POLL: Did Exilecon increase or decrease your overall hype for POE and POE 2?

Increased hype for PoE2, significantly.

Decreased hype for PoE1, dramatically.

Path the First isn't quite dead to me yet, but I've abandoned my plans of trying the next league (Trial of the Ancestors looks terrible) and kinda no longer care what they do with Path the First in the intervening year and a half. Path the Second is the game I've wanted Path of Exile to be the entire time, which in turn means Path the First will never be what I want Path of Exile to be.

Increased my expectation, although the extra delay was a bucket of cold water for me.

I had stopped playing POE1 already because of the repetitive "click to explode screen" degeneration, and I am anxious to get a new game. I expect a lot of adjustments happen before the release, so I take everything we saw with some healthy distance.

decreased. by a lot. i dont even care about it anymore that much. of course i will play it but poe 1 seems more fun so far

Lowered, but I was always skeptical.

If they had more qol stuff I would have a more favorable opinion.

It felt like the dev team is split on what poe should be.

I expect open beta 2026

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MadMossy wrote:

Decrease.

Mainly because expectations were of something soon, Chris saying to get back early after exilecon didn't help either.

As it stands PoE2 is a year away, and the next league isn't for 3 weeks so why exactly did people have to rush home?

I think why did Exilecon 2023 happen now, was the expectation a year ago when it was announced that they'd have something more concrete to offer? With PoE2 beta being a year away with release some time after. Exilecon could have happened later this year or early next year with less time to wait.

A year or more is just disheartening and people will lose interest over time, unless they keep the hype rolling with frequent updates.

More importantly for the immediate future, what is going to happen to PoE1 now, PoE2 was meant to fix everything.

+1

I think ExileCon was originally planned around a 2023 release of POE2, but when they decided to split the games, it was too late to change the Event. The POE2 news is way too early to be meaningful about game play or the end game since too much is still TBD.

The 3.22 release info wasn't strong enough to support the whole con. It seems like a wasted event for those who spent thousand's to go and expected much more than "we are over a year away folks, thanks for coming!"

My position: meh...

I am more hyped. I always thought the combination of 1 and 2 was a bad idea. It would have made it harder, with all the legacy code, some of which is 15+ years old now.

I understand why some don't like it, but as a developer, I cringed when they were trying to blend the 2.

decreased hype for poe2, It looks to be quite a bit different in some key ways to poe that IDK if ill enjoy 10/10. Ill still be playing it. Im excited to have both being on different release cycles though. I'm always done with the league before its over, now, if done properly, i'll have another poe to jump into alternatively.

I'd say I'm fairly steady, though I'm not someone who 'hypes' easily. I like how PoE2 is going in basically every direction.

Increased.

I'm a little worried about splitting the trade economy, and burn out from two games.

Other than those two, I'm pretty hyped.

Decreased.

Having a split game, even psychologically speaking where it's a different game means I won't be able to get fully invested in it. It feels like an "alt" and I hate playing alts in games.

I like to main one thing, one account, one character, one game. I don't want all of that split between two different games, no matter how different or similar they are.

POEABLO4 looks cool, for what it's designed to be.... poeablo4 replica but better, but the slow, clunky and slower gameplay is not one i like to invest in. If I saw a video of end game zoom then my opinion may change, but I am not even a fan of the D4 end game zoom either. It just doesn't draw me in like POE does.

I like my power to come from destroying an entire screen at the click of a button once i've got there. POE died for POE2 and it's a weird marketing tactic to me. Hopefully they can see the vast majority of POE players are a bit bummed by this news. I was hoping my favorite game would get lots of upgrades, graphically, animations, and a huge dev team working on it but it's sadly not the case.

I like POE alot and think the games in a fairly good state atm, it just would be nice to have more resources thrown at it to improve dated aspects that need it. A lack of any manifesto and them dodging all the POE1 questions was not it either. I felt like a poor cousin watching exilecon for POE1 when they clearly were instructed to avoid all talk about the game. Strange, as it's their only live and active game.

Regardless, we've gone from having a full team working on one product and it being their baby, to having two where their priority will be on newer baby sadly. Their team is 100+ and only 20 are working on POE1, that's already a huge divide in the company. Definitely not spending another penny until they clarify the future of POE1 properly, including all the "wait till POE2 to fix this" comments they've constantly made the past 3 years.