The promise of a shared endgame fooled collectors and standard players

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Antigegner wrote:

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jsuslak313 wrote:

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Antigegner wrote:

I told my daughter I'd pick her up from school.

I didn't pick her up.

She said I promised I would pick her up.

I said I didn't say I promise.

To be fair with this example....your response is totally correct, you never promised her. All this proves is that you were a jerk, but NOT that you broke a promise. Your daughter is wrong: you didn't promise to pick her up.

exactly

I don't like jerks but everyone is free to choose :D

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Antigegner wrote:

I told my daughter I'd pick her up from school.

I didn't pick her up.

She said I promised I would pick her up.

I said I didn't say I promise.

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Jix_91 wrote:

Title. Path of Exile II will be a separate game. We were promised the following:

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"We are creating Path of Exile II as a new campaign alongside Path of Exile I with a shared endgame. The original campaign is still fully playable and because it is the same game it will still continue to be maintained with all the updates and game system improvements that were made to Path of Exile"

(Quote from Exilecon 2019)

1) no shared endgame
2) we won't get all the updates
3) it is not the same game

I fully understand the decision and I am sure it is correct for all the players that play the current league and then quit. There are players though that have long term goals within the game and that enjoy to build their characters and collection over multiple leagues. For these players Path of Exile II being separated is a slap in the face.

After the 2019 Announcement that Path of Exile II would be a part of the base game the continued monetary support of all players was used to develop a game that was no longer part of the base game. Essentially breaking trust with the whole standard playerbase. It would be really interesting to see, which share the standard playerbase and their monetary support has on the development?
I for one would not have bought a single supporter pack after this was made transparent in the meantime.

As a supporter and customer I feel fooled.


Edit: someone send me this clip

Octavian:

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At what point in the development of POE 2 did you realize the game was too different and needed to be different from POE 1?

Jonathan:

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So to me it was right after the Act 2 reveal - soon after that.

The Path of Exile II Act 2 reveal was posted on 08.04.2021.
They knew since over 2 years - not a single word.

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Emperor_home wrote:

You are 100 right, however:
PoE 2 is not a PoE it's difrent game for a different player base. The big mistake is that GGG called this new game PoE2. New game should be called something else, "The Ruthless story of Wraeclast" for example or just "The Ruthless". It's kind of OK to use the same lore, but different name is a must to not confuse players.

Or if GGG already sold brand name to Koreans, rename PoE1 to something else.