Where is Charan?

And don't forget Drop Bears! Another of Charan's creations IIRC. I think that that the OG fight against uber Hillock is the best boss fight in POE1.

You are trapped in the Twilight Strand at level 7 or 8 with only the gear found so far. So much fun.

This is, in fact, rather hilarious. I don't think this needs another reply. Streamers make up the world's media coverage for games, that's why guys like SkillUp and other big fish in the industry are still in the market... because of all those streamers, lol.

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double post for some reason

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BaumisMagicalWorld#0673 wrote:

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Deviant#8289 wrote:

your account is created 2024 january you didnt watch streams on twitch about path of exile from 2011 so why are you talking about topic you dont know anything at all?

Mate... this is literally my third account. I've been following this game since 2011 and first started seriously playing it in April 2013. Pick a better strawman.

bro, you only have 3 supporter titles, and not even 40/40, clearly you don't know what you are talking about. Everyone knows more labels and more challs are a direct indication of how good of a player you are and if you fall short on any of these you opinion is automatically discarded.

Btw I hope Charan is doing ok, kinda sus some big names pulled out of here some time ago

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ChanBalam#4639 wrote:

And don't forget Drop Bears!

Indeed! I actually love those, even if they used to fuck me up back in the day. :D One of my favorite monsters in the game. Iirc based on a mythical legend about koalas.

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BaumisMagicalWorld#0673 wrote:

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Deviant#8289 wrote:

Kripparian kept GGG alive more than anyone else

That's not true, at all. Kripp gave them coverage when we already had a working game. We wouldn't have had a game for Kripp to cover if it weren't for the few mega whales.

i think both are true. kripp was for the marketing, charan for a bit of the funding. kripp really did push out the game though, all my OG friends all heard about poe from him. and his old videos back in the day were like the modern Mathil1 in terms of views

edit: there was a lot of community support outside of just charan too

edit2: iirc (don't quote me), but i remember chris/ggg actually thanking Kripp personally for the help once. pretty sure it was on video or stream

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girng#7675 wrote:

i think both are true.

I actually agree. It just appears that some would prefer to pretend that one streamer single-handedly saved this game with his mighty Streaming God powers. That's just not the reality, that's all.

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BaumisMagicalWorld#0673 wrote:

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girng#7675 wrote:

i think both are true.

I actually agree. It just appears that some would prefer to pretend that one streamer single-handedly saved this game with his mighty Streaming God powers. That's just not the reality, that's all.

some would prefer to think marketing isnt what keeps the game alive thats all

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BaumisMagicalWorld#0673 wrote:

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girng#7675 wrote:

i think both are true.

I actually agree. It just appears that some would prefer to pretend that one streamer single-handedly saved this game with his mighty Streaming God powers. That's just not the reality, that's all.

i felt it was like a trampoline effect to be honest. kripp set the spring

Oh.

I guess i will just be over here quietly crying.

This isn't how I thought I'd be remembered.

You guys really hated on me.

A lot.

Don't deny it.

I probably deserved it now and then (PoE makes us all insane somehow) but not as much as I copped.

You know, I can still check comment sections for poe 2 articles on various gaming publications and see random people hating on "charan". Like wtf dude. Seriously? What did you ever do for the game? Who are you even.

Internet people are awful.

Anyway.

A look back and then I will look away.

Totalbiscuit is why I was here. I watched his wtf is path of exile video on loop as I waited for a poe key from the 5 minute lottery. It never came. I was gifted one by a dude called Jahkaka (Jakahka?). Never saw him again but technically he is also to thank for...me being here, although I would have bought a key once I could have.

I think I put more personal funds into PoE than Kripp, who had to be lured here from D3. Wasn't hard, but he was, like every other big streamer, a business move for GGG -- Chris made Twitch integration a massive priority for a beta. Back in 2012 NO ONE did that, least of all not a piddling arpg from new zealand that didn't even have a proper trade system. This remains to me one of two indicators of Chris' genius, that he saw how important streamers would become for marketing well before almost anyone else.

(The second, btw, is that he was learning Mandarin long before anyone here even knew what "Tencent" would come to mean.)

I was not a business move. GGG didn't have to lure me or incentivise my support (the Ruler pack had my name on it the moment it went live and it was so far beyond justifiable). I was passionate for PoE for absolutely no reason other than it was an incredible game with incredible devs and an incredible community. I had presence here before buying a single support pack thanks to my first real post here, comparing PoE not to the incoming D3 but to D1 and D2 (said post is still in my history, right back at page 1 I think). Chris noticed that one and was vocally grateful in the in game chat. When it was about 50 people listening. He had no idea at that time that I'd just inherited quite a sum and was ready to show some big love.

Did I bask in the attention of showing that love? Sure. 1kUS to design a unique item? That was a bargain. Somehow everyone knew that except GGG, who were genuinely surprised when more than a few Diamond packs sold. Needless to say the next pack to sell item design was 50% more expensive. Lol. GGG learned a lot on the fly, but nothing more important than their own worth.

I do wonder sometimes if I made any real difference. Not in the game-affecting sense: I know my swords did their job in bringing the community together briefly (the riddle for Scorned, the hunt for OG). No, I mean in the early support sense. Back when $25kUS (that's how much it was by about 2016 btw, you can stop guessing) was a bigger deal to GGG than it is now. Did I "make it happen"? I don't think so. There were other Rulers. Other whales. But most importantly PoE was always crowdfunded and a crowdfund is a pyramid of sorts. What is 25k from one person compared to 100 dollars from a few thousand? Fuck all, really. I do think GGG really appreciated it at the time but if not me, probably someone else. Maybe not someone as easy to get along with in person (I am supremely non-confrontational and unassertive 99.999% of the time), but eh, that was icing. They could just as easily have buttered up a prick. I doubt any of them are reading this but all of thedevs I met back in 2012 and 2013 will know I was not much of a handful personality wise. I mean I was kind of starstruck just playing board games with them, even though technically at that point I probably had more net worth than any of them. I had this odd sense of...momentousness. I just knew these chill Kiwi game nerds were going to be *seriously* successful someday. And I think I knew I'd be out of the picture by then, so I enjoyed it while I could.

They were some good times, the beta days. I still know some things about GGG's early days I will take to my grave, harmless trivial tidbits really but I like that I was trusted with them.

I'll skip all that happened next. You all have your own versions of it. We are here now, on the cusp of poe 2. That's what really matters.


PoE 2 ain't for me, just as PoE1 wasn't really, but I am so happy for GGG that it finally happened, that the ultimate reason for supporting PoE 1 is going to pay off. I will try it on my ps5 when it's free to do so. My PC is deliberately no longer up to gaming spec, so the free key went to someone else. I play other games, games better suited to my needs and desires. I have to put a lot of brainwork into what I really want to do, and PoE is just too demanding there.

And I know most of you just kinda mentally checked out when I said I've no interest in a game I have been fairly consciously putting money toward for years (I really was a weird whale, huh) so I will leave it there.

My signature is my life now. If you do like my swords, the dialogue, my posts...well, I still flex those muscles pretty much everyday. Just not here. Here is....finally, not home anymore.



-- WJC aka the author who created Charan, and then regretted it so much he created a bitch of a sword with which to torment him.