Only 70k players for poe1 with new 'league'

I have experienced my favorite games being ruined by vocal minorities quite a number of times. I would be devastated to see that happen to PoE 2 which has the potential to be my favorite game of all time.

To be clear, I would prefer they focused entirely on PoE 2 and left Poe 1 as it is. The players that don't want this are [Removed by Support]

I played a lot of PoE 1, dating all the way back to it's original release. PoE 1 is a good game. But PoE 2 is far superior even in it's current state. And I have ZERO intention of playing any PoE 1 ever again now that PoE 2 exists.

I hope the developers stick to their original vision and make the game harder and nerf all the broken builds into the ground. Even starting from scratch and limiting yourself to fair builds that deal intended levels of damage is a bit on the easy side IMO.

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hboi#6131 wrote:

cope. Them focusing on the vastly more popular variant is the correct choice. In a month we will be back to 600k and these blackmail posts are going to be obsolete.

They made the right choice. Mark my words.

you think they made the correct choice by focusing on poe2 and not poe1? well i would agree expect that didnt happen.

they said thats what they were going to do then went back on it with this poe1 event. you think they are focusing on poe2? when they have been "rushing" 0.2.0 since jan 12th? you serious?

They don't seem to be focusing on just one, it seems more like a test to see which one has better retention.

I won't play either one anymore until I know if GGG wants to deliver good games or is just making an easy profit with minimal effort, which is what they are doing now.

When will PoE2 players stop looking at Steam numbers to judge game success? You're clearly showing you're nothing but gamehopping tourists who only play whatever's on Steam.

Pohx's private league was full at 20k players and steam numbers only went up by 5k.

That means that at best, Steam only accounts for maybe about 25% of the PoE1 PC population. And then there's consoles and China.

Whereas the same can't be said for PoE2, where even the older, standalone playerbase was incentivised to move to Steam. In case you didn't know, for us vets who had enough lifetime purchases to get a key, we got a Steam download WAY before we got our key.

I'd estimate more than 50% of the PoE2 PC population is on Steam, but unfortunately there's no evidence to support it.

Most of us were playing this game before it was ever on Steam.

I don't mind PoE2, and I'm hoping they will improve it and I'll definitely play whatever they put out, but it's really looking like a failing cashgrab right now. Stop coping by judging a Thursday release event. There's plenty of people like me. I wish I could log in and play right now, but I couldn't take time off work at this short of a notice. I'll play WAY more next month than I'm playing now.

Poe2 is just over 70k itself most of which are bots. Both games are failing. One could also add most people play poe1 on their client and not steam while most play poe2 on steam.

And you can add that chinese players have their own poe1 client, while poe2 is world wide.

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Karishin#7986 wrote:

Poe2 is just over 70k itself most of which are bots. Both games are failing. One could also add most people play poe1 on their client and not steam while most play poe2 on steam.

POE 2 isn't failing, GGG is just stupid and waited WAAAAY too long for an update. They are literally letting the fact that this game went VIRAL just rot away into nothingness because they aren't rushing out updates.

Shit has been finished between now and 3 months ago -- where fucking patches at?

Add stuff in real time, not "leagues" later. I'm here for a weekly update, not 2 updates a year.

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Nycteaa#3426 wrote:

And you can add that chinese players have their own poe1 client, while poe2 is world wide.

People don't understand that whatsoever.

The reason why poe2 player count has dropped so much is because there is not that much content in the game right now. I currently am taking a break and playing kingdom come 2 while I wait for the new update. I've done everything there is to do in poe2 already.

When the new content patch is dropped and economy is reset we will be back up to 600k. POE2 is not failing. You will be back in a month as well. See you then.

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AceNightfire#0980 wrote:

PoE1 will be big again with a new serious league. BUT I dont think that it will reach the same peak as Settlers of Kalguur ever again, since many will have migrated to PoE2, especially once it's free to play.

Settlers probably reached the numbers it did because people wanted to play the game before PoE2 came out as well. The hype that was building for PoE2 made people play PoE1 in the meantime, to in example go through the campaign for the story (what little there is.) So you're probably right it won't reach the same numbers.

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hboi#6131 wrote:

When the new content patch is dropped and economy is reset we will be back up to 600k. POE2 is not failing. You will be back in a month as well. See you then.

I don't know if PoE2 can manage to pull 600k players again after a content drough of 4 months in an Early Access game. A lot of players has likely written the game off and moved on. GGG took too long and are making the wrong choice in postponing 0.2.0's release until after the PoE1 event finishes next month.