Race Announcement is a giant "Get Lost" to the majority of players

It does feel a bit off base. Mostly it seems to be it is a streamer event, something to watch.

I participated in Race Season One in POE during closed beta I think it was and placed 4674th as proudly displayed on my profile. I got to like ACT II in 1h30 I think it was, and learned a bunch of tricks from watching Kripp play.

I have no desire to do this race however:

- no prize realistically, are they seriously awarding a helmet to the TOP meaning to a SINGLE person in the entire participation???

- way too long, the best runs I've seen like Tuadh on YT it takes 4h30 on average to get to end of ACT 3 and that's using every trick in the book, so there is NO fun to be had whatsoever for casual players

I mean even if I was really good at it, I'm not staying 4h+ in place at my desk for practically no reward.

This is more like an IRON MAN than a race...

I thought it was an early April Fool's joke...

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mikeab79#3627 wrote:

According to the doomsayers, the only people left playing the game are bots, and no-lifers. Why make an event for the people that aren't playing the game?

How i dunno ... maybe ... to make these people come back ?

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Ashyev#5110 wrote:

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mikeab79#3627 wrote:

According to the doomsayers, the only people left playing the game are bots, and no-lifers. Why make an event for the people that aren't playing the game?

How i dunno ... maybe ... to make these people come back ?

I don't really see how this will make a lot of players come back. The format doesn't lend itself to feel inclusive to the larger majority of players. From the simple fact that it is set at a specific time on specific dates, meaning a huge portion of the player base realistically can't even make it to participate, nor watch the event. There's no "participation reward" of any kind, you either place first with the class you chose, or you get nothing. The same people can even win all three dates since they proudly promoted that there's no limit on how many times you can win. I'm sure there'll be some buzz, there'll be streamers streaming themselves trying to win, but I don't expect this to have a large impact on regular players returning. Maybe we can hit 100k concurrent players on Steam again at least. It does feel a bit sad to see it go from such a hyped release, which maintained high concurrent player numbers for quite a long time, to now peak at 87k. I don't particularly care about the player count of a game mind you, what matters is if it's fun, but it is indicative of how long GGG has taken to release some player engaging content for the Early Access title.

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IKerensky#7242 wrote:

BAD GGG BAD !!!

While we are waiting for weeks (month) for an economy reset and content and stability patch (not to mention insta-trading or AH). You are devoting your ressources and a whole page of announcement about a race that would only matter for an handfull of streamers and full time PoE players.

Stability ? Balance ? Content ?

WHO CARE LAWL

Can't wait to reinstall this buggy early access Alpha to cheese a speedrun event with the most broken not-nerfed-yet zoomer build around ... i will definitely win one of these crappy unique !

ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED ???