A Message to Path of Exile 1 Players

GGG and Jonathan, I watched the video. The more I listened, the louder the music got...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2595abcvh2M&t=33s


What you have achieved with PoE 1 as a new studio taking on an established behemoth as well as other notable start ups to become the best ARPG (my opinion, of course) of this and the previous decade is beyond epic, its legendary. Yet your lust for PoE 2 greatness seems to have made you forget certain fundamental GGG keys to success: incremental releases, which you call leagues, where you introduce a relatively small amount of "new" to complement a whole heck of a lot of "proven good and great".

Perhaps consider treating PoE EA versions 0.1 to 0.2 (or whatever) as a "league" in that it is available for X weeks. Give those who participate and achieve level 50, 70 and 90 some cool MTX reward(s) for play testing that will never be available again, so these MTX have real value to the play testers. Then release your next PoE 1 league. While a relatively small contingent of your team is supporting the new PoE 1 League, shut down access to PoE 2 so you can go away and make it incrementally (or significantly) better than last time. Rinse and repeat all the way GA.

You are paving over your PoE 1 paradise with expectation setting and software development mistakes that are, to be candid, beneath you. You don't need to go faster, you should tred smarter. PoE 2 will take much longer than you think to be "GGG GA Ready" because its is ambitious and because you set the bar high - very high - with PoE 1. As much I as admire you guys, I find it hard to believe this is "news" to you. However much time you think you need now, it will take longer - likely much longer. Expect this! Be surprised if it is not the case. Plan for this reality (you are all human!) Manage our expectations smarter and you won't have to think about what you had when its gone. If you had set expectations better, your customers would be happy with "PoE 2 EA League 0.1 to 0.2" and excited about the next PoE 2 EA and PoE 1 leagues.

I hope you make good choices going forward. I like your game more than you think you know and love watching you succeed. All the best to you!

GGG,

Just viewed the video update. Here's the thing; Settler's is really good! By far the best league ever!! I don't know what is going on with POE II, sounds pretty bad, but it's a beta version 1???(what do you guys expect??) It is probably going to take many, many, many months to even come close to POE 1 (play style/value). Oh well,,sh*t happens,, take the time and resources to fix it. However, don't forget about the bread and butter(POE1) that allows you to work on the expansion/{new game}POEII.

I guess this is already obvious, but just incase, Kingsmarch is critical to the future of POE1!! It's potential has barely scratched the surface!!! Please think long and hard about Kingsmarch moving forward.


I don't really mind the delay......I might actually get to lvl 100 this league... lol.....

https://www.youtube.com/clip/UgkxSkh2qQHe1LM6AMqjvZTX9POq1sHoWKZS

Chris Wilson was right about the dangers of launching poe2 as a separate game and ditching all the content y'all had built in poe1 over the years.

Appreciate the communication, though yes it would have been nice to know sooner. Mind you I am a poe2 only player now as in my opinion poe2 has fixed the main issues I had with poe1. That all being said Poe1 still deserves some love and it would be very good to give the people whom have been waiting for months something to sink their teeth into.

I think they should made this hard decision to axe PoE1 support and let it just be, instead of trying to keep two project afloat at once if you don't have enough resorces to do it.

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It took you guys three months to notify us of something you apparently knew all along. That's the main issue here.

While people were checking the forums and hoping for new information on the league, you stayed silent. What a freaking mess.

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jwdoco#4312 wrote:

GGG,

Just viewed the video update. Here's the thing; Settler's is really good! By far the best league ever!! I don't know what is going on with POE II, sounds pretty bad, but it's a beta version 1???(what do you guys expect??) It is probably going to take many, many, many months to even come close to POE 1 (play style/value). Oh well,,sh*t happens,, take the time and resources to fix it. However, don't forget about the bread and butter(POE1) that allows you to work on the expansion/{new game}POEII.

I guess this is already obvious, but just incase, Kingsmarch is critical to the future of POE1!! It's potential has barely scratched the surface!!! Please think long and hard about Kingsmarch moving forward.


I don't really mind the delay......I might actually get to lvl 100 this league... lol.....

Hate to say it but POE2 is just bad my dude. It isn't a "work the kinks out" thing. They have straight up watered POE1 down, added wild amounts of "horsing" to the game. It's like a walking simulator with no crafting. It is a design philosophy thing where they couldn't figure out how to make leagues last longer without just making them suck.

This is a bad call.

You should prioritise 3.26 over 0.2…

A choice has been made. A choice between well established player base of PoE1, which didn't all like PoE2, let's say the least.
A choice has been made to keep pushing PoE2 despite obviously frustrating a big chunk of your playerbase, your loyal players who were with you for years and years. And delaying PoE1 update even further.
A choice has been made to sunken cost fallacy, if you ask me, that will cost you a lot of loyal players, me included. Unfortunately, yet it is your choice, time for me to make mine.