Abandon PoE2

That is all.

Cut your losses and focus on a game that's doing almost just as well as the one you spent forever developing into a pile of dog doo doo

As of this message:

PoE1 Steam Charts peak player count in the past 24 hours

61k

PoE2 Steam Charts peak player count in the past 24 hours

76k

Last weekend was the first since PoE2 release that numbers dipped below 100k

how low do the numbers need to get before we can admit this game isn't working?

So what you're saying is that the thing which has had no new content in months, is only barely beating the thing which has a ton of brand new content?

I don't think this argument is making the point you want it to, my dude.

A game that had a fraction of the developmenttime and polish as the older game, might just be missing a couple of additions to make it really fun.

I personally dont vibe yet with poe2 but im eagerly looking forward to see the game improve, as its handled by GGG which quickly identified causes for when events/leagues werent fun and adressed it. You might not agree with all design decisions, but how they handle game and development is what makes the games so unique.

And here I was bashing poe2 tourists for using steam numbers.

Stop looking at the damn steam numbers. They mean absolutely nothing.

The percentage of people using Steam to play poe1 is not the same as the percentage using it for poe2. Not even remotely close.