How does GGG plan to make money?

Someone in those replies claimed PoE 1 would be abandoned because of PoE 2!

That is some ridiculous take on a game that has been continually growing in popularity, that's never had a wider playerbase than during this league launch. They would give up on a very successful game that keeps getting more popular because they put out a second title.

Come on now, the two games are different, they can both sustain their own audience. People will definitely be playing both. Also, when does this even happen that game companies stop caring about their successful games. As we've seen now, what happen instead is games released over 20 years ago that are still played get an overhaul. They don't just vanish because new things come out.

When have a successful game ever been taken down while it is growing more popular? What kind of business sense would that make?

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Lyutsifer665#1671 wrote:

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Randall#0850 wrote:

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Lyutsifer665#1671 wrote:

poe1 will probably be shut down in the near future to cut down on costs. they already pretty much abandoned it

Yep they are going to shut down a game that has been bring them in $80 million a year, makes perfect sense.

that was before poe 2. if poe2 is successful they wont need poe1 anymore. why keep it alive if they dont have the staff to run it properly? they have like 10 people working on poe1 leagues. this year we only got 2 leagues

It might be awhile before PoE 2 leagues ramp up. Will PoE 2 release a league before new Acts 4, 5 and 6?

i hope im wrong because i prefer poe1 over poe2. they just seemed to abandon it lately. going from 4 leagues per year down to just 2.

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Turddog#8292 wrote:

I will buy some of the stash tabs today but I’m curious as to the necessity?

Right now they give you roughly 4 different tabs to store all your loot. Seems like a good amount of space.

But the currency tabs look might fine. I’m assuming they just greatly improve QOL?

Currency tab lets currencies be put into one slot and stack up to 5,000 each. Saves you playing tetris with all your currencies and they end up taking "less" space due to the larger stack size.

More regular tabs or quad tabs are good for selling things via trade since you can mark an entire tab to be up for sale for a set price. e.g. everything in one tab could be set to be listed for 1ex if it's inside it. A few of these are great for trade.

Other tabs like frags, divinations and so on are /mostly/ QoL, but do end up being more efficient storage-wise, but currency tab is the one that is an absolute must. 5,000 Wisdom scrolls will take up a 250 slots, or just 1 currency tab slot.

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AzoteVirtiol#0337 wrote:

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Turddog#8292 wrote:

I will buy some of the stash tabs today but I’m curious as to the necessity?

Right now they give you roughly 4 different tabs to store all your loot. Seems like a good amount of space.

But the currency tabs look might fine. I’m assuming they just greatly improve QOL?

Currency tab lets currencies be put into one slot and stack up to 5,000 each. Saves you playing tetris with all your currencies and they end up taking "less" space due to the larger stack size.

More regular tabs or quad tabs are good for selling things via trade since you can mark an entire tab to be up for sale for a set price. e.g. everything in one tab could be set to be listed for 1ex if it's inside it. A few of these are great for trade.

Other tabs like frags, divinations and so on are /mostly/ QoL, but do end up being more efficient storage-wise, but currency tab is the one that is an absolute must. 5,000 Wisdom scrolls will take up a 250 slots, or just 1 currency tab slot.

Thanks man I will definitely look into getting a currency tab.

I hope that there is an easier way to do trading on thePS5 in the future as it’s a big pain to use the browser on the console .

Dude, cosmetics are a huge deal in most online games. People buy them like hot cakes.
With each league in POE 1 they also release new supporter packs; usually 2 sets with opposing themes, and each one having 3 tiers 30-60-90$. People buy those like candy. Also each year they change the core packs and people buy the 500$ one like it's a necessity.

Never underestimate the power of cosmetics and MTX in general. There's a reason every gaming company out there wants to focus on them.

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Turddog#8292 wrote:

Never played POE1 but I know both games are F2P.

Does GGG expect to make money off of just cosmetics?

Or are there going to be content updates that we pay for in the future?

Just curious as how they make money off such a good base game.

GGG is owned by Tencent through subsidiary company called six joy. Tencent is a multi-billion company that owns many, many, many gaming IP's. Think of it as a conglomerate of AAA studios. They are not exactly "in need of money", and as it stands money flows in like a river. In the case of GGG, and the few droplets it adds, it's going to be through cosmetics and vaults.

Don't worry about it. GGG is doing fine.

POE2 will eventually replace POE imho. It's going to look a lot like the Diablo franchise. The majority of players move into the newest IP while a selection of players remain playing the previous iterations.