You are STILL not listening GGG

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2836742981#3689 wrote:

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SpaceFoxyFū#3839 wrote:

Please rest up this holiday break GGG, and come back with a clear mind.

In the meantime, I highly recommend you watch these videos -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZZWAi0mYQw&t=1s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-R9clutdRVU&t=358s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcYe-1IUTSk&t=13s

These are passionate players, both casual and hardcore, that have loads of experience with POE1 and ARPG's in general. We're frustrated that you're making the same mistakes that you've already made in POE1, even mistakes from 0.1.0, and repeating them again in 0.2.0.

PLEASE listen to the community. Watch youtube videos, read forum posts from different sites including here, and read reviews from sites like steam. There is no other way to improve from this point if you continue not to listen.

The game has such beautiful graphics, art, and visuals. But, it is lacking completely on the gameplay front. No currency drops, bad gear drops, no build diversity, no power scaling, no power fantasy, no defense, literally negative movement speed and attack speed, downsides on every single unique item, downsides on way too many skills, downsides all over the passive tree, crafting is all RNG based, trade website is terrible (need auction house), way too much backtracking, etc.

The game is not insanely difficult. It is purely frustrating. Having the same weapon or piece of gear for 20-30+ levels at a time? Are you kidding me?
So many things that you promised in reveal trailers and interviews up until now has been compromised or contradictory.

I have grown to love this game in 0.1.0 even though I had a love/hate relationship with it. It at least had more loot, build diversity, and power scaling/power fantasy options than we have now (by miles). I had high hopes for 0.2.0, and was so excited to play a new and improved version of the game, but you ended up going in the opposite direction. Unfortunately just like many others I decided to wait until either 0.3.0 or full release as I have lost a lot of hope and trust in your decision making.

Nevertheless, Thank you so much for making this game GGG. It looks stunning and has so much potential to become one of the best ARPG's of all time by far. Please hear us, because we are extremely passionate and have just as much, if not more to offer to the game than yourselves.

Thank you for reading. Enjoy your Holiday everyone <3

All of your points are good and valid and I agree. Except people have been saying this for months and we still got a bad patch like 0.2 and now they are going back and fixing the problems they have caused. Clearly they dont read the forums or any feedback.

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Natjur#7205 wrote:

The devs have their vision for the game, it does not matter that 90% of the players disaggree with the vision.

0.1 was fun
0.2 is not fun

The only way they will listen is if you stop playing.
Over 100k are still playing, so even if 20% of those are annoyed at the game, if they are still playing, nothing will change.

If you want the devs to listen.

(1) STOP PLAYING
(2) Never buy anything from the in-game shop
(3) Make a negtive review

Only when all thoses who are unhappy do that, will they even think of changing the vision

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2836742981#3689 wrote:

I don't think all 100k players on are actual players. I feel like the bot issues in this game are more than others, I am getting so many bot whispers and there are so many RMT sites I wouldn't be surprised to find if 25% of that is bots playing. Also, 100k is peak time and the peak drops by 10k players daily. By this weekend I would be surprised if even 80k players log in and we have a low of 25-30k players.

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Natjur#7205 wrote:

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2836742981#3689 wrote:

I don't think all 100k players on are actual players. I feel like the bot issues in this game are more than others, I am getting so many bot whispers and there are so many RMT sites I wouldn't be surprised to find if 25% of that is bots playing. Also, 100k is peak time and the peak drops by 10k players daily. By this weekend I would be surprised if even 80k players log in and we have a low of 25-30k players.

Well, if they can somehow ban the gold/currency sellers, then maybe we can see the real numbers.

But with the loot drops so low, it almost feels like GGG themselves are running bots and selling currency to make more cash.

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2836742981#3689 wrote:

I wouldnt be surprised if that is the case. About 7 years ago, Aaron Ciccheli who owns 7.5% of GGG, also owned two RMT websites that sell POE items. You can read further here:: https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/80ga51/aaron_ciccheli_who_owns_75_of_ggg_owns_two_rmt/

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The game has such beautiful graphics, art, and visuals. But, it is lacking completely on the gameplay front. No currency drops, bad gear drops, no build diversity, no power scaling, no power fantasy, no defense, literally negative movement speed and attack speed,