Announcing the First Path of Exile 2 Race Event
" Who is blaming who ? We don't blame anybody, you blame us for not thinking that "race event" is okay while we are just sharing our opinions Good for you if you feel like everything is perfect mostly because you are still in the "honeymoon phase", that doesn't change the fact that we can have a different point of view based on our own experience We don't blame anyone and we shouldnt have to explained ourselves but...it is more like we feel like we have to detailed why we think that event is "meh" because of some people can't refrain themselves from directly attacking others with readytoshoot answers quite like "you re to stupid to find the fun where it is" Last edited by Oli-GSX#9866 on Feb 20, 2025, 2:46:48 PM
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" 1.- no, im not blaming anyone here 2.- neither i said everything is perfect 3.- youre the one attacking people right off the bat in those 2 previous points. Thanks for participating. |
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" " You're welcome |
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no1 curr
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" Yeah, pointing out that this format for a race is not fun for the large large large majority of players who can even make the time to participate is pointless and lacks argumentation. That's literally the majority of the complaints in here. Why isn't this event lasting days/weeks and allowing players to throw themselves at it for as many times as they want to fight it out for the top spot on the leaderboard. You know, allowing everyone, no matter their real life obligations, to at least have a chance to participate if they want. Why is there no participation prices for at least a larger percentage of participants, if not everyone. Something to not make it feel like a complete waste of time if you don't place top dog for the class you pick. Could it be that they want this event to have as little impact on the PoE1 event they have been advertising within PoE2, since the way they have it set up now will make it only last a couple hours and they can pat themselves on the back and say they have done something for PoE2 as well as PoE1? Also in this topic; To criticize that they are likely delaying the release of 0.2.0 to coincide with the end of the PoE1 event that started today is not valid feedback, right? It's just a coincidence that the PoE1 event was advertised in PoE2 and then 0.2.0 suddenly needs a whole more month to get done. Even though they said they had all their development team on PoE2 until that was finished, but somehow managed to push out a relatively complex event for PoE1 with hype and tease reveals in little over a week. That event must have been coded and implemented by wishful thinking, not developers. Also, what does this potentially mean for PoE1? When 0.2.0 comes out for PoE2, will this mean that even if 3.26 is ready for PoE1, it will be held back for a while so it doesn't compete with PoE2 with their hopes being that people will bounce between the two games? I'm all for that being a strategy eventually, but not while PoE2 is in Early Access and in dire need of updates to maintain player interest which has gone from nearly 600k players on Steam to under 100k due to the severe lack of content updates over the past 3 months, now to be 4 months. It's not valid to point out and criticize that a release cadence like this is seemingly making it impossible for them to live up to the 6 months to a year estimated Early Access time frame, as it now seems more like it would need to be in Early Access for over 2 and a half years, in fact over 3 years if they are going to spend 4 months on every increment of 0.1.0 to the version number, signaling a major patch. It's all pointless critique and feedback, right? Last edited by Absconditus#0168 on Feb 20, 2025, 3:49:10 PM
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GREAT thank you!
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" And you keep attacking people and poorly trying to brush it off on me. Nice try, wont happen. " I already answered all that pointless criticism disguised as opinion in a prior post, please refrain repeating yourself, because a lie keeps being a lie even if you tell it twice. |
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" Sounds like maybe this stuff is just worthless to you? If you don’t enjoy/ are bad at speed running then you don’t have to partake. Nobody is forcing you to play this event or path of exile in general. You can leave bud.. I’ve come to understand everyone complaining in here is just a Poe 2 hater. |
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Cool event but it would be a hell of a lot more exciting and appealing if there were lower tiers of prizes and maybe some random ones just given out to anyone who participates, maybe with your odds proportional to the level you reached or something, so even those of us who kinda suck would feel like A) we would at least potentially get something cool by participating, and B) improving our performance would be rewarded even if we don't improve it to "the best player of my class out of tens or hundreds of thousands"
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Some important points:
1) Yeah, they don't have to make an "inclusive race" with rewards for everyone. But they historicaly have done a lot of them. It is not out of the blue that this community expected something like random prizes or small rewards for completition. 2) People are expecting a new reason to play the game. Be it a new patch, a economy reset or an event. Not a reason to watch a streamer playing the game for them. That is why people wanted it to be inclusive. For those players this event sound like a big missed oportunity. It might sound weird when saying something about "needing a reason to play", but that is how PoE works. It is a game that gets almost empty after 1 month each league. That is the reason why we have to get new leagues frequently. 3) Also historically, GGG usually gives what community asks in this kind of situation, so it is no surprise that community is going "too vocal" in times like these. GGG has been feeding this kind of behavior, so it shouldn't be a surprise for anyone that the community can be "toxic" like this. For those reasons, even though community is exagerating, it is not entirelly their fault. |
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