A Message to Path of Exile 1 Players

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Bentic#7016 wrote:

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Romulas19#3393 wrote:

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92ranger#4205 wrote:

This is complete PR garbage.

The real problem is that POE2 is struggling and the devs vision for the "ruthless" style gameplay SUCKS. People hate it. But if they release new POE1 content, then everyone will flock back to POE1 and kill what little momentum POE2 has left.

Basically the devs are too scared/stubborn to admit their vision for POE2 is a failure, but they can't bring themselves to admit it. So they won't release a new POE1 season until they come to terms with this reality.

Their excuses of needing to spend time on POE1 are complete garbage lies. They could have recycled old content and re-released Settlers of Kalgur in a freshly wiped season. That alone would have made people happier than the current situation. They won't do that because they want to shove POE2 garbage down our throats.

Amen, its time to wake the hell up GGG and fucking listen

Amen.

We had that fight already with poe1. Won't do it a 2nd time. Will vote with my wallet.

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BlackDeathBE#0559 wrote:

Holy crap, I'm completely baffled by the reactions here. I have to believe this is just a tiny screaming minority of people, and that there's a silent majority of players who, like me, think that a) this is entirely understandable; b) their decision to move developers to poe2 was obviously the correct one (what else should they have done; postpone EA launch once more? For an undetermined time?); c) we're already extremely spoiled at how well they are polishing PoE2 given it's just in EA -- it's amazing how playable and enjoyable that game already is; d) it's super POG (or whatever today's correct internet-slang word is) the way the lead developer honestly and openly communicates about this directly to the player base, and apologizes. Honestly, cudos to the team, again.

The only mistake they made, imo, was to ever say that PoE1 wouldn't be affected by PoE2 -- that has always been just completely unrealistic. (But who said that? When? Was it even Jonathan?) So much so that obviously everyone should have taken that with a grain of salt. I sure never believed that from the start. They probably felt obliged to say that, because there were probably a flood of whiny kids who were afraid that for a couple of months, they would have to wait a bit longer for a new PoE1 season to arrive (who the fuck cares?! aren't there enough other games to play in the mean time?!)

Seriously, this sense of entitlement, the level of spoiledness, the ingratitude of some people boggles my mind. I guess it's in part a generational thing, and damn, that does not bode well for the future.

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Oxygene_PoE#6463 wrote:

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Bentic#7016 wrote:

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Romulas19#3393 wrote:

This is complete PR garbage.

The real problem is that POE2 is struggling and the devs vision for the "ruthless" style gameplay SUCKS. People hate it. But if they release new POE1 content, then everyone will flock back to POE1 and kill what little momentum POE2 has left.

Basically the devs are too scared/stubborn to admit their vision for POE2 is a failure, but they can't bring themselves to admit it. So they won't release a new POE1 season until they come to terms with this reality.

Their excuses of needing to spend time on POE1 are complete garbage lies. They could have recycled old content and re-released Settlers of Kalgur in a freshly wiped season. That alone would have made people happier than the current situation. They won't do that because they want to shove POE2 garbage down our throats.

Amen, its time to wake the hell up GGG and fucking listen

Amen.

We had that fight already with poe1. Won't do it a 2nd time. Will vote with my wallet.

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gredzel#9631 wrote:

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BlackDeathBE#0559 wrote:

Holy crap, I'm completely baffled by the reactions here. I have to believe this is just a tiny screaming minority of people, and that there's a silent majority of players who, like me, think that a) this is entirely understandable; b) their decision to move developers to poe2 was obviously the correct one (what else should they have done; postpone EA launch once more? For an undetermined time?); c) we're already extremely spoiled at how well they are polishing PoE2 given it's just in EA -- it's amazing how playable and enjoyable that game already is; d) it's super POG (or whatever today's correct internet-slang word is) the way the lead developer honestly and openly communicates about this directly to the player base, and apologizes. Honestly, cudos to the team, again.

The only mistake they made, imo, was to ever say that PoE1 wouldn't be affected by PoE2 -- that has always been just completely unrealistic. (But who said that? When? Was it even Jonathan?) So much so that obviously everyone should have taken that with a grain of salt. I sure never believed that from the start. They probably felt obliged to say that, because there were probably a flood of whiny kids who were afraid that for a couple of months, they would have to wait a bit longer for a new PoE1 season to arrive (who the fuck cares?! aren't there enough other games to play in the mean time?!)

Seriously, this sense of entitlement, the level of spoiledness, the ingratitude of some people boggles my mind. I guess it's in part a generational thing, and damn, that does not bode well for the future.

Well said! 90% of ppl writing here, are ppl that have to much free time, which is small percent off global player base. I have 280h in poe2 atm and I start feeling I need a break from poe. So I would not play poe 1 anyway... In my opinion ggg plan to develop both games its a mistake, becouse mojority off ppl will play just one anyway. Supporting both games will just split player base and cycle will stay same for most ppl 1- 2 months of playing 1- 2 months break.

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cringewilson#2761 wrote:

tencent.
they saw numbers.
they told 'fk poe1, poe2 is 5 times more popular'.
ggg obeyed.
there's no any other reason for shit like this to happen. ggg doesnt have internal reasons to push poe2 with every dev they own, especially after hype ended and they realised that a lot of people dont like new game concept.

tell me again that selling ggg to tencent will change nothing.