmap for a long time now.

When something like that is on your roadmap, as a studio, you typically have to start thinking about how to maximise profits from it in order for development resources to have been worth it.

On mobile, it is virtually impossible to have as many monsters and loot as has been historically available on PC

PoE as we know it would just brick any phone, so it would have to be a game with massively reduced monsters on the screen, and massively reduced loot.

This means that if as a studio you release a game on mobile, and it has way less monsters, action and loot drops associated with the game, you provide almost no incentive to your pre-existing fanbase or anyone that has played your PC version to really invest into your mobile game and start spending on microtransactions.

They had to do something to provide that incentive, and because as a PC user you are no longer the target audience -> they opted to simply "nerf" Path of Exile down to the ground to be more in line with their upcoming Mobile release.

That means:

Less loot, less mobs, way simpler league mechanics that mostly just recycle previous content dressed up.

If you think that this league's changes are the only or worst of it you are in for a rude awakening. They are just now only getting started skinning the entire game.

They don't care if you announce you're quitting.
They don't care if you do.
They don't care if these posts are reaching 130 pages of complaints.

That is their calculated risk. You are no longer their target audience. You are a (mostly) free player that will likely not invest in Path of Exile Mobile, and ultimately POE2. You have become dead resource to them and Tencent.

They will continue to make you feel like they are "buffing" the broken loot and mechanics, carefully wording around using percentages and the words "more" to somewhat try and salvage a little bit of retention from the most guillable audience. After all, the most guillable are the ones most likely to also spend.

If you as a content creator or fan want to reach GGG and have your words mean something to them:

Stop announcing you are quitting the game they don't mind you quitting.

Start calling them out on this business plan, and then announce you will *never* even consider playing their upcoming mobile game.

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We have reduced the cost of many Harvest crafts, with many becoming twice as cheap. We relied too much on players having specialised in Harvest when we were costing these. It's now balanced around less Harvest investment. We have also reduced the life of all Harvest monsters. These changes will be deployed tomorrow rather than today.