Numbers are absolutely plummeting

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Lixy#2668 wrote:

I hope all the newcomers they're chasing at the expense of PoE1 don't come back.

Let's be real, the Twitch viewership has dwindled almost to PoE1 levels so it wouldn't even surprise me if the game is held up mainly by Asian markets/botting.

It's going to be interesting to see how many players will regularly come back to replay through everything after resets. I think GGG is making a judgment error in thinking that new players will keep them afloat instead of their loyal base.

It does seem that taking the Poe 1 resources away from our next league to fully support Poe 2 was a bold and a bad move. People are leaving because they've had enough of waiting. Settlers has been the longest league I can think of and most people don't play standard.

Hopefully GGG fixes this so we don't have a trend every few months that includes an apology video.

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KingExodusGG#1474 wrote:

It does seem that taking the Poe 1 resources away from our next league to fully support Poe 2 was a bold and a bad move. People are leaving because they've had enough of waiting. Settlers has been the longest league I can think of and most people don't play standard.

Hopefully GGG fixes this so we don't have a trend every few months that includes an apology video.

The difference between Settlers and every other league is actually staggering.

The longest league so far was Legacy league at 151 days. In recent memory Crucible at 130 days was an outlier and the second longest league. The average league duration the past 5 years was 103 days.

If 3.26 released on May 1st Settlers would've lasted 278 days, which is 84.37% longer than the previous longest league or 139.65% longer than the average of the last 4 leagues.

We're really far and beyond in uncharted territory.

I just can't wait for the next "big game". Because a huge number of people playing are the same crowd that jump from big game to big game and don't stick around at all.

GGG focusing on trying to cater to those folks is going to be fun when they all fucking leave rofl.

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eternalJOURNEYofTHEloser#5873 wrote:

214k were playing on wednesday last week, now its 112k. thats 50% drop in one week!!! And I am not surprised at all.

- Absolute lack of communication from devs.
- Normal player can never outfarm the inflation thus he cannot ever acquire the most needed to get on par with other players. (temporalis). Temporalis should not be in the game. Were maps made so big just because thay wanted players to chase temporalis? IF you have temporalis you farm like 10 times faster.. Not even mageblood or headhunter had such impact. It completely makes other builds without that unique useless.
- People are realizing that poe 1 is just better and want 3.26. There are rumours we might never get new poe 1 league.

So in like two weeks 10k players will be playing poe 1 and 40k poe 2? thats crazy bad.

yes because people knwo there will be a full reset. So Why continue to play if it will all be reset in a few days? I and many friends halted untilt he reset comes. Quite a bit predictable

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edgecrusherO0#4497 wrote:

I just can't wait for the next "big game". Because a huge number of people playing are the same crowd that jump from big game to big game and don't stick around at all.

GGG focusing on trying to cater to those folks is going to be fun when they all fucking leave rofl.

28.02.2025. Monster Hunter World and Iceborne sold together over 35 million copies. Game and expansion was in the Top20 of most selling games of all time.

Now Wilds is coming and this will be the evolution of it.


I expect that Wilds will hit 25-30 million at start, game will be huge.

If they're going to drop PoE entirely, it'd be great if they made it an offline game with all the old leagues included, like Grim Dawn is doing. That way, the game could live on.

I am ready to pay for it full price.

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edgecrusherO0#4497 wrote:

I just can't wait for the next "big game". Because a huge number of people playing are the same crowd that jump from big game to big game and don't stick around at all.

GGG focusing on trying to cater to those folks is going to be fun when they all fucking leave rofl.

They're coming. February is loaded. Between Monster Hunter, Civ, Avowed, KCD2 and probably a few more I've forgotten about, there's plenty of quality content coming up albeit not in the ARPG genre.

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MyzPoE#4175 wrote:

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edgecrusherO0#4497 wrote:

I just can't wait for the next "big game". Because a huge number of people playing are the same crowd that jump from big game to big game and don't stick around at all.

GGG focusing on trying to cater to those folks is going to be fun when they all fucking leave rofl.

They're coming. February is loaded. Between Monster Hunter, Civ, Avowed, KCD2 and probably a few more I've forgotten about, there's plenty of quality content coming up albeit not in the ARPG genre.

Avowed looks DOA like the new Dragon Age.

The game is extremely unforgiving. For new players they can only get so far and continue to try to complete content but for as much as they continue to try they also continue to fail. They fail over and over and over and over again. The ones that follow other players will only follow broken builds than complain that the game is to easy. The Dev's have a habit of helping the broken build players and increase the difficulty of the game while never thinking about the newer player struggles. There are always excuses made by players to get what they want out of the dev's so everyone stops caring about the newer players. The newer players no longer matter. As the dev's continue to help the players on broken builds it only ruins the experience for everyone else has still has yet to experience any of the content the dev's worked hard on. They say the game is as difficult as you make it and if they want to complain the game is to easy than they should do something different. Not being able to continue progress in the game is a HUGE reason so many are leaving and the community isn't helping at all. It must be okay as long as they get what they want.