I am curious how many players will never come back after the new "league" launch in poe 2

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Bleu42#4018 wrote:

The fact is PoE2 is here, it's abundantly clear it'l be better then poe1 in just a few leagues.

Poe1 is out yall. And just take one second to ask yourself why you don't even bother to play the 'best arpg of all time obviously goated' unless there's a new update. The answer? Because PoE just isn't that fun outside of a league launch. PoE2 might change for that awhile once it's a full game.

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eternalJOURNEYofTHEloser#5873 wrote:

Poe 2 early access was launched on 6th of december 2024. They game was incredibly hyped and everyone had really high hopes. Some were already calling it the best arpg ever. However from what we are seeing now many people believe its a far worse game than poe 1.

Considering steam numbers the game had 570 000 players logged in on launch. This number has plummeted to approximately 40 000 players right now. In my opinion many players and even some popular streamers have concluded that they dont like poe 2 and wont even be trying the next "league". In my opinion the game is so different and so much worse in many endgame aspects that its beyond repair and I completely lost the will to login. I am currently enjoying completely dead hc trade settlers league.


I would guess the next "league" will initially have around 400 000 players on day 1 but the numbers will plummet even faster then after launch.

What is your guess?

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RitualMurder#3177 wrote:

sigh

do people forget that they threw endgame together just to have more content?
do people forget this this is early access? and NOT the full game?
are you ok?

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WaywornExile#0835 wrote:

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Phrazz#3529 wrote:

Wonder what will happen when (if) certain forum warriors won't have huge numbers to back things up.

I guess they could always skew numbers, à la the original post.

It seems to have become a running trend to compare peak numbers to off-peak numbers and pass it off as a meaningful comparison. As well as to make claims that numbers are "plummeting", despite POE2—an unfinished game—having a healthier player retention than applicable three-month-old POE1 leagues (9% retention vs 6% and 4%).

But hey, what's verifiable data compared to a tasty narrative? Pooey to accuracy!

POE2 needs a lot of work. That isn't in dispute. Hopefully v0.2 brings us a much better experience, though I expect we'll have to wait until full release to allay our unrest.

As far as guessing goes, I honestly wouldn't be surprised if the day 1 peak is below 400k. Numbers won't plummet though; they'll follow the exact same number trends that we're used to, within a margin.

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cesmode#5569 wrote:

If I log in for the poe2 league (if it is a league??), it'll be a few weeks after LE's big update. Big doo doo that they are launching in two days after LE's...

I want to play both, but giving major priority to LE since they havent had a major update in a while and this looks like a crummy move by GGG. Not a good look.