3.21.2 Patch Notes (part 2 - restart)

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kory1979 wrote:

And? It's a free game, they're releasing a masssive overhaul and some bugs and kinks will happen. Again, ITS A FREE GAME.

This doesn't mean it have to be like that even if it's a free game not to mention many of us players have paid for it in some way. I've paid 20$ just to be able to play closed beta for example.

Also PeE wouldn't have existed without us gamers in the 1st place. Our opinion on anything related to the game matters!

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kory1979 wrote:

And? It's a free game, they're releasing a masssive overhaul and some bugs and kinks will happen. Again, ITS A FREE GAME.

This doesn't mean it have to be like that even if it's a free game not to mention many of us players have paid for it in some way. I've paid 20$ just to be able to play closed beta for example.

Also PeE wouldn't have existed without us gamers in the 1st place. Our opinion on anything related to the game matters!

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happyz1988 wrote:

This is a relatively small studio

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AintCare wrote:

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happyz1988 wrote:

This is a relatively small studio

Tencent:
Revenue Increase ¥560.118 billion RMB (US$86.84 billion) (2021)
Number of employees 112,771 (2021)

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happyz1988 wrote:

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AintCare wrote:

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happyz1988 wrote:

This is a relatively small studio

Tencent:
Revenue Increase ¥560.118 billion RMB (US$86.84 billion) (2021)
Number of employees 112,771 (2021)

GGG has approximately 200 employees, Blizzard for comparison 4500. Tencent is a mother company that owns tons of studios and other companies. [Removed by Support]

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That conglomerate owns about 90% of the game, if they wanted to do this patch right they would outsource the testing OR probably find testers in other game team of theirs.

This is not a indy game anymore, stop treating it as one.

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happyz1988 wrote:

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That conglomerate owns about 90% of the game, if they wanted to do this patch right they would outsource the testing OR probably find testers in other game team of theirs.

This is not a indy game anymore, stop treating it as one.

You really don't know how corporate world works. Tencent is 67B a year company. GGG is a blip in their stock portfolio. As long as they're getting returns on their investment they do not interfere in day to day business(and certainly not on patch level jesus). And sure its no longer indie level and at the same time its not quite AAA level yet. But given that even AAA studios constantly struggle with the same problem(optimizing that is) I don't think it's that mind-boggling GGG will struggle in the same area. Like I said before, it's a nature of variety of rigs that we use these days plus we still do not have a full picture of why this patch dropped(again exilecon is in 3 days). So take a breath and just wait 3 days.

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happyz1988 wrote:

I'm not defending them I just hate this river of shit that comes from people like you every time theres even a little mishap. There's no reasonableness, it's always straight to extreme. First: I doubt there is a patch in history of gaming that didn't cause problems for some players. Second: all you have is a 20 page thread with mixed reviews(some people had bad performance, some better, some, like me, had no changes at all.) so you don't really know how the patch worked for community as a whole and yet you throw this absolute statements as if you had all that knowledge.
Third: patching takes time and quite frankly they started hotfixing extremely fast so again some patience would be nice. And finally, yes they got bought in order to expand but they're still small potatoes in comparison with D4 team size(over 9000 people credited) and D4 doesn't have 1/10 of PoE content. To sum it all, I'm just more understanding I suppose and this game provided me with tons of fun for years despite me spending on it like 20$ total so I think the best thing that people can do at this point is to report their performance in bug section and add their specs so devs could hotfix better and more broadly.