Will a Level 100 Boost be added to the shop?

I want the chinese client "pets" that also pick up currency drops automatically

https://poe.qq.com/lbact/a20220509brs/index.html

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BossOfThisGym#2062 wrote:

I want the chinese client "pets" that also pick up currency drops automatically

https://poe.qq.com/lbact/a20220509brs/index.html

Honestly, I would be 100% down for FATE/Torchlight style pets in the game.

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Mouser#2899 wrote:

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Talamor1#0630 wrote:

Sweet summer child...
You are new to PoE and GGG, right?
Because what you describe is totally not what will happen.
GGG will charge you for every hundredth of a percentage of Xp, at the cost of effort and map repetition. And they'll be delighted to see players achieve this through colossal efforts and thousands of hours of play.
Welcome to our world, Exile.

Coming back to this after going through pages and pages of death penalty threads.

Creating a grind to sell the way past it is such a classic and simple sales technique. Maybe it won't be a level 100 boost, but some other form of time savers: XP boosts, Currency Boosts, ...

There are well over a million players in Early Access. The number will be MUCH larger when the game goes free to play. That is potentially BILLIONS of dollars on the table.

Do I believe people can change for that kind of money? Yeah, I do.

Path of Exile was a different game made in a different era by a different company. I truly hope my misgivings prove to be false, but I've seen this dance before.

I've seen that dance too friend, and all I can say is this: You ain't seen GGG dance yet.

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Mouser#2899 wrote:

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BossOfThisGym#2062 wrote:

I want the chinese client "pets" that also pick up currency drops automatically

https://poe.qq.com/lbact/a20220509brs/index.html

Honestly, I would be 100% down for FATE/Torchlight style pets in the game.

Westerners can never have it this good, chinese GODS only.

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Mouser#2899 wrote:

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BossOfThisGym#2062 wrote:

I want the chinese client "pets" that also pick up currency drops automatically

https://poe.qq.com/lbact/a20220509brs/index.html

Honestly, I would be 100% down for FATE/Torchlight style pets in the game.

i have thought about it. how about make it a druid ascendency or some shit :D.

I actually LOLed when I saw that title. Can't be more out of touch than asking for a level 100 boost in poe. Also those WoW players are definitely from WoW retail, yeah...not gonna happen, welcome to PoE, this is not an MMO, let alone a casual MMO.

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Amorencinteroph#4321 wrote:

GGG has a hard policy on no microtransaction that provides a tangible benefit in game save for the stash tabs (which you could manage with 3, and if really needed to could make seperate free accounts to serve as 'banks').

this is like saying just keep making new netflix accounts to have infinite free trials.

GGG also had a hard policy against adding gold because if they added gold then there would be gold sellers...

That thought that you have right now of this never happening because thats stupid. This is why we said people already sell sojs and high runes so what are you(ggg) talking about.

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Kosyne13#1595 wrote:

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Amorencinteroph#4321 wrote:

GGG has a hard policy on no microtransaction that provides a tangible benefit in game save for the stash tabs (which you could manage with 3, and if really needed to could make seperate free accounts to serve as 'banks').

this is like saying just keep making new netflix accounts to have infinite free trials.

GGG also had a hard policy against adding gold because if they added gold then there would be gold sellers...

That thought that you have right now of this never happening because thats stupid. This is why we said people already sell sojs and high runes so what are you(ggg) talking about.

They didn't add "gold" to the game lmao, use your brain.

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Mouser#2899 wrote:

Path of Exile was a different game made in a different era by a different company. I truly hope my misgivings prove to be false, but I've seen this dance before.

no it really wasnt, its essentially the same game made by exactly the same people with the same design goals.

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Mouser#2899 wrote:

Creating a grind to sell the way past it is such a classic and simple sales technique. Maybe it won't be a level 100 boost, but some other form of time savers: XP boosts, Currency Boosts, ...

There are well over a million players in Early Access. The number will be MUCH larger when the game goes free to play. That is potentially BILLIONS of dollars on the table.

Do I believe people can change for that kind of money? Yeah, I do.

chris wilson gave rough figures for leagues after a change in poe1 that didnt go down well led to aprox 1/3 drop in players for one of the leagues. he said financially it was fine as long as it was just a blip and not a permanent loss, which by that point had been proven to be the case. he pointed out that even in that league which had 1/3 less players they had several million people play the league over the course of its 3 months.

several million people, and that was a badly performing league that was down 1/3 of the normal players.


when PoE1 launched HvR was the first person to reach level 100, he did it in softcore standard league. it took him 4 months to reach level 100, when he got there the devs said they suspected people in his mapping group were cheating by trading for high level maps on 3rd party real money websites, and that they had anticipated it taking more like a year for the first lvl100.

PoE1 existed for 12 years. not once did they sell lvl100, not once did they sell xp boosts and they even refused to run promo weekends etc where people who log in during that weekend get boosted xp.


when asked about why they have kept xp penalties in poe2, despite there now being alternative penalties like losing the map and the content on the node, game director jonathan said that they were keeping the xp penalty in order to make levelling to 100 legit, to keep the race there legit. that if someone hit lvl100 but had died 100 times that would feel less legit than the guy close behind him with 2 deaths. so they were keeping xp penalty because getting to 100 is am important milestone, its an important league race, its an important badge of honour as a player so we need an xp penalty to keep it as legit and prestigious as possible.


does that sound like a guy whos thinking about selling lvl100 xp boosts? 12 years of poe1, 0 p2w.




when asked why they made poe2 he said he wanted to make the perfect arpg, thats what they wanted to do with poe1 and it wasnt quite there. too many changes needed to be made to improve the game and that would have destroyed all the existing gear etc in poe1. so they needed to make a 2nd game to have another attempt at making the best arpg that could possibly exist.



this is the people you are dealing with here. all this nonsense in the forums about they dont play the game, they are adding this or that to make money... these guys are obsessed with 1 thing, making the best game possible, making their dream action rpg. this is their lifes work, as human beings, as artists. jonathan is already a millionaire afaik, he doesnt need the money. hes in to make the crowning achievement of his job as a dev and his life as a gamer.

this isnt blizzard, this isnt a guy on a salary hired to do a job by some asshole like bobby kotec that is trying to increase share values so he can buy a 2nd yacht. these guys live this shit, mark, jonathan, chris, rory, these guys care about this game more than anyone on these forums, they give this their everything.

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Mouser#2899 wrote:

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xjjanie#4242 wrote:

That will not be happening.

I hope you're right, but I'm doubtful.

When players are seriously arguing that if you die more than once every one hundred maps you're playing wrong, I have to wonder what the purpose of those maps is. It obviously isn't to challenge the player or provide engaging gameplay.

But creating many hours of non-challenging busy work, and then providing a way to skip said busy work. Well, I've seen this dance before.

You can remove your doubts, it will not happen